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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7

Strategy Driven

Instead of tired practices like ‘active listening’ (whereby one is taught to parrot back what someone says, which only shows that you heard what was said, not that you understood), our teams must develop a new set of competencies in which they learn to clarify what they interpreted in a conversation, not what they heard.

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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

“Succession between generations is a very risky project,” says Fernández-Aráoz, which is why it’s critical to talk early and openly about rules for advancement and what handing off power might look like. “Recognize you may get more opportunities than others,” Lachenauer says.