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The Agile Family Meeting
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How Much Truth Should You Share?
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Not Taking Risks Is the Riskiest Career Move of All
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Giving a High Performer Productive Feedback
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Video: Black Women on the Challenges and Opportunities of the Past 18 Months
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How to Recover from a Blunder
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Do Your Employees Know Why You Believe in Racial Equity?
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Expose Your Company’s Blind Spots
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Live Life as an Experiment
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Learn to Solicit Feedback ... from Your Kids
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BoldFlash: Cross-Functional Challenges in the Mobile Division
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Too Long for Comfort: Tackling Consultation Wait Time at a Hospital Emergency Department
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The Agile Family Meeting
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BoldFlash: Cross-Functional Challenges in the Mobile Division
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Roger Cahill has spent less than a year as head of the Mobile Division of BoldFlash, a flash memory component maker. On the corporate level, BoldFlash... -
The Reality of What Makes Silicon Valley Tick
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Manage Your Time Like Jim Collins
Work-life balance Digital ArticleJim Collins is all about discipline. The man who described Level 5 Leadership not only understands the inner fortitude of the best-performing companies and leaders; he’s famously disciplined and enormously productive, as you can tell from his website (jimcollins.com). A runner and mountain-climber, he is the picture of fitness. How does he manage his time? […] -
Fixing the World’s Infrastructure Problems
International business Digital ArticleAn analysis of 400 case studies uncovers several ways to solve the world’s infrastructure challenges more efficiently. -
How Much Truth Should You Share?
Business ethics Digital ArticleComments for this Make Your Case installment are now closed. Thanks to all who participated. This week’s guest commentator, Marshall Goldsmith, has posted his response to your comments and shared some thoughts of his own below. The opening to your cube is darkened by the familiar figure of a longtime colleague. Though you’re his immediate […] -
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Not Taking Risks Is the Riskiest Career Move of All
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Giving a High Performer Productive Feedback
Managing people Best PracticeGiving feedback, particularly constructive feedback, is often a stressful task. As counterintuitive as it may seem, giving feedback to a top performer can be even tougher. Top performers may not have obvious development needs and in identifying those needs, you can sometimes feel like you’re being nitpicky or over-demanding. In addition, top performers may not […] -
Video: Black Women on the Challenges and Opportunities of the Past 18 Months
Global Business Digital ArticleBlack women are often "the onlys" in their organizations, often leading to tremendous pressure and responsibility.