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Courageous Questions: How to Make It Easier to Get Better Insights

Let's Grow Leaders

Laura thanked her and hurried to a quiet conference room where she could call her team. Humility is at the heart of the question that Don Yager, Chief Operating Officer of Mural Corporation, consistently asks his frontline team: “What are our policies that suck?” Courageous Questions to Improve Productivity.

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Why do smart people do dumb things?

Coaching Tip

“EQ has quickly become a global movement that’s helping companies large and small rebuild trust internally to make its employees happier and more productive, which in turn impacts the overall ROI,” said Joshua Freedman, chief operating officer for Six Seconds and the chairman of NexusEQ, a global conference taking place this summer at Harvard. “We

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In this Season of Speeches, It’s Time to Inspire

leaderCommunicator

While I wasn’t at the speech, I think Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg accomplished that recently in her commencement address to the nearly 2,000 graduates of the City Colleges of Chicago. population now hates their job, according to researchers at the Conference Board.

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What Leaders Can Do To Encourage Learning And Growth

Tanveer Naseer

This was also the focus of last week’s HCI Learning and Leadership Development conference where leaders from a wide range of industries and backgrounds offered their viewpoints and experiences on learning, leadership and fostering growth in your organization. ‘Focus on behaviours to change culture.

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0506 | Shawn Hunter: Full Transcript

LDRLB

I had this interview once with this guy who is this chief operating officer of this great big organization. The next day, I go to Melbourne Business School, and I’m interviewing this woman on the faculty there, and I tell her this story about the chief operating officer who does all of these things.

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Why Citi Got Rid of Assigned Desks

Harvard Business Review

Susan Catalano, Citi’s Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of HR, was reading the Divergent series — about a future society broken up into five social factions cultivating different virtues — around the same time she was asked to assist with an open floor plan for the HR group’s new workspace and the book influenced the end product. “We

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Why Citi Got Rid of Assigned Desks

Harvard Business Review

Susan Catalano, Citi’s Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of HR, was reading the Divergent series — about a future society broken up into five social factions cultivating different virtues — around the same time she was asked to assist with an open floor plan for the HR group’s new workspace and the book influenced the end product. “We