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APRIL 1, 2024

Uptime : A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing by Laura Mae Martin Google’s Executive Productivity Advisor offers insights on how to make the “new way of work” work for you, providing actionable steps to optimize your productivity, accomplish more, prevent burnout, and cultivate a harmonious work-life balance.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 28, 2023

Toy shopping has transformed over the past 100 years due to advancements in the products or the marketplace. Stacker searched for products from 1920 to today that caught hold of the public zeitgeist through novelty, innovation, kitsch, quirk, or simply great timing, and then rocketed to success. through the years over on Stacker.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Most organizations have created always-on work contexts that are burning people out and hurting performance rather than delivering productivity, innovation and engagement. Radical Product Thinking : The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter by Radhika Dutt. They catch “product diseases” that often kill innovation.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

When there is a good match, the worker is likely to be engaged with the job and happy, energetic, confident, and ready to commit to a productive long-term relationship. Burnout is best conceptualized as a relationship problem—an issue with the fit, or match, between the person and the job.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

I've learned that from my nearly forty years of working with scientists and clinicians to transform inventions into successful commercial products. works with early-stage companies developing innovative, high-impact life science products and services. Following a kidney transplant, he's continued to contribute to science and medicine.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Her ambition was to have a life filled with beautiful things, and that “rested entirely on her ability to sell her skincare products.”. Other brands used saleswomen to merely sell products; thanks to my mother’s training program, her salespeople taught customers how to use her products to look their best. No one escaped.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

The company had been rolling out one product after another without any guiding rationale other than they were “innovative.” Nadella proposed that Microsoft move beyond its most profitable product, Windows, in favor of chasing a cloud dream, even though Amazon had a four-year head start. But there was much more than that.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

. • Technology and Operations: A startup must be able to fulfill its value promise, which entails actually inventing the product, building git, physically delivering it, and servicing it after it’s been sold. Premature scaling of marketing and product development efforts is a widespread cause of startup failure. False Starts.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

How to Calm Your Mind : Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times by Chris Bailey. Productivity advice works—and we need it now more than ever—but it’s just as vital that we also develop our capacity for calm. Some of them are relatively inconsequential, while others can change the course of our lives.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

And you can solve it in four surprisingly simple ways. * * * Charlie Gilkey is an author, speaker, coach, and entrepreneur who specializes in productivity and teamwork. Before he started Productive Flourishing, a national coaching and training company, he served as a joint force logistics officer in the U.S. in philosophy.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

Source: Attention Pays: How to Drive Profitability, Productivity, and Accountability * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. “Deliberate attention is organizing your attention toward a particular purpose. It’s saying no to some things so you can say yes to the important things that deserve your time and focus.”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Inflation was in double digits while productivity and personal income were stagnant — an economic condition that became known as stagflation. Ongoing innovation with new products, services, and processes through autonomy and entrepreneurship. Productivity through well-trained, rewarded, and empowered front-line employees.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It should not be at all; advice like this should bring about thoughtful and productive dialogue. Before you go into these conversations, ask yourself what you want the other person to walk away with and then think about them and what approach for them individually will bring about the most productive, healthy conversation.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

During COVID-19 shutdowns a lot of productive office work got done without offices. Here are some ideas to adopt for a climate-positive officeverse: Employ a new approach to product acquisition. To take advantage of the opportunity of office shock, begin to view product acquisition like pets — something you own for its lifetime.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2021

The Power of Clarity : Unleash the True Potential of Workplace Productivity, Confidence, and Empowerment by Ann Latham. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2021. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases not listed here. Trust is, however, an elusive, even mushy, concept.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2020

It’s generally not products, services, facilities, or equipment. Across New England, our white pine sawmill competitors make products that are very similar to our own. Additionally, we all tend to sell our products at comparable prices. People are inherently great by virtue of their common humanity.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

James Burstsall, the CEO of Argonon, an independent production group, offers what he calls The Flexible Method. Caring for yourself can boost your productivity, memory, focus, creativity, empathy, and decision-making—in other words, your overall effectiveness as a leader.” More often than not, you can’t. Be empathetic and listen.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 7, 2023

Is your workplace a hotbed of disrespect—and are productivity and collaboration tanking because of it? Without respect between co-workers, it’s almost impossible to work effectively and productively. N AME-CALLING. Stereotyping. Micromanaging. Foul language.

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MAY 16, 2020

Technology is the raw material that 21st-century innovators need to build new business capabilities, to develop exciting new products and services, and to create workarounds for the physical distancing measures we will likely endure for the foreseeable future. What new products and services will you create with it?

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Diversity of Thought by @KateNasser Words and Terms that Told the Story of 2023 by @DebbieLaskeyMBA The Letter to Your Future Self by @SahilBloom 20 Perspectives, Mindsets, and Rules for 2024 by @AlanSteinJr Enemies of Great Writing by @wallybock 5 Simple Principles for Better Speaking in 2024 by @DrNickMorgan via @publicwords Long-Term News by @morganhousel (..)

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

If he is scientific minded, he will try to improve his bows and arrows by working on different parts of the product. George Steele and Paul Kircher on innovation: “Picture a man in charge of weapons for a medieval king. The searcher may be assigned to study the properties of feathers.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

How does the data relate to what you’re doing or to an emerging trend or a competitor’s product launch? If the numbers show that your product category isn’t doing as well as it once did in Market Z, is there an emerging opportunity because the market still has potential and competition will be reduced because of this data?”.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

Going all the way back to Yahoo or Microsoft, the initial products (a directory for a nascent tech called the World Wide Web, and Microsoft BASIC,) didn’t look like billion-dollar products at all. a game, we are looking for a product that ends up becoming wildly popular, more popular than anyone thought it could be in the early days.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

Offer compelling digital solutions and experiences, not just physical products or services. Leveraging digital technologies, they’re going deep into the usage life cycle to fulfill unmet needs, either grafting new solutions onto physical products and services or replacing physical products and services entirely.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Conflicted : How Productive Disagreements Lead to Better Outcomes by Ian Leslie. Disagreeing productively is a hard skill for which neither evolution or society has equipped us. Productive disagreement is a way of thinking, perhaps the best one we have. For most people, conflict triggers a fight or flight response.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Nonetheless, we do know of at least two key attributes, beyond ability, that appear to function as catalysts for the creation of that special class of behavioral products specifically indicative of genius. They are productivity and creativity.”. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Entrepreneur and investor Sam Altman on the importance of value: “All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people. No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.”.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

“With coaching, these executives shifted the focus of their communications from merely informative descriptions of their product to influential and inspiring messages about the health, well-being, and environmental impact of the product, resulting in a measurable increase in online sales.”.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Empowered : Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan with Chris Jones. What is it about the top tech product companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix and Tesla that enables their record of consistent innovation? Embrace the Suck : The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life by Brent Gleeson.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 25, 2021

Happy employees make for more productive employees. The University of Warwick conducted a study of more than 700 participants and concluded that increased happiness led to a 12% spike in productivity. Here are some “do’s” and “don’ts” to help guide you in navigating workplace fun: Do’s.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

There can be more than one winner, and a workplace of battling egos inevitably suffers in productivity.”. Alan Stein on character: “Character means you understand that there are more things beyond winning and losing. The workplace and the business world are not all zero-sum games. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

After building the case for conflict, Davey turns here attention to avoiding unnecessary conflict and establishing the ground rules for productive conflict. That’s what productive tensions should feel like. Make productive conflict a habit. Finally, encourage productive conflict in your meetings. The Conflict Habit.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Culture Is the Way : How Leaders at Every Level Build an Organization for Speed, Impact, and Excellence by Matt Mayberry Former NFL Pro, world-renowned keynote speaker, and management consultant Matt Mayberry delivers an incisive and hands-on blueprint to employee engagement and peak productivity.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Because the original idea is not likely the idea or product that will ultimately go to market, the VC wants to know how the founder came up with the idea. They like founders that “ have strong opinions but ones that are weakly held , that is, the ability to incorporate compelling market data and allow it to evolve your product thinking.”

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

According to a recent study, employees suffering from depression cost employers more than $44 billion per year in lost productivity, with over 81 percent of that decreased productivity coming in the form of presenteeism, or the practice of going to work despite illness or anxiety and commonly resulting in reduced productivity.

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JULY 22, 2021

Former CEO of Honeywell International, Larry Bossidy , on the behaviors a leader should look for in his or her direct reports: “Over the years, I’ve observed that certain behaviors, on the part of both the subordinate and the boss, are conducive to productive and rewarding relationships.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

Not just with your product or service, but broadly and deeply. How might connected devices change the way that your product or service fits into that day? For Amazon, the pain point for customers goes beyond just the shopping experience and the products they offer. It extends to the delivery of the product.

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