Lead on Purpose

JUNE 11, 2009

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Women's Leadership Exchange

JUNE 20, 2009

First, thanks for all the great comments on my last blog about the letting the joy of our personal lives interrupt our businesses. And I can't wait to hear more about. Judy George's latest exciting venture in home furnishings that she shared in her comments. which leads me to today's blog. After a personally crazy week of the WLE Fort Lauderdale conference (wow, what great S.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JUNE 9, 2009

In my work with clients I notice trends. After all, we’re all human beings; we’re bound to have some similarities in how we navigate our lives, conflicts and leadership in general, right? The “trend” that’s on my mind this morning is twofold – the behavior of looking “outside” for answers and the trend of “blame.” And more specifically in my awareness today is the absolute waste of energy that comes from doing both.

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Managing Communities

JUNE 22, 2009

As a community manager or administrator, the situations we have to deal with are as varied as life itself. For all talk about the online and offline worlds being different, at the end of the day, they have more in common than they do dissimilar. Unfortunately, this is not just the fun, easy parts of [.]. Tags: Dealing with Users Managing Staff Managing the Community Thinking.

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Steve Farber

JUNE 17, 2009

I wrote recently about principal, Jim Wipke , and his endeavors to bring Extreme Leadership into the world of education. Well…here’s evidence of his influence on another teacher in a very personal, direct way. The following email is from Paul Godwin (posted here with his permission). I don’t share this to toot my own horn–even though it sorta does, I guess–but more to give you a glimpse into the quality of heart that resides and thrives in the world’s great

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 8, 2009

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Employee Engagement & the Magic of Remembering In Praise of Peacocks, Nerds, Dorks & Dweebs → June 9, 2009 · 12:29 am ↓ Jump to Comments Leading By Example & Mistaken Beliefs According to Albert Schweitzer , “ Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing”.

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Chartered Management Institute

JUNE 29, 2009

The Management Blog is now available on Kindle, the Amazon e-book reader. You are not watching this post, click to start watching.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JUNE 26, 2009

The Dare To Engage® Team and I will be hosting a Bootist Retreat in St. Charles, Il on July 24th and 25th where I’ll share the Art of Bootism and help you integrate it into your own life and leadership (if you so choose)! This retreat will help you identify and create your own Bootist Path, improve your leadership, and begin to design the life, relationships, businesses, cultures and results you want.

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Managing Communities

JUNE 17, 2009

So, I was taking a look at Hunch, a site created by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, that claims to be a “decision-making tool that gets smarter the more you use it.&# Out of curiosity, I punched in the word “forums&# to see what would come up. The first result was “Should I become a forum [.]. Tags: Humor Managing Staff.

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Steve Farber

JUNE 1, 2009

The following note from Ireland came to us via the Greater Than Yourself site. The writer is specifically asking about GTY as a solution for some far-reaching (heart-wrenching) challenges, and it’s a good question. But I’d like to open it up to any and all solutions. So…what advice do you have for our Irish friend? Would GTY be part of the solution?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Leading By Example & Mistaken Beliefs Ambiguity in Leadership is a Certainty → June 16, 2009 · 3:13 am ↓ Jump to Comments In Praise of Peacocks, Nerds, Dorks & Dweebs Some time ago, I read a book called “ A Peacock in the land of Penguins ”.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Class Leadership Learning-by-Doing Products 110

Chartered Management Institute

JUNE 29, 2009

You are part of a process improvement team and change is what you do. Change is good, change is the only way forward, change is the God you worship and the Master you serve so well. So, it comes as a great surprise when people do not seem to appreciate what you are trying to do! You walk into their department, spot all the problems, re-engineer their processes and put controls in place, surely all these are good things?

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 30, 2009

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 22, 2009

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 20, 2009

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Taylorism Taylor Godin Ethics 100

Lead on Purpose

JUNE 19, 2009

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Taylorism Taylor Godin Ethics 100

Lead on Purpose

JUNE 18, 2009

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 17, 2009

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 16, 2009

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Taylorism Taylor Godin Ethics 100

Lead on Purpose

JUNE 15, 2009

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 12, 2009

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 6, 2009

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 3, 2009

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of Product Management -- Market Sensing Book Review: The Leader Who had no Title Market sensing Product manager responsibilities Recent Comments Doug Tay

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Managing Communities

JUNE 2, 2009

In life, we meet people who dismiss resources that could help them as being for beginners or “newbies&# or whatever, as if learning from said resources was somehow beneath them. Whether it be books, websites, conference talks or something else, it happens. Perhaps those who are brand new to a particular craft stand the most [.]. Tags: Managing Online Forums (Book) Thinking.

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Managing Communities

JUNE 26, 2009

From November 18, 2005 through January 20, 2007, I hosted The Community Admin Show, a podcast about random community management related issues. I tackled all sorts of issues, talked about resources and even had some fun features, like what we can learn from Jack Bauer and Dr. Gregory House about community management. Another great part of [.]. Tags: ManagingCommunities.com.

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Managing Communities

JUNE 8, 2009

Your community should have it’s own mission. Why do you exist? Who are you? Who are you for? What do you want to be? Those are the things you and your community should be focused on. Unfortunately, what can happen sometimes is that your community is used to talk about another community in a negative way. [.]. Tags: Dealing with Users Managing the Community.

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Management 47

Managing Communities

JUNE 6, 2009

I would really like to do more mailbag type features here on ManagingCommunities.com. I’d like to answer your questions in a post, provide you with some information that you are looking for and link to your site in the process (if you have one - totally optional). Anonymous questions are welcomed, as well, if you’d [.]. Tags: ManagingCommunities.com.

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Managing Communities

JUNE 15, 2009

In addition to the Facebook fan page, I’ve just added ManagingCommunities.com to the NetworkedBlogs Facebook application, making it possible to receive notifications of new posts at ManagingCommunities.com through Facebook. If you are a Facebook user, please consider a subscription. Thank you for reading and for your support. Tags: ManagingCommunities.com.

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Managing Communities

JUNE 12, 2009

Last year, I attended Blog World Expo (in it’s second year) for the first time (see my recap) and participated in two panels: “How to Deal with Trolls, Spammers & Sock Puppets&# and “Avoiding Disaster: How Not to Use Social Media.&# It was a lot of fun and a great experience. I’m happy to say that [.]. Tags: Managing Online Forums (Book) Press.

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