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The Great Eraser

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I am a big proponent of continuous improvement and the need to always improve. Unfortunately, it has brought with it a real negative. It took me 8 years of watching my two sons wrestle until I realized I had fell victim to that negative consequence. No Nonsense Retention : Painless Strategies To Retain Your Best People by Jeff Kortes. Why are some organizations able to retain their best people while others struggle with above average turnover?

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Recommended Resource – Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure

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Adapt : Why Success Always Starts with Failure. by Tim Harford. About the Reference. Adapt reveals the power of adaptive trial and error in solving the most difficult organizational challenges. Tim Harford illustrates the benefits of performing small, non-threatening trial projects to determine optimal product features, service options, or process performance.

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Corporate Cultures – Culture’s Impact on How Work Gets Done

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An organization’s culture, its collectively shared values system, profoundly impacts what work is performed, when work is performed, and how work is performed. And the culture driver has as much if not more influence on the results achieved as does the organization’s land, labor, capital, technology, and intellectual property resources. Work Performance Model.

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The Happiness Advantage: Paradise Lost and Found

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Excerpt from The Happiness Advantage … Around the time that Harvard was founded, John Milton wrote in Paradise Lost, “The Mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”. Three hundred years later, I observed this principle come to life. Many of my students saw Harvard as a privilege, but others quickly lost sight of that reality and focused only on the workload, the competition, the stress.

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Leadership Inspirations – Continuous Learning

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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.&#. Mohandas Gandhi (1869 – 1948). Political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. Pioneered satyagraha – resistance to tyranny through mass civil resistance. You just finished reading Leadership Inspirations - Continuous Learning !

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The Shortest Path to Higher Revenue

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The fastest way to find out what your next customer wants to buy, and how they want to buy it, is to ask your previous customers what they were looking for and how they went about buying it from you. In other words, if you want to increase your revenue, reverse-engineer your successful sales. Roadmap to Revenue : How to Sell the Way Your Customers Want to Buy by Kristin Zhivago.

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Complimentary Resource – Bloomberg Government: Business Implications of Government Actions

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Bloomberg Government : Business Implications of Government Actions. by Bloomberg Government. Sign up today to schedule a free personalized demo with a Bloomberg Government specialist. Bloomberg Government is the single source for professionals who need to understand the business impacts of government actions so they can work quickly, decisively and effectively.