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Preparing Your Business for COVID-19

Lead Change Blog

There are three cognitive biases, in particular, that you need to watch out for where the COVID-19 pandemic is concerned: Normalcy Bias — The brain causes us to assume things will keep going as they normally have been, and we assess the near-term future based on our short-term past experience.

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The Best Tool To Communicate Effectively With Your Manager.

Rich Gee Group

Even if you are in business on your own, someone is out there plucking the puppet strings of your career. Short — make it a 10-15 minute meeting; the shorter, the better — focus on the tactical. Accomplishments (from last week): Accomplishment 1 (keep each bullet point short). Everyone has a manager/boss. So how do you do it?

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How to Become a More Effective Manager #WinningWell

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re looking to buy them for your team, CEO Reads offers some great quantity discounts, and we would be happy to customize with a personalized template. Where the other three manager types tend to focus on short-term goals, managers who win well have a longer time horizon. What does it mean to Win Well?

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Revisiting Our Masculine Side of Leadership :: Women on Business

Women on Business

In the masculine model of success, power and prestige take precedence, compassion, and long term consequences are secondary. He ” by Robert Johnson is about the myth of Perceval and the Holy Grail. He ” by Robert Johnson is about the myth of Perceval and the Holy Grail. Think about our world at this time.

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Is Business a Combination of Sport and War?

In the CEO Afterlife

I’m going to admit at the outset that I was a strong proponent of Herzog’s concept for most of my career. The tactic that works best to defend or build share in the short term is price cuts or special discounts. However, now that I look back from the CEO afterlife, I realize that this view need not be pervasive.

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WHE21: Can Behavioral Economics Solve Your Company’s Health Care Problems? | with Derek Yach from Vitality Institute

Engaging Leader

Their conversation includes three components of behavioral economics to help employees – despite everyone’s irrational-but-natural inclination to choose short-term gratification even if it has negative long-term consequences – take healthier actions: Financial incentives (such as discounts, lotteries, rewards, etc.)

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Appreciating the UConn Streak :: Women on Business

Women on Business

In organizations, for example, when we have researched workplace leadership styles, women tend to excel in listening, empathizing and sharing information, while men often stand out in short-term decision making, direct communication and curbing their emotions.