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Cuttings 74 - June 2008
Contents:
• What's Your Organisation Type? - Does your company's personality help or hinder results?
• Performance Enhancing Supplements - a review of studies that demonstrate the benefits of positive emotions
• Only One in Three Employees Engaged - a new report by BlessingWhite reveals the current state of engagement

Cuttings 73 - April 2008
Contents:
• The Generation X and Y Factor - Increasing numbers of Gen X and Gen Yers in the workplace are creating different demands
• Book review - Appreciative Inquiry for Change Management - a significant addition to the library for change agents

Cuttings 72 - February 2008
Contents:
• Being a Leader Doesn't Make You One - Leaders often have the technical but not the behavioural skills to lead
• Seven Ways to Engage - Some ideas on engage with employees from Tom Terez
• Customers want to feel better - The majority of customers are apprehensive as they enter a customer experience , and 80% want to be reassured

Cuttings 71 - December 2007
Contents:
• The High Cost of Bad Bosses - Bosses are abusive and bullying - and it is affecting the bottom line
• Rules of Engagement - How to engage employees and have a positive impact on the bottom line
• A bumber set of quotations and snippets!
Cuttings 70 - October 2007
Contents:
• Moods and Narratives - a focus on human centred practices produces greater success in projects than traditional analytical tools
• Employers dissatisfied witht he results of coaching - coaching is not delivering the results expected
• Salary not important to students seeking jobs - Generation Y work joiners want something different to money

Cuttings 69 - August 2007
Contents:
• Employee Engagement - results of a survey into engagement and the impact of management actions
• Sir Alan Sugar on Leadership - the UK entrepreneur's thoughts
• CSR contributes... - corporate social responsibility adds to the bottom line, employee engagement and customer loyalty

Cuttings 68 - June 2007
Contents:
• Five Crucial Conversations- conversations that don't take place in projects
• In Praise of the Incomplete Leader- a reflection on how to be effective but not perfect
• Structured Procrastination- a new look on timewasting !

Cuttings 67 - April 2007
Contents:
• Listening and Feedback - managers are underachieving and not able to listen to feedback
• 5 Questions to ask ask yourself - Tom Terez poses some things to reflect on at work
• A Parable from India - Parashu Ram shares a story about love, wealth and success
• Common goal or legal contract - how do we treat our suppliers and contractors?
Cuttings 66 - February 2007
Contents:
• The Chickens are in Charge - why project managers can't manage projects
• MINDSET: The New Psychology of Success - how mindset affects your success
• Managing Virtual and Remote Teams - management skills required for these teams
• 360 degree Assessments - some critical comments on 360 effectiveness

Cuttings 65 - December 2006
Contents:
• Feedforward instrad of Feedback - some ideas on how to improve communication about performance improvement
• Six Steps to Survival - an article from 1971 that has a lot of relevance today

Cuttings 64 - October 2006
Contents:
• Strategic Distortions and Deceptions - sometimes our approach to situations leads to distortion and deception, often unconsciously
• How your mindset impacts your success - a growth mindset helps you and others to develop more than a fixed mindset
• A Chance to Start Over - a reframing story about Thomas Edison

Cuttings 63 - August 2006
Contents:
• Cognitive Science and Change - learning from the latest neurological research to help understand change
• Improved cross cultural communication increases productivity- some numbers from Accenture
• Perspective - a story on how you look at thing
• Babemba - a different way of dealing with wrong doers

Cuttings 62 - June 2006
Contents:
• Positive Organisation Politics - politics in organisations does not have to be damaging and negative
• Receiving Catastrophic News - The Elisabeth Kubler-Ross stages for receiving bad news
• Appreciative Intelligence - a case study from NASA on the reframing of situations

Cuttings 61 - April 2006
Contents:
• Performance Appraisals are Worthless - some comments on the misuse and abuse of performance appraisals
• Delivering Bad News - advice from Judith Glazer on how to deliver bad news empathetically
• 20 Years of New Directions - a short history of highlights to celebrate 20 years in consulting

Cuttings 60 - February 2006
Contents:
• WYSI-not always-WYG - some fascinating research on how the brain fools us a lot of the time
• Seven Deadly Sins - mismanagement examples from a survey of library managers

Cuttings 59 - December 2005
Contents:
• Perceived Power - how equalising perceived power can help get win:win agreements
• Why IT Leaders Fail - skill and competence gaps in IT managers
• Peter Drucker quotations - a collection of favourite Drucker sayings to celebrate his life

Cuttings 58 - October 2005
Contents:
• Leadership Excellence - some observations on what makes for excellent leadership
• Employees don't trust senior managers - chilling messages for leaders from two different surveys
• Excellence in executive coaching - six competencies for mentoring and coaching excellence

Cuttings 57 - August 2005
Contents:
• Awaydays and Workshops - 80% of UK organisations have strategy awaydays and workshops but few measure their success
• 21st Century Organisation - McKinsey report on the organisation needs of the current century
• Unresolved Anxiety - Having management skill is not enough to be a good manager

Cuttings 56 - June 2005
Contents:
• Employee Well-Being - The status of the psychological contract
• A Leadership Story - Police officers in Texas operate a new model which gets results
• Geting More than 100 percent - A fun mathematical formula

Cuttings 55 - April 2005
Contents:
• A Shortage of Leaders - The baby-boom generation is aging and casing a shortage of leaders
• A Non-style of Management - Ben Johnson poses a question about the paradox of Dilbert and intelligent managers
• The Power of Positive Feedback - What are your priorities when it comes to performance management

Cuttings 54 - February 2005
Contents:
• Flexible Working- Flexible working is becoming a "must have" benefit - buthow do you set up an effective policy
• 12 Habits of Toxic Mentees - David Clutterbuck's companion piece to his humourous list of what not to do as a mentor
• Are you concerned about Plaxo? - Is the popular database manager all it seems?

Cuttings 53 - December 2004
Contents:
• Positive Leadership - The impact of building a positive environment in the workplace
• 12 Habits of Toxic Mentors - David Clutterbuck's humourous list of what not to do as a mentor

Cuttings 52 - September 2004
Contents:
• Virtual Teams - Investigating the properties of virtual teams and how to make them effective
• Retaining talent - Beverley Kaye's new book looks at strategies for managers and individuals to develop their careers
• How much does it cost to send an e-mail? - The current ant-Microsoft story investigates the real cost of emails

Cuttings 51 - June 2004
Contents:
• Jazz - The new metaphor - Jazz is increasingly replacing the symphony orchestra as a metaphor for management and leadership
• The business case for diversity - results of a survey on diversity policies
• Training Trends 2004 - a survey on training priorities for 2004

Cuttings 50 - March 2004
Contents:
• Cuttings Half Century Review - a look back over the first 50 issues highlighting some of the classic articles
• A View on Aging - a humorous look at aging