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Thought-full Thursday: Appreciative Leadership

Persuasive Powerhouse

Louise Altman : September 9, 2010 at 5:36 pm Hi Mary Jo, You know what is so important about using Appreciative Inquiry – we now know from the latest neuroscience research that every time we acknowledge what works, what is positive, we are activating the pleasure part of our brains. We’re a great society of problem solvers.

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Research: Companies See a Stock Bump After Executives Visit the White House

Harvard Business Review

While there’s plenty of debate around whether or not transparency around these logs has a broad impact, one thing is for certain: more than half a decade (2009-2015) of the comings and goings of S&P 1500 corporate executives, totaling more than 2,000 meetings in all, is a pretty useful data set. For example, David M.