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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

These individuals probably have some history of working together but they also operate with the same obstructed viewpoint. 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.

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StrategyDriven White Paper Advises Leaders on Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents

Strategy Driven

.” “An effective safety culture is far more than slogans and posters,” continues Greg Gaskey, StrategyDriven’s Chief Operations Officer. ” Nathan and Greg authored Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents based on their decades of experience managing nuclear and industrial complex operations. .”

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 4 of 7

Strategy Driven

Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Silent Killer #3: Bureaucratic Styles.

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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

Along the way it became famous for its reliance on exceedingly difficult interview questions — later abandoned — and its “20% time” policy — reportedly on its way out. If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. How Google manages.

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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business Review

Some residency programs across the country are developing career tracks specifically for those interested in management and leadership careers, but these paths are often targeted towards individuals explicitly seeking management positions or healthcare management projects in their training, missing the fact that to be a physician is to lead.

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Lessons from Yelp’s Empirical Approach to Diversity

Harvard Business Review

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. The numbers were grim. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. Yelp now sets explicit targets for diversity.

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Study: Employees Want Employers to Talk Politics

Harvard Business Review

Our Prosperity Project (P2) strategy and platform is the largest and most pervasive business grassroots and advocacy platform in the United States. We expect to see more communication from employers to employees in the future ( our 2012 National Pollis set to release in early 2013). And I don't see a problem in that.