HR Digest

OCTOBER 19, 2021

From Miranda Priestley in The Devil Wears Prada to Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, a bad boss makes for a toxic workplace. Toxic bosses tend to micromanage everything so that there’s no opportunity for creative problem solving from those around them. A toxic boss can make life miserable and unbearable at the workplace.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions. In fact, most differences don’t require intervention as they actually contribute to a dynamic, creative, innovative culture.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

I had the opportunity to speak with Charles Conn and Robert McLean, two McKinsey alums who share a seven-step systematic approach to creative problem solving that will work in any field or industry. This new era of focus on creative problem solving has been ushered in by massive disruption of the old order in business and society.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

MARCH 25, 2013

Talia Myers , a USC student majoring in film-making and daughter of my colleague Gordon Myers , created a YouTube video that garnered more than 2 million views in less than a week. CREATIVITY The video stood out. what other people might think? Recently two young people took a risk and it paid off in ways they never expected.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 19, 2016

Develop creative ways to manage stress Stress can lead to your employees getting burned out, as well as harm their overall health. Remember, when you do establish rules, make sure that they connect to your values. If you hire the right professionals, workplace drama will be minimal.”

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2019

Video is a fantastic method to layer in some creativity, spicing up your prospecting in the process. BUY NOW” can turn a lot of people off, so instead find creative calls-to-action that extend the conversation and foster a relationship that will last. Connect with Sean Gordon on LinkedIn. Remind Viewers of Your Partnership.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 14, 2015

Some of the most creative professionals work behind the scenes and then later get accorded star status. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they're victims of it. They included two A-list Hollywood actors, appearing against type and image.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon Soup , an inspirational business fable, shares a recipe for success filled with the essential ingredients to build a winning team and create a culture of greatness. Insist that everyone else practice positivity as well. As pessimism rises, performance decreases.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 20, 2017

Skip Prichard of Leadership Insights is focused on growth to increase my creative side. Many of us don’t think of ourselves as creative – not only are there many types of creativity – but all of us can use hacks to increase our creativity. 23 Hacks to Boost Your Creativity. Follow Gordon.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

He cites a passage from General Gordon Sullivan’s book, Hope Is Not a Method , that is particularly instructive. This is creative work. It requires clear and creative action. This is where the trifecta of imagination, creativity, and innovation get their solid foothold in what might be described as virtuous momentum.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

When employees, coworkers, or supervisors have to spend their time tracking you down for clarification, rather than getting the communication from you that they need, productivity falls and creativity is stifled. Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

When employees, coworkers, or supervisors have to spend their time tracking you down for clarification, rather than getting the communication from you that they need, productivity falls and creativity is stifled. Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon. About the Author.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

And, if they hadn’t we would perhaps not have had the benefit of the genius of Einstein; the vision and technical capabilities of Bill Gates; the imagination and creativity of Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg; or even the brilliance of Michelangelo and Leonardo DaVinci. Reply Gwyn Teatro June 16, 2009 at 9:26 pm You are right of course.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

It is a manifesto of human creativity. 307 61,000 199 10,723 Malcolm Gladwell Innovation, Leadership Skinny Canadian 7,909 261,000 33 201,060 Gordon Tredgold Leadership Inc Magazine Top 100 Great Leadership Speaker, Inc Magazine Top 100. Humans Create Futures. Leadership Expert.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Here’s why this may be the case: Neurosciencist and founder of My Brain Solutions Dr Evian Gordon proposes that “the brain’s attunement to nature has a seminal evolutionary origin, beginning with the earliest species sensing and responding to their environment. I find so many complex design solutions are hidden in nature.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Yet the collective behavior of an ant colony is adaptive, flexible and even creative; it’s a highly structured social organization. Most of us are individually adaptive, flexible and very creative. Now consider your average human. When ants don’t find food, they increase the randomness of their searching.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2011

Steve Jobs is a misfit — an unashamedly unbuttoned creative in a role usually reserved for the most robotically droidly of beancounters. Shigeru Miyamoto , Gordon Ramsay , Jay-Z , JK Rowling , Indra Nooyi , Arianna Huffington ? How's that for creative!!?". Consider the following. Larry and Sergey are misfits.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

A hundred years from now, he said, we might look back on the late 20th and early 21st century and say, "It was an actively creative society. Gordon's productivity research.) Then there's another view, which I heard from author Neal Stephenson in an MIT lecture hall last week. Stephenson was clearly trying to be provocative.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

My guess is that in businesses that depend on truly great creative talent, there are fewer economies of scale or scope than one might think. Gordon Moore and Andy Grove were at Intel for decades. But if they are really different, then any attempts at corporate synergy will simply frustrate people. Take Harvard University.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

The creativity to produce innovation can involve a great deal of improvisation rather than sticking to a fixed script. Microphones and video cameras are always on, too, as former British prime minister Gordon Brown found to his peril. It also takes dedication. Perhaps some entrepreneurs have a passionate desire to prove something.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Make sure to visit each stop along the journey and you’ll soon discover what it takes to draft and publish creative customer testimonial content that will boost your business and maximize your marketing potential! Sean Gordon has an extensive track record recruiting, hiring, training, and unlocking the talent of people.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The forces of creative destruction inevitably will continue to eliminate some work through automation, digitalization, or the virtualization of work, but these same forces also create new types of work and jobs. As companies think about how to change this, they should focus on the jobs that will survive into the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

When Gordon Moore, the cofounder of Intel, asserted nearly 50 years ago that the number of transistors on integrated circuits would double roughly every two years, he was charting a path for the company that would dominate the industry — and dictate the direction of technology — for decades.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

Gordon Leidner answers these questions in his guest post on Great Leadership!” Your culture can be a permanent happy hour, a competitive sweatshop, a bureaucratic mould or creative chaos.” Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership provided Were the Founding Fathers Great Leaders? If so, What can we learn from them?”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. But in the mid-20 th century the influential Ford Foundation and, separately, the Carnegie Foundation damned this approach.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Elizabeth Gordon, who studies speech and gender stereotypes at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, has found in her research that women who were "non-standard" speakers — that is, foul-mouthed — were judged to be of lower social and moral strata. Their curses were meant to take charge, to intimidate.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. The terms "collaborative consumption" and "sharing economy" might seem more reminiscent of flower power than of Gordon Gekko, but the business threats they embody are very real. Sadly, the Zipcar culture may not survive the merger.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. But in the mid-20 th century the influential Ford Foundation and, separately, the Carnegie Foundation damned this approach.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

It’s a world in which Moore’s Law — the prediction made in 1965 by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would keep doubling at regular intervals – has held true, and Ray Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns has been borne out.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It’s an argument that economists such as Robert Gordon believe carries little weight, and the problem is not so much that the various benefits provided by the technologies of the 4th industrial revolution cannot be captured, but that the technologies themselves are not utilized enough.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2012

I can't guarantee this look will scream Gordon Gekko, but it might take one chin off your chin. Here's a simple exercise you can use to come up with your own list of ideas: 1) Lock your most creative colleagues in a room full of coffee, toys, and photos of people doing stimulating things (that won't get you fired). No jumpers, please.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Gordon Ross, a lead tester on the Grand Theft Auto game, reportedly characterized it as “madness.” The UK gaming industry could be cut off from the Creative Europe Fund , established by the European Commission. The UK tech sector has been among the groups most vigorously opposed to exiting. billion R&D fund ).

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