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Escaping Your Inner Mental Prison

BY Dr. Alex PattakosThu Nov 5, 2009 at 1:45 PM

"Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now," the world-renown psychiatrist and author of the classic bestseller, Man's Search for Meaning, ...READ»

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6 Steps to a Breakthrough

BY Seth KahanWed Nov 4, 2009 at 5:59 AM

Get your scope right. Identify the area you will address. This will determine what is relevant and what is not as you move forward, untangling inter-dependent relationships. Identify your Most Valuable Players Now you are looking ...READ»

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The Change Leader's MVPs

BY Seth KahanThu Oct 29, 2009 at 7:59 PM

A select group of people brings any change initiative to life. I call these people, the Most Valuable Players (MVPs). They are not always friends. They do not always have clout, political power, or ...READ»

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The Change Leadership Team

BY Seth KahanFri Oct 23, 2009 at 9:11 PM

Assemble a Change Leadership Team to champion your initiative everywhere it's important for your presence to be felt. The members of the Change Leadership Team are drawn from your Most Valuable Players - the people who will bring ...READ»

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Change is Personal

BY Donna KarlinMon Oct 19, 2009 at 5:33 PM

When organizations inform staff about massive change, transition, cut backs, re-engineering or whatever label they place on it with the assurance that "It's not personal" that they have to change how their organization operates to work within the current economic climate, keep up with competitors etc, and it's not about them, the take away is "It's about me. It's all about me." READ»

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Hamel: Time for Management 2.0

BY Seth KahanWed Oct 7, 2009 at 4:16 PM

Gary Hamel's message at the World Business Forum today is that your organization is not fit for the future unless it is fit for human beings. Hamel is a globally recognized expert in business strategy and performer extraordinaire ...READ»

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Lencioni Teaches Team Engagement

BY Seth KahanTue Oct 6, 2009 at 2:30 PM

Patrick Lencioni is an expert in team performance. He is the author of eight best-selling books with over 2.5 million copies sold. After six years in print, his book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team continues to be on national ...READ»

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A Growing Wave of Hospital Excellence

BY Seth KahanThu Oct 1, 2009 at 4:27 PM

Today I am at the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) annual conference in Louisville, Kentucky. This year's event sold out with over 5,000 nurses, health care workers, and hospital executives in attendance. These three ...READ»

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8 Conversations that Create the Future

BY Seth KahanSat Sep 26, 2009 at 12:02 AM

For each of these conversations you must establish an atmosphere of genuine exploration. These eight topics are meant to open the doors of perception to new possibilities, creating an environment where ...READ»

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World Business Forum covered here - Live Oct 6 & 7

BY Seth KahanTue Sep 22, 2009 at 9:52 AM

I will post to this blog, covering the World Business Forum in New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, live as it happens, Oct 6 & 7, 2009. The World Business Forum brings together global leaders, business icons and ...READ»

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WorkLIfeSuccess: 5 Keys to Sustained High Performance

BY Seth KahanSat Sep 19, 2009 at 11:41 AM

High-performers are experts at sustaining a constructive frame of mind, a clear vision, and a continuous supply of personal energy. It's a tall order. Here's how it's done:Improve your health - your body is your instrument. I ...READ»

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The Power of a Park

BY Seth KahanFri Sep 18, 2009 at 7:59 AM

Profile of a Change Leader: Barbara Tulipane In August I attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony of Marvin Gaye Park in NorthEast Washington, DC. Since I first moved to DC in the late 80s this park has been known as "Needle ...READ»

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5 Ways to Create a Shared Stake in Success

BY Seth KahanSun Sep 13, 2009 at 8:24 AM

Success at leading change – dramatic, sustained improvement – is largely determined by a leader’s capacity to engage others in a mutually supported vision of the future. Engagement means getting people’s whole-hearted support ...READ»

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Improving Team Performance: Integrating Stephen Covey’s Ideas in Video

BY Thomas CliffordMon Sep 7, 2009 at 10:21 PM

“Most of your team members want to make a valued contribution– to find purpose in their work.” Stephen R. CoveyI’m in the middle of reading Stephen Covey’s new book, “Predictable Results in Unpredictable Times.” Being a ...READ»

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Change Management in 4 Steps

BY Seth KahanFri Sep 4, 2009 at 12:02 AM

When you are kicking off a new change initiative, the highest leverage activity bar none is face-to-face engagement with your key opinion leaders. Don't make the mistake of writing emails, designing brochures, putting together ...READ»

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Survey Says: One-Third of All Videos Get Shared Online

BY Kit EatonThu Aug 6, 2009 at 7:52 AM

If there's any doubt that the future of home-made video is online, then some new survey data will dispel it: Apparently one third of all the videos people make get shared online. That's a lot. But there's more too--the newly revealed ...READ»

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7 Ways to Delight Clients

BY Seth KahanWed Jul 15, 2009 at 10:55 AM

I recently caught up with leadership guru, Steve Denning, author of award-winning books like The Secret Language of Leadership, and asked him about his new ideas on delighting clients.Seth: So Steve, what’s all this about ...READ»

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Scouting, Reconnaisance, and the Avant-garde

BY Seth KahanTue Jul 7, 2009 at 12:24 AM

Maps are a good thing. They help you avoid difficult areas, or prepare for them. They make it possible to weigh the advantages of the long route vs the short one. And when you are faced with unplanned interruptions, they can get you ...READ»

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8 Ways to Juice Your Meetings

BY Seth KahanSat May 30, 2009 at 8:27 AM

Meetings are a core ritual in today's work world. Everyone is trying to figure out how to do them better. There is this temptation to think, 'if only I follow this easy-to-understand guide, my meetings will once again become useful, ...READ»

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7 Lessons for Getting Change Right

BY Seth KahanFri May 22, 2009 at 6:31 AM

Between 1995 and 1997 I participated in two distinctly different change initiatives at the World Bank, both called Knowledge Management. The first one never took off. The second one changed the organization, and the world, in two ...READ»

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In Pursuit of Elegance

BY Seth KahanFri May 1, 2009 at 9:24 PM

Do you ever get the feeling something is missing? In the best instances, it often is. "Grand elegance comes not out of control, but from chaos," said Matthew May when I spoke to him about his amazing new book, In ...READ»

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The Meaning and Power of Forgiveness

BY Dr. Alex PattakosFri Apr 10, 2009 at 5:14 PM

In light of everything that is going on in our country and the world right now, including the economic crisis that is on center stage, it may be a good time to consider a topic that usually gets ignored when the "blame ...READ»

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Prescription for Getting Through Hard Times

BY Dr. Alex PattakosSun Mar 22, 2009 at 3:40 PM

"The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" cried Chicken Little. If you are unfamiliar or don't remember the story of Chicken Little, we invite you to watch one of the versions of this classic tale produced in ...READ»

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Don't Work Against Yourself!

BY Dr. Alex PattakosThu Mar 12, 2009 at 3:41 PM

Good intentions are not enough--no matter how well intended they may be. Paradoxically, if we become fixated or obsessed with our intentions, we may actually work against ourselves, which is a concept (and technique) known as, you ...READ»

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An American Evolution

BY Seth KahanWed Mar 11, 2009 at 8:24 AM

Many of us wish we could just go back in time, before all this turmoil started. Before the mortgages went bad, before the stock market tanked, before the massive layoffs. But, there is no going back, only forward. Whatever happens we ...READ»