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How Create a More Inclusive Workplace for LGBTQ Employees

Let's Grow Leaders

An Excerpt from Tammy’s Important Letter. A bit about me: I am presently managing a technical team of what are essentially technically oriented project managers (and she shares her very powerful work history and accomplishments). Those conversations sparked an important friendship.

Career 273
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Favorites of 2012: Team Building & Leadership activities / simulations

Mike Cardus

Some were leaked super secret to the Create-Learning Letter a mostly-monthly newsletter that has Organization Development, Team Building, Managerial-Leadership, Experiential Theory application + articles + ideas. A visual progress chart of team project. The project-team uses post-it notes to write the tasks in succinct language.

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The End Of Long-Term Planning

Strategy Driven

In August 2013, for example, Amazon acquired The Washington Post. In that letter, Bezos commented: “There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. It is still common for companies to take six months or more to develop their new growth strategies. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

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Solutions Future Focus Program

Mike Cardus

The objectives for this project include; Have Fun! In these teams they will accomplish the following goal; Imagine 3 years in future September 28, 2013…Describe with vivid detail what your team would like the company to be like. People will be asked to join into teams of no greater than 6 (need to discuss teams).

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

The Bezos Letters takes you through Jeff Bezos’ shareholder letters and distills them into growth principles you can apply in your company. After studying Jeff Bezos’ letters, what surprised you the most? After studying Jeff Bezos’ letters, what surprised you the most? It just works.” Jeff Bezos.

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Reflections on Dr. Deming’s Hospital Notes – What Has Changed Since 1990?

Deming Institute

Lean methods, such as value stream mapping and improvement projects carried out by cross-functional teams can break down barriers and increase understanding. Lean organizations engage every employee, regardless of the letters after their names, in improvement through Plan Do Study Adjust cycles and a Kaizen improvement process.

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Making #GivingTuesday a Movement

Harvard Business Review

With every project, they are spreading the word through their networks, and the connection to #GivingTuesday becomes more valuable. Everyone connected with #GivingTuesday is happy to see excitement growing as our next big day –December 3, 2013 – grows near. The second #GivingTuesday will happen on December 3, 2013.