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How to Get Lazy People to Work

Kevin Eikenberry

This isn’t a novel concept, and while you probably aren’t (and this article won’t make you) a psychologist, most people forget this basic premise. Consider Your Perspective Your perspective is likely different than that of those you are leading, or you might not be asking this question or reading this article.

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What Coaches (and that means you) Can Learn from “The King's Speech”

Next Level Blog

For a terrific synopsis of the entire story and film, see this article   by Stephen Holden of the New York Times and, for a taste of the dialogue between Bertie and Lionel, this script excerpt which also ran in the Times.) I appreciate your article as I think I may view it with different eyes than what I had anticipated.

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From idea to strategy

Lead on Purpose

In the Fortune article Yahoo’s taskmaster , John Fortt describes Bartz as one who has “shown she can jump-start ailing companies.&# Filed under: Leadership , Knowledge , Market-driven , Innovation , Product Management / Marketing Tagged: | strategy , customer focus , products , services , Carol Bartz , Yahoo!

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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

I didn’t know the pointy end of the ship from the blunt end. 2 Comments so far Brian Hackett on June 23rd, 2010 Great article. Clark encouraged the Master Chiefs to mentor the enlisted sailors and he often told a story about when he was on his first ship following Officer Candidate School. “I It was scary, really. I appreciate it.

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It's Time for a Vendetta Against Email

Harvard Business Review

As Stever Robbins points in a brilliant 2004 article , email has shifted the costs of communication from the sender (who formerly had to go to the trouble of finding pen, paper and a stamp) to the recipient (who now has to spend time parsing all manner of ill-thought-out, hard-to-comprehend messages). Tweet this article with the #TB41P tag.

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