Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

A big part of a successful culture is having a relationship between employees and managers that is built on trust and collaboration. If you’re managing or leading a company, heading up a big project, or traveling non-stop, it’s likely you’ve lost an email, important paper, phone number, or pie chart or two (or three or four) in your day.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 10, 2011

Monday, January 10th, 2011 Posted by: mike Time and time again people within the team are promoted up the hierarchy before they are ready. Once the stress increases maladaptive behaviors become present and the organization flounders. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 20, 2013

Human energy is a precious commodity. This post from 2011 explores some ways of preserving and generating energy both for leaders and their organizations. “ For some reason, we believe ourselves to be capable of expending unlimited amounts of energy without attending to the restoration process with equal dedication.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity. Rather entering the productivity zone is found working at about 60% to 70% of capacity.

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CO2

AUGUST 30, 2011

One-Third of Employees Lunch at Their Desk in a recent study done by Right Management. PHILADELPHIA, PA , August 30, 2011 – One-third of employees have lunch at their desk each day, according to a survey by Right Management, workforce consulting experts within ManpowerGroup. Eating at your desk. Please see the study below.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 4, 2016

When I turned 50, I was just beginning to figure out to manage the multiple sclerosis I had been diagnosed with two years earlier. That book was inspired, in part, by what I’d learned about the importance of stress management when you have a chronic illness (or are living your life in a way that’s likely to lead to one).

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Tony Mayo

JANUARY 19, 2011

Perceived threats to the 5 Rs can be confused with actual existential dangers and push me into survival mode, a high-stress, low creativity way of being that drains away energy and joy. When I confuse these transitory aspects of life with my core self I am more likely to become angry, defensive, and narrow-minded.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2011

Through her consulting firm, Your Mind on Media , she speaks before business, professional, and educational organizations on productivity, creativity, and stress reduction. Tweets that mention How to Discourage Digital Distractions: Conquer CyberOverload : StrategyDriven -- Topsy.com says: January 14, 2011 at 2:40 am [.]

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 19, 2011

Through her consulting firm, Your Mind on Media , she speaks before business, professional, and educational organizations on productivity, creativity, and stress reduction. Is it harder to be creative when information is constantly coming at you from all directions? Congressional committees as well as the Federal Communications Commission.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 27, 2010

There are plenty of studies showing the health benefits of meditation; how it reduces stress, increases blood flow, slows the heart rate, relieves muscle tension and headaches. The past and the future don’t cause as much stress as they used to. So I’ve been thinking about what I’d write. I am happy.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

’ Here are twelve draining behaviors to watch out for – and what you can do to counteract them and create a more nourishing workplace in 2011. ’ Here are twelve draining behaviors to watch out for – and what you can do to counteract them and create a more nourishing workplace in 2011.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

The high stress of being corporate Shann and doing business in someone else’s boardroom was losing its appeal. It’s amusing, and disheartening, when you realize your dedication, smart work, energy, – all the things you put into your career daily – are ONLY for the sake of performing a duty and receiving a paycheck.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Before you resign yourself to living in your own not-so-amusing TV show, let me offer some commonsense management advice. If option number two sounds better to you, then read on to learn about the three most common types of challenging performers, and how best to manage them: The Prima Donna Modus Operandi (M.O.):

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 28, 2010

← Hey Leaders: Dial Down the Drama Restore your sanity: how Gen X and Y need to step up on work/life balance → Peer to Peer: managing sideways relationships Posted on October 28, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment Former city councilor Rob Ford has set heads spinning in Toronto with his mayoral race victory. Re-read point 3).

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

The study found that such feelings of stress, fatigue, and depression can last five years and more, imposing a strain on organizations’ competitiveness. Not only was there a sense of unfairness and anger over top management pay and severance, but symptoms of insecurity, anxiety, and fear that discouraged innovation and creative thinking.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Energy levels are also affected. What makes time management difficult is that I might have a “to do” list together and a goal for that day, but depending on the needs of our customers I might not even touch that list. Are you willing to have an open discussion with your staff about what is impacting their time management?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Many leaders spend their energies focusing on their personal rewards and status, rather than focusing on the greater good of those they serve. We will also make smaller personal sacrifices, like missing family events or bringing the stress of work home with us. Most great leaders have demonstrated some degree of selflessness.

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Roundtable Talk

MAY 21, 2010

→ Fast Friday with Paul Ronan, Executive Director, Ontario Parks Association Posted on May 21, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment As head of the Ontario Parks Association , Paul Ronan exudes energy and passion for his work. Off the chart. This leads to boredom, lack of motivation and a feeling of being stuck in your role.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I mean the real, formal, sit down and talk type of meetings that allow the employee, peer, or manager to say whats on their mind. I agree that having these types of meetings helps relieve some stress or at minimum gives you a place to share the burdens/successes you are faced with. To discuss priorities. To give feedback. Great post.

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 4, 2010

Don’t waste your energies trying to win everyone over. Decide who is most crucial to your project and focus your energies on securing their buy-in. Manage expectations… build failure into your plans and build space for things that are new. Join us next time when on March 31 st we look at Managing: The Tough Stuff.

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Roundtable Talk

MAY 12, 2010

She reported on her research into how organization’s chose, manage and succeed/or not, with projects. She found that organizations, and in particular the senior managers, tend to overestimate their capacity for completing projects. Managing capacity is a key ingredient in the success of an organization. Happy leading!

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

While there’s no silver bullet, performance management philosophies suggest there are positive options before us. We just need to understand how to best deploy, grow or manage them. If you’re not applying activity-based management to your cost processes, you probably don’t know. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Roundtable Talk

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

One has to wonder what type of pressure someone like John Furlong was under and how he managed to get any sleep over the past 17 days. Share this: This entry was posted in Authenticity , Leadership , Motivation , results , Stress , Team building and tagged closing ceremonies , John Furlong , Leadership , Olympics , VANOC.

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Roundtable Talk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Here are my 10 ideas: Promote litterless lunches…By taking your lunch in a reusable lunch box instead of a disposable one, you save the energy needed to produce new lunch boxes. Their Speed-2-Green system can get you moving fast, but my big a-ha was the number of simple things that any leader can do to make an impact.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 7, 2010

This time, in the run up to his succession as CEO of BP, he breaks a cardinal rule of management (specifically that one should criticize your team in private, support in public) by declaring at a company town hall meeting: “We have a leadership style that is too directive and doesn’t listen sufficiently well. What was the result?

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Roundtable Talk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

That’s a huge psychological difference that creates a different energy. Did the pressure to show that the program was a success push them to take risks that they wouldn’t have taken? Were they driven by desire to win or desperation not to lose?

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 19, 2010

Your manager can’t handle you… if your highly talented, the reality is that a weak manager may not know what to do with you. Lots of people don’t know how to manage high performers. Find a manager that does. Life is too short to not enjoy what you’re doing. What are you thoughts on signs that it’s time to quit?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Consequently the last week of each month was always stressful and came with the constant complaint that the department was short on staff. The beginning of January is a natural choice point for every management team, whether or not you've experienced a Christmas miracle. How can you make 2011 a breakthrough year?

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Amy has been under increasing stress. Her boss is pressuring her to significantly boost the productivity of the team she manages. Adding to that, Amy feels stress from her commute to work and the financial pressures to support her family. In 2011 Sussman, et al. When she’s tried to stop, she feels awful. She’s not alone.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2016

My research — which used several established self-reporting instruments, such as the California Women’s Health Survey and the Perceived Stress Questionnaire — found that for executive women, as incomes and education levels increase, several health indicators also increase. How can this be?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

You have to devote a huge amount of psychic energy to being closeted — changing pronouns, switching names. A new study by the Center for Work-Life Policy published in the July/August 2011 issue of Harvard Business Review quantifies just how high the cost is for both closeted LGBTs and their employers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Certainly, times are terribly stressful, and I don't mean to downplay the reality that too many employees face. I also think something else is going on, and leaders need to pay attention to this subtle but notable shift in employee energy. If you pay attention to workplace surveys, the news sounds pretty bad.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

BRAC Bank (the commercial bank owned by BRAC) launched the service as a pilot in five branches in November 2011, asking small enterprise borrowers to make repayments via local agents — who would send a receipt via text message — rather than in person at branch offices. The promise was exciting — the details far less so.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

For instance, 82 percent of the companies on Fortune's 2011 100 Best Companies to Work For list offer telecommuting options. Managers sometimes worry about people who work remotely watching TV or doing their laundry, rather than focusing on their job. Managers need training to help them see the benefits and accept this change.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. But the downstream impact of making such a choice in a moment of stress or carelessness can be devastating. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. the winner’s mindset. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

When acclaimed hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones revealed his opinion that women become much less effective as stock traders or investors once they have children, he was, in a sense, suggesting that the distraction of motherhood—a distinctly feminine condition—exceeds that of other attention-siphoning activities.

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