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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

Combating Thought-Terminating Clichés: Metaphorical Warfare Strategies for Organizational Change Thought-terminating clichés, while effective tools for maintaining the status quo and consolidating power, can stifle innovation, suppress genuine dialogue, and mute marginalized voices within organizations (Smith, 2018).

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How To Win With People Analytics

HR Digest

Machines, both simple and advanced, have been used in past several decades to help workplaces determine outputs of work and, to replace work through automation using artificial intelligence (AI) tools and applications. The notable industrialists Taylor and the Gilbreths formulated plans to understand worker productivity.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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Fueling Business Process Management with the Automation Engine that Can!

Strategy Driven

In the recent past, businesses had only external, third party vendors to rely on for major projects, operational emergencies, and other labor-intensive initiatives that required resources they did not have. Both industrial, machine-like robots and digital, computerized robots have revolutionized the way companies operate.

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What Leaders Can Do To Encourage Learning And Growth

Tanveer Naseer

To facilitate the learning and development of your employees, and with it the growth of your organization, you need to understand where your employees are presently in their career development and what tools and resources they’ll need to begin the next stage of their growth. “At the heart of social learning is connection.”

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

He provides practical tools to “unleash” the hidden creativity in all of us. The Outward Mindset : Seeing Beyond Ourselves by The Arbinger Institute Unknowingly, too many of us operate from an inward mindset—a narrow-minded focus on self-centered goals and objectives. Anyone can innovate if given the opportunity and the support.

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How Collaboration Tools Can Improve Knowledge Work

Harvard Business Review

Online collaboration tools can help; they can give workers quick answers to questions, speed decision-making, and improve communications from the top to bottom of an organization. But most companies find it a cultural challenge to adopt these tools. So why are most companies slow to adopt online collaboration tools?

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