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Team Dialog: Environment Matters

Persuasive Powerhouse

So if your intent is to engage your team and/or have great dialog, consider the following: The Physical Environment The room should not be too large or too small: A room that is too large can often suck energy – and sound – away from the discussion. What else have you noticed about the environment that promotes team dialog?

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Diverse Teams Help Organizations Adapt To Change

The Horizons Tracker

So commonplace is it that growing businesses have to adapt to the changing environment that the “pivot” has become a part of entrepreneurial lore. The research reveals that businesses established in dynamic environments tend to have a longer survival rate when their founding teams exhibit greater functional diversity.

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Built to Win

Great Leadership By Dan

In Major League Baseball, the 2011 New York Yankees were built to win but didn't make it to the World Series. Evolve, Learn & Refine Daily With your standards now defined, spend time and energy paying attention to the quality of the work environment and your team’s performance. I suggest these three integrated approaches.

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The Green Thing | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • July 26, 2011 • Life • 0 Comments. In a line at the grocery store, a cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own bags because plastic bags were terrible for the environment. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011.

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Boost Your Creativity in Our Overloaded Information Environment.

Strategy Driven

Is our digital environment interfering with our employees’ ability to see the big picture? Is it harder to be creative when information is constantly coming at you from all directions?

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Leadership Comes in Many Forms. Helping Business Save the Earth.

Great Leadership By Dan

Renewable energy in electricity generation. Ultimately, each one of us has an opportunity to lead, to shape the institutional environment so as to catalyze the innovation ecosystem to generate more of the disruptive sustainable technologies that we need to meet our sustainability challenges. Electrical vehicles in transportation.

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Worn out at Work? Twelve Common Workplace Behaviors that Drain Everyone’s Energy – and How to Purge Them in 2011, part 2 of 2

Strategy Driven

It may not always be possible, and accidents do happen – but not being able to find the quarterly report for the third meeting in a row sets a bad example, and it depletes others of the energy they could be putting towards other, more productive work. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. The Chronic Deadline Dodge.

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