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No, Thank You: Very often, the best we can strive for is to avoid getting something we don’t need or shouldn’t have. A few more “no, thank you’s” in our world may well lead to happier and more successful people and companies. read more
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What's Wrong With Being Wrong?: Why are you so afraid of being wrong? The posturing in our companies to be right, or at least not in proximity of wrong is ubiquitous. It is a sad state of affairs for many. Being wrong can be so right in so many situations. read more
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Stop To Think. Rush To Execute.: In any endeavor of relevance nearly every time I have ventured forth without the structure of a plan, I have found that my time and energy have (to say the least) not been rewarded. I attribute any success achieved in the absence of a plan pure luck. read more
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About "The Drucker Perspective":
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3 Ways to Increase the Productivity of the Knowledge Worker: Productivity of knowledge and service workers will soon become a major issue as creeping inflation becomes more apparent... and workers ask for wage read more
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Will the MBA Degree Become Less Valuable in the Near-Future?: Peter F. Drucker once commented, "In the academic disciplines a student cannot perform...he or she can only show promise…" read more
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Reinventing the Training Function: The Next Phase: Unless many internal training organizations really start to reinvent themselves, they face downsizing for the sake of downsizing––that is, slashing and cutting for the sake of the numbers rather than to enable their organization to win on the corporate battlefield. read more
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Plugging the Leaks in Social Media: The news media is filled with reports of sensitive government information leaked to and posted on the whistle-blower site WikiLeaks. The read more
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Dealing with Bullying and Incivility: [Editor's Note: This is the debut of a monthly column designed to be a forum to discuss ethical issues that arise in daily business read more
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Legal Pitfalls of Employees That Telecommute: Telecommuting could seem like a win-win situation for employers and employees, especially with the price of gasoline. However, there are a few pitfalls HR managers should watch out for when company managers suggest (or employees request) telecommuting... read more
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The Social Media Password Debate: Apparently, in response to the legal cases reprimanding employers for improperly obtaining access to their employees’ and applicants’ personal social media sites, employers came up with what would seem to be a very effective work-around—demanding the passwords or threatening termination or cessation of the application process. Really? read more
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An Employee By Any Other Name Is Still An Employee: Misclassification Woes: In late 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at efforts to halt what they termed “the business practice of misclassifying employees in order to avoid providing employment protections.” read more
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Why Is It That Training Never Gets a Seat at the Table?: Lately, I’ve been going to a lot of events. I just hit my 3 rd in two weeks. At each event there are breakout sessions and roundtables to read more
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16 Tips for Being Professional as you Say NO to the Chaos Around You: The goal is not to minimize distractions but to manage them for positive results. Here are real-life proven techniques that get people talking about read more
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Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods: Twitterville is primarily a business book. It is filled with examples of how people in all sizes and kinds of business are using Twitter to thrive read more
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Exploiting Demographic Change in Your Organization: Many thought that the apparent insanity of the post-World War II generation was due to having missed the character-building challenges of the Depression and the sacrifices of World War II and that they were therefore spoiled by having life too easy and missing lessons wrought by pain and struggle. Not so, according to Drucker. He explained this period as a predictable phenomenon-- a shift in demographics. read more
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Drucker’s Billion Dollar Reality Test: Drucker discovered that all executives needed to understand and apply the correct principles of marketing research in HR, manufacturing, sales, management and virtually all business areas. Let’s say that you’re an HR manager and need to develop a radical new procedure to handle new and complex human resource procedures in our company. You can get it completely wrong even if your basic idea is right on target. Think that this can’t happen? read more
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Marketing And Selling May Be Adverserial: “Marketing and selling are not necessarily complementary and may even be adversarial.” I had heard Drucker make some rather unusual statements during the two years that I had been his student, but this certainly had to be one of the most astonishing. Yet he was right. read more
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How Transparent are Your Practices?: Take all of the same work styles of your current department and stick them in any other company. What's different? What's the same? It's easy to say that your co-workers are all different, but is your process different? How so? read more
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The Value of Honesty in a Down Economy: “I met with a recruiter several weeks ago. I thought it went well; but looking back at the meeting, I got pumped for leads but never actually heard back from them.” read more
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Do You “Use” User Groups or Do They “Use” You?: User groups tend to be a group of individuals that specialize in a particular area that meet once a month to listen to a subject matter expert speak. Most times, these groups are sponsored by recruiting firms. read more
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The Most Dangerous Job in Corporate America: CMO: Most successful CMOs hold accountability for the numbers and also lead product development, promotion and advertising, retention/loyalty and sales. These CMOs know the numbers, why they are the way they are and who is responsible for pulling that particular lever in the business. Based on that, they drive action in targeted areas when we needed to build on momentum or close gaps. read more
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Monogamy, Polygamy or Just Engaged?: The search for talent is complex and requires the skill of a mature professional who understands both business and the people who have the critical read more
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Call to Action—Alternative Work Arrangements: We’ve heard the statistics about 78 million boomers all being 55 and older 11 years from now, and the predictions from the Bureau of Labor read more
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About The Culture Club:
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Let’s Ship All the Jobs to China!: I had an interesting conversation at a recent IQPC Talent Management Summit in Las Vegas. While having dinner with a vice president of human read more
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How Culture Affects Onboarding: Eighty percent of all new employees decide within the first six months if they are going to stay with their current employers or begin looking for “new opportunities.” Whether this figure is the result of research or not (or simply overblown), it does point out the importance of quickly incorporating new hires into the workplace. read more
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Stay Interviews: A Retention Strategy for Forward Thinking Organizations: Has anybody ever thought about the logic of asking people why they are leaving when they have already one foot out the door? I remember during an read more
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