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Problem Solving 101

May 19, 2011 13 Comments
Problem Solving 101

The first and most important step in the decision making process is identification of the problem. I’ve never known anyone to work on solving a problem without first admitting its existence.  If you can’t see the gaps between where you are and where you need to be, you will never really innovate and change. Deep [...]

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The Fifth Discipline: Don’t Miss Your Big Picture

May 3, 2011 11 Comments
The Fifth Discipline: Don’t Miss Your Big Picture

A version of this post originally appeared on The Student Branding Blog, March 1, 2010. I’m reposting it here today because today is the last day of my first semester long course in personal branding for MBA students at UNR. There is no book that I have recommended more than Peter Senge’s “The Fifth Discipline: [...]

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Leveraging Your Human Capital Investment

January 26, 2011 2 Comments
Leveraging Your Human Capital Investment

Decisions you make as a leader determine if your investment in human capital is leveraged or squandered. Provided the power to act effectively, your employees will make your operations excel. Even though I made Gary Latham’s book “Becoming the Evidence-Based Manager,” required reading for my MBA class this semester, I have to admit it did [...]

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Leaders: Think About Tucson

January 11, 2011 4 Comments
Leaders: Think About Tucson

On Saturday, January 8, 2011, a gunman killed six people and wounded fourteen others at a gathering in Tucson, Arizona. That seemingly has nothing to do with your personal development as a leader; yet, everyone seriously interested in leadership needs to be thinking hard about what happened in Tucson. I’m not going to offer you [...]

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