Leadership Lessons from Google – When a Giant Makes a Giant Mistake
Google announced last week that they would close three offices and lay off 100 full-time recruiters. Even though these are the first Google-hired employees ever to lose their jobs in a workforce reduction, it’s not news… not in this economy. In fact, 100 employees [...]
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Circuit City – We Told You So…
In what was probably the easiest call in the last ten years, we told you Circuit City was going to go all the way (read our November 12, 2008 post if you don’t believe us). Back then we said you shouldn’t “be fooled by their reorganization plans; Circuit City [...]
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Delta-a-GoGo: Wi-Fi in the Sky – Good, Bad, Right, Wrong? It’s Here
When I first read about Delta’s plans to add wi-fi networking on some flights I was appalled. Under no circumstances did I want this one last bastion of freedom from emails to escape my personal dead zone. I truly enjoyed my twice-weekly vacation from [...]
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Sales: It’s Nothing Personal
A salesperson who works for one of my company’s primary vendors – someone who happens to be a former coworker and a person I considered to be a friend – just lost a bid with my company. The vendor had held this business for the past several years and we were nearing [...]
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Why Does My Industry Refuse to Use Data?
True story – of course, whenever anyone says or writes this it generally means that everything else they’ve ever told you is BS – anyway, true story: a highly compensated colleague wrote to a group of fellow highly compensated colleagues and asked “does anyone have any data on [...]
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Management Training Blogwatch – Best of the Blogs
We scoured and we scrubbed and we were left with just few posts and articles worthy of making it into your reading rotation for all things Management Training.
Perhaps it was the holidays and everyone was taking off between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, but we simply struggled [...]
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New York Times – Hardcover Business Best Sellers – January 2009
A quick review of the January 2009 New York Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers list and you wouldn’t know we were in a recession. Where are all the financial survival guides? Where are all the “end is near” and Nostradamus tomes?
Instead of the expected [...]
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Great Leadership Blog Worthy of Special Mention – CatchYourLimit.com
As our regular readers know, we produce four semi-regular Blogwatch series covering Time Management, Sales Management, Management Training and Leadership Development. In these series we attempt to help you cut through the clutter and discover great writing and great advice.
While we think we do a [...]
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