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How does a CEO create a culture of joy?

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Leadership |
Tue, 01/14/2014 - 21:15

Richard Sheridan, CEO, Menlo Innovations

The pursuit of joy in my company started as a personally selfish but noble journey. First and foremost, I wished to create the place I wanted to work. In my early career, as I rose through the ranks in a successful public corporation, I found myself in a trough of disillusionment. All of the external measures said I was successful. My heart said otherwise.

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Six Ways to Make Sure Accountability Sticks in 2014

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Management |
Fri, 01/10/2014 - 19:30

Julie Miller and Brian Bedford

As a leader at your organization, you like to think that you run a pretty tight ship. But if you’re being honest with yourself, you know that you let a few things slide in 2013. None of these transgressions have been deal-breakers, but you know if you don’t start holding yourself and your employees accountable for the little things, they’ll eventually lead to bigger, more damaging things.

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Heresy in HR

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Linda Henman |
Management |
Fri, 01/10/2014 - 19:04

Last month a CEO client contacted me to evaluate Dean, an executive who had come to him through a referral from a trusted source. The man who referred him knows both my client and the candidate and assured the CEO that the two should meet to explore how Dean could work for him.

Hold on. No job description? No posting for the position? No due diligence? Unthinkable. Absurd. Perfect.

The week before Christmas I traveled to icy temperatures to meet Dean and evaluate him. But evaluate him for what?

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Interns Work If...

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Cynthia Kay |
Small Business |
Thu, 01/09/2014 - 01:59

This is the time of year when many small businesses get inquiries from students about spring or summer internships. So do you hire or not? Should you pay interns? How do you find the one that might…just might… turn out to be your next employee? Over the years we have offered internships at various times. Some of them worked well. In two cases, the interns became full-time employees right out of college. One experience ended up quite badly. The student was arrested for sexual assault a year or so after he completed his semester with us.

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How Business Leaders Can Create A High-Performing Culture

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Leadership |
Mon, 01/06/2014 - 13:33

Gina Soleil, Author, Fuel Your Business

With the recent passing of Nelson Mandela, we’re given an opportunity to reflect on the personal impact we have on this world, the leadership choices we make, and the legacy in which we want to leave behind. The world has lost a great leader, a man who brought resiliency to life, and walked a style of leadership so authentically rooted in truth that it turned the darkest of government into a light of hope, inspiration, and love for all the world to see.