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What Amazing Bosses Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

When you’re under pressure, it’s easy to forget that employees are unique individuals, with varying interests, abilities, goals, and styles of learning. You’ve got to inspire them with a vision, set challenging goals and pump up their confidence so they believe they can actually win. ’” Focus on feedback.

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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking. Reset your goals and KPIs. Increase your R&D spending.

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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

Be transparent and proactive about your expectations and goals for the future, especially if you would like to hold the top job in the future. Toby Bozzutto’s father, Tom, never asked him if he wanted to work in the family real estate management company. “Acknowledge that, and then work your butt off.”

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

Real estate consultants are not business strategists, but the retail system gives them the say-so in establishing community presence. Resulting from inflexible conditions, obsolete policies-procedures, procrastination, attitude, resistance to innovation, failure to change. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Employees Perform Better When They Can Control Their Space

Harvard Business Review

An emerging suite of literature and research—including our 2013 Workplace Survey — clearly points to the power of choice and autonomy to drive not only employee happiness, but also motivation and performance. We wanted to take a deeper look at some of the more abstract aspects of workplace design that can impact employee performance.