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Top Three Trends in the World of Work This Week

Top Three Trends in the World of Work This Week

I’m a dot connector. It’s not much different than what I did with a pencil, in a pre-school activity. Instead of looking at tiny black circles, I look at information, and in place of lines, I draw conclusions. The end is still the bigger picture, and an “aha” moment. This week’s “Top Trends in the [...]

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Top Trends in the World of Work This Week

What if work could feel more like play? It’s what we endeavor to do each week at #TChat. It’s what I fundamentally subscribe to: “Play for Performance,” where having fun means you’re doing it right and well. What if work could feel more like play? It can, it should, and “play” time starts right now [...]

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#TChat Recap: Innovation Is the Heart of Job Creation

It’s not really a war; it’s a mobilization of innovation and motivated minds — the leaders, the builders, the doers, all the combined skills that make up rocket soup and of course the money that make it all happen, with barriers to business entry lower than the’ve ever been (rocket soup is what rockets needs to [...]

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#TChat Preview: The Five W’s of Innovation

In business we’re always looking for trustworthy answers from leaders and employees, so why not borrow a method that’s worked well in another industry? Bloggers, writers, journalists — they learn a few things early on or along the way: how to write pyramid style, how to interview, the right questions to ask, and so on. There’s a [...]

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Top 5 Trends in the World of Work This Week

This week’s “Top 5 Trends in the World of Work” are brought to you by Seinfeld words of wisdom. … 1.         A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking – Jerry Seinfeld Enterprise Investment in Social Media Social media is the digital [...]

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#TChat Recap: Team Vitals Are Leaders Life Source

Understanding talent vitals, the heartbeat of your business — you don’t often hear the term “vital signs” applied outside healthcare, but in my Leadership and HR circles I’m hearing more people talking about “talent vitals,” so the term appears to have crossed the chasm.

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Bringing the X Factor to HRO Forum’s iTalent Competition

As a general rule (it’s part of my personality really) I try to withhold judgment, being an open-minded seeker of people talent in all forms and shapes entails this, but I’ve just been given an opportunity to be officially judgmental. HRO Today Forum, a lively and informative event for the HR and talent management industry, [...]

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Top 5 Trends in the World of Work This Week

Top 5 Trends in the World of Work This Week

I like to talk nerdy and have this thing for using analogies, metaphors and alliteration to connect seemingly disparate phenomena — what some might call “random.” It’s not uncommon for me to do so using old school rap songs, childhood nostalgia or other pop-culture references. Now that you know, you’ll be able to understand this [...]

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#TChat Recap: Meditating Captains of Crowdsourced Innovation

Just add water, sunlight and really long tethers. This is how innovative creativity blossoms in virtual global teams, right? Well, not quite, but the good news is there are so many communications tools available today that it makes it the next best thing to being there when building a quality business team. In fact, many [...]

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#TChat Preview: Open Crowdsourced Innovation Revolution

Doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result, is one of the informal definitions of absurdity — and insanity. Yet many businesses and leaders do just that. They repeat what they’ve always done, year after year, even as agile competitors swoop into their markets and blow up old business models. Google, [...]

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