Assuming Your Team is Executing Your Plan?
Dec 30 Carolann Jacobs on December 30th, 2008
Most of my prospective clients answer yes to this question. And, when I ask them “Based on what evidence?” or “How do you know?” I usually get a vague answer referring to some quarterly all-hands meeting (or worse yet, the yearly one). Business owners and Executives: If you aren’t keeping your vision and goals at [...]
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Free Teleseminar to Land Your Dream Job
Dec 29 Carolann Jacobs on December 29th, 2008
Miriam Salpeter just posted on her blog about our upcoming free Teleseminar: Land Your Dream Job: 8 Strategies for Outrageous Success. This is our gift to those of you who’ve been affected by the recent downturn in the economy and for those of you who are scared to death that your job might be next. [...]
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Top 3 Reasons Why Gift Giving is Good
Dec 23 Carolann Jacobs on December 23rd, 2008
I’ll start this with an admission: we abdicated on the holiday season this year. There are no latkes, no tree, no gifts, with the exception of those to non-profits such as Best Friends and the Heifer Project. I didn’t miss any of it until today. Maybe it was that the Hanukkah and Christmas decorations didn’t [...]
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Imperfect Action Strikes Again
Dec 20 Carolann Jacobs on December 20th, 2008
Confessions of an Blog Killer and Accidental Spammer I don’t like bothering my web designer for small things. You see, my background is in Information Technology. Nearly a decade ago, I was a web developer for about a minute. Adding an RSS Feed button shouldn’t be a big deal for someone with my vast experience [...]
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Managing Group Politics With a Bitch : )
Dec 15 Carolann Jacobs on December 15th, 2008
A Case Study of How One Poor Hire and a Merger Changed the Culture of an Organization Once upon a time, in 1990, Team Jacobs was born with its first new hire, Bloodfang (dog). Bloodfang was hired in a dual role of support staff and security. He was brilliant and did his job with pride, [...]
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Transform your Overloaded, Underperforming Brain into an Efficient, Overachieving Machine (Part 3)
Dec 11 Carolann Jacobs on December 11th, 2008
In part 1, we touched on some highlights about what neuroscience has taught us about learning, patterns and their impact on thought. In part 2, we looked at how those thoughts determine emotion and how anger and fear impact the quality of thinking. Over the year, we’ll be examining other forms of overload and providing [...]
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Transform Your Overloaded, Underperforming Brain into an Efficient, Overachieving Machine (Part 2)
Dec 3 Carolann Jacobs on December 3rd, 2008
In my last post, we touched on some highlights about what neuroscience has taught us about learning, patterns and their impact on thought. Today, we’re going look at how simple thought connects to brain overload, how overload creates an environment of sub-par performance and some strategies you can implement today to transform your brain into [...]
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Transform your Overloaded, Underperforming Brain into an Efficient, Overachieving Machine (Part 1)
Dec 1 Carolann Jacobs on December 1st, 2008
This train of thought will be broken into several bite sized chunks for easy digestion. As a kindness to all involved, I’ll post the piece-parts in quick succession so that we can all “stay on the train.” It all starts with learning When I first started computer programming back in the day, it was hard, [...]
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