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We Don’t Really Hear Each Other

Strategy Driven

Different from books on Active Listening which merely enables listeners to hear words, What? Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The Advisor’s Corner – Are People Listening to Me? focuses on understanding intended meaning. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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How to Listen to Hear What’s Intended

Strategy Driven

Current Active Listening models don’t go far enough into the problems of misinterpretation: how, exactly, do our brains make it so difficult for us to avoid biasing what it hears? Yet those two folks managed to confound and confuse each other, and instead of asking for clarity they assumed the other was being obtuse.

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We Don’t Really Hear Each Other

Strategy Driven

Different from books on Active Listening which merely enables listeners to hear words, What? Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Business Communications Practices for Professionals business communications Change Management Sharon Drew Morgen strategydriven' Consider leaving a comment!

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Why Compassion Is Key To Succeeding At Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

This journey of sharing my writings and insights on leadership over these past five years has lead to the achievement of another very special milestone this month – that of being invited to speak this Wednesday at the Management Grand Rounds at Boston’s Children’s Hospital , an affiliate of Harvard Medical School.

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My Top 10 Leadership Insights For 2015

Tanveer Naseer

Leadership Insight #7 – Our compassion motivates us to listen and learn about what our employees need to be successful [ Share on Twitter ]. Numerous studies have shown that employees have higher expectations of their leaders to not simply be effective at managing tasks, but at developing people.

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The Benefits of Taking a Slower Approach to Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). Paul Garbett for HBR. There’s nothing wrong with this, per se, as both approaches can pay huge dividends.