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Interactive Intelligence in Real-Time: The ADR Academy's New Adaptive Learning Program
“Companies are scrambling to keep the skills of their buyers and supply managers up to the task of responding to wildly fluctuating costs and availability of key supplies. They need high quality training courses that are easily and instantly available,” said ADR North America CEO Bill Michels, C.P.M. “The ADR Academy fills that need with nine key courses that anyone can take if they have Internet access and a credit card.”
How to develop a learning organization?
Leadership, that encourages learning and teaching, that instills values like openness and courage, that celebrates ideas, that establishes a process way as culture, and that develops leaders at levels is essential for developing a learning organization. In order to build a learning organization, a sound leadership development process that starts at the top of the organization -at the board and CEO level – is necessary.
Operationalizing the Brand - Aligning Promise with Reality
This articles discusses the importance of aligning your organization around the delivery of the desired brand experience, i.e., operationalizing the brand promise made publicly.
Extraordinary Self Leadership Means Exceptional Time Management
Is time your greatest enemy? If you think so, read on as to why you are wrong.

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Silo Busting
In the old days we had sales guys and we had marketing guys and we had purchasing guys. The sales and marketing guys hated the purchasing guys. They never bought enough stuff, right? The wagon was never full. A common quote coming from some sales people: . "Our purchasing department sucks; I know there is an extra 5% discount out there. Purchasing is forcing me to sell at these high prices; we are just not buying right." The purchasing guys, in the mean time were saying; "Our sales guys are goofy. They keep saying they can't sell from an empty wagon. They want the wagon so full the wheels will come off. They say-"Put this in and I will sell it" and they never sell it. These kinds of feelings, these quotes were like a tradition. It describes a natural silo between sales and purchasing. It's not really supposed to be funny.
Non-linear Career Progression
When told that the ‘shortest distance between two points is a straight line’, this familiar maxim has an, inherent, link to the topic of avoidance. A straight line helps us to avoid wasting time, digressive conversations, subtle references to a certain attraction and political malfeasance. The straight-line reference is a way of avoiding behavioral meandering so as to stay focused on what’s in front of you. In the business sector, the phrase ‘cradle to grave’ contract was used to describe the linear progression of a career path. Career advancement reflected a climb up a ladder of a silo in which professional perspectives were shaped by the boundaries of that narrow focus.
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