Sat.Feb 04, 2017 - Fri.Feb 10, 2017

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Leadership Effectiveness at Work

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Personality at Work has introduced broad research showing strong links between a leader's personality and outcomes--sometimes, extraordinary. . Organizations are shaped as much by the personalities of their leaders as by product innovations, marketing prowess, or technical ingenuity, yet identifying personality attributes that promote or inhibit organizational effectiveness has been an elusive goal, despite the existence of assessment centers and executive coaching.

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The Art of Business Improv

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What does improv have to do with business? The skills that we rely on during improv, including centered thinking and split-second decision-making, also apply to many day-to-day challenges of the business world. You're interviewing for a job, leading a meeting or handling an unhappy client, and then, uh-oh, you get a question you didn't anticipate.what do you do?

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White House Lies

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Major news organizations are still reckoning with how to report on the President's lies. Throughout last week, President Trump repeated his calumny that he lost the popular vote only because millions of "illegals" voted for Hillary Clinton. Trump's obsession with this subject may arise from his pathological need to tally every score in his own favor, but he surely knows that his propaganda also advances the Republican Party's efforts to extend barriers to legitimate voting by Latinos and Africa