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I.  White Papers:

  1. Stop Trying to Motivate and Do This Instead!      .PDF 

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  2. "Spitting In the Wind: A Single Obvious Insight to Sharpen and Focus Your Strategy."

 

II.  CEO Thought-Provoker Archives:

 

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  1. Quick Decisions:  A Sign of Good Leadership?

  2. The Opportunity Mirage:  How to Spot When A Rose Is Not A Rose.

  3. Tom Watson's Secret.

  4. The Only Way to Create Loyal Employees.

  5. "I Wanted to Solve the Problems Before They Materialized."

  6. "We can't Fire Him!  He's the Only One Who..."

  7. "Stop!  How Does What You Just Did Resemble My Advice?!"

  8. Survey Sloth:  How Marketing Research Can Imperil Your Marketing.

  9. How to Avoid the Biggest People Mistake.

  10. How to Quickly Spot What Is Really Going On.

  11. To Go Beyond Your Core Business - Or Not?

  12. What Gets Us Into Trouble... OR - Why Ask Why?

  13. How to Handle A Crisis.  (Don't Do What Imus Did.)

  14. When Heads Must Roll.  When should we settle for systemic improvement and when must we hold people personally accountable?

  15. How SWOT Wrecks Your Strategy.

  16. Why A Seven Minute Meeting Took An Hour-and-A-Half.

  17. Most CV's Are Terrible.  How to Make Yours Irresistible.

  18. For Every Thousand Hacking at the Leaves of Poor Management, there Is One Striking at the Root.

  19. Lessons from Those Who Predicted the Housing Bubble - and from Those Who Didn't.

  20. Thriving In Hard Times:  Focus On Your Opportunities, Not Your Problems.

  21. Exorcising Financial Demons from Your Strategy.

  22. How to Write Help-Wanted Ads that Attract Talent and Drive Everyone Else Away.  (Nicely.)

  23. How to Write A Job Description that Ensures High Performance.

 

III. General Articles On Strategy, Marketing, Management & Sales

  1. The One Word that Gets Them Saying "Yes!" 

  2. If You Are 'Implementing' Your Strategy -- You Don't Have One.            Featured by The Marker, Israel's leading business magazine.

  3. The High Cost of Solving Problems. 

  4. Orange Makes this Mistake.  Do You?    Featured by Globes, Israel's leading business newspaper.

  5. The Chief Tunnel-Visionary Officer.  

  6. Who Are You Talking To?  What business can learn from the failure of the anti-disengagement movement.  Featured by Globes, Israel's leading business newspaper. 

 

IV.  Short Thoughts On Doing Business With Humans.

  1. No One Is As Perfect As They First Seem.

  2. When Someone Sends You An Email...

 

V.  Great Links.

  1. www.Answers.com    This completely free tool is outstanding and must be tried to be believed.  Use it via the web or, even better, download their super-simple software.

 

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