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What’s Your Influencing Style?
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1/18/2012
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Harvard Business Review Blog – Chris Musselwhite and Tammie Plouffe
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Effective Leadership today relies more than ever on influencing others.
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Creating A Culture of Motivation
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11/2/2011
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T&D Magazine - Chris Musselwhite
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Helping your managers become
better motivators is the first step to creating a culture of motivation.
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Art of Asking Questions
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11/2/2011
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Leadership Excellence - Chris Musselwhite
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If you could develop a leadership skill that
was simple, inexpensive
and enabled you to get more done by doing less, would you and your managers
be interested?
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Is It Time for a 360?
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7/1/2011
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Education Executive - Chris Musselwhite
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A 360 assessment that incorporates a personalized development plan.
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How Attitudes Toward Change Affect Decision Making
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7/1/2011
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Training Magazine - Tracy Brown
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The Change Style Indicator identifies factors that can impact a group or organization's readiness to deal with and question change in times of rapid changes.
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Change Readiness
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1/12/2011
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Education Executive- Chris Musselwhite and Tammie Plouffe
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Our organizational experts says managing change is no longer enough and explain how your organization can become change ready.
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Change Readiness
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1/4/2011
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American Executive - Chris Musselwhite and Tammie Plouffe
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An integrated framework and holistic approach to organizational change.
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Best Practices for Facilitating Simulations
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8/1/2010
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T&D Magazine - Chris Musselwhite, Sue Kennedy, and Nancy Probst
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The interactivity of simulated learning environments calls for a new array of course facilitation skills.
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Playing to Learn
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7/21/2010
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PR Web - Tracy Brown
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Engineers experience the impact of systems thinking by making paper planes.
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Prepare for Change
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7/1/2010
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Leading Effectively E-Newsletter - Center for Creative Leadership - Chris Musselwhite
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"Developing readiness for change may be the single most important
factor in the long-term sustainability of an organization," says Chris
Musselwhite. "But it's also something that is notoriously difficult to
do."
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Leadership Through Times of Change - Managing Organizational Change
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6/21/2010
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KFLA Connectivity - Chris Musselwhite
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Organizational change often comes about if there is a need or service that is not being delivered.
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Four Ways to Know Whether You are Ready for Change
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6/2/2010
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Harvard Business Review Blog - Chris Musselwhite and Tammie Plouffe
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What does it mean to be ready for change - a group discussion
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Making Better Decisions By Knowing How to Decide
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10/1/2009
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Leadership in Action - Center for Creative Leadership - Chris Musselwhite
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Effective decision makers know that deciding what’s best and knowing
how best to decide are two very different skills. A leader’s mastery of the
difference between these two capabilities has major implications for both
the decision maker and those affected by the decisions.
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Retention Strategy: Meaningful Motivation
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6/18/2009
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Talent Management - Chris Musselwhite
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An employee who feels his manager's concern for his well-being is more likely to experience the trust characteristic of high-performing teams and organizations.
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Lead By Example
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6/1/2009
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American Executive - Chris Musselwhite
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By being a truly great follower, you model and inspire behaviors in others that increase the opportunity for success in your organization
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Tips for Managing Change: A Conversation with Chris Musselwhite
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1/28/2009
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Leading Effectively E-Newsletter - Center for Creative Leadership - Chris Musselwhite
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Our collective confusion about the value of change is tied to three individual perspectives: preference, process and proximity.
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Knowing Change Preferences Is a Boon for Leaders
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8/1/2008
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Leadership In Action - Center for Creative Leadership - Chris Musselwhite
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Understanding the contributions of each of three individual change style types can help leaders facilitate collaboration and teamwork.
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Three Ways to Build Successful Manager-Employee Relationships
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6/1/2008
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Talent Management - Chris Musselwhite
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The manager-employee relationship has a critical impact on performance. So why do companies often neglect to emphasize or provide training to help managers build this important connection?
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Forecasting Great Service
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5/1/2008
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T&D Magazine - Sue Kennedy and Chris Musselwhite
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How Universal Weather and Aviation used employee development to lift customer service out of the clouds and into the clear.
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Make Your Change Style Work For You
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2/26/2008
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ManagerCrossing - Chris Musselwhite
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Maybe you're one of those leaders who thrives on change, viewing a setback as a challenge, risk as an opportunity. It could be your most important strength — or your biggest vulnerability. The key is being aware of your personal ''change style'' and how it affects the people you're leading. Without this awareness, you could be alienating the very people you need to make the desired change a reality.
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Going Global
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1/3/2008
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Training Magazine - Chris Musselwhite
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Managing a global workforce goes beyond purchasing some software. It requires collaboration, communication, and teamwork.
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Asking the Right Questions
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1/1/2008
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HRCrossing - Chris Musselwhite
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As a middle to senior-level manager, you know that you're supposed to keep the big picture of your company's business objectives and goals in mind. But with the daily chores of problem solving and hands-on management, you just don't have the time. It's not happening the way it should, and you don't know how to fix it.
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Reframing Change
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1/1/2008
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American Executive - Chris Musselwhite
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For most of us, the New Year brings the renewed belief that we can let go of old habits and take up new ones. Almost everyone views this as an annual opportunity to change for the better. Unfortunately, change demanded of us by others.
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When Doing Nothing is the Right Thing
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12/1/2007
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Inc.com - Chris Musselwhite
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Take time out to learn from every experience and apply that learning in the future - and in your business.
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Creating a Culture of Development
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10/1/2007
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Lead-zinc eMagazine - Chris Musselwhite
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With the number of years an employee stays with one company now at an all-time low, identifying who to invest in is more important than ever.
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Self Awareness and the Effective Leader
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10/1/2007
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Inc.com - Chris Musselwhite
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Organizations benefit more from leaders who take responsibility for what they don't know than from leaders who pretend to know it all.
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Motivation = Empowerment
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8/1/2007
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Inc.com - Chris Musselwhite
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Motivation in the workplace isn't about what you do for your employees; it's about the work you empower your employees to do for you.
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Best Practices: Down the Line
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7/1/2007
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American Executive - Chris Musselwhite
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Best practices: The secret to ensuring your company's management pipeline is filled with the best talent around.
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The Promise of 360-Degree Feedback
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7/1/2007
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Talent Management - Chris Musselwhite
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Most Fortune 500 companies extensively use this type of feedback. But do they really deliver what organizations need to develop and retain talent? This question should be asked in light of the impending talent shortage predicted for the next 10 to 15 years.
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Leading Change - Creating an Organization That Lives Change
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6/15/2007
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Inc.com - Chris Musselwhite
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To effectively lead change, you must recognize that the phenomenon of "change" does not need managing as much as do the people involved with it.
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Strategic Leadership -- Achieving Agility
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4/1/2007
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Inc.com - Chris Musselwhite
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Having a good plan is compulsory, but knowing how and being able to respond to the unknown is the real goal and benefit of strategic leadership.
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Real-Life Learning Situations: Case Study
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2/15/2007
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T&D
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Torstar, a Canadian media company, can't produce the hundreds of books, newspapers, and magazines read by millions without the collaborative talents of its 6,000 employees, who work in four distinct business units and operate out of 15 different countries.
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Building and Leading High Performance Teams
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2/1/2007
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Inc.com - Chris Musselwhite
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You don't have to be Michael Jordan or Mia Hamm to have the skills you need to build and lead high performing teams.
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Finding the Right Person at the Right Time
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12/6/2006
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Inc.com - Chris Musselwhite
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Running a business brings many challenges, but there's none quite as constant or crucial as hiring the right people. The smaller the business, the more impact --positive or negative -- the person you hire will have. You will not get it right every time, but here are some best practices that can guide you toward better hiring decisions.
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Develop Others By Asking the Right Questions
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10/23/2006
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Inc.com - Chris Musselwhite
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Build a culture where individuals are expected to take responsibility, seek solutions and take action by asking the right questions of them.
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Building a High Performance Culture
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10/3/2006
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Inc.com - Chris Musselwhite
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Build a corporate culture that correlates to the level of performance you want your company to achieve.
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How To Fire an Employee
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8/22/2006
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Inc.com - Chris Musselwhite
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Your first order of business shouldn't be showing the employee the door. It should be creating a plan of action to help the employee avoid termination all together.
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University Executive Education Gets Real
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5/1/2006
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T&D - Chris Musselwhite
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From Open-Enrollment non-degree programs to small-group, fast track MBAs or customized management education programs, univeristy executive education programs are changing to meet the needs of executives.
Through the use of business simulations, executive education programs are injecting real-life situations into the classroom offering adult learners more engaging curriculum.
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The Culture of Discovery
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4/1/2006
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American Executive - Chris Musselwhite
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What does a learning organization look like, why is it better, and how can you get there sooner rather than later? Organizational development expert Chris Musselwhite has the answers.
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Why Great Followers Make the Best Leaders
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3/1/2006
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Harvard Management Update - Chris Musselwhite
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We are all followers. While we may prefer to focus on our roles as leaders within our organizations, almost all of us have a role in "following" someone else as well. The irony is that when we lose sight of this, we diminish our leadership effectiveness.
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Leadership Tools: Discovery Learning founder uses engineering to help find people's strengths, weaknesses
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2/27/2006
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The Business Journal
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Chris Musselwhite has a unique approach to leadership development. With a background in science and engineering, he's spent a lot of time learning about ways to improve the productivity and efficiency of equipment and processes.
But, he says, he often thought that the most crucial part of the process was overlooked.
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How to Find the Right Management Style
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2/10/2006
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Inc.com - Chris Musselwhite
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The ability to make good decisions is an art all leaders must learn, but it is especially vital for the entrepreneur. In many cases, when you started your business, there was no one else. You were technician, manager, and leader -- responsible for making every decision both tactical and strategic.
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Quick Change
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12/1/2005
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American Executive - Chris Musselwhite
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Author Chris Musselwhite has detailed advice on making your organization more agile.
Why do so many organizational change efforts come up short? Between all the smart consultants, the change mongers, and the volumes that have been written about organizational change, you’d think we could readily answer this question. One place to look for the answer is in the definition of change: “To make radically different; to give a different position or direction.”
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Culture of Risk
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8/1/2005
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American Executive
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Unless your business supports intelligent risk-taking, your next innovation could put your entire organization in jeopardy.
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Owning Up to Your Insecurities
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6/20/2005
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Inc.com - Chris Musselwhite
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One of the biggest myths about being a leader is that you have to have all of the answers.
Admitting that you don't have all the answers is risky, especially when people--your people--are watching. After all, you're the boss. You can't lose face in front of your staff. You're supposed to be the one in charge.
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Executive Education
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4/1/2005
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The Manufacturer - Matt Bolch
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World class companies embrace continuous improvement across the enterprise, and that includes the boardroom. Executives should get out of the office and into the classroom, says Matt Bolch.
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Living Change
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11/1/2004
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American Executive - Chris Musselwhite
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Does your company handle change with grace and style? Does it seek out new oppportunities that involve major change? Change management expert Chris Musselwhite offers some practical advice.
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Culture Shock
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3/1/2004
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The Manufacturer - Pamela Derringer
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Changing the way a company does business must take root in employee’s hearts and minds. Pamela Derringer reports on how to do it.
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Cox Enterprises Inc.: Turning Leadership Into Dollars
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12/1/2003
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CLO Magazine
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How do individual leadership styles and organizational culture work together to affect bottom-line performance? This is the question Gordon French, director of organizational development at Cox Enterprises Inc., had in mind when he began looking for a way to develop the leadership skills of general managers across the organization.
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Simulation Classification System
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8/18/2003
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Learning Circuits, ASTD - Chris Musselwhite
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Discovery Learning, Inc. has developed a simulation classification system to ensure trainers select the most appropriate simulation for their situation. The system is proving helpful in the selection of Discovery Learning's simulations and can be applied universally to all interactive simulations.
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Reviewing the Situation
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6/1/2003
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The Manufacturer - Matt Bolch
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Everyone's faces it----the dreaded annual performance review. But it doesn't have to be like that. There are tools to help managers improve performance and have fun at the same time.
Discovery Learning's Paper Planes simulations focuses on the team environment, which at first will mirror the company culture, but it also allows for individual learning.
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Winds of Change
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1/1/2003
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The Manufacturer - Chris Musselwhite
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There’s lots of talk about manufacturing agility these days, but how can you achieve this when everyone hates change? Chris Musselwhite has the answers.
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In With the New
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9/1/2002
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Entrepreneur - Chris Sandlund
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Learning when inclusive decision making is good sense.
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5000 Managers Surveyed on Change
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6/20/2002
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HRM Guide USA
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Contrary to some beliefs, a survey of 5,000 mid-to-upper level managers shows that most are very open to change.
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Build a Plane and a Team
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2/1/2002
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Corporate Meetings & Incentives - Megan Rowe
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Folks at Lucent, Motorola, and Merck have spent their time recently building paper airplanes - on the company's dollar, with their managers' OK.
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Not Exactly Rocket Science
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9/1/2001
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Training Magazine - Jeff Barbian
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High-Tech training gets all the press, but low-tech experiential methods continue to thrive in companies interested in fostering the human touch.
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CCL. Discovery Learning, Inc. Partner On New Program
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3/28/2001
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The Business Journal
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The Center for Creative Leadership and Discovery Learning Center, both of Greensboro, have developed a new executive training program designed to deal with challenges brought on by increasing diversity and corporate partnerships.
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Flying Off Over Office Politics
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11/3/2000
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InfoWorld - Libby Mulitz
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From paper planes to Silly Putty, companies look for ways to ease interdepartmental tensions.
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Don't Mess with These Ladies
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2/21/2000
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Business Week - Robert McNatt
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Men are from mars, women are from Venus, right? Well, not if you're comparing management styles. In fact, a 15-year survey of 41,000 executives--25% of them female--at 5,000 companies shows that women are slightly more high-handed than the guys are when making decisions.
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