Neuroplasticity

Building Effective Virtual Communities

Raise your virtual hands if you remember The Cluetrain Manifesto. I met the Manifesto 15 years ago, at an internal communications conference. The book had just been published, and it hooked me with the opening line—“A powerful global conversation has begun.” It also...

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What to Do If Your CEO Suddenly Dies

What to Do If Your CEO Suddenly Dies

Beth Swanson and I teamed up to write a piece called, "What to Do If Your CEO Suddenly Dies" - featured in Ragan's PR Daily. Generated by the sudden death of SurveryMonkey's CEO, this is a timely and sensitive article on what to do in the aftermath of a leader's...

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5 Tips for Leading Transformational Change

5 Tips for Leading Transformational Change

Is your organization in the middle of navigating transformational change? Almost everybody is these days, in the spirit of sharing best practices, here are five critical observations about successful organizational change from our team at On the Same Page. 1. 20 / 20...

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Marissa Mayer Is at It Again

Earlier this week, Huffington Post reported that Yahoo has instituted the “stack-ranking” system of evaluating employees. The approach involves ranking employees of a department or team against each other on a bell curve, with the result that someone – or several...

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What influences employee survey response rates?

The response rate of an employee survey determines the validity of the results, the higher an organization’s response rate, the more likely the results will be representative of the population.  This provides greater confidence that the results are truly...

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Functional Expert to Visionary Leader

There’s been a lot said about how Marissa Mayer is doing as Yahoo’s CEO. Whether you think she was the right or wrong person for the job, we can all learn something about managing the transition from functional expert to visionary leader. Get Ahead as a Functional...

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