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Leadership and career
September 18, 2015

5 Ways to Keep Your Employees Happy

You see it all the time: midnight emails, dinnertime or weekend conference calls, projects finishing up in the wee hours of the morning. No one seems to work 9 to 5 anymore — not you, not your employees. To explore this “work anytime, anywhere” phenomenon, a new study conducted by the business-to-business…
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Leadership and career
June 5, 2015

And the Surveys Go On

In the past week I’ve experienced a notable increase in people asking my opinion. That’s good news for a consultant who considers opinion-giving the coinage of her realm. But clients didn’t ask; businesses did. As I checked out of the FedEx store where I’d bought envelopes, the nice clerk handed…
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Leadership and career
April 28, 2015

Is Trust an Effective Control?

“You have to learn the rules of the game.  And then you have to play better than anyone else”  –  Albert Einstein You may not follow stock markets or politics in Europe but you may be aware of the economic turmoil in the European Union and the recent elections in…
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Leadership and career
April 20, 2015

How Wall Street Should Define Culture

“Culture,” the new buzzword of the financial recovery, has transformed from an ethereal, abstract otherworldly word to a blunt instrument for finding fault on myriad qualitative matters affecting the organization. When an individual, merger, or organization fails, culture takes the blame. We use the word fairly arbitrarily, citing it to…
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Leadership and career
January 21, 2015

Does Your Company Need a Sterile Cockpit?

Airline captains don’t have an "open door policy," and there’s a good reason for that. Aside from the obvious terrorist and crazy passenger threats, airline pilots realize they face another adversary: treacherous interruptions. In 1974, an Eastern Airlines flight carrying 78 passengers and four crew members crashed in dense fog during…
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Leadership and career
October 7, 2014

Excuse Me, Do You Mind if I Deliver Inferior Performance?

New excuses for inferior performance crop up just as fast as one can whack them down—reminiscent of Whack-a-Mole, a game that involved forcing individual plastic moles back into their holes by hitting them directly on the head with a mallet. This week I encountered a new breed of mole related…
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Leadership and career
September 10, 2014

Why Does Bill Gates Go to Work?

Any discussion of motivation should begin with an analysis of people who have shown great application of it. Arguably, those whom Fortune ranks among the wealthiest in the world might make the list, especially if money were the only criteria for measuring motivation. It’s not, but it does provide a way of…
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Leadership and career
August 13, 2014

Who Was Occam? And Why Did He Need a Razor?

In April, as decreed by the Church of England, we commemorate the life of William of Ockham, an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher who has influenced modern organizational theory—but not enough. Peter Drucker’s medieval counterpart offered the observation that “entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity,” although these exact…
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Leadership and career
June 25, 2014

Why Don’t We Forget How to Ride Bikes?

Probably everyone reading this article can ride a bike. In my neighborhood, riding a bike was a rite of passage, a means of transportation and a symbol of freedom. People from all walks of life and economic backgrounds know how to ride bikes. You might call it a universal success…
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Leadership and career
June 3, 2014

Challenge the Ordinary

Editor's note: Conselium is delighted to announce that Linda Henman, executive coach and author of Landing in the Executive Chair, has published a new book. Our readers know her as a regular columnist, and we're happy to share this message from Henman about her book, "Challenge the Ordinary: Why Revolutionary…
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