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 Tackling Leadership
Generation X And The Baby
Boomers At Work
Heeding The Call
A Sticky Situation: Creating
Innovative Climates
Motivation Made
Easy
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 Tackling
Leadership
Mike Singletary on How to "Walk the Talk" on Your Own
Playing Field
Opposing players
often stood in fear staring into the piercing eyes of
Chicago Bears' middle linebacker Mike Singletary. Not only
did his intensity and motivation affect the other team,
those leadership qualities led the 1985 Bears to victory in
Super Bowl XX. Both on and off the field, he did what came
naturally-he led by example. His new challenge is working
with organizations. Singletary believes that leaders must
command respect and be consistent, patient, unbiased and
faithful. Stating that he sees leadership fading, he wants
to keep things simple. People should listen-he has an
extensive resume and great first-hand experience.
 Generation
X And The Baby Boomers At Work
Getting Past the Generation Gap
Two distinct generations walk the halls in your
office today, and chances are they're not saying much as
they pass by each other on their way to meetings or lunch.
The members of one generation, the baby boomers (born
between 1946 and 1964), have walked from your company
lunchroom to boardroom for years, first full of spunk and
optimism in the 1980s, then during the heart-palpating
insecurities of the 1990s. Now these veterans carry with
them a lot of knowledge and experience. A history with the
company, they say, gives them an understanding the new
generation just doesn't have.
 Heeding The Call
How Following Your Passion Can Improve Business and the
Quality of Life
-- How often do you sit
back, relax and take a minute to evaluate your life? Sure,
for the most part you're pretty happy. But do you ever
think about what you would rather do or what you have
always dreamed of doing?
If so, then Gregg Levoy has some advice
for you. Listen to that little voice trying to tell you
what to do. Instead of just thinking about all of those
things, get out there and do them! Not only will you
benefit personally, but most everything surrounding you
will, too.
 A Sticky Situation: Creating
Innovative Climates
Assessment Tool Helps Organizations Understand Creativity
and Innovation --
Many of us are so inundated with
paperwork that we forget about one of our brain's most
powerful tools-creativity.
While it may be more apparent in our
everyday leisure activities and hobbies, it is just as
important to bring creativity to our jobs as well. As
immeasurable as creativity may be at first, it is essential
for the growth of any organization.
Steven Zeisler of Zeisler Associates,
Inc., shares with us the nine dimensions of a creative
climate and how it can lead to measurable results,
innovation and a lively organization.
 Motivation Made
Easy
Look Inside the Human Mind for Answers to All Your
Relationship Needs
We all have people in our lives that
we just don't understand. And we've all had those moments
when we wished we could crawl into that person's mind and
ask, "What are you thinking?"
Lowell Jay Arthur, a practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic
Programming, deciphers some of the mysteries of the human
mind through his Motivation Profile. These five
"metaprograms" distinguish different motivation styles,
making it easier to understand why people do what they do.
Read on to get a closer look into how your colleagues make
decisions.
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Heard
on
the Street
Time Is
Money
-Do you ever feel
like interviewing for a job can turn into a waste of
time?
Getting
the
Cyber Boot
With more and more Internet
companies running into financial trouble, laid-off workers
are in an uproar over the manner in which they are shown
the door.
Long
Road To Retirement
--IAs we reap the
benefits of these prosperous financial times, what are we
doing to prepare ourselves for the uncertain
future?
Organizational
Ethics
We would all like to believe that every time we
make a decision it is completely ethical, but we know that
isn't always the case.
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