Human Resources: Organizational Development

Idea Power: Techniques & Resources To Unleash the Creativity in Your Organization - 300 word review
To become more competitive, many companies now focus on creativity in solving business problems. Sustained creativity requires a systematic approach. Find out more. Read the review.

Idea Power: Techniques & Resources To Unleash the Creativity in Your Organization - 600 word review
Arthur VanGundy shatters the notion that creativity belongs to those "creative types" who exist apart from the real world by demonstrating creativity is a skill to be learned like any other. Find out more. Read the review.

CIOs Seeking the CEO Role Should Focus on Behavioral Style
Korn/Ferry compares success profiles of C-Suite executives . For some, key behavioral skills - rather than intellectual abilities - can be traced to the success or failure of these ambitions.

HR from the Heart: Inspiring Stories and Strategies for Building the People Side of Great Business - 300 word review
HR from the Heart provides a wealth of unique and timely advice and strategies. Find out more. Read the review.

HR from the Heart: Inspiring Stories and Strategies for Building the People Side of Great Business - 600 word review
HR from the Heart is a must-have, must-read primer for HR practitioners who mistakenly believe that the profession is about being a policy maker or a power broker. Find out more. Read the review.

He Works She Works: Successful Strategies for Working Couples
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He Works She Works: Successful Strategies for Working Couples - 300 word review
The fact that the dynamics of the workplace ultimately alter the dynamics of personal relationships creates challenges that couples need to meet if both partners hope to enjoy life while pursuing their goals. This book is about those challenges. Find out more. Read this review.

He Works She Works: Successful Strategies for Working Couples - 600 word review
The challenges that most working couples face can be traced to the issues of careers, money, time, parenting, quality of lifestyle, family ties, dealing with ex-spouses, and feelings and emotions. Find out more. Read this review.

GlobalWork: Bridging Distance, Culture & Time
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GlobalWork: Bridging Distance, Culture & Time - 300 word review
The foundations of the new global mindset will be comprised of a mix of essential competencies that include the ability to understand and communicate across multiple cultures. Find out more. Read the review.

GlobalWork: Bridging Distance, Culture & Time - 600 word review
The global consumer, flattened corporations, the fragmented work force, and knowledge as a global product are some of the key shifts rumbling beneath the surface of the global economy, heralding the unmistakable signs of change. Find out more. Read the review.

Survey - Few Employees Trust Senior Management
A survey of over 1,100 UK employees by Mercer Human Resource Consulting reveals a high level of distrust in management. The survey found that fewer than 4 in 10 employees (36%) trust senior managers to always communicate honestly - down slightly from 39% in 2002.

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done - 300 word review
Execution - the real job of business leaders and the key discipline for success today-bridges the gap between what leaders want to achieve and the ability of their organizations to achieve it. Find out more. Read the review.

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done - 600 word review
They were smart, highly regarded people, yet they failed to produce critical results-results they had promised to deliver. This trend, which is fast becoming an epidemic, is not due to the volatile, unpredictable business environment, say the authors, but is a direct consequence of the lack of Execution. Find out more. Read the review.

Executive Teams: The Ultimate Guide to Turning Top Executives into a Top-Notch Team
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Executive Teams: The Ultimate Guide to Turning Top Executives into a Top-Notch Team - 300 word review
Because executive leadership is becoming increasingly more complex and demanding, many CEOs have found it necessary to establish Executive Teams to assist them in the task of running the enterprise. Find out more. Read the review.

Executive Teams: The Ultimate Guide to Turning Top Executives into a Top-Notch Team - 600 Word Review
Executive Teams answers these questions. Applying the knowledge gained through their work with more than 130 top organizations, the authors provide a broad framework, as well as a wealth of practice-driven insights and strategies, that CEOs, team members, and those who work with them can use to create and maintain highly successful Executive Teams. Find out more. Read the review.

The Endangered American Dream: How To Stop the U.S. From Becoming a Third-World Country and How To Win the Geo-Economic Struggle for Industrial Supremacy
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The Endangered American Dream: How To Stop the U.S. From Becoming a Third-World Country and How To Win the Geo-Economic Struggle for Industrial Supremacy - 300 word review
Anyone entering JFK airport will notice the rough, cheap remodeling of sadly outdated buildings, frayed carpets, defective escalators, and dirt-all evidence of a lack of capital and "deferred maintenance"-the most recognizable symbols of the Third World. Find out more. Read the review.

The Endangered American Dream: How To Stop the U.S. From Becoming a Third-World Country and How To Win the Geo-Economic Struggle for Industrial Supremacy - 600 word review
That the U.S. is becoming a Third-World nation is not an inevitable consequence of globalization but is due to the failure to control and offset the process in the interests of the majority. Find out more. Read the review.

The World's Largest Shopping Cart
Welcome to the event. Here extreme manufacturing meets extreme consumption. Naseem Javed comments on the emergence of Asia as a trading power.

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Emotional Value: Creating Strong Bonds With Your Customers
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Emotional Value: Creating Strong Bonds With Your Customers - 300 word review
Not only is emotion central to human life in terms of its role in interactions with family and friends, it is also becoming increasingly recognized as a critical aspect of interactions in the service economy. Find out more. Read the review.

Emotional Value: Creating Strong Bonds With Your Customers - 600 word review
The business world has little interest in, or understanding of, emotion and, thus, tends to keep it out of the business equation. Find out the value of emotion... read this review!

JobFlash Names Mike Krueger as New President and CEO
Former BuildPoint CEO selected to lead voice recruiting leader, whose revenues have tripled in the past year.

UnumProvident To Recapture Closed Block Business Ceded To Centre re In 1996
UnumProvident Corporation (NYSE:UNM) today announced an agreement with Centre Life Reinsurance Ltd. to recapture its closed block individual income protection business originally ceded to Centre in 1996 by Unum Life Insurance Company of America.

Business Process Management-The Other Side of Human Resources
Human Resources (HR) activities span the entire enterprise, whether you´re discussing payroll, vacation time or providing an employee with the supplies necessary to do their job. Employing BPM to automate a frequently used process can have a powerful effect on every aspect of the process; from Rashid Khan.

Doing Well While Doing Good: The Marketing Link Between Business & Nonprofit Causes
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Doing Well While Doing Good: The Marketing Link Between Business & Nonprofit Causes - 300 word review
A new business phenomenon, in which businesses of all sizes are entering into partnerships with consumers, is under way. Find out more. Read the review.

Doing Well While Doing Good: The Marketing Link Between Business & Nonprofit Causes - 600 word review
When environmental and conservation issues begin to emerge, they do so at all levels of the socioeconomic scale, ultimately altering lifestyles and culture. Find out more. Read the review.

Don't Waste Your Talent: The 8 Critical Steps to Discovering What You Do Best
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Don't Waste Your Talent: The 8 Critical Steps to Discovering What You Do Best - 300 word review
In today´s economy, success requires that people first understand what their unique talents and gifts are-what they do best. Find out more. Read the review.

Don't Waste Your Talent: The 8 Critical Steps to Discovering What You Do Best - 600 word review
Most programs created to help people design their best careers fail to take into consideration that people and their careers are holistic, complex entities. Find out more. Read the review.

Downshifting: Reinventing Success on a Slower Track
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Downshifting: Reinventing Success on a Slower Track - 300 word review
Downshifting is an alternative to the long-held notion of career success and self-fulfillment. Find out more. Read the review.

Downshifting: Reinventing Success on a Slower Track - 600 word review
A new breed of professionals, including business managers, engineers, doctors, lawyers, journalists, academics, etc., embody a notion of success that embraces family, community, and one´s own needs beyond work. Find out more. Read the review.

CEO Partner Series: Creativity
How often is it stifled? How much does that cost us? James Mittler offers us some insight in his latest edition of the CEO Partner Series.

Branding Know- How
It is amazing how many managers are insulated from an honest assessment of how their know-how is helping or hindering their performance, writes Alastair Rylatt.

Internal Mobility: An Untapped Goldmine
A high-level workforce is not something you just recruit, but something you nurture by finding new ways to help existing employees develop their talents and grow into better positions, writes Kathy Barton of Peopleclick.

Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age - 300 word review
Dealers of Lightning is an in-depth account of the ideas and inventions that changed the world. Find out more. Read the review.

Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age - 600 word review
It was an unprecedented explosion of creative activity, ignited by four distinct factors. Find out more. Read this review of Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age.

Delta Air lines: Debunking the Myth
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Delta Air lines: Debunking the Myth - 300 word review
Delta Air Lines' approach to innovation is usually reactive, honoring tradition rather than change. Find out more. Read the review.

Delta Air lines: Debunking the Myth - 600 word review
Delta Air Lines' approach to innovation is usually reactive, honoring tradition rather than change. Find out more. Read the review.

Differentiate Or Die: Survival In Our Era of Killer Competition
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Differentiate Or Die: Survival In Our Era of Killer Competition - 300 word review
How do you promote the valuable special qualities of your offerings and carve out a unique image in the marketplace? Find out. Read the review.

Differentiate Or Die: Survival In Our Era of Killer Competition - 600 word review
Differentiating with quality, customer service, creativity, price, and breadth of line is rarely effective. Find out why. Read the review.

Digital Marketing: Global Strategies from the World's Leading Experts
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Digital Marketing: Global Strategies from the World's Leading Experts - 300 word review
The Internet is challenging and transforming the very foundations of the theory and practice of marketing. Find out more. Read the review.

Digital Marketing: Global Strategies from the World's Leading Experts - 600 word review
Digitization is revolutionizing marketing by bringing the customer to the center of the process. Find out more. Read the review.

The OC
The Organizationally Challenged

On the Road
When getting there is half the fun...

JMW Consultants on Building High-Performance Teams
Ever-increasing rates of change and competition press companies to continually explore new ground and do more with less. There is no shortage of guidance on how to lead the pack, and you would be hard-pressed to find a CEO who doesn´t want to have a high-performing team and culture. From Harvey Dubin, Vice President, JMW Consultants Inc.

Cycles: How We Will Live, Work, and Buy
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Cycles: How We Will Live, Work, and Buy - 300 word review
Drawing on demographic studies, Cycles explores the essence of this "LifeCycle revolution" and examines its revolutionary impact. Find out more. Read the review.

Cycles: How We Will Live, Work, and Buy - 600 word review
Reinvention. Liberation. Opportunity. Validation. Find out more. Read the review!

Crisis management: Weathering the storm
Use the following guidelines to help your employees cope with a catastrophe and resume their positions in your workforce: from the Louisiana Employment Law Letter, M Lee Smith.

Corporate Social Responsibility: A Continuing Priority
According to a survey by Robert Half International, more than three-quarters (76 percent) of chief financial officers polled said social responsibility programs that support charitable giving are important to their organizations. Â

Creating an Open Book Organization: Where Employees Think & Act Like Business Partners
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Creating an Open Book Organization: Where Employees Think & Act Like Business Partners - 300 word review
The age of the individual is over. In the new economy, success comes to those who can develop the most effective partnerships and who can unite in the commitment toward a common goal. Find out more. Read the review of Creating an Open Book Organization: Where Employees Think & Act Like Business Partners .

Creating an Open Book Organization: Where Employees Think & Act Like Business Partners - 600 Word Review
Creating an "Open Book" Organization presents an integrated approach that applies multiple human resources initiatives in a coordinated manner to create a partnership among all employees. Find out more. Read the review.

Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market--And How to Successfully Transform Them
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Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market--And How to Successfully Transform Them - 300 word review
Creative Destruction teaches corporations how to succeed, not just survive, by redesigning themselves from top to bottom and by "[changing] at the pace and scale of the market," without losing control of operations. Find out more. Read the review.

Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market--And How to Successfully Transform Them - 600 word review
Over the past century, highly revered and much-touted "built-to-last" corporations tended to underperform the market by a significant amount. This was because they were operated according to an assumption of continuity. Find out more. Read the review of Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market--And How to Successfully Transform Them.

Cross-Functional Teams: Working With Allies, Enemies and Other Strangers
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Cross-Functional Teams: Working With Allies, Enemies and Other Strangers - 300 word review
Cross-Functional Teams offers specific, practical advice on how to create successful cross-functional teamwork. Find out more. Read the review.

Cross-Functional Teams: Working With Allies, Enemies and Other Strangers - 600 word review
Cross-Functional Teams are different from and require different approaches than traditional teams. Find out more. Read the review.

Culture.com: Building Corporate Culture in the Connected Workplace
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Culture.com provides a detailed blueprint for successfully dealing with the challenges of turning a traditional culture into a dot.com asset. Find out more. Read the review.

Culture.com: Building Corporate Culture in the Connected Workplace - 600 word review
Organizations of all kinds, whether they are corporations, nonprofits, or government agencies are racing to transform themselves into dot.coms. Find out more. Read this review of Culture.com: Building Corporate Culture in the Connected Workplace.

Customer-Centered Growth: Five Proven Strategies for Building Competitive Advantage
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Customer-Centered Growth: Five Proven Strategies for Building Competitive Advantage - 300 word review
Many organizations are struggling today because, unlike successful customer-centered enterprises, they have remained internally focused. Find out more. Read the review.

Customer-Centered Growth: Five Proven Strategies for Building Competitive Advantage - 600 word review
Distracted managers and employees seek business opportunities everywhere instead of focusing on providing world-class value for well-defined customers. Find out more. Read the review.

Cracking the Value Code: How Successful Businesses Are Creating Wealth in the New Economy
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Cracking the Value Code: How Successful Businesses Are Creating Wealth in the New Economy - 300 word review
Cracking the Value Code examines the innovative strategies and processes that successful organizations have adopted to transform their assets into a competitive advantage. Find out more. Read the review.

Cracking the Value Code: How Successful Businesses Are Creating Wealth in the New Economy - 600 Word Review
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Creating Value for Customers: Designing & Implementing a Total Corporate Strategy
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