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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Feeling safe is a primal human need. When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. About the Author.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Feeling safe is a primal human need. When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. About the Author.

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The Productivity Booster You Have in Your Pocket, But Probably Don’t Use

Harvard Business Review

IAs leverage apps (or “skills” in Alexa’s terminology) to do what they do. The app ecosystem is as vast and rich as it is precisely because the apps there cater to such a wide variety of human needs and desires. The power of your IA is a function of how many useful skills it has and how much you invoke them.

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5 Myths of Great Workplaces

Harvard Business Review

Organizations no longer select job candidates solely on the basis of their skills or experience. In a 2009 study teams of three were asked to solve a problem with the help of a new colleague who was either similar or dissimilar to the existing group. What they need are experiences that fulfill their basic, human needs.

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The $300 House: The Urban Challenge

Harvard Business Review

This development plan can be scaled to build 3 million or 30 million units per year, if needed. A 60,000 square foot factory floor, employing about 200 reasonably skilled and trained people, equipped with many automated CNC machines, turners and robotic-welders can produce about 3,000 home units per month in a one-shift work modulus.

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