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Managing Your Own Career
Gone are the days when you can join an organization and look forward to the next 20-30 years of steady growth, promotions, and happiness. The career world just isn’t that way anymore. Like it or not,...
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Determine Your Profit Maker Skill Profiles! It Pays Off Big Time!
You have certain “Profit Makers” in your organization, and it pays off in more ways than one to know their skill profiles. The best way to describe this is by an example: Not too long ago we conducted...
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Are Core Competencies Difficult to Understand?
Core competencies are NOT difficult to understand, but the way some organizations describe them clearly shows that there does not seem to be full agreement in their description. Perhaps this is a way...
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The Dynamics of Core Competencies over Time
Core competency models are good – but they are generally static and do not account for dynamics that occur over time. There are two important variables affecting core competencies that change over...
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Reverse Analysis Can Debunk Cable News!
Analysis does not only work by going from “premise” or “hypothesis” to a conclusion; reverse analysis can also undercover faulty reasoning and enable you to debunk cable news! Analysis is a logical...
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Some Tips On Time Management!
Here are the results of an UNSCIENTIFIC survey of how effective people manage their time. Plan for tomorrow today. Near the end of the day, make a list of what you have to do tomorrow – hard things...
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Hiring Mistakes – Is the “Best” Candidate the One Who Is “Good At” Most of...
A mistake headhunters and hiring managers often make is that they think the candidate who is “Good At” most of the hiring criteria is the “Best” candidate. Not so fast! Put in “Doom Loop” terms, a...
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Advice for Graduating MBA Students . . . .
If you are a newly-minted MBA graduate, you probably have already had some business experience and have had an opportunity to see the real world in action (for better or worse). Your decision to return...
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From the Business Perspective . . .
Much has been written and discussed about core competencies and how they are used to define the uniqueness of a company or organization. Core competencies, however, are not critical skills – even...
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