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Why Most Change Efforts Fail and 7 Guidelines to Ensure Your Team Succeeds

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Chances are you will initiate a change that affects your whole team or start a major team project in the near future. A 2008 study by IBM found that over 60 percent of change efforts do not fully meet their objectives, and a 2013 Towers Watson study revealed only 25% are sustained over time. They fail because of the human factor.

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Is Free Internet Access A Human Right?

The Horizons Tracker

Shocking headlines emerged in 2013 when households across the UK proclaimed broadband access to be more important to them than water. For some it was regarded as an absurd statement, but new research from the University of Birmingham argues that free internet access should be regarded as a fundamental human right. A considerable challenge.

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Guest Blogger Nathan Zeldes: Why and How to Communicate Across Company Lines

leaderCommunicator

Better yet, in some cases this allowed me to strike alliances and mount joint projects with like-minded engineers and managers – to the benefit of all our organizations. Organize visit exchanges with peers in other companies in your field – you can find them at conferences, in journals and blogs, or via social media like LinkedIn.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. I think the most important thing that I look for [when funding a project] is really, who’s that champion?” and Musk’s approach works well when there is a lot of technological uncertainty (can we build it?). “I Innovation Capital.

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Gina's also hosting a guest post from me over at her blog. They gathered data from performance reviews, past projects they worked on, and looked at the roles and responsibilities they had within the organization. She is currently President of the PMI® Mass Bay Chapter Board of Directors (2011 – 2013).

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. The employee was forbidden to work on the project. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. -Daniel Kahneman. ” -Stefan Thomke.

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