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Getting Unstuck: Leadership Development Tools For Better Results

Carolann Jacobs — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:20:12 +0000

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Who wants to know how to get yourself and your teams unstuck? Wouldn’t that be a valuable skill to have in your leadership development toolkit?

Celebrate You 2011

Carolann Jacobs — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:47:40 +0000

Every year I plan a party a little after the New Year. January is kind of a dull month after the holidays anyway, so one more party to kick off the new year right seems right.

Ever Have that Gut Feeling?

Carolann Jacobs — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:26:00 +0000

This is for your leadership development. Trust your gut! Really interesting video about the hidden brain in your…wait for it… intestines.

Managewhich Tip: New Rule for Productivity?

Carolann Jacobs — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:12:57 +0000

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What if, like gasoline, your brain power and attention were a limited resource? And that once your attention tank was empty, your thinking ran on fumes?

What Got You Here May Not Get You There

Carolann Jacobs — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:27:13 +0000

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When met with what seems to be a familiar situation, humans behave based on habit. The brain is designed to operate based on patterns and filters, so it’s very quick to assess “Woah! something’s going on here” vs. “Oh, OK” and respond accordingly.

Does Anyone Hire Eeyore?

Carolann Jacobs — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:51:06 +0000

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For those of you who’ve blocked out or forgotten who Eeyore is, he’s the pessimistic, melancholic, depressed, downtrodden old grey donkey from the Winnie The Pooh books. (Think, “Oh no, we’re doomed!”)

Read more on Does Anyone Hire Eeyore?…

The Omniscient Managewich

Carolann Jacobs — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:30:07 +0000

I have a question for the sandwich generation of managers, middle managers or owner managers, stuck in the middle of competing priorities and agendas:

Why is it so hard to know what someone else really wants or believes, and yet, how is it that we know others’ intentions just by looking at their body language or actions?

Read more on The Omniscient Managewich…

Managewich Tips: Tired of Participating in the 80% of Change Initiatives That Fail?

Carolann Jacobs — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:05:20 +0000

Change is hard… or is it?

Think about a time when change was easy. What made it easy?

For me, a good example to illustrate how change does and doesn’t work is recycling.

Managewich on the Run

Carolann Jacobs — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:05:27 +0000

“Stuck Inside These Four Walls, Sent Inside Forever, Never Seeing No One Nice Again Like You…”

Oops, sorry. That’s “Band on the Run.” But it could describe the managewich’s office, yes?

Shooting Down “Doubting Thomas” Once and For All

Carolann Jacobs — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:31:25 +0000

I am a *huge* Wayne Dyer fan, and I am honored to be a sponsor for the launch of his new book “Excuses Begone! How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits”