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Mindfulness and Focusing on What Matters

Lead Change Blog

It’s a form of meditation that businesses are beginning to embrace as a way to help employees become more efficient, productive and – most importantly – happy. It’s part and parcel of the job, and something you’ll simply have to accept when you follow this particular career path. You may have heard of mindfulness.

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How to Improve Your Managerial Skills

Strategy Driven

A professional career as a business manager, regardless of size, scope, or industry, demands a certain set of skills, unlike many other job roles. Competent managers are able to keep the metaphorical ship afloat, but if you aim to become a successful, well-liked, and impactful leader, there is more to be done.

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I have only raised my voice in the workplace twice during my career and both times I have regretted it tremendously. Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. Of course subordinating one's ego to more productive traits never hurts.:)

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand. With Apple design and user experience as so inextricably linked they are one and the same. Apple isn't simply selling superior functionality, but also a certain style that is communicated through design.

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). If you are not building an organizational culture that rewards “Successful Failure,” employees will not take the initiative to experiment and invent new products and services.

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How to Improve Your Sales Skills, Even If You’re Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business Review

At some point in your career, even if you’re not a salesperson, you’re going to have to sell something — whether it’s your idea , your team, or yourself. “Many of them tell me that sales is something they never want to do in their careers.” And that is part and parcel of professional life.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

The result is a lot of innovation programs that can build fantastic concept cars, but have a tough time getting production vehicles onto the road. What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? Here are six ways to change that.