Twenty Four BRAVE Frameworks for a Happy New Year

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Happy New Year!  My gift to you is 24 BRAVE frameworks that can help make your coming year happier.  Headlines here.  Click through to the original articles (on a combination of Forbes.com and PrimeGenesis) for more. Happiness is good – Three goods: good for others, good for me, good at it Five components of BRAVE [...]

Will you love the job? Motivation.

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There are only three questions in a job interview, getting at strengths, motivation, and fit. See The Only Three Job Interview Questions, The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan or the companion posts on strengths and fit. Interviewing for Motivation Interviewing for motivation is much less straightforward than interviewing for strengths. Part of the problem is [...]

New Leaders, Leadership Style and Self-Awareness

New leaders often think about how they present to others, and many are using coaches to improve their leadership style. The most successful CEOs are interpersonally aware, can read people quickly, are effective judges of people, and build inspiration and motivation. But research and experience indicate that self-awareness and interpersonal sensitivity are not particularly important.

In praise of recruiting briefs

No one who ever worked in marketing at Procter and Gamble would ever consider letting anyone develop any sort of advertising without a clear creative brief.  We should hold ourselves to the same standard when it comes to recruiting briefs.  No on should ever consider letting anyone start recruiting for any new employee without a [...]