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Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity. Rather entering the productivity zone is found working at about 60% to 70% of capacity.

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Teamwork: Sharing the Blame! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Here is what I notice: when stress is high, heads are down and everyone is pointing fingers outward, in the direction of others. When there is less stress there is much more willingness to say “oops, WE made a mistake”. Stress will make us be less accountable, less willing to risk telling the whole truth. Why the difference?

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Is America Losing Its Innovation Edge?

The Horizons Tracker

. “The United States became a world power—economically, militarily and culturally—in significant part by placing a high priority on innovation, fueled by advances in science and technology,” the authors say. “Recent developments are placing additional stress on the U.S. ” Losing top spot.

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. One of the concepts we discussed at Purdue was the fact that when stress hits the hot button we all tend to revert to patterns learned in our original organization, the family.

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T.O.I.L.E.T. Training™ -- a breakthrough system to improve workplace learning

Great Leadership By Dan

In this time-stressed environment, training is often viewed as a luxury that employers can’t afford. In 2008, that question led to RLI’s original training breakthrough: Quick Takes—six- to ten-minute learning modules that can be viewed anywhere, any time, on any smart device. “We To develop the T.O.I.L.E.T. The T.O.I.L.E.T.

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Leadership and a Cup of Tea :: Women on Business

Women on Business

For me a cup of tea is a powerful stress reliever. A recent study in Britain had groups either drink water or tea and then were measured on stress related tests. Please share some of your best practices for reducing stress and renewing your spirit. So, find a partner and get to it!

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Two Easy Ways to Boost Employee Engagement

Michael Lee Stallard

This time reduces stress and energizes most people. Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies pioneered the concept of Employee first and customer second. You’ll be amazed at the interesting activities your colleagues are involved in. Last week when I was in Miami Beach, one morning I stopped at a Starbucks on the Lincoln Avenue Mall.