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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 2 of 7

Strategy Driven

Traditional leadership wisdom treats mood as the dreaded ‘touchy feely’ soft stuff. And a lack of competence around designing and managing moods will seriously limit one’s career prospects – now and in the years to come. Most current management practices tend to devalue anything that can’t be measured.

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Will Moneyball Analytics Kill Loyalty and Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

That's the new quantitative consensus reshaping professional sports worldwide. This next-generation "moneyball" ethos now transforming pro sports has enormous implications for how high-performance managers will incent and inspire tomorrow's high achievers. We have a luxury in sports," says Morey. "We Yesterday" is a sunk cost.

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The No. 1 Enemy of Creativity: Fear of Failure

Harvard Business Review

If you're an MBA-trained manager or executive, the odds are you were never, at any point in your educational or professional career given permission to fail, even on a "little bet." Your parents wanted you to achieve, achieve, achieve — in sports, the classroom, and scouting or work. In my opinion, Beth Comstock and Col.