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Jocks vs. Nerds
Read more: Jocks vs. Nerds“There’s this idea of the jocks vs. nerds thing. That sort of ended when the nerds won decisively. We now live in this era where your big summer tentpole movies can be hobbits and minor Marvel Comics superheroes and boy…
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Leading Practices versus Best Practices
Lexy Martin tweeted a link a few months back around using the term “leading practices” and banishing the term “best practices” from our vocabularies. I’ve been trying to use the words leading practices for about 4 years now, although I…
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Users First, Company Second
I feel like I always talk about change management and adoption. When implementing a new system, I can definitely say that over the last few years I’ve seen a marked improvement in the diligence of internal implementation project managers in…
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Process Excellence – Push it forward
What defines process excellence? There are probably (at least) two parts of the equation. Efficiency is the most obvious, as people reengineer processes to make them faster and cheaper. The second part is equally important though, and achieving high quality…
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Great Individual Contributors <> Great Leaders
I hate taking things from the sports world because other than the occasional job, riding my bike more than I should and watching the Boston Celtics in the post-season, I really don’t follow sports. Fact is, I usually don’t even…
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Consulting Models
I was actually asked by a client recently to increase the scope of my project – or at least the staffing model we were using. There are a more than a few consulting models, but I think it generally boils…
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Defining Mobility
Talent is actually pretty tricky. We seem not only to have problems defining talent and talent application components, but we seem to not know what some of those components even are. I’m no making sense yet? As anyone what are…
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The Shift to Engagement
I was reading a post on 2010 (originally attributed to Joyce Gioia, but without a link). ((Quick note to my fellow bloggers, Even though I don’t always link, I do almost always footnote. It’s a pain, but we live in…