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Rutgers: How NOT to Manage Organizational Change. 12 Signs of Cowardly Leadership. Top 10 Qualities That Make A Great Leader. Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Great Leader? Take The Test. 10 Leadership Lessons I Wish I Learned In My 20's. All of us would do well with a second bite at the apple, another chance to go back and do it all over again.

10 Leadership Lessons I Wish I Learned In My 20's

Our mistakes, as much as our successes, define us and can help steer us forward today. With this in mind, here are 10 lessons learned over the last 20 years of doing business that are now part of my thinking. Or put another way . . . during the interview question where they ask you “what is your management or leadership philosophy?” Ask The Headhunter: The Talent Shortage Myth and Why HR Should Get Out of the Hiring Business. By Nick Corcodilos When HR personnel are put in charge of hiring new employees, they often rely on database searches, keywords and collecting stacks and stacks of resumes.

Ask The Headhunter: The Talent Shortage Myth and Why HR Should Get Out of the Hiring Business

Headhunting expert Nick Corcodilos says these may not be the most effective strategies to find the right person for the job. Image by Art Glazer/Getty Images. Nick Corcodilos started headhunting in Silicon Valley in 1979, and has answered over 30,000 questions from the Ask The Headhunter community over the past decade. In this special Making Sense edition of Ask The Headhunter, Nick shares insider advice and contrarian methods about winning and keeping the right job, on one condition: that you, dear Making Sense reader, send Nick your questions about your personal challenges with job hunting, interviewing, networking, resumes, job boards, or salary negotiations.

Question: Throughout my career I have gotten new jobs by meeting and talking to managers who would be my bosses. Nick Corcodilos: Good question. Wasting money. Gladwell on Innovation: Truths & Confusions: Part 2. And Now Let Us Praise, and Consider the Absurd Luck of, Famous Men - Alexis C. Madrigal. A lesson about the success of Great Men from Intel co-founder Bob Noyce's life story.

And Now Let Us Praise, and Consider the Absurd Luck of, Famous Men - Alexis C. Madrigal

A couple of weeks ago, Twitter and Square co-founder Jack Dorsey tweeted this: At first, snuffling through a head cold, I wrote several snarky responses -- e.g. " 'Success is never accidental,' said all multimillionaire white men. " -- but never tweeted them. The Art of Complex Problem Solving. 12 Practical Business Lessons From Social Psychology.

The Foot in the Door PhenomenonIt’s been said many times that business is all about people.

12 Practical Business Lessons From Social Psychology

That being the case, perhaps we should stop reading management books for advice and start looking at social psychology. Very simply, social psychologists study how people interact with others – their families, friends, and yes, business partners. Smart marketers and executives have been using the findings of this growing field for decades to close sales, hold effective meetings and get their way in negotiations. But rather than putting you through an academic psychology lesson, we condensed the most useful concepts into one article. Foot In Door. Beyond YouTube: Turning Video Viewers Into Customers - Smb - Business/E-Business. Two SMBs dissatisfied with a lack of tangible return from their online video audiences went looking for an alternative to YouTube.

Beyond YouTube: Turning Video Viewers Into Customers - Smb - Business/E-Business

Here's what they found. 5 Social Networks To Achieve 10 Business Tasks (click image for larger view and for slideshow) Hijacking Emotion Is The Key To Engaging Your Audience. The default to emotion is part of the human condition.

Hijacking Emotion Is The Key To Engaging Your Audience

To better appreciate the role of emotion and what it allows an audience to do, we need to take a brief detour into evolutionary biology. The human brain can be understood as three separate brains working in tandem, if not completely integrated with each other. The primitive brain and the limbic brain collectively make up the limbic system, which governs emotion. Technology Laws. Murphy's technology laws Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

Technology Laws

Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition. Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand. If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm. Homeless Man Turned Millionaire Offers The Best Advice I Ever Got. Oops! Five CEOs Who Should Have Already Been Fired (Cisco, GE, WalMart, Sears, Microsoft) The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives. Courageous Leaders Don't Make Excuses...They Apologize. 5 Leadership Behaviors Loyal Employees Trust. Your Business View. Keep an Eye on Your Boss's Priorities and Stick to Them to Manage Your Micromanager. The problem with this advice is it assumes that your micromanaging boss is competent, knows that they are competent, and is sane.

Keep an Eye on Your Boss's Priorities and Stick to Them to Manage Your Micromanager

If all three are not in place, then trying to deal with their priorities is going to result in an inner-office war. How to Deal with Bitchy Co-Workers. Column by Janine Popick, Inc.com "Girl Power Female CEO's" April 8, 2010.

How to Deal with Bitchy Co-Workers

Intelligence Is Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed. How to Make Your Team More Creative.