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Hack Your Brain To Become A Better Leader

Steve Farber

It’s easy during these times for leaders to end up mentally drained and emotionally overwhelmed by the high-speed, explosive challenges that come with managing things like people, budgets, time, energy and other assorted resources. Move, move, move. So make time throughout the day to use your body in short bursts of activity.

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Holiday Compliance Policies to Sweeten the Holiday Season

HR Digest

Depending on what you are celebrating at work and how wild your team is about to be with the decorations, holiday safety can promise a stress-free experience instead of spending it putting out small fires and tripping over stray balloons. Well, many people don’t but it’s usually something to look forward to during the holiday season.

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Why Being Certain Means Being Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Our physiology is geared to move us quickly to eliminate the uncomfortable tension of not knowing — the mild stress response our bodies trigger when we perceive that we have lost control because we don't understand. Certainty is the feeling of confidence we have when we've figured things out. We are not constituted to resist concluding.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). In some of these companies, senior managers were dubious about the claims.

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The Eight Archetypes of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

I was once asked to facilitate in a group coaching intervention for the leadership team at the subsidiary of a large chemical company. They are very effective at setting up the structures and systems needed to support an organization’s objectives. The communicator: leadership as stage management.