Month: February 2014
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Which is Better — Great Leadership or Great Management?
Image by DonkeyHotey via Flickr Neither. What you need is a brand. But since most people don’t think of branding as a business tool, here is the logic in traditional business terms. The positives: –With great leadership, the energy around the vision gets people excited. They want to follow the light. The leader is the…
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10 Ways To "Think LinkedIn" At Work
Photo by LeI3nd via Flickr The first part of this post deals with the “why” of internal networking, as in why is it important. The second part goes to the “how.” I. Why To Do It A. To Do Your Job Better You wouldn’t know it to see me at work, but in truth I…
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Management By Listening
Photo via Flickr by Leonard John Matthews Your entire job as a manager is to listen. Your entire job. The reason you listen is to find out what is really going on, sufficiently that you can repeat it back as if you were expressing those very same sentiments. The purpose of listening is not to…
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10 Things The Government Must Come To See About Itself
Photo by haglundc via Flickr My older daughter is taking a class called Visual Rhetoric. This is a fancy way of saying that photos can be interpreted differently, depending on the perspective you bring. I was in the new Safeway Saturday night, the one by the mall. They have a health checking machine that gives you…
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Linking Brand To Business: USAID’s New Mission Statement
Photo via Flickr, Office of Governor Patrick (Mass.) It was great for me to hear that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) had finally come out with its new mission statement and core values. It’s a project I helped launch and worked intensely on throughout the research phase last year. Here’s the mission, which…
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