Are You Aligning Your Business Purpose with Your Passions in Life?

by Adele Sommers

Do you have a tremendous fondness, enthusiasm, or desire for what you do for a living? If so, congratulations! You're most likely pursuing your passions in life.

On the other hand, do you know what happens when you choose a business direction that's not aligned with your life passions? You end up settling for an opportunistic approach toward your livelihood instead of selecting an endeavor that fuels you and helps you make a special contribution to the world.

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Recipe For success; Measurements Should Reflect Your Strategy, Goals And Initiative

by Lynda Silsbee

Most departments have it easy when it comes to measuring results. Sales are up or down. New products are coming out of research and development or they’re not. Customers are staying or moving to the competition. For HR, the questions aren’t so cut and dried.

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Building the Total Team: A Lesson from Professional Sports

by Cynthia Clay

Some of us are sports fans; some of us are not. But all of us get involved in leading or participating in teams—business development teams, training teams, problem-solving teams, and budget planning teams, to name just a few. Professional sports teams can remind us what Total Teams are made of, and they can give us pointers in how to build them.

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Are You Getting Ready To Explode? (Growth-wise That Is!)

by Adele Sommers

What does it take to create a stellar organization — one that can respond quickly to changing requirements, withstand explosive growth, delight and retain customers, and sustain momentum over time?

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