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Preparing for Re-entry into the Physical Workplace: Lessons from NASA

Michael Lee Stallard

Their daily in-person interactions are limited to the few people they live with and their other interactions are intermediated through digital technology. Use it or lose it” is a mantra often employed as motivation to exercise and not neglect our physical fitness. Their home also serves as their workplace.

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.&# - Eugene B. I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Moreover, ethical followers can help leaders avoid making questionable decisions and high performing followers often motivate leaders to raise their own levels of performance. These models are intended to provide leaders with additional insight into what motivates followers and how to improve individual and team performance.

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How Entrepreneurs Find Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

In 2003, Jim Poss was walking down a Boston street when he noticed a trash vehicle in action. miles per gallon and are among the most expensive vehicles to operate. By applying the solar technology he used at work, Poss envisioned how a new machine might better manage trash. Litter was still all over the street.

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How to Sustain Front Line Process Improvement Activities

Harvard Business Review

But there wasn't much activity until six months later when Mike Karol, vice president of operations, told his managers to make it their responsibility. Some of the managers underscored the importance of the ideas to surviving the video technology change from VHS to DVD and losing work to other plants. Consider the story of Technicolor.

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Transforming Health Care Takes Continuity and Consistency

Harvard Business Review

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing. But no country is delivering these transformational changes.

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business Review

Most of the digital giants in both countries are investing in artificial intelligence and other technologies that will facilitate their entry into yet other industries. For the 274 companies started in 2003 or later that have reached unicorn status , half are in the U.S., and nearly two-thirds of the 148 U.S.