Petition to Recall the LA Mayor Due to Gross Neglect and Mismanagement
MishTalk
JANUARY 10, 2025
The city of LA has a Recall Petition Handbook. It’s time to use it.
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Top 11 Must-Read Project Management Books
Epicflow
JANUARY 31, 2023
Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management by Scott Berkun Making Things Happen is a practical handbook for project managers written in an easy-to-read and witty manner. We’ve focused on those that are easy to read, share actionable insights, and help improve different sides of the project management process. Enjoy the reading!
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What are good ideas for a Lean roll-out Handbook?
Consulthon
MARCH 1, 2018
Does anyone have experience in writing an implementation Lean roll-out handbook in a multi-cultural environement? Hi everybody! The aim of the initiative is to have a central documentation of our b.
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The So What Strategy – A Highly Recommended Book for Business Communications
Steve Shu Consulting
NOVEMBER 19, 2017
Third, the book provides concrete tools (such as checklists) and is well-structured for being a quick handbook. Second, the book has concrete examples of emails, storyboards, and presentations; this helps readers actually see where communications can be improved and how following the authors’ frameworks can help.
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The Law Firm Billing Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Automated Billing
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Traditional billing practices can leave paralegals and many staff at law firms spending countless hours manually creating and sending invoices, tracking billable hours, and processing paper checks.
Matrix Structures and Virtual Collaboration (Kates and Erickson, Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams, 2008)
Kates Kesler
AUGUST 29, 2012
Chapter in The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams, 2008. Virtual Collaboration in a Matrix Organization. Amy Kates and Paul J. The matrix structure is an increasingly common feature on the business landscape.
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How Our Workshop for Accountable Change Can Improve Your Organization’s Performance
Effective Managers
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
The workshop includes a copy of the Manager’s Handbook for Organizational Change that will serve as a guide to participants so they can implement successful change. The bottom line is that the language of accountability can be used to ensure the successful implementation of projects, no matter their size.
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229: Rita Denny—Maybe You Need Anthropology To See Yourself In New Ways
On the Brink Podcast
AUGUST 18, 2020
In my work with clients, I often refer to her book, “ Handbook of Anthropology in Business , ” co-edited with Patricia Sunderland, in which they discuss dozens of ways that the theory, method and tools of anthropology can be innovatively applied in business settings across the globe.
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Storytelling in OD Communications
Harmonious Workplaces
MARCH 2, 2024
Integrate the REAL Model The NTL Handbook of Organizational Development and Change (Jones & Brazzel, 2014) from the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science recommends incorporating the REAL model (Reflection, Engagement, Action, Learning) into storytelling efforts. : How Smart Business Leaders Gain a Marketing Competitive Edge.
A Sucker's Bet in Sochi
Strategy+Business
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
After reading the International Handbook on the Economics of Mega Sporting Events, it''s hard to see how Russia will benefit from hosting the Winter Olympics.'
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The 6 Fundamental Skills Every Leader Should Practice
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Over the past year we have been writing the HBR Leader’s Handbook — a primer for aspiring leaders who want to take their careers to the next level. .” Obviously, this is good advice if you want to become a world-class performer — but it’s also good advice if you want to become a top-notch leader.
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The Fundamentals of Leadership Still Haven’t Changed
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
This tried and true perspective on leadership was reinforced for us during the past year as we researched and wrote the HBR Leader’s Handbook. It is still about mobilizing people in an organization around common goals to achieve impact, at scale.
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Fight Ageism, Fuel Growth with Inclusive Hiring & Retention
Harmonious Workplaces
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Establish Clear Policies Against Age Discrimination Many employee handbooks establish clear, actionable policies against age discrimination. These policies should permeate the company culture beyond just onboarding and glossing over the handbook with regular training to educate employees on ageism and its impacts.
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Nonprofit Rescue: The Pitch
The Nonprofit Consultant
JANUARY 17, 2013
Once in the conference room, we give binders to all board and staff with the new Strategic Plan (including a strong, realistic Fund Development Plan), graphics guidelines, privacy policies, Board handbook with member agreements and expectations, and an updated Employee Handbook with clear personnel policies.
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72 Bridging Organization Design and Performance: Five Ways to Activate a Global Operating Model
Kates Kesler
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
Bridging Organization Design and Performance is a handbook for leaders looking to enhance the success of their organizations and themselves. Companies that compete globally require organizational operating models as robust as their strategies.
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Consulting Survival Guide
Tom Spencer
JANUARY 13, 2018
See this as your consulting handbook – your consulting survival guide. The below 25 tips are what every consultant learns – some faster than others – while on the job. Learning these now will help you get into the consulting rhythm much faster than you otherwise would have, and save you a lot of pain. The essentials.
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Yadda, yadda, yadda
Seth Godin Blog
JULY 21, 2021
If you’ve read ten employee handbooks that say one thing when the company does another, you’re likely to not believe the eleventh one. Whichever it is, they nod their head, politely listening, but don’t change their expectations at all. “Trust me” is easy to say, especially when you mean it, but hard to hear.
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How We Closed the Gap Between Men’s and Women’s Retention Rates
Harvard Business
MAY 19, 2017
As in many fast-paced companies today, consulting staff operate without formal job descriptions or handbooks. Management consulting is a challenging environment in which to cultivate apprenticeship, because staff regularly jump from project to project and manager to manager.
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Ten Principles for an Employee Bill of Rights
Rick Conlow
JUNE 30, 2022
Most companies have statements of ethics or teamwork in their employee handbooks. European countries do a better job. Unions are on the decline. However, organizations always find the loopholes. The truth is a boss can fire someone at will. If the boss does not like you, there are no promotions.
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3 Options to Develop New Managers
LSA Global
JANUARY 23, 2021
New Manager Handbook and Toolkit Does your organization have an easy to access handbook or toolkit for new managers ? A new manager handbook should outline a manager’s general responsibilities, expectations, mistakes to avoid, and provide useful tips and tools on how to be successful in their new role – especially in the first 90-days.
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Are Executive Assessments the Missing Link to Unlock Your True Potential?
Organizational Talent Consulting
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
Handbook of psychological assessment. Life-Changing Leadership Habits: 10 Proven Principles That Will Elevate People, Profit, and Purpose. Organizational Talent Consulting. Goldstein, G., N., & Deluca, J. Elsevier Science & Technology.
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Books for spring
Seth Godin Blog
MAY 5, 2020
Fanocracy is a handbook and guide for anyone seeking to build a tribal brand in our modern media culture. This is the 20th anniversary of The Art of Possibility , the book I recommend more than any other. The audiobook is terrific as well. Cookbooks from Alison Roman (easy crowd pleasers) and Chad Robertson (patient bread).
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How to Solve Your Talent Challenge (Creatively)
Organizational Talent Consulting
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Thinkertoys: A handbook of business creativity. The international handbook on innovation (1st ed.). Creativity's bottom line: How winning companies turn creativity into business value and growth. McKinsey & Co. Michalko, M. Berkeley, Calif: Ten Speed Press. Enhancement and the fulfillment of potential. Creativity. Elsevier Science.
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7 Ways People Quit Their Jobs
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
Those currently entering the workforce are expected to engage in even more job hopping than prior generations, suggesting that employers may want to move beyond the simple notice policy in the company handbook and learn to encourage employees to resign in constructive ways.
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How to Give an Employee Feedback About Their Appearance
Harvard Business
MAY 26, 2017
He recognized that they didn’t have rules about dress “clearly posted on a wall or in a handbook,” so it was his responsibility to explain them to Ross. It wouldn’t instill confidence,” he says.
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How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Work from Home
Harvard Business
MAY 5, 2017
For instance, he pointed to his own direct reports, who often spent days at home when they need “heads down” time to write surveys or handbooks, and were getting high marks from clients as a result. To build his case to his boss, Wade used internal examples of successful remote workers. ’” Wade stayed on schedule.
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5 Mistakes Employees Make When Challenging the Status Quo
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 24, 2016
In our book, Rebels at Work: A Handbook for Leading Change from Within , we offer suggestions for how employees can more effectively advance their good ideas, even in organizations resistant to constructive nonconformists.
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Consulting Survival Guide
Tom Spencer
SEPTEMBER 28, 2019
See this as your consulting handbook – your consulting survival guide. The below 25 tips are what every consultant learns – some faster than others – while on the job. Learning these now will help you get into the consulting rhythm much faster than you otherwise would have, and save you a lot of pain. The essentials.
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60 What to Do When Your Boss Says No
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Ethan talked about all the times he’d been told no in his career: on plans to merchandise products, sophisticated inventory control systems, and basic training handbooks. In 2010 I spent an afternoon with one of CEO Mike’s highest-performing store managers, a person I will call Ethan.
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How to Write Email with Military Precision
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 22, 2016
Here’s an example BLUF from the Air Force Handbook : BLUF: Effective 29 Oct 13, all Air Force Doctrine Documents (AFDDs) have been rescinded and replaced by core doctrine volumes and doctrine annexes. The BLUF should quickly answer the five W’s: who, what, where, when, and why.
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Happy Workplaces Can Also Be Candid Workplaces
Harvard Business
MAY 31, 2016
Recently the Communications Workers of America – the union that represents T-Mobile employees — contested a T-Mobile Employee Handbook clause on maintaining a positive work environment. ” Their reasoning was that – if employees are discontent – they need to be able to freely air that displeasure.
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Harvard Business
JANUARY 29, 2018
For example, she described how she revised the company’s internal handbook by using skills she honed as a consultant and crowd-sourcing HR ideas from the team she already managed. The handbook was rolled out company-wide.).
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Virtual Coaching is Inevitable but is it Effective?
Organizational Talent Consulting
JUNE 26, 2023
The Center for Creative Leadership handbook of leadership development (pp. Human Communication Research, 18 (4), 563–598. Ting, S., & & Hart, E. Formal coaching. McCauley & E. Van Velsor (Eds.), 116–150), San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Trevino, L., Lengel R., & & Daft R.
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Reinventing the water cooler – and why it matters
Brimstone Consulting
AUGUST 19, 2020
In other words, much of the important information about how to be successful and productive at a job is not going to be found in a memo or an employee handbook, but rather around the water cooler.”.
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5 Ways to Facilitate Better Conversations
Billable Percentage
MARCH 19, 2017
Not with my blog-post on how to hold more effective meetings , and my handy-dandy Facilitator’s handbook below. If you’re any of these, more often than not, you’ve been put in the precarious position of having to come to a consensus or outcome in a meeting with multiple personalities and opinions. Impossible?
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5 Steps to Developping a Cyber Security Crisis Management Plan
Melissa Agnes
JULY 26, 2016
Step 4: Draft your playbook and crisis communications handbook. In the event of a cyber security crisis, this list usually includes legal counsel, cyber forensic professionals, insurance providers and a specialized crisis management consultant.
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Understanding Yourself to Lead Others Better
Organizational Talent Consulting
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Handbook of psychological assessment. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 32(2), 127-149. Brickhouse, Thomas C.; Smith, Nicholas D. Plato's Socrates. Oxford University Press. Goldstein, G., & Deluca, J. Elsevier Science & Technology. Oltmanns, T., Gleason, M., Klonsky, E., & & Turkheimer, E.
Fidelity, compression and culture
Seth Godin Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Companies go from handbooks and memos to hallway conversations to Slack checkins. From a landline phone conversation to a bad connection on a cell to a few characters in a text message. CDs sounded worse than a good LP, but SACDs and MQA can sound better in the right circumstances. Lossy compression is forever. Fidelity is a powerful delight.
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A scary CX trend: Employee compassion fatigue and burnout
1 to 1
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
And right now, 59% of customer service reps are at risk of burnout, including 28% who are at risk of severe burnout, according to Jeff Toister, author of the Service Culture Handbook. Expect that number to grow in tandem with more automation and AI.
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How Leadership Self-Awareness Improves Financial Performance
Organizational Talent Consulting
JULY 10, 2023
Handbook of psychological assessment. The impact of emotional intelligence on accuracy of self-awareness and leadership performance. Leadership & Organization Development Journal , 32(2), 127-149. Goldstein, G., & Deluca, J. Elsevier Science & Technology. Gorgens-Ekermans, G., & & Roux, C.
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5 key areas to Improve SAP knowledge
freshminds
JANUARY 27, 2015
A list of 6 great SAP FI handbooks are available here with amazon links. The list here gives all the topics of the SAP FICO 'curriculum' if you wish to search for further training materials [link] This website also contains an excellent blog which may answer any specific questions you may have on SAP FICO.
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40 Scientist, Engineer and Operations Manager
Seth Godin Blog
AUGUST 6, 2016
The Operations Manager takes the handbook and executes on it. Take existing practices, weave them together and create a bridge that won't fall down, write code that won't crash, design an HR department that's efficient and effective. Brilliantly. Promises, kept. Hands on, full communications, on time. The scientist invents the train.
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4 Ways Leaders Keep Hope Alive In Uncertain Times
Organizational Talent Consulting
AUGUST 22, 2022
Handbook of hope theory, measures, & applications. An empirical examination of factors related to organizational vision integration among hospital employees. BMC Health Services Research. Snyder, & Snyder, C. Snyder, Sympson, S., Borders, T., Babyak, M., & & Higgins, R. Development and Validation of the State Hope Scale.
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