January 14, 2008 by Ken Nowack
“Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.” Anonymous I tried playing baseball when I was in college–pretty good fielder but struck out way too often. I wonder if it was because my first name starts with the letter “K” instead of another letter? (Note: for non-baseball fans, “K” = strike out) […]
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January 11, 2008 by Ken Nowack
“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” Mark Twain Another addition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. CO2 Partners in a recent 2007 Internet survey of over 3,000 employees (90% middle to senior […]
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November 26, 2007 by Ken Nowack
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.†Peter Drucker Every year since 1983, Bain and Company has surveyed executives in various industries to weight and rate the level of satisfaction and use of over 100 popular tools (e.g., benchmarking, six sigma, corporate blogs). With over 8,504 […]
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October 30, 2007 by Ken Nowack
“Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.†Aldous Huxley I have a habit of collecting some “facts” that I read in both academic non-academic journals. I try sometimes to go back to […]
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