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3 Valuable Insights Leaders Can Learn From Neuroscience

Tanveer Naseer

This is a cultural intervention in which leaders seek out a few employees who are already known to be master motivators, adept at inspiring strategic awareness among their colleagues. These master motivators are invited to recommend specific measures that enable better ways of working.

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Why Great Leadership Can Always Use More Cowbell

Terry Starbucker

Those “extras” always stand out – in fact, they typically provide an extra dose of positive energy that makes a huge difference for anyone who comes under their spell. Was this just another of my crazy ideas that would make people shake their heads and question my methods and motives? THIS is what’s missing – more cowbell!

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“We Had Gone Back 20 Years.” The Heads of Puerto Rico’s Largest Media Company on Life After Hurricane Maria

Harvard Business Review

Our call centers became the FEMA call centers. For example, now with our call center experience, we are competing for the call centers for the U.S. We needed to adjust our plan to give room and seize the opportunities that had risen within housing, energy, and services. and Caribbean.

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To Get Employees to Empathize with Customers, Make Them Think Like Customers

Harvard Business Review

Instead, we bring people into different contexts — removed from typical day-to-day company operations — that can serve as a metaphor for what customers experience and therefore jolt employees into a more empathetic stance. Take our work with Consumers Energy in Michigan.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done. More importantly, the CMO then needs to motivate and help drive the required changes through the organization.

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Three Questions to Consider Before Deciding Where to Locate Your Start-Up

Harvard Business Review

In the first article in this series, I showed some striking numbers to stress what many inferred: there are real costs to locating operations outside of a startup super-hub (San Francisco Bay, New York, or Boston). Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai. That fear is the motivator that keeps you driving forward.