Month: June 2013
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Your Brand Is No Good If It’s Rotten Inside
Photo by Tishamp via Flickr Awhile back we were looking at real estate. At one place they had a batch of chocolate chip cookies on the counter. Those cookies smelled so good. Steam rose out of them. They were warm to the touch. I took three. The place was not otherwise appealing to me. It…
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On The Verge of A Major Breakthrough (New Slideshare Presentation – June 23, 2013)
Just posted this new presentation at SlideShare, but the gist of it is this. A lot of us are stovepiped right now in functions that seem disparate: knowledge management, employee engagement, internal social networking, organizational development, human capital, knowledge management, project management, communication and branding. In the very near future, sometime between 1-3 years, I…
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To Make The Organization Transparent To Itself
Image via mI9.com free wallpapers The ordinary person can’t avoid germs. In just the same way…
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What If It Was A Rotten Apple, At The IRS Or Anywhere?
Of course anything is possible, and we weren’t there. But it is the job of leadership and management to take responsibility no matter what because the leader sets the tone. Take the example of parenting. Let’s say your kid is a bully and they have a psychological disability that causes aggressive behavior, it would be…
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7 Reasons Not To Blame "Rogue Employees" For Organizational Problems
When a word or phrase is used multiple times in the same way it starts to have the ring of messaging. And several times now, the word “rogue” has been used to blame federal government employees for wrongdoing carried out under the government’s name: Example #1, May 16, 2013: “News of (Acting IRS Director) Miller’s…
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IRS Employee Training Videos: A Good Investment
Photo by Paul Love via Flickr “Organizations with strong learning culture have 37 percent greater employee productivity, according to Bersin & Associates’ 2010 study High Impact Learning Culture.” – Desktime.com In the context of a larger scandal surrounding Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeting of conservative (and Jewish) groups, the news that the agency spent about $61,600 for employee training videos…
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