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How to Improve Your Organization’s Culture Through Employee Connections

Michael Lee Stallard

Article Published by Forbes I believe it’s wise for leaders to develop their organizational culture by being intentional about strengthening the bonds of connection and trust among leaders and employees. For example, do team members understand that the quality of connection can affect the level of cooperation and collaboration?

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Team Building Sometimes Isn’t

Lead Change Blog

With the purse-strings less tight, leaders try to create a fun atmosphere and help team members bond with each other. One Denver firm operates an indoor kart racing facility that is very popular for company team building events. The reality is that team building will not likely have beneficial impact on your day-to-day operations.

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Protecting Remote Workers’ Productivity and Performance

Michael Lee Stallard

Virtual distance has three components: physical distance; operational distance, including such conditions as poor internet connections and technical problems; and affinity distance that prevents deeper connections from developing. If operational distance is an issue, technical problems should be addressed.

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The Elements of Transformational Leadership

Skip Prichard

This extract from Wellbeing at Work by Cary Cooper and Ian Hesketh is ©2019 and reproduced with permission from Kogan Page Ltd. When people see this in others we suggest it forms a bond, and in leadership this can be a powerful bond. Transformational leadership. For more information, see Wellbeing at Work.

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New Perspectives Required To Create AI Fit For Humanity

The Horizons Tracker

The movement is not operating from a standing start however, as there has already been some fascinating work done to explore how humans interact with industrial robots. Forming a bond. Robotic colleagues. Indeed, the basal ganglia, hypothalamus and amygdalae show none of the activity present when we engage with humans.

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How Companies Succeed By Engaging Radically With Society

Eric Jacobson

Clearly and powerfully define your company's contribution to society -- which must be at the heart of the company's purpose, not a side operation. In the basic resource sector, companies that can cooperate well with local communities and governments are much more likely to secure deregulation, which promotes innovation.

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? However when a situation can be seen through the lens of difference, and a position is simply a matter of opinion not a totalitarian statement of fact, then cooperation and compromise is possible.

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