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Leadership Insights From The Third Door's Michael Combest

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Michael : The Law by Frédéric Bastiat - Without an exposure to the concept of liberty and the affect bad laws have on good people, a prospective leader should not even try to put together an organization, regardless of size. The younger minded Jobs brought it back to life. John Sculley almost killed Apple.

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Making Oz Home

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While ideally anti-discrimination laws would prevent much of this, proving discrimination in most cases is nearly impossible. For me, it worked out in the end. While large gains have been made over the last 50 years, statistics from the latest census show that a total of “13.3

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. Web Worker Daily describes five new jobs of the Web2.0 Although most nonprofits are probably still using more traditional job titles, the Agitator describes how the job Webmaster has changed.

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Plan Monthly Job Learning Days

Eric Jacobsen Blog

. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Plan Monthly Job Learning Days Having your employees learn more about what their fellow employees do is invaluable. What resources do you need to get the job done?

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Give Positive Feedback. Don't Praise.

Eric Jacobsen Blog

. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Positive feedback focuses on the specifics of job performance. What resources do you need to get the job done? Saturday, November 20, 2010 Give Positive Feedback. Dont Praise.

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Top Five Factors That Drive Employee Loyalty

Eric Jacobsen Blog

. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Monday, August 30, 2010 Top Five Factors That Drive Employee Loyalty A 2010 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management shows that job security is what matters most to employees.

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Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees?

Eric Jacobsen Blog

. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). A survey recently completed by the job-placement firm Manpower that found 84 percent of employees intend to look around for a new job this year, and that is up from 60 percent last year.