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Build, Buy, or Customize?

Connection Cafe

Often not, but the exercise of trying to do so is often worth the effort. Customization simply in order to preserve business processes without a greater outcome is a recipe for disaster (as is implementing software without changes to business practices). Evaluate your team: Do you have the right skills sets and capacity in house?

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Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

NTEN

I think that we have a lot to learn about where gamifying is most helpful, but we are so far from the saturation point that we should push ahead with full speed so we can evaluate what works and what doesn't and make adjustments. How do you evaluate organizations that you invest in that develop games to support learning?

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Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership: 70 New Year's.

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Exercise more. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Thursday, December 30, 2010 70 New Years Resolutions For Leaders Lose weight. Stop smoking.

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3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips

Eric Jacobsen Blog

A mentor always exercises the power of suggestion. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. This is best accomplished by allowing employees to see clearly where they stand in the organization versus where they want to be in their careers. They pose alternatives.

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Great Year-End Advice For Leaders

Eric Jacobsen Blog

• Meditate, pray, relax, exercise, hike, laugh or whatever brings you peace. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. . • Smile and talk to strangers that you meet. • Take a trip somewhere that youve never been. .

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