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Keep Your Workplace From Going Viral

Strategy Driven

If you are hosting a meeting or conference, designate areas where visitors will be and properly clean and disinfect those areas before and after the meeting. Using the proper chemicals is key. Put hand sanitizing stations at entrances and lobby areas. A cleaning professional will be able to determine the proper frequency.

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Paradise By The Green Dashboard Light – A Leadership Short Story

Terry Starbucker

It was called the weekly operating dashboard report, and it was developed by our team to really tighten the screws on our service and quality levels, and provide more pertinent accountability standards to the field. It was like we were mad scientists fiddling around with different chemical formulas. They HAD to be on the dashboard.

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How Target Is Taking Sustainable Products Mainstream

Harvard Business Review

Kate Heiny, who very recently departed as the director of sustainability at Target, told the crowd at this summer’s sizable Sustainable Brands conference that: “With their words and wallets, our customers are asking for more [sustainable products].” That seems to be changing. And it’s not just happening at Target.

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Create a Work Environment That Fosters Flow

Harvard Business Review

” Technically defined as an “optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best,” the term takes its name from the sensation it confers. In a 10-year study conducted by McKinsey, top executives reported being five times more productive in flow. Action and awareness merge. It’s ubiquitous. novel ideas).

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Turning Customer Intelligence into Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Consumers don't do a good job reporting what they currently want or do, let along what they might want or will do in the future. However, the chemical formulations weren't intended for hand washing and could cause abrasions or burns. Procter & Gamble is famous for its deep commitment to these kinds of anthropological approaches.

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How to Do Walking Meetings Right

Harvard Business Review

In short, we find that those who participate in walking meetings are 5.25% more likely to report being creative at their jobs than those who do not. more likely to report high levels of engagement. The best candidates for walking meetings are ones where colleagues are conferring on decisions or exploring possible solutions.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

This is disturbing coming from a company so adept at cutting-edge customer analytics that it’s selling analytics services and has refused to divulge the names of its tech staff at Hadoop conferences to prevent them from being poached. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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