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By Gary Cohen on May 10th, 2012

14 Tips for Leading an Efficient and Effective Meeting

Communicate the importance of attendance, participation, and punctuality. If key staff members don’t show up, cancel the meeting. If their absence has been approved in advance, have them delegate their decision-making responsibility to someone else in the meeting. Make sure all agenda items are aligned with your strategic plans, vision, mission, objectives, strategies, and actions. [...]

Business • Collaboration • Leadership

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By Gary Cohen on May 08th, 2012

9 Reasons to Say, “You’re Fired!”

Leaders don’t enjoy firing people. They may feel relief after they’ve done so, but rarely joy. Even Donald Trump seems to feel a measure of regret when he fires someone. Leaders want to inspire their team members to improve and become success stories. They want to find a way—perhaps the only way—to turn struggling employees [...]

Business • Business Leadership • Executive Coaching • Leadership

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By Gary Cohen on April 26th, 2012

What’s Your Next and Best Career?

You can stumble on your next career or be deliberate about choosing one. This post explores how you can elevate your game and learn what career insights you may be withholding from friends and loved ones?

Business • Business Leadership • Executive Coaching • Just Ask Leadership • Leadership

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By Gary Cohen on April 19th, 2012

Meeting Management – These 30 Rules Work Magic

30 Meeting Rules That Work We operate under the assumption that everyone’s participation and presence in meetings is important. We want to create a culture and community where time is not wasted, opinions are shared freely and honestly, individuals are treated with respect, risk taking and open-mindedness are valued, and wise decisions are made. Unity [...]

Business • Collaboration • Featured

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By Gary Cohen on April 16th, 2012

7 Reasons NOT to Have a Meeting

Leaders need to know not only how to run a good meeting, but also when NOT to hold one. In this article you will learn the ten reasons why a meeting should be canceled or rescheduled.

Business • Business Leadership • Leadership • Media and Technology

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By Gary Cohen on April 09th, 2012

What Do We Know About Motion Picture Performance?

Most of us enjoy films and believe we know what makes a good or bad film. Do we or do we simply know our preference? When academics study an industry they can begin to provide insights that may be missed on the industry’s leaders themselves. In this short film created by Dr. Allegre Hadida at [...]

Business • General • Media and Technology

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By Gary Cohen on April 09th, 2012

Venture for America

Today I was catching up with a dear friend, Bernie Sucher, who lives in Russia and he shared with me an amazing program modeled after Teach for America. It is called Venture for America. It was founded by Andrew Yang who is the current president of the organization. Take a look and see if your [...]

Business • Collaboration • Leadership

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By Gary Cohen on March 29th, 2012

8 Steps to Prepare for (and Win) a Meeting

For leaders who want to hold successful meetings–rather than feel held up or held hostage by them–here are eight steps to take: 1) Get chapter and verse on all attendees. Review their recent activity on web sites, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin. Know your audience. 2) State the purpose of the meeting and the outcome [...]

Business • Business Leadership • Just Ask Leadership • Leadership

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By Gary Cohen on March 29th, 2012

29 Ways to Stay Creative

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By Gary Cohen on March 23rd, 2012

10 Steps to Make Changes Stick

Many leaders want to change self-defeating behaviors and beliefs, but desire isn’t enough. Here are 10 ways to ensure positive changes stick: 1) Hire a coach or consult a mentor to help you locate and define the change you wish to make; 2) Brainstorm potential barriers; 3) Plan counter-moves for each potential barrier; 4) Break [...]

Business • Business Leadership • Executive Coaching • Leadership

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By Gary Cohen on February 16th, 2012

Social Loafing

Lots of leaders espouse the value of teamwork, but the quality and quantity of work that teams generate depends a lot on how teams are constructed and evaluated. In 1913, Max Ringelmann discovered that men pulled harder on a rope when they were alone than when they were in the group. The more people in [...]

Business • Business Leadership • Collaboration • Exceptional Leadership • Leadership

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By Gary Cohen on February 14th, 2012

Logo-motion

If you’re like the average American, you likely see 16,000 brands in any given day. That’s a lot of competing images. No wonder so much attention is given to make logos eye-catching. Want to know what got eyes to stop or pause in 2011? Bill Gardner of LogosLounge discovered the following trends: circles, brown, dandruff [...]

Business • Just Ask Leadership • Leadership • Lifestyle • Media and Technology

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By Gary Cohen on February 11th, 2012

Spiral of Silence

Leaders don’t always operate democratically, but most will solicit views from team members before making decisions. They may ask for a show of hands or “aye” votes. These votes often come after the group has gotten a sense of the leader’s and/or majority opinion. As a result, dissenters may not voice their opinions (if they’re [...]

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By Gary Cohen on January 23rd, 2012

The Ben Franklin Effect

Most leaders believe it is better to give than it is to receive, but they may not pay attention to giving and receiving patterns, as well as psychological motivations behind these patterns. Ben Franklin said, “He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you [...]

Business • Business Leadership • Exceptional Leadership • Leadership

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By Gary Cohen on January 13th, 2012

Escape Velocity

If you want to escape from the pull of earth’s gravity, you need to jettison away at 7 miles per second. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that the greater the gravitational pull, the greater speed you must go to escape. When you’re looking to change your life and escape [...]

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