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In a Career Transition: A Helpful Blog and Book

February 17, 2009

Are you currently undergoing a career transition? You are not alone.
A few years ago, a good friend of mine, Diane Wilson, wrote a book on career transitions. It was an excellent book that sold well, but today, the advice in the book is even more appropriate. Diane also has started blogging again and you can find [...]

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Putting the Public in Public Service: Book Review

February 13, 2009

Two topics that attract my interest are 1) Emotional Labor and 2) the Nature of Service to the Public. Mary Guy, Meredith Newman, and Sharon Mastracci explore both topics in a book titled Emotional Labor: Putting the Service in Public Service.
The positives of the book:

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New Book on Helping from Edgar Schein

January 21, 2009

Edgar Schein has written a new book titled “Helping: How to offer, give and receive help,” which is available from Berrett/Kohler or online bookstores. The book analyzes the difference between effective and ineffective help across a whole range of human situations. Schein analyzes the social and psychological dynamics common to all types of helping relationships, [...]

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More on Business Books

December 29, 2008

In this blog, I have previously expressed my reservations regarding popular business books. The Academy of Management Perspectives for November of 2008 features two intriguing articles on a best selling business book by Jim Collins titled Good to Great. As with many books of this type, Good to Great identified exceptional companies and then investigated [...]

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Old Book Review – Deming on The New Economics

December 3, 2008

Old Book Review of W. Edward Deming (1994). The New Economics: For Industry, Government, Education
I am reread Deming’s The New Economics the other day. For those of you unfamiliar with Deming, he is generally credited with helping to rebuild Japanese manufacturing after World War 2 and with the introduction of the quality revolution. Briefly, this [...]

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Book Review – Click

September 22, 2008

Click is by Bill Tancer, who is engaged in online research. That means, he spends a great deal of time tracking and understanding the trends of how we search and use the Internet and Web2.0. He obviously does this very well and it has led him to various insights on business and life. I am [...]

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Book Review – SQUAWK!

September 8, 2008

Squawk! is about leadership, management, pooping, and performance. In this management fable, Travis Bradberry tells the story of Charlie who supervises a flock of seagulls (the birds, not the 80s weird hair band).  Charlie learns the three virtues of great leadership through a series of encounters with sage advisors.
This book follows in the tradition of [...]

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Advice to Youth – Never Wear a Stained Shirt to an Interview

July 20, 2008

And maybe I should add “Remember to think about where you will be working, before you dress for an interview.”
As interviewer’s, we all try to concentrate on job related behaviors, but some applicants make that an impossible task. I once had a candidate with a pierced nose for one of my teaching positions. During the interview, I [...]

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