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A Look Back At My Top 10 Leadership Insights From 2013

Tanveer Naseer

business communication leadership Recent Posts community conflict decision-making failure fear goals learning motivation perception relationships shared purpose' That this is something that only we could do.”

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GC24: Killer Gamification: Engaging for Impact

Engaging Leader

However, the tech research firm Gartner made headlines in late 2012 when it predicted that 80% of current gamified applications would fail to meet business objectives — due to poor design, ineffective communication, or ill-defined business objectives.

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The Problem with Good Ideas | Thoughts for the Everyday Leader

Nathan Magnuson

February 11, 2013. We don’t want followers who simply show up to do their work and leave, we want ones who generate ideas on their own and possess the motivation to see them through. When each individual comes up with different good ideas, the operating environment quickly gets complicated. Thoughts for the Everyday Leader.

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Board of Directors Resolution: Pay Attention to Culture

In the CEO Afterlife

Jacobs Suchard Directors expected me to run their North American operation as an entrepreneurial enterprise, and as long as the returns were favorable, they assumed I was doing just that. In 2013, Zappos continues to amaze under this culturally insightful leader. I wasn’t surprised in the least. Jeff Bezos thought so.

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How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation

Harvard Business Review

One 2013 study illustrates this well. Researchers asked almost 2,500 workers to analyze medical images for “objects of interest.” ” They told one group that the work would be discarded; they told the other group that the objects were “cancerous tumor cells.” You work because you enjoy it.

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IT Organizations Built to Last

Strategy Driven

Customer centricity as a strategy reorients the entire business-operating model around the customer; it means understanding the customer’s point of view and respecting the customer’s interest. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. However, employers can create an environment in which flexible work can be successful.

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How to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile, in a survey of 89 institutional investors by Callan , 43% of respondents said they incorporate sustainability factors into their investment decisions — up 21 percentage points from 2013. Do new targets motivate undesirable trade-offs? The UN, for example, has outlined 17 broad Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.