Category Archives: change

How to Ignite a Winning Culture Facing Change

Since many of you have asked us about our leadership change management videos, we wanted to let you know we now have an e-learning leadership change management course that makes a great stand alone course or blended learning course trainers can use … Continue reading

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The “Triple Bottom Line” and the Annihilation of Blue Chip Institutions

By Karlin Sloan “The role the corporation needs to play in individuals’ lives the community’s life, and the world’s life is to sustain the platform upon which the corporation exists. Leaders must recognize that we live in one big system … Continue reading

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What does playing to win look like in the business world?

by Holly Green Once again, the sports world offered a powerful lesson for business leaders when the New Orleans Saints played the Detroit Lions January 14th. Specifically, I’m referring to Saints coach Sean Payton and how he approaches the game … Continue reading

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Management Skills for the Entrepreneur & Change Catalyst

Yep. It can feel like this when you’re an entrepreneur or someone who is playing to win. Belly flops don’t stop you. They just make you smarter.  The success skills of entrepreneurs – influencing others, risking and making mistakes, bouncing back … Continue reading

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What’s going on: More career development to mask a hiring shortage?

One thing about change, it’s always happening. It’s well visualized with a pendulum.  That’s definitely the case with the job market. Today, it swings in favor of companies. Tomorrow? Could it swing in favor of workers?  Is it already happening? … Continue reading

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What’s Your Benefit to Changing a Behavior?

by Marshall Goldsmith In my younger days, as a newly minted PhD and executive educator, I would challenge my clients to pick one to three behavior patterns for personal improvement – that is, if they demonstrated a positive change in … Continue reading

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How to Use Resilience to Win in Business and Personally

by Karlin Sloan Applying Resilience at Work Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in their breakthrough book “Built to Last” showed through long-term research  that organizations that weathered the storms of time and endured were those who preserved their core values, … Continue reading

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The Resilient Leader: Ernest Shackleton Seeing Opportunity in Adversity

by Karlin Sloan Resilience is “an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.” Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition   Resilience helps us steer through the everyday stresses and hassles that fill modern life, and helps us bounce … Continue reading

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Why Asking Why is So Important To Spotting Opportunity

Y is a crooked letter. That’s what a dear friend’s mother used to tell him when she was exhausted by all his questioning when he was a young boy. At some point, he learned to obey his teachers, parents and bosses. Didn’t … Continue reading

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Three Phases That Guarantee Innovation And Who Holds the Keys

by Holly Green When I ask business leaders to identify which part of the innovation process their organizations struggle with the most, I typically get one of three answers: We have a lot of ideas but most of them get … Continue reading

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