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4 Ways to Promote Productivity

Lead Change Blog

In any organization, employees are known to be the backbone and great determiners of the success or failure of the organization. Below are some of the aspects that demonstrate how good leadership can promote productivity in the organization: Goals. This is basically the lifeblood of any organization. Koontz Et Al.

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America’s Loneliness Epidemic: A Hidden Systemic Risk to Organizations

Michael Lee Stallard

Left unchecked, the deficiency of connection today presents widespread risks not just to individuals but to organizations. One might assume that the higher up the organization you go, the more connected you feel, but that isn’t necessarily the case. From a biological standpoint, social connection is a primal human need.

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LeadershipNow 140: July 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2011 that you might have missed: @laurencanning: FANTASTIC Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better via TED.com. DDI: Global Leadership Forecast 2011 : Time for a Leadership Revolution! rebelbrown: 3 Steps to Shift from Perfection to Productivity. When Humor Isn’t So Funny by @mikemyatt.

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LeadershipNow 140: September 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2011 that you might have missed: @stevefarber: Want to solve the leadership crisis? Matthew Kelly writes in “Off Balance: “An organization can only become the best-version-of-itself to the extent. TheAtlantic: What's your productivity secret? Not very, says one IESE professor.

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LeadershipNow 140: May 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from May 2011: @Jim_Kouzes: If you want to be more creative, think outside of yourself. _robin_sharma: 17 Tips to Double Your Productivity in 14 Days. The Fine Art of GSD : How to Get Stuff Done in a Large Organization by Scott Eblin. Read more @PsyBlog. Quit Sending Mixed Signals by @artpetty.

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Creating value in 2011

Lead on Purpose

Ultimately, we all want to create more value — for ourselves, for the organizations we associate with and for the people we care about. Believe in yourself: As your skills increase, you gain more confidence; you begin to understand your significance to your organization. The word value has many meanings.

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First I Launched My Company And Then I Had To Start Learning About Managing A Product.

Strategy Driven

In 2011, I formed SquareFoot, a new kind of commercial real estate company , to address growing companies and their office space needs. As I managed the real estate component of the company, and pinch-hitted adequately on the marketing front, too, I came to realize that I wouldn’t be able to carry the team in one crucial element: product.