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Michael Merzenich on re-wiring the brain by
by Michael Merzenich |
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Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich looks at one of the secrets of the brain's incredible power: its ability to actively re-wire itself. He's researching ways to harness the brain's plasticity to enhance our skills and recover lost function.
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 Maximizing Your Return on People
by L. Bassi and D. McMurrer
Harvard Business Review
March 2007
New tools can show you which investments in employees are driving company performance now and which you should emphasize to advance your strategic goals.
Managers are fond of the maxim “Employees are our most important asset.” Yet beneath the rhetoric, too many executives still regard—and manage—employees as costs. That’s dangerous because, for many companies, people are the only source of long-term competitive advantage.
Companies that fail to invest in employees jeopardize their own success and even survival. In part, this practice has lingered for lack of alternatives. Until recently, there simply weren’t robust methods for measuring the bottom-line contributions of investments in human capital management (HCM)—things like leadership development, job design, and knowledge sharing. That’s changed. Over the past decade, we have worked with colleagues worldwide to develop a system for assessing HCM, predicting organizational performance, and guiding organizations’ investments in people.
Using the framework we describe here has the obvious and immediate practical benefit of improving organizational performance. More broadly, though, as the links between people and performance come into focus, organizations will also begin to appreciate the long-term value of investments in human capital—and the folly of dwelling on narrow, near-term goals.
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 DON'T DELEGATE MORE
DELEGATE MORE EFFECTIVELY
by Marshall Goldsmith
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When C-level executives are asked what change they could make to become a more effective leader, one of the most common answers is, I need to delegate more!
My caution to these executives is always the same: Don't delegate more. Delegate more effectively.
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 Relying on Human Goodness
by Margaret J. Wheatley
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We have a great need to rely on the fact of human goodness. Human goodness seems like an outrageous "fact." Everyday we are confronted with mounting evidence of the great harm we so easily do to one another. We are numbed by frequent genocide, ethnic hatred, and individual violence committed daily in the world. In self-protective groups, we terrorize each other with our hatred. Of the 240 or so nations in the world, nearly one-fourth of them are at war.
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. Many of us are more withdrawn and distrustful than ever. Yet this incessant display of what’s worst in us makes it essential that we believe in human goodness. Without that belief, there really is no hope. continued
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“LIGHT THE FIRE WITHIN” by Robert Gunn & Betsy Bullickson
When we lead – and live – for a higher purpose than ourselves, it is as if an intense fire is ignited deep within our consciousness free
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“100 Ways to Help You Succeed / Make Money, Part 1”
By Tom Peters
Here are the headlines for the first 25 Ways in which the Uber-Guru, Tom Peters, believes can help you succeed. He lists 50 in this link and he promises he will get back and do the other 50 sometime soon.
#1: THE CLEAN & NEAT TEAM! (TEAM TIDY?)
#2: PRONOUN POWER
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#25: HUSTLE!
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“Who's Leading Now?” Alicia M. Rodriguez
What does it take for an organization to develop leadership capabilities for the future? free
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