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Servant-Leadership 101: Nonpartisan Lesson (Moneyball Movie Example)

Modern Servant Leader

September 23, 2011. During their 2002 season, general manager Billy Beane, played here by Brad Pitt, knew he needed a new approach to building his team, if they were to compete for a national championship. Your goal shouldn’t be to buy players. Your goal should be to buy wins and in order to buy wins you need to buy runs.

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The ROLE of Emotional Intelligence in Effective Leadership Today

The Center For Leadership Studies

Take in these wise words from HBR’s 2002 article “ Leading in Times of Trauma ” 2 : “You can’t eliminate such suffering, nor can you ask people to check their emotions at the door. Targets and goals that were adjusted now loom large as year-end approaches. Jossey-Bass; 2011:30. MANAGE WORK. 1 Stein S, Book H.

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Team-Work Requires People To Do Their Own Work

Mike Cardus

Design by 12GrainStudio Team-Work Requires People To Do Their Own Work Monday, January 31st, 2011 Posted by: mike The great organizational paradox is that effective group collaboration stems from clear recognition of individuals and individual accountability combined with clear specifications of required working role relationships.

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Five Reasons WHY Leaders Need Emotional Intelligence Training

The Center For Leadership Studies

” McClelland’s findings in a 1996 study showed that “when senior managers had a critical mass of Emotional Intelligence capabilities, their divisions outperformed yearly earning goals by 20%. Jossey-Bass; 2011:17. Meanwhile, division leaders without crucial mass underperformed by almost the same amount.” 3 Goleman D. 4 Sanchez P.

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The New Economic Revolution

Strategy Driven

Enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over 1 million employees between 2002 and 2012 while enterprises with less than 25 people gained over a 1.5 His goal is to make payments easy for the world’s small businesses and the platforms that serve them. million employees—nearly half of those 1.5 About the Author.

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Be More Productive Now: Mindful Strategies for Increasing Performance

Strategy Driven

In fact, if you take a close look at the data, it’s amazing how bad many of us in business are at utilizing our time and staying focused on our goals. The consequence is we tend to focus on short term outcomes and lose sight of larger goals and objectives. Notes : Harvard Business Review, “Beware the Busy Manager,” February 2002.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. If you find all the noise around social media to be confusing, rest assured that you’re not alone.

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