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Plus Delta Receives 2009 Small Business Award for Business Consulting!

Plus Delta was just selected for the 2009 Best of Business Award in the Business consulting category by the Small Business Commerce Association (SBCA). The SBCA program recognizes the top 5% of small businesses throughout the country, and this year’s

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Six Ways to a Passionate Soul: An Interview with Steve Cady

Dr. Steven H. Cady is a Graduate Faculty member in the Organization Development Program at Bowling Green State University. He also researches, writes about, and consults to individuals and organizations about passion. Beyond that, Steve is an inspiration to me

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11 Steps to Selecting an Executive or Life Coach

As we mentioned in a previous blog post, there are several signs that the recession is starting to lift .  Although this is fantastic news, it may leave you wondering your role in this new economy.  Are you going to

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Top 10 Reasons Why the Recession Is Really Over!

When the recession set in late last year, I said to myself, “Oh, we’ll be fine. We have several major client engagements under way, and our clients aren’t pulling the plug on us yet.” Then in January, we signed a

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Future: Unconference! Interview with Juliette Powell from OD Network Conference ’09 – Part II

As promised in part I of my Interview with Juliette Powell, in the video below Juliette discusses the future of conferences. If there was any misconception about the nature of the “unconference” versus the “conference” arising from her keynote address,

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What Makes Ordinary Groups Extraordinary? An Interview with Geoffrey Bellman and Kathleen Ryan, authors of Extraordinary Groups

I recently had the honor and privilege of sitting down with Geoff Bellman and Kathleen Ryan, co-authors of the new book Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results. What a treat!  Geoff has been a personal idol of mine

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Tweeting the Organization Development Network Conference: Collaboration, Transparency, & Engagement

In a time of decreasing attention spans partially due to the flood of information many of us experience, it has become an important skill to encapsulate the main point of a complex idea in as few words as possible —

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Juliette Powell Interview on Social Media in Organization Development: Part 1

[youtube]idEZ9lO6owI[/youtube] I recently conducted a two-part interview with Juliette Powell (author of 33 Million People in the Room) at the OD Network Conference in Seattle, just after she delivered the final keynote speech, titled “The Technology of Relationships: Social Networking and

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Relive the 2009 OD Network Conference with Plus Delta’s pictures from Seattle

Click here to view more conference photos courtesy of OD Network staff photographer Robin Reid

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Community – Online and Offline: A guest post from OD Network Conference 2009

We have a strong commitment to provide the Organization Development community with a series of conversations highlighting the use of social and collaborative media within organizations. We believe that these technologies can be an empowering and enabling force for human

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