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May 30, 2014

Pump Out the Good News and Pump Up Your Employees

As I was watching the Oscars last March I couldn’t help but be a little depressed. Among the leading contenders for best picture were stories about AIDS, slavery, kidnappings, and some poor fool in love with the voice ...

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May 30, 2014

Sometimes a Bubble Just Needs to Be Burst

It’s good to have confidence in one’s self, both in who you are and what you do.  A salesman should believe he is worthy to present to a CEO, a programmer should believe his code can improve an organization, and an ...

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March 18, 2013

Manage Learning by Engaging Your Audience

Sesame Street was the worst thing that ever happened to the cause of education in this country. That is what my mother, who was a career educator back in the 1970’s, said shortly after the program came on the air. Her ...

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March 1, 2013

The Pope’s Precedent

When Pope Benedict XVI announced he was stepping down a few weeks ago because his health would not allow him to do his job effectively, there was some muted shock in the world.  This has not happened since Pope Gregory ...

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February 13, 2013

Don’t Wait on Career Development

Career development plans should be an essential part of any company’s business strategy. By investing the time to train and mentor employees, organizations can put forth competent and accomplished professionals to meet...

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December 13, 2012

A Founder’s Take on Learning

Benjamin Franklin is quoted as having said, “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”   When reading what he said one could infer that to be a very apt description of the evolutio...

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Tom McKeown was recently the CEO and Co-founder of TrenData, which was acquired by isolved HCM in 2021. He currently manages the product team and business unit for their People Analytics offering.

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