The Expectation of Excellence: Creating a High-Performance Culture

By Eitan Sharir As a leader, you don’t head to work every day intending to achieve mediocre results.  Nonetheless, are you inadvertently setting mediocre expectations...

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Practice Makes Perfect Revisited: Deliberate Practice and the Development of Expertise

By Tom Gram Well-designed practice is what separates meaningful learning from passive information presentation.  But do we design adequate practice to build the expertise needed...

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Hierarchy & Social Networks Both #FAIL. Now What?

By Brad Palmer The advent of social platforms and communication tools is rapidly changing how information flows inside of organizations. This is challenging how...

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Yesterday’s Model? (New Modes of Thinking Required)

By Jennifer Gerves-Keen Our organizational models are not working; as HR professionals we should not be surprised—merely prepared. What does organizational change have to do...

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New Female Corporate Directors: Breaking the Gender Barrier

By Dr. Paul Dunn In June 2012, Sheryl Sandberg, who had been a vice-president at Google Inc., was hired to be the chief operating officer of Facebook...

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Increasing Employee Accountability: The Critical Role of Leadership

By Craig Dowden Accountability is an important feature of any workplace. When employees are able to take responsibility for their work, they feel empowered by...

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It’s Not MY Fault! Neutralize the Blame Game

Instead of facing the workday with excitement, most leaders want to crawl back under the covers from sheer dread of what awaits them at...

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Partners, Not Employees

By Marshall Goldsmith Talent management is a field that requires a healthy dose of leadership on the part of its practitioners, who must be innovators...

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