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CIO.com reports on Responsibility Redefined

Responsibility Redefined is featured alongside Emotional Intelligence on CIO.com. Read the article here: 
Soft Skills for CIOs and Aspiring CIOs: Four Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence
Here's an excerpt:
The cornerstone of emotional intelligence and soft skills is responsibility. Everybody has met the manager who is always looking for someone to blame, who micromanages or who condescends. […]

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Job Corps contractor applauds Responsibility Redefined

I spent Thursday in Layton, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, with 100 Job Corps center directors, assistant directors, and regional and corporate executives of MTC, the largest Job Corps contractor. They operate twenty-some Job Corps centers stretching from Maine to Hawaii. Job Corps is a U.S. government training program that helps young people ages sixteen to twenty-four get a better job, make more money, and take control of their lives.

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Responsibility ≠ Accountability

In his blog, Mid-Life MBA, Eric Back opines that practicing accountability in a church may be over the top. He's worried about whether a church should, for example, hold it's pastor accountable for whether or not she grew the membership by 20%—like a business holds it's leaders accountable for quarterly results. I say that depends […]

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