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Winning Now, Winning Later: Playing the Infinite Game

Leading Blog

W HEN David Cote became CEO of Honeywell in February of 2002, the company was a train wreck. Short- and long-term goals were more tightly intertwined than they appeared. He inherited unhealthy accounting practices, unresolved environmental liabilities, and a board and staff that were denying reality. He did both.

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Five Reasons WHY Leaders Need Emotional Intelligence Training

The Center For Leadership Studies

Fortunately, the surgeon operated before the worst could happen and my husband recovered completely. EQ [or EI], on the other hand, has been found to be directly responsible for between 27 and 45 percent of job success …” 2 And that percentage is even higher for those in leadership positions! Yes even—or especially — in the workplace.

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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. Best wishes Sir.

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Three Leadership Skills That Count

Harvard Business Review

What then were the leadership characteristics that separated the winning leaders from their industry peers? You can't sit around being fearful; you must act, like Herb Kelleher, who insisted on cutting costs and running lean operations in good times, so that they would be prepared for the next storm, imagined or real.

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IBM Focuses HR on Change

Harvard Business Review

Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy?

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002). So you must demonstrate very strong leadership.

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