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Expertainment about Leadership & Management

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This is Bullsh*t

Indispensable? I doubt it. You’re simply not that important.

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1. Frank Roche posted a couple of weeks back about this NY Times interview with George Cloutier. Frank’s post is entitled, “Worst HR and Business Advice Ever.”
Frank doesn’t actually say “bullshit,” but he does use the superlative “worst,” which counts. Frank, you’ve owed me a phone call for like 3 months, but as long as [...]

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Bullsh*t LinkedIn SPAM

February 23, 2010

You have something to sell, and you want to get the word out via your LinkedIn contacts. How long should your pitch be?
Me? I say, “the shorter the better.” If you’re on my mailing list, you got an email from me this morning suggesting you read this and check out that and the whole email [...]

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Watching a conference event from the back of a 300-person room last week, I noticed a number of people on their laptops during a panel. Some of the laptop-ers were on Tweetdeck, some were in Outlook/Mail, and a handful were clearly working on client projects—I saw a “coupla two, tree” PowerPoint decks being built.
All of [...]

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This is BS: College

February 16, 2010

Well, it’s official-ish: college is overrated.
Or at least overvalued.
I guess two hundred grand doesn’t buy you what it used to!
Hmm…
I wonder why not?
Could it be that people in college are too interested in folding paper in half seven times, or (NSFW) getting it on with their profs (really NSFW), and that’s distracting them from [...]

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Imagine a world in which learning were criminalized.

Where zero-tolerance policies were used to punish students for honest mistakes.
Where doing your best with the information you have and the latest in modern technology were not enough to protect you from liability.
Where simply anticipating the impact of macro-economic shifts on your company could result [...]

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