More Than Just Training
The story goes that a CFO tells the CEO, “We need to cut back on training. What happens if we spend all this money training people, and they leave?” The CEO calmly replies, “What happens if we don’t spend the money to train them…and they stay?” Good leaders know that training their people is critical […]
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- May, 16, 2019
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May, 16, 2019
Is It Time to Move Beyond Your Culture?
Go to any place in the world and people will tell you, “this is how we do things here.” Every place has its own culture, driven by such things as social expectations, family relationships, style of government, climate, economics, educational background, and more. Culture is a tricky thing, in that it may be hard to […]
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- May, 13, 2019
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Ready for Disruption?
An article in The Economist compared the situation of American workers displaced by Japanese industries in the 1980s with that of workers displaced by Chinese industries in more recent years. They found that, in the earlier case, workers were better able to rebound and shift to something else, whereas the more recent situation led to […]
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- May, 09, 2019
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FOMOs and JOMOs
We often use the terms “extrovert” and “introvert” to describe how someone relates to others, but in the workplace there is a little more to it than that. Some people really enjoy the social aspect of meetings and and office social events, but they are also the first to adopt new workplace technologies or to […]
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- May, 06, 2019
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