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Thinking About Management and Leadership
Mardi Gras King and Jester Happy Mardi Gras! We have been having carnival fun around here for the last few weeks but it’s time to share some snippets and today the focus is models of managing/leading....
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Notes from #NOEW2017
I blocked my calendar months ago in order to attend New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW) and it did not disappoint. Similar to the way others spend time at spas or at the beach, for me, there is...
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Gap Analysis
The concept takes me back to my years as an internal consultant at Southern Company where we sometimes issued rfp’s and then sat through presentations by consultants interested in the project. My...
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Teacher of All Things
I was reminded recently of one of my favorite streams of research which I discovered early in my grad school years called The Lessons of Experience (aka Key Events). It came out of the Center for...
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Hodgepodge
I had the heady experience of attending #SHRM17, the annual conference and exposition of the Society for Human Resource Management last week and left energized about the potential for making a...
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How Does It Work?
In April, Nile Rodgers was honored with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame lifetime achievement award. You may remember him from the 1970s as lead guitarist for the band Chic, a cornerstone of the disco...
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You Gotta Act
Adjectives fail ~ words just can’t do justice to what has happened along Harvey’s path but the images of the devastation stop us in our tracks. The horror, however, did not deter our Cajun Navy whose...
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Unconditional Support
One of my favorite Aunts died on Black Friday. It was unexpected but not surprising given that she was in her 80s. I am very sad. Throughout my life, whenever I saw her, even though it wasn’t all that...
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A Thought For The New Year
During our current, major home clean-out, I’ve come across several items that had been forgotten but are now redeployed in useful and helpful ways. Like the extra flashlight in the pantry by the...
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To Be Or Not To Be A Leader Of Change
… that is the question. After Downton Abbey ended in 2015, I worried I might never love a show that much again, but in 2016 PBS aired Victoria proving otherwise. Downton was about many things but for...
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