Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

The funny thing is, you wouldn’t believe the myriad of ways the fear, uncertainty, and doubt took over in my mind to stop me from doing this. I used the same process I coach with my clients everyday. Same template (modified), same process, same delivery. Not too fancy, should I use my logo? Establish A Contract With Your Team.

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Letter Succession Licensing Ethics 201

Strategy Driven

MAY 14, 2020

For instance, when we work in positions that are suited to our personality preferences, we’re more likely to keep the motivation that we brought to the work and to contribute in meaningful ways. Given the sudden changes and uncertainty that have occurred as a result of the pandemic, employees are stressed. Individual differences.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 18, 2011

With smaller staffs, higher stress levels and uncertainties around the economy, are employers changing what they look for in prospective employees? The person who gets hired displays a positive can-do attitude. Who gets hired or promoted today? Fifty-nine percent of employers would not hire someone who has a high IQ but low EI.

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Emotional Intelligence Sample Human Resources Survey 118

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 16, 2011

CEOs know that until consumer demand picks up, the economy won't lift-off and they won't be able to positively affect a lowering of the rate of unemployment. The wisdom that's been lost in economic theory is that uncertainty is both unavoidable and potent. The modern macro "synthesis" tended to give uncertainty only a bit part.

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Real Estate GDP Uncertainty Crisis 95

Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

.   Center for Creative Leadership : Fundamental Four: Core Leadership Skills for Every Career Stage - It is safe to say that different levels of leadership require varying skill sets in order to be successful in that given position.   Penelope Trunk, BNET : Perfectionism is a Disease.

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Blog Talent Management Human Resources Emotional Intelligence 133

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

They often find the uncertainty and ambiguity of leading people very unsettling. Why should you expect your direct reports to demonstrate positive enthusiasm, if they don't see it in you? To participate in the 2011 Thinkers 50, visit [link]. Decide if you really want to be a leader. All humans do. Life is short.

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Prahalad Uncertainty CEO Leadership 127

Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

With media headlines rife with news about a struggling economic recovery, shareholders demanding seemingly impossible results, and uncertainty around every corner, it is easy for today's manager to forget about top performing high potential employees. Roland Smith, Center for Creative Leadership : What's Going On With Top Talent?

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Blog Human Resources McCarthy Talent Management 133

Women on Business

JANUARY 30, 2012

Hewlett-Packard, another technology company, named Meg Whitman as their CEO in September 2011. Strategy based on uncertainty has high risk; strategy based on certainty has low risk. For example, for the first time ever, IBM chose a woman CEO, Virginia “Ginni” Rometty. And this trend isn’t just in the US. I say it’s 100% predictable.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

Any human, in fact, any animal will tend to repeat behavior that is followed by positive reinforcement. The more successful we become, the more positive reinforcement we get – and the more likely we are to experience the success delusion. Our positive beliefs about ourselves help us become successful. I behave this way.

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Succession Commitment Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 181

Ron Edmondson

JULY 3, 2013

Here are 10 things you may not know about a senior pastor: Leading from the number one position is overwhelming at times. Most pastors walk with uncertainty and insecurity. We protect ourselves, our territory, and our position. We serve in a called position, so we are doing what we have been asked of God to do.

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Edmondson Uncertainty Engineering Positioning 66

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Great by Choice : Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All. Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen represents a detailed assessment of companies thriving in times of uncertainty compared with similar organizations not performing so well. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Resources Collins Comparison Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Subsequently, businesses reorganize, new roles are created, and existing positions eliminated on an almost continuous basis. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Talent Management Management Performance Review Document 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

For a number of reasons, the size, complexity scale and symmetry of risk are vastly different in 2011 than 1991. How to successfully deal with a new radical state of uncertainty will require leaders to reset their organizations, reframe their perceptions of problems and opportunities, and, most important, rethink the way they think.

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Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 14

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Executives, managers, supervisors, and individual contributors are held accountable for their actions and contributes both positively and negatively. StrategyDriven Recommended Practices Highly accountable organizations benefit from the premise that there is no free lunch. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Metrics Conflict of Interest Uncertainty Follow-up 50

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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Gordon Energy Bottom-up Newsletter 58

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-read slideshow in 2011 was " Difficult Conversations: Nine Common Mistakes." Finally, in one of my favorite podcasts from the past year, we talked with the father of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, who walked us through some fascinating work he's done with the U.S. Well, a girl can dream.). Audio podcast. Audio podcast.

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Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 15

Your Voice of Encouragement

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

When you face uncertainty about the future, it’s easy to feel anxious and afraid. Alice Errett Sunflower Business Consulting January 24, 2011 7:48 AM @wordwhackysaid. January 24, 2011 8:04 AM Meredith Bell said. Alice and wordwhacky, Thank you for your positive feedback and additional insights about making assumptions.

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Influence Gordon Entrepreneur Blog 102

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

As we talked, that positive outlook was a continual presence. His optimism allowed him to thrive in the sales profession, but it would render him completely ineffective in a leadership position. All Steve said afterward was “I think that went really well. We’re gonna close that sale!” Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Travel CEO 56

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

This work is still ongoing, but in 2011 Gigerenzer and his colleague Wolfgang Gassmaier wrote that heuristics are likely to do well in an environment with moderate to high uncertainty and moderate to high redundancy (that is, the different data series available are correlated with each another). Ergo: heuristics win.

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Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Uncertainty about sovereign debt threatens economic growth across the globe." Indeed they are at their lowest since March 2011, according to the report. Sounds a bit like a variation on the "local positivity bias" Slate's Matthew Yglesias wrote about recently. "The euro’s future is in limbo. MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE STATES.

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GDP McKinsey Wilde Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

This work is still ongoing, but in 2011 Gigerenzer and his colleague Wolfgang Gassmaier wrote that heuristics are likely to do well in an environment with moderate to high uncertainty and moderate to high redundancy (that is, the different data series available are correlated with each another). Ergo: heuristics win.

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Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Among the top performers on the 2011 World's Best Multinational Companies list are culturally-strong technology companies such as Microsoft, NetApp, SAS, and Google. But is there a direct correlation between employee investment and the balance sheet? Here's what those companies do in common: They invest more in their employees.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

There was so much fear and uncertainty. Soon enough, the remarkable generation of soldiers who have fought for America in the aftermath of 9/11 will also achieve positions and platforms from which they can share their hard-earned wisdom and insights. It was a humbling time to serve in uniform.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." ​ Tamara Dowling ​"As a catalyst for positive change, I have a history of engaging board and staff members to generate new ideas and increase overall performance. ​ ​1.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

They’re frustrated – and, having played it safe during the years of economic uncertainty, are now facing what may be their last chance to grab for the golden ring. Yet their career progress has been blocked by Boomers who are postponing retirement and threatened by impatient Millennials eager to leapfrog them.

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Competitive Advantage Talent Management Survey Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

The answer is simple: uncertainty about the future. Not uncertainty over Obamacare, or "regulation," or any of the other bêtes noires of moment, but uncertainty over the lack of demand in an economy whose consumers and producers are paying back debt. After all, who opens a factory in the middle of a recession?

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Short-term Banking Long-term Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

In exchange, a fitness leader can offer a sense certainty, justice, and camaraderie in a time where employees are otherwise plagued by uncertainty, injustice, and isolation. It is true that numerous studies have established a positive link between physical exercise and cognitive performance. Henrik Bunge is one such leader.

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CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

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. Immerse yourself in the details.

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Technology Microfinance Banking Document 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

This is the world of financial uncertainty, when business activity and markets might turn abruptly. In a boom, the reverse happens — the world is a huge positive-sum game. In the uncertain market , there is no discoverable pattern to the responses. This is when financial bubbles form.

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Risk Management Company Marketing Case Study 15

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Fortitude – tolerance for stress, uncertainty, or chaos. You will always be in a better position to handle the inevitable mishaps. Eoin Whelan, Marian Carcary, (2011) “Integrating talent and knowledge management: where are the benefits?”, Openness – willingness to explore and to change. ISBN 0262133849.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The results are staggering: same-store sales are up 55% from the first half of 2011 to the same period in 2012. In order to find what actions these successful companies took, PA Consulting Group (my employer), working with the authors of The Economist book, Managing Uncertainty , conducted a comprehensive survey.

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TSR Apparel Consultative Uncertainty 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

A few more of these missteps, and they feared they'd lose their market leading position. By 2011, 132 teams entered the category. Share how you approached both, how you made mistakes, how you learned to mitigate risks, how you dealt with the uncertainty, and how you succeeded. Share these with your people.

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Innovation Guidelines Learning-by-Doing Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2011

Rather than invest in fancy spreadsheets and measure progress against detailed financial projections, they toss growth estimates out the window and expect companies to iterate their way to a viable position. Red teams are not looking to confirm the status quo; their whole mission is to disrupt it.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

Shiller and his allies posit that this excess volatility is the product of investor error, herd behavior, feedback loops and the like. (My And of course Steve Jobs, the crotchety business genius who co-founded the company in 1979 and drove its recent renaissance, died in 2011.

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Price Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

This is the world of financial uncertainty, when business activity and markets might turn abruptly. In a boom, the reverse happens — the world is a huge positive-sum game. In the uncertain market , there is no discoverable pattern to the responses. This is when financial bubbles form.

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Risk Management Company Marketing Case Study 11

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

While this sounds simple enough at face value, I have consistently found that one of the most often overlooked leadership attributes is that of a positive attitude. This is a relatively new client, but I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt his positivity sets the tone for the entire organization and has produced incredible results.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

We must act not because making a positive difference is a nice thing to do. This program, Create Jobs for USA , will begin November 1, 2011. Beyond that, every Starbucks customer who contributes $5 or more to the fund will receive a limited-edition red, white, and blue wristband with the word 'Indivisible' on the clasp.

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