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Innovate Forward

Leading Blog

Technology is the raw material that 21st-century innovators need to build new business capabilities, to develop exciting new products and services, and to create workarounds for the physical distancing measures we will likely endure for the foreseeable future. In a world of pandemic, it’s the only way forward.

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Efficient vs. Effective | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Bottom line…check your motivations. A mouse running on a mousewheel can perfect their stride and reduce the amount of energy it takes to get "moving." When you ever so efficiently cross something off your to-do list has it moved you farther away from, or closer to, putting points on the board?

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Two Easy Ways to Boost Employee Engagement

Michael Lee Stallard

There was a terrific energy among group participants. Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies pioneered the concept of Employee first and customer second. Last week when I was in Miami Beach, one morning I stopped at a Starbucks on the Lincoln Avenue Mall. They were handing out t-shirts and Starbucks baseball caps for participants.

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Moreover, building rapport is easily achieved assuming your motivations for doing so are sincere. If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. However this will rarely happen if lines of communication do not remain open.

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Avon CEO Andrea Jung Takes Seat on Apple's Board :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Andrea Jung should infuse some energy into the board which has been under fire for backdating company stock options. Creative Success Story of Andrea Wachner I want to share a motivational story I read on Reuters. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996.Â

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Still holding on to “life's leg warmers?” What would Jane Fonda.

Women on Business

Make them realistic and achievable yet ambitious enough to stay motivated. It’s how you achieve those goals that matters most in terms of time, expense and energy. Business Goals: Goals, like those leg warmers and jelly shoes, go out of style. So toss them away (goals and jelly shoes) and bring your goals up-to-date.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. Few things in life are as motivating as being told you're not good enough. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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