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Want Better Performance? Clear the Path!

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Psychometrics Canada’s 2010 Engagement study surveyed HR professionals in over 360 organizations. Provide appropriate resources, raw materials, tools, and systems. There are pockets of clear goals and consistent accountability in my clients’ organizations – but those are the exception, not the rule. Second, clear the path.

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Be a Positive Force

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Tom Rath and Jim Harter, The Economics of Wellbeing , Gallup Press, 2010 and Shawn Achor, Positive Intelligence , Harvard Business Review, January-February 2012). Exercise improves your immune system and fends off stress, dementia, and depression. They are TEN TIMES more engaged. They generate 37 percent more sales.

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Preview Thursday: Untangling the USA: The Cost of Complexity and What Can Be Done About It

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Complex systems are an inevitable part of business and socio-economic structures. Entire new systems need to be constructed just to manage this complexity, with questionable or negative value to society at large. Beyond analyzing how incredibly complex socio-economic systems have emerged in recent years in the U.S.,

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