June 26, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” Albert Einstein To all of our nieces and nephews who recently graduated and to all of our friends…. You are What You Believe Denise and Ken Nowack Believe that most “breaks†and “luck†in life happen at the intersection between preparation and opportunity… Believe in the […]
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June 24, 2011 by Yosh Beier
With all the hopes and promises of open innovation, team-based creativity, and peer-driven collaboration, effective ways to increase collective intelligence are hotly debated. One repeatedly replicated finding is that IQs of individual members don’t correlate with a group’s collective intelligence – measured by its ability to solve complex problems and to make effective decisions. In […]
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June 24, 2011 by Bill Bradley
As the week winds down, we wind down with some tidbits for your information, education, health, and enjoyment. Quote of the Week: “Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck were among the few early 20th century American writers to incorporate the Spanish language into their work, making vanguard experiments in bilingual fiction. More often than not, this […]
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June 22, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Accountability, The Key to Performance and Productivity Competencies: accountability, leadership, managing self, ethics, Who benefits: executives and senior managers primarily, any employee secondarily Consultant Usage: especially useful for external consultants working at the organizational level, useful for internal HRD consultants What’s it about? Two of my favorite guys are […]
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June 19, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.†Yogi Berra My 85/10/5 Rule of Coaching Most of my executive coaching engagements have been largely unsuccessful in terms of positive “outcomes.â€Â My coaching track record is easy to measure and I refer to it as the “85/10/5†rule. It is important […]
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June 15, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: The Ethical Mind Competency: self-development, managing self, leadership skills Who benefits: everyone Consultant Usage: any consultant worth his or her salt should read this and the related references to be of full value to self and clients What’s it about? Do you have 10 minutes to invest in your […]
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June 12, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you’re on the job.” Slappy White The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests reports unemployment currently around 10 percent. According to a survey by Mental Health America, the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the Depression is Real Coalition, workers in the […]
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June 5, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess†Oscar Wilde At most things in life I’m pretty average—in other things I’m pretty deeply developmentally delayed and won’t ever catch up (e.g., driving, reading a map, dancing, house painting). Maybe to achieve happiness and success it’s desirable to cultivate skills and abilities that are somewhere between excesses […]
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June 3, 2011 by Bill Bradley
As the week winds down, we wind down with some tidbits for your information, education, health, and enjoyment. Quotes of the Week: “Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions.” Martin Luther King, Jr. “I am a peripheral visionary. […]
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June 1, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: A Graduation Address Especially for You Competencies: self-development, managing self, leadership, ethics Who benefits: those who could appreciate a motivational speech Consultant Usage: pass it on to friends and clients What’s it about? It is that time of the year when (mostly) young people graduate from high school or […]
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