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The Art of Successful Giving: Adam Grant

QAspire

He outlines three styles of interpersonal interactions in teams and organizations – giving, taking and matching. Effective teams, he says, is a combination of givers and matchers where as takers suck the energy out of the team and they should be screened out. The Human Side of Business : Seth Godin.

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Igniting The Passion Of Your Team With David Abraham – Answers From Leadership Podcast Episode 23

Joseph Lalonde

David has worked Pastor William McDowell and his team to help launch Deeper Fellowship Church in Orlando, FL and at the end of 2015, David and Rebecca were named in Charisma Magazine’s “rising voices under 40” article. I also love coffee, I love technology, and I love sports. Seth Godin’s Linchpin.

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Key Takeaways from Leadercast 2015

Nathan Magnuson

Bravery is much easier with a team around you. A Good Team is Better than a Good Idea. Pixar president Ed Catmull shared that a bad team will ruin a good idea, but a good team will take a bad idea and turn it into a good one. Therefore, we must develop our teams. But it doesn’t have to be a solo experience.

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What matters in 2010?

Lead on Purpose

Seth Godin , marketing guru and thought leader, did a cool project where he brought together more than seventy “big thinkers&# to write the ebook What Matters Now. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.&# -Seth Godin “Leadership is more than influence. What matters in 2010?

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Three practices of successful product managers

Lead on Purpose

They focus on this marketing campaign or that new technology, and lose track of what’s most important. Work with the sales team; understand how they sell your products. Provide clear direction: One of the key directives for products managers is to provide clear direction to the engineering/development teams.

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Two Easy Ways to Boost Employee Engagement

Michael Lee Stallard

Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies pioneered the concept of Employee first and customer second. When this type of activity is backed up by an annual employee survey you should be able to tackle the big and small issues equally effectively – and nuture and fully engaged and committed team Posting your comment.

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Leadership and learning

Lead on Purpose

— The Product Management Perspective: Technology continues to evolve ever more rapidly. Kennedy Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty and persistence. Colin Powell Make it your objective to be a life-long learner; every aspect of your life will benefit. Markets change quickly.