Name: Bob Mason
Date registered: April 15, 2013
URL: http://www.planleadexcel.com
Apr 19 2012
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Can’t Find Qualified Workers? Try This I’ve been noticing something very interesting happening lately. At a time when unemployment is higher than it’s been in over 20 years, companies are complaining that they can’t seem to hire workers. They’re looking for specific skills and abilities and workers with those skills just don’t seem …
Apr 04 2012
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Vision August 28, 1963 was a warm and pleasant day in Washington DC as Martin Luther King mounted the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, he looked out on the Washington Mall and several hundred thousand people. And then he uttered those famous words, “I have a dream.” “I have a dream that my …
Mar 22 2012
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Performance Reports Are Coming Is it that time of year again for you? Performance reports! Everybody loves performance reports, whether you’re giving them or receiving them…ok, nobody really likes performance reports. They’re kind of a pain. The trouble is we make them more difficult than they need to be. I’ve certainly made the …
Mar 14 2012
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What Leadership Development Does I was reading an article recently that talked about how leadership development was about selecting the next senior leader. And while that sort of thing is important in leadership development, there’s another part that is just as important, and that’s making sure that the junior managers and supervisors receive …
Mar 07 2012
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Change? Why? I like to watch the question forums on LinkedIn. They give me an idea what’s going on in the business world and I learn some things from the various questions and answers I see there. The other day I saw one that really caught my eye. Someone wanted to know what …
Feb 15 2012
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The Good Leader/Bad Leader List One of the exercises I advise new leaders to try is the “Good Leader/Bad Leader” List. It’s simple. Just draw a line down the middle of a sheet of paper. Title the left side, “What I’ve Seen Leaders Do That I Liked.” Title the right side, “What I’ve …
Feb 08 2012
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The Fortune Best Companies to Work For List – Why are They the Best? Once again Fortune magazine has published its list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. Google replaced SAS Institute in the number 1 slot. There are some pretty impressive stats; companies who have never laid off employees, those …
Feb 02 2012
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Leadership Lessons from Watching Politics I’ve been watching the presidential primary race with some interest. I’m interested in politics and I strongly believe as citizens, we should strive to know something about the people who want our trust; and our vote. There’s something about political campaigns, and politicians in general, that I find …
Jan 25 2012
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Who’s the Real Leaders? I just finished reading an article in which the author laments that “everyone” as he says, is called a leader, or is considered to be on one or another leadership track; something which, outside of the military just isn’t true. This author thinks we’re better off referring to most …
Jan 18 2012
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Misunderstood Millennials – Some Real Statistics I continue to be amazed at the ever increasing number of studies, books, articles, and comments on the issue of the various generations. In my earlier years, I don’t remember nearly as much discussion about different generations; only general agreement that my parent’s generation didn’t understand my …
