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Enhance Your Communication Skills with Constructive Feedback

Strategy Driven

As a result of her feedback, I now think and teach with diversity in the foreground. Understanding where they’re coming from and what their aspirations are can help you to better encourage them and give them constructive feedback. I thanked the woman for sharing her perspective and promised I would change up my teaching stories.

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The 5 Goals of a Project Manager | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

Written in a clear, professional and straightforward manner, it is relevant to the management of all types of projects, including IT, construction, engineering, telecommunications and government, as well as many others. Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking.

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Is Office Politics a White Man’s Game?

Harvard Business Review

Many people associate political behavior with backstabbing and manipulation — but there is a constructive side to being politically savvy. A 2008 survey of 250 managers in the UK revealed that 90% of them believed that political skill is required to succeed and to improve one’s career prospects.

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Do You Have What It Takes to Help Your Team Be Creative?

Harvard Business Review

In a study I published in 2008 , for example, eight months after 173 employees of a small city in California were trained in creativity competencies, managers were still receiving 55% more new ideas than they had been receiving before the training, and city officials attributed $600,000 in new revenues and $3.5 Harvard Business Review.

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3 Steps to Break Out in a Tired Industry

Harvard Business Review

Both men thought that the industry was stale and too homogeneous relative to the diversity of customers it sought to serve. In 2008, they opened their first hotel, at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, followed by one in Amsterdam City in 2009. Immediately after opening in 2008, citizenM won the Venuez Award for “Best Hotel Concept.”

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

These trends will require oil producers to shift their focus away from transportation and diversify towards innovative petrochemical products to capture market share in diverse end uses such as clothing and construction materials.

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Creative Conversations: Boosting Creativity in Meetings

Michael Lee Stallard

Because individuals have diverse thinking styles, experiences and temperaments, they will naturally have different perspectives and come up with different ideas that contribute to constructing a creative new solution, product, process or new business opportunity. why is everyone smiling?