I wrote about Large Group Intervention Strategies a little over a year ago with some links and a download.  I thought it would be a good idea to pick up on some of these tools and share a little more about them. I have chosen the World Cafe because – to be honest – I [...]

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Q&A with Roberta Hill interviewed by Kim Nishida
Part of the “We Learned the Hard Way So You Don’t Have To” Interview Series. Conducted on January 26th, 2009.
If you are a member of the Transition Club, and logged in, you will be able to access both the recording and the additional resources below.  If not and [...]

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I am being interviewed this evening by Kim Nishida and the information is below.  While this is very short notice, I hope to post the recording info here later.  Kim is a coach who works with service professionals who struggle with being their own boss.  Kim also runs a series of free teleclasses that I [...]

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I took the title of this post from a recent article in Industry Week Manufacturing: Manufacturing Merger Success: The Sales Force Integration Imperative subtitled: “A powerful driver underlying B2B M&A outcomes is the degree to which sales forces are successfully integrated.”  This is a very good article by Michael B. Moorman.  While he focuses his attention on the [...]

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Each month, one of our colleagues, David Chinsky offers a book review that he puts in his newsletter.  The choice is selected to both engage and challenge leaders as they seek to make a difference in their organizations.
Their pick this month is Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell.  I share David’s [...]

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Morris had just been hired as the new CEO of a large high tech corporation. The CEO who was stepping down met with him privately and presented him with three envelopes number 1, 2 and 3. “Open these if you run up against a problem you don’t think you can solve,” the departing CEO said.
Things went along pretty smoothly, [...]

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In this  BNET video, James O’Toole, co-author of “Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor” argues that while many organizations talk up the idea of transparency, true transparency is still elusive. The book “Transparency” argues that while many organizations give lip service to the idea of transparency, true openness and candor is rare.  O’Toole [...]

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It has been a little difficult for our readers sometimes to order and download our first White Paper on Post Merger Integration so we have loaded up here for our readers.
Leading Cross-Cultural Re-Engagement Final

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This video follows the path of a $25 loan from London, England to Preak Tamao village, Cambodia. Kiva.org is a website that allows internet users like you or I to lend money to people that need it in developing countries, with the aim of empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty.

A Fistful Of Dollars: [...]

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An interview with Daniel Goleman, Psychologist from Harvard Business Review. See how you can use emotional and social intelligence to improve your own and your organization’s performance.  Emotional Intelligence is about self management.   As a leader your success is based on influencing others – empathy and skilled interactions.  This is Social Intelligence.

“You are the worst [...]

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