How to Select a Facilitator

(Sun Jan 22nd, 2006, by Steve Kaye)

Your choice of a facilitator can determine if the meeting is a success or a failure. Use these questions to make sure that you are working with the right person. Is the person a professional facilitator? There is more to facilitation than watching pe...

Ukraine

(Sun Jan 22nd, 2006, by Alex Polonski)

/p> The destruction of the Soviet Union about 15 years ago, made a huge country with a great level of IT science divided into small bricks. Nowadays, despite Russia's expansion into the world software development market, Ukraine keeps playing an impo...

Leadership Formulas

(Sun Jan 22nd, 2006, by Mike Beitler)

Do we really believe outstanding leadership is so simple that we can boil it down to a simple formula? Could any single formula explain the likes of Gandhi, Jack Welch, and Bill Gates? Of course not. Individual human beings are amazingly complex. Int...

Stepping Into Possibility Thinking

(Sat Jan 21st, 2006, by Saleem Rana)

Our thoughts really belong to the collective consciousness of the world in all of time. Our individual minds process the cumulative database recorded on the physical and subtle levels and devise interesting combinations, unique interpretations, and ...

Management Miscommunication

(Fri Jan 20th, 2006, by Clive Simpkins)

There’s a new disease spreading rapidly through marketplaces. Its main symptom is employee unhappiness. The cause is simple: management is out of touch with the concerns, needs, and aspirations of their co-workers. I refer to them as co-workers rathe...

"Leadership"

(Fri Jan 20th, 2006, by Michael Harrison)

/p> ‘real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination’ I used this quote to end last weeks bulletin. It made me think about the qualities of leadership and how we know leaders from managers. Key leadership attributes are considered t...

Tales from the Corporate Frontlines

(Wed Jan 18th, 2006, by Josh Greenberg)

This article relates to the Ethics in the Workplace competency, commonly evaluated in employee surveys. It gives examples of how employees and customers consider ethical behavior and sound values an integral part of your organization. This competenc...

Guide for Visionary Leaders and Business Decision-makers.

(Wed Jan 18th, 2006, by Bob Cannon)

Change and the Cycle of Specialization Robert E. Cannon www.cannonadvantage.com Guide for Visionary Leaders and Business Decision-makers. – In the January issue of Taking Aim, I reported on the book Margin. That book triggered some thoughts that had ...

Good SAM -- Manage Software and Save Money

(Tue Jan 17th, 2006, by Donna Johnson Edwards)

Pull over; IT manager; your license and your reconciliation, please. Huh? My what? Yep, the software police are at your door; now what? You may ask, “How did it get to this? We are an honest company, we ’ve done nothing wrong — or have we?” Well, ma...

Experiences of Management Coaching (Part 2)

(Mon Jan 16th, 2006, by CMOE Development Team)

In our experience, we have found that there are several reasons managers fail to get employees to see and acknowledge that they have a problem. They assume. Many managers bypass the step of getting agreement because they assume that an employee vie...