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Starting his new assignment reorganizing the run-down Foley pulp mill in Florida, John begins building his cross-organization leadership team.
In this chapter of Back To The Cottage, John Sipple gathers his newly formed teams together to redesign and reimplement the foundational principles and organization of the entire Foley plant. Along the way they give Foley employees a stronger sense of ownership of their work, and change the leadership model from a "straw boss" style to a coaching model. They also rework the way skills are developed with the organization.

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This is a book that has been in my personal library for twenty years. And though the advice given seems so basic in a universe of over-hyped business books, I am amazed that the same errors are st [...]

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Building on multiple intelligence theory, social intelligence is shown to be the key to success at work and life.
I travel way too much. My kids tease me that the only people that send me personalized Christmas cards are hotel staff. So over the years I’ve developed a pretty keen sense of the good, the bad, and the ugly of the travel, hospitality, and restaurant businesses.
Bernard Moon shares some insights into improving communication skills and how to enhance your ability to connect with people.

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We are constantly on a stretch, if not a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. [...] E.M. Bounds

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The measure of leadership is not the quality of the head, but the tone of the body. The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict? Max DePree
What if businesspeople could communicate like Jesus? Miracles aside, Bernard Moon thinks Jesus practices three communication skills any businessperson can learn.
Bernard Moon / Jul 15 2008
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"If you want to keep people, you will have to have a business love affair with them. That requires seduction, dating, paying attention to the relationship."
Jim Hancock / Feb 2 2006
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Dan Wooldridge points out three key commitments observed in John Wooden's life as a coach that made him so successful in developing great players and teams.
How would you prepare a successor if you had ten months to do it? Stu Thompson and Dan Wooldridge discuss the how-to's of this hypothetical, but real-world scenario.
A Spherion report that, though "companies spend more than $70 billion a year on employee training programs, workers simply have not responded with any enthusiasm," underscores how critical it is that we shift our focus from training to learning
Jim Hancock / Jul 6 2006
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