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Leadership on Purpose
by: Jim Clemmer
"An organization without human commitment is like a person without a soul: Skeleton, flesh, and blood may be able to consume and to excrete, but there is no life force." — Henry Mintzberg, Management Professor and Author If the main reason for a company's existence is profit, it is often not very profitable. When a company is fixated with the bottom line, there's a good chance it won't... (read more)
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Leaders Shape Focus and Context
by: Jim Clemmer
"The historic period in which we live is a period of awakening to a commitment of higher values, a reawakening of individual purpose, and a reawakening of the longing to fulfill that purpose in life." — Robert Fritz, The Path of Least Resistance Joel and Denise each led fund raising campaigns for their respective service club and community agency. Under another member's leadership, Joel's... (read more)
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Tips for Starting a Cleaning Service
by: Morgan Hamilton
I have come to realize that people rarely make their fortunes while working for someone else. If I want to strike it big, I realize that I need to work for myself. The problem is, I'm not what you would call entrepreneur material. I really don't have the next brilliant idea on how to make big and my tolerance for risk isn't all that great. I don't have much capital to begin with, but a... (read more)
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Leaders Care for Organization Culture and Context
by: Jim Clemmer
"When we are dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity." — Dale Carnegie, personal effectiveness pioneer and author In many organizations (especially those with morale or motivation problems), management has created a sterile and passionless cultu... (read more)
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How Many Companies Lose That Loving Feeling
by: Jim Clemmer
"Some people can think no deeper than a fact." — Voltaire (pseudonym of Francois Marie Arouet), 18th century French philosopher and dramatist Many successful companies were started by passionate zealots with a strong technical expertise matched only by their powerful vision and intense drive to succeed. This energy and excitement attracted like-minded people (team members, customers, partners, ... (read more)
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Bringing Values to Life
by: Jim Clemmer
"No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence; no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests." — Edmund Burke, 18th-Century British Statesman During the 1980s, when I was co-founder and leader of The Achieve Group, we worked with California-based Zenger Mil... (read more)
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Bridging the Rhetoric-Reality Values Gap
by: Jim Clemmer
"The values gap is the largest single source of cynicism and skepticism in the workplace today." — Andrall Pearson, former president of PepsiCo. Recognizing the need to become more "values-driven", many managers have developed statements of "core values", "management philosophies", "guiding principles", or "aspirations". While this is a start in the right direction, many of these statements pro... (read more)
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Education and Communications Pathways and Pitfalls
by: Jim Clemmer
"Communications help to keep people feeling included in and connected to the organization...give people information, and do it again and again." — William Bridges, Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change • You need to establish the few core messages you want to communicate throughout your organization. Use any and every communication channel you can to review, remind, and reinforce them... (read more)
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Communication Strategies, Systems, and Skills
by: Jim Clemmer
"Before you say what you think, be sure you have." — Malcolm Forbes, past publisher of Forbes magazine Communication is both a symptom and a cause of organization performance problems. Over the years, we've heard hundreds of managers use communication as a vague catchall for every type of organization and team problem imaginable. Generally, the root cause of many "communication problems" was... (read more)
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Tips for Clients Gifts
by: Morgan Hamilton
For those that have put in the time and effort to build up a business, they really need to understand the value of maintaining those hard won clients. There are many situations that may leave a business owner scratching his head and wondering which client gifts are the most appropriate, if any at all. The same can be said for valued employees as well. In order to maintain friendly, but professi... (read more)
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