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10 Simple Brain Tricks That Will improve Your Memory

Lead from Within

Patterns of letters, ideas, or associations can greatly assist memory. Keep it sharp and you’ll make a great impression by having the answer at hand before anybody else has time to pull out their smart phone. The best way to remember something is to explain it to someone else. Use mnemonics. N A T I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R.

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How to Lead Like a Pig

Next Level Blog

In a truly innovative move, the new management team rewrote the employee handbook giving the green light to profanity and dirty jokes “because a loose, fun, nonlinear atmosphere is important to the creative process. The example from the Trib is extreme in that it’s rare for management to codify bad behavior as official company policy. 

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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. tool knife from the rig on my body armor and let the pristinely sharp blade slice effortlessly through the tape and label—while being ever so careful to avoid harming whatever wonders lay inside. I drew my standard-issue Gerber?tool

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5 Core Values For The Workplace

Tim Milburn

It’s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington’s corridors of power, they didn’t even stand out.” The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run.

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The Third Ring: Enhanced Service That Delights Customers

The Practical Leader

These “moments of truth&# are any time a customer or partner makes contact with your team/organization, whether by phone, electronically, letter, or in person. In virtually every organization it’s management. We can’t sample it, package it, systemize it or automate service, though Lord knows a lot of managers try.

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A New Year: A New Book of Blank Pages

The Practical Leader

I used to love the sharp, fresh smell of ink and paper as I opened a new book and heard the creak of the spine cracking. Tomorrow’s issue of The Leader Letter pulls together my December blogs and is aimed at helping you and your team strengthen your culture, leadership skills, and habits.

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The Not-So-Secret Secrets to Making It Big: Five Surprisingly Doable Steps That Will Propel You to the Top

Strategy Driven

Oh – and I often shock new team members by writing the letters ‘FU’ and a date at the bottom of my notes. New people are always relieved when they learn that those letters aren’t a pejorative, but a shorthand I use as a reminder to ‘Follow Up’ by a specific date! Do what you say you will, period.