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The Difference Between Organizational Structure and an Org Chart

“What’s the difference between an organizational structure and an organizational chart? Do you need one or the other—or both—to manage your business?” I get asked different versions of this question a lot. The distinctions are subtle but important. Knowing the answers—and approaching your organizational design the right way—is mission-critical to scaling your business. The short answer is this. In most

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PSIU Assessments

Decode Talent, Amplify Results PSIU Assessments: Gain Quick, Practical Insights Into Others & Self Watch: It takes about :15 seconds to understand the basics of someone’s personality (including your own). PSIU Assessments are an innovative workstyle assessment method based on first principles. PSIU Assessments can help you do a number of things. First, they can help you to quickly identify

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An Inside Look at Holacracy

The headlines rolled across my feed like the credits on a blockbuster movie. Something big seemed to be happening but I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. It seemed that Zappos—the popular business management poster child for happy employees and customers—just announced it was adopting some new-fangled “boss-less,” “hierarchy-less,” “structure-less” management system called Holacracy. “Hola-what?” I said to

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Buy the Book: *How to Think About Hiring*

Buy the Book: *How to Think About Hiring* How to Think About Hiring: Play Smarter to Win the Talent Game is available now in Kindle or paperback on Amazon. This is a book about breakthrough thinking in hiring and talent management. It’s designed specifically for CEOs, department heads, hiring managers, and anyone else seeking an edge in how they think

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How to Hire Like the NFL’s Best Teams

The NFL is the most popular professional sports league in the United States. In fact, it’s bigger than the next three largest professional sports leagues combined. But when it comes to the field of talent management, what makes the NFL such an interesting case study for businesses of all types and sizes is not its popularity but its parity. Each

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Discover Your Genius Zone

How can I use my genius more effectively as a leader? While few people are intellectual geniuses, each of us has an area of outstanding ability that allows us to perform at a high level and adds to our overall energy and satisfaction. This zone of activity is what I call your Genius Zone. What is your own Genius Zone?

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What’s the Common Ingredient for Team Success in Surgery, Banking, Software, Airlines, and Basketball?

This article is for leaders who are seeking an edge in maximizing the talents and performance of their teams. Adam Grant, author of Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success (a must read book!), recently published a great LinkedIn article called “What’s the Common Ingredient for Team Success in Surgery, Banking, Software, Airlines, and Basketball?” I want to share

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Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, and the Strategy Code

Yahoo is in the news this week because the board just hired Marissa Mayer away from Google to be its new CEO. Mayer, who by all reports is highly intelligent and creative, excels as a product visionary. Yet not surprisingly, short-term value investors are upset about this hire. This is because they want Yahoo to focus on cutting costs and

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Buy the Book: *Organizational Physics*

Buy the Book: *Organizational Physics* There are three buying options for this timeless book: International Hardcover Kindle Audible Click here to download audiobook images. About the Book Revised in 2022, there are hidden laws at work in every aspect of your business. Understand them, and you can create extraordinary growth. Ignore them, and you run the risk of becoming another

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