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The Folly of Normal Office Return Revealed by Delta Surge

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Vaccine effectiveness against the Delta variant has dropped to 39% after 6 months. That makes it folly to pursue a normal office return. Make no mistake about the danger: the Delta surge forecast to grow much worse in the next few months. Indeed, the CDC is asking vaccinated people to wear masks and recommending booster shots. Yet many large companies and mid-size firms , along with the federal government , are forcing employees who successfully worked from home during the height of the pandemi

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Why Teams Get Stuck

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My son’s car headed down our 200-foot driveway toward the street. Despite a few inches of snow, the drive was fully plowed and snow melted by the sun. So he was confident navigating the right turn at the bottom of the hill onto the street, like he’d done many times. Or so he thought. The snow on the street had not melted, and was pressed down by traffic.

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Use a 360-Degree Approach to Get Feedback on Leading Change

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Leading change has always been a high-risk, high-reward proposition. That’s become even more true throughout the significant, unplanned change of the COVID pandemic. This rapid, constant change also makes it difficult for leaders to gauge their effectiveness, especially when many of their team members are working remotely. The best leaders address this challenge by obtaining feedback from the people they lead.

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Win Every Day: Proven Practices For Extraordinary Results

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All high-performance organizations have one thing in common: execution. The men and women who work there sustain performance at seemingly otherworldly levels of precision, accuracy, and consistency. But what happens when your employees aren’t reaching their highest potential? How can you engage them in new ways to create more extraordinary results?

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The Badge of Self Care – Why Self Care is Important

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I, like many other leaders I know, would leave work to run home to… work more. I would get home, handle a few items around the house and then open my laptop or get on my desktop to get back to playing catch up at work. Most of my day was spent in meetings, so my nights were spent handling the to-do lists created from the meetings. In addition, I would be quick to reply to late night emails and even quicker to send them.

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Bonding with Customers: The Leadership Side

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David P. Campbell, a co-author of the infamous Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory, once proposed camps for the children of world leaders located in the countries of their adversaries. The concept was, for example, senior Russian leaders would never launch an attack on the United States if their children were attending a U.S.-based camp. The subtheme was also that children would return home after camp reporting a vastly different assessment of “adversaries.” Their “adversaries&#

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Leadership—Are You Using the Most Effective Ratio?

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80/20, 50/50, 30/70—what’s the right ratio? . Leaders engage in a number of related activities including managing and leading, discovery and delivery, as well as giving and receiving feedback. . How much time should you spend doing each activity? . Of course, it depends on the situation. There is no one approach (ratio) that can be used in every situation.