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Five Ways Leaders Turns Doubters into Doers

Chart Your Course

was changing its telecommute policy. Effective June 2013, all employees were required to work in the office. How could she possibly hope to retain and/or attract top talent with such draconian policies? Mayer enacted the policy because Yahoo! s new telecommute policy. This past February Yahoo!’s Create a vision.

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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

Maybe it was the conclusion of a big project, or a close to the fourth quarter of 2013. In business, there is usually a zero tolerance policy for failure (remember John D. Now how about the last time you celebrated a failure? For most of us, the answer to this question is probably never.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. And the seven policy changes Stew Friedman recommends would benefit all working Americans. The Hidden Indicators of a Failing Project.

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StrategyDriven White Paper Advises Leaders on Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents

Strategy Driven

Additionally, Nathan led the development of the nuclear industry’s operational risk management, high-risk decision management, and plant operations performance standards while working at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business Review

Although medical trainees spend years learning about physiology, anatomy, and biochemistry, there are few formal avenues through which trainees learn fundamental leadership skills, such as how to lead a team, how to confront problem employees, how to coach and develop others, and how to resolve conflict.

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China’s Bad Bet on the Environment

Harvard Business Review

Finally, in September 2013, faced with mounting social discontent, Premier Li Keqiang announced a sweeping new plan to try to address the country’s air quality problems. For almost two decades, the environment has been at the forefront of civil society development. Environmental activism in China is not new.

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Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work

Harvard Business Review

In 2013 we embedded ourselves in a women’s professional development program at a large nonprofit organization in the U.S. Most decided to join the professional development program for its networking and educational opportunities, but many participants cited the chance to contribute to research as an added perk.