The New Year starts out, for me, with a number of new ventures and adventures. As many of you are already aware, I recently completed a unique learning project with two friends and colleagues – Frank Sarr and John Stout.…
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Fear and Loathing at the Water Cooler
Fear and Loathing at the Water Cooler: 5 Ways to Counter the Recession Related Employee Underground of Anxiety, Aggression, and Shame If you’ve noticed employees behaving oddly these days, it’s probably not your imagination. Two things are happening with the…
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October/November 2010
I consider the introduction to the newsletter my opportunity to share interesting, miscellaneous tidbits. So here are three. 1. Last week, during my travels around the country, I went through security at a small airport in North Carolina and saw…
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Six Ways You Sabotage Your Leadership Ability
With all your credentials your leadership skills should be impeccable. You have an MBA from Harvard or some other prestigious business school. You’ve taken every executive certification program that’s come down the pike. You’ve been trained, coached, counseled and seminar-ed…
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September 2010
It’s not your imagination – there was no August newsletter. I’m right in the middle of one of those “good news/bad news” scenarios. I haven’t been this busy in a long time (I’ve been “rediscovered” – alas, in my late…
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75 Surprising Truths On Thriving In Today’s Workplace
In an era where information travels and technology spreads almost instantaneously, success requires that we look inside ourselves for solutions to our work-related problems. Morris Shechtman, author of Fifth Wave Leadership: The Internal Frontier offers the following pithy insights on…
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Your Employees And Your Bottom Line: Getting The Most Return
It’s more important than ever to get maximum return from your employees. Change-management expert Morris Shechtman tells you how . . . and it has little to do with increasing salaries. They say that time is money. And while that…
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July 2010
A part of this newsletter is about unexpected experiences. One of those occurred this past Saturday, when Arleah and I took a boat trip up the Flathead River with our friends, Deb and Jere Newell. The Newells live on Flathead…
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A Place To Grow: What Motivates Today’s Employees
It’s more important than ever to keep your workforce happy. Change-management expert Morris Shechtman tells you how . . . and it has little to do with money. Right now, making your workplace attractive to employees is probably the last…
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June 2010
The response to the “Personal” section of the last newsletter has been very interesting. Most of it has been along the lines of identifying with many of my feelings connected with growing older. A few reactions, though, both through emails…
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