Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

The heliotropic effect describes the inherent tendency in all living things toward positive energy and away from negative energy. In nature, the sun is the source of positive, life-giving energy, so the heliotropic effect explains why plants and other organisms lean toward the light over time. Solving problems is the goal.

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Positioning Energy Case Study Loyalty 283

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula.

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Trends Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing Case Study 84

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Editor's Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. She appreciated how hard Zach was trying, but she couldn't muster the energy to play along. It's not fair, of course, but as women, we have to work harder than everyone else.

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Case Study Travel Quinn Career 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

” Of course, your first step as a manager should be to avoid hiring toxic people in the first place , but once they’re on your team, it can be hard to get rid of them. Of course, you should always hope that the person can change but not everyone will respond to the tactics listed above. The whole team suffers because of it.”

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Management How To Document Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Or should you focus your energy on changing your ways? Then pour your energy into building a standing that you think is more reflective of your actual self. Case study #1: Addressing the misperception with a mea culpa. ” Case study #2: Giving 110%. How can you change others’ perceptions of you?

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Reputation Real Estate Case Study Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

“You are managing the energy and brainpower of an entire group,” she says. “There needs to be a clearly articulated and repeated value that everyone ought to be equally contributing his or her talents, skills, and energy,” she says. The goal is that “over the course of the year, it all balances out.”

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Delegation Project Team Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2011

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula.

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Bottom-up Survey Case Study Positioning 50