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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Its market cap is over $2 trillion. Inside the company, morale was at an all-time low. In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. By 2019, Microsoft’s market capitalization edged past the $1 trillion mark, making it the world’s most valuable company.

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Leaders, Want To Master Innovation? Then Get Funny!

Tanveer Naseer

Social humor is practiced as part of the IDEO design thinking process that “encourages wild ideas” to take root. Positive humor can also be utilized to reduce the pressure of stress associated with deadlines – not to make targets or challenges disappear, but to improve morale and increase solidarity of purpose.

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New Year Entertainment: Predictions, Forecasts, and Projections

The Practical Leader

This time of year, we’re bombarded with glib and confident “experts” forecasting everything from the economy, to global warming, to financial markets, social trends, weather, and lots more. These transformations are vital to continuous change and development in our unpredictable and fast-changing world.

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What is EntreLeadership

Coaching Tip

Passion is not yelling or being wild; it is simply caring deeply. Being able to "see" is a skill that must be present or developed in an EntreLeader. Seven Principles of Marketing. Passion causes things to move, and passion creates a force multiplier. Passion actually covers a multitude of sins. Carl Sandburg. Add to Cart.

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The Four Layers of Change

Change Starts Here

Whether the outcome is earnings, customer service, efficiency, effectiveness, or morale, any organizational change has a needle it is expected to move. For ABC Corp, the initiative will focus mainly on the new product development process, especially the idea generation phase. New activities will be added to improve creativity.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. The healthy habits that I attribute to my success as a leader are practice what I preach, set healthy boundaries, practice mindfulness, exercise, work hard and invest in my ongoing learning and personal development. Keep moving!

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When a Leader Aims to Please

Harvard Business Review

A staff member who routinely makes cutting remarks, elevates him or herself at the expense of others, or spreads undermining gossip can sink a department's morale fast. When an office bully starts running wild, there are often two employees to blame. Unfortunately, in many such cases, justice seems to proceed at a glacial pace.

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