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Inclusive Conversations

"What is impressive is not only how Winters builds a case for the urgency and need for bold, inclusive conversations but ...

Subtle Acts of Exclusion

This practical, accessible, nonjudgmental handbook is the first to help individuals and organizations recognize and preve...

The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety

This book is the first practical, hands-on guide that shows how leaders can build psychological safety in their organizat...

Diversity Beyond Lip Service

"La’Wana Harris has opened this coach’s eyes to the power of coaching practices to create new paths for diversity and inc...

7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change

Change is difficult but essential—Esther Derby offers seven guidelines for change by attraction, an approach that draws p...

Dig Your Heels In

Sought-after speaker and consultant Joan Kuhl arms young women with the tools they need to transform male-dominated corpo...

Compassionate Counterterrorism

Islamist terrorism is not about religion, says Leena Al Olaimy, an Arab Muslim, Dalai Lama Fellow, and social entrepreneu...

Networking for People Who Hate Networking

Most books for people who would rather get a root canal than face a roomful of strangers tell readers how to fight agains...

The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up

“This is a must-read for bosses and subordinates alike, as it exposes our flaws but teaches us how we can work together t...

Bedtime Stories for Managers

In forty-two succinct, surprising essays, legendary scholar Henry Mintzberg brings management down from the clouds and on...

The Critical Few

Without a deep understanding of your company’s culture, any change effort you undertake will fail. Bestselling author Jon...

The Law of Small Things

We are living in a time when dishonesty and duplicity are becoming commonplace. Each of us can fight this cultural corrup...

The Future of Packaging

Tom Szaky sets out to do the impossible – eliminate all waste. This book paints a future of a “circular economy” that rel...

Citizen Capitalism

Top Cornell law professor Lynn Stout and her coauthors Tamara Belinfanti and Sergio Gramitto offer a visionary but practi...

The Eight Essential People Skills for Project Management

Veteran project manager and University of California professor Zachary Wong identifies the eight most common people probl...

Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go

The new edition of a bestselling classic, Help Them or Grow Watch Them Grow offers advice on talent retention for the mod...

  • Welcome to Chris Neck’s Blog

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    Welcome to Chris Neck’s Blog

    Just testing out the new blog feature of Chris’ website. I’m sure you’ll be hearing from Chris on here really soon! -Your Friendly Neighborhood Webmaster

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    March 6, 2015

  • Bloom Where You are Planted

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    Bloom Where You are Planted

    Someone once wrote:  “bloom where you are planted.”   With these words in mind, my family and I leave Blacksburg, VA on July 30th and will soon thereafter “plant” ourselves in Scottsdale, Arizona to “bloom” again.     I want to thank the tens of thousands of students who kindly took my classes du...

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    March 6, 2015

  • Inspiration can be right under your nose!

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    Inspiration can be right under your nose!

    10/24/10 I’m 46 years old.  My son is 11 (6th grade).   This past Friday my son awakened at 5:00 in the morning.  I asked him why he was up so early especially given he had gone to bed late due to having to complete homework.  He told me he got up so early in order to study for his exams in Engli...

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    March 6, 2015

  • Why?  Because I could!

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    Why? Because I could!

    Today I set a personal best for running.  I ran 33 miles today.   Why?  Good question.  My simple answer is “because I can”.   I woke up needing a challenge today and I got on a treadmill.   Many hours later, I had set a personal record for miles on a treadmill at one time.   Some may call me cra...

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    March 6, 2015

  • True Uniqueness can’t be bought

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    True Uniqueness can’t be bought

    Halloween was a few days ago.   A week before Halloween my two kids were talking about how their costumes were not that great and how their friends’s costumes were going to be something special.   I told them that anyone could go to the store and buy a fancy costume or get someone to make them an...

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    March 6, 2015

  • Life is about inches

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    Life is about inches

    An inch?  A very small distance right?  Place your thumb and your pointer finger a distance apart that represents an inch.   This distance sums it up in terms of the difference between success and failure.  One little inch.  Two days ago I was running on my treadmill and trying to run a marathon ...

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    March 6, 2015

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