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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

Identifying the Strength of Your Safety Culture – artifacts of the safety-first values are not only found in the outcomes achieved, but also reside in the organization’s goals and performance measures, standards and expectations, policies and procedures, rewards systems, training, and organizational learning and continuous improvement programs.

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Vacation Policy in Corporate America Is Broken

Harvard Business Review

All of this has culminated in the new trend of eliminating vacation policies, so that employees can make work-life balance decisions that work for them. Companies like Virgin, Netflix, Evernote, Expedia, and Motley Fool are leading the charge on these types of policies. But an unlimited-vacation-days perk misses the point.

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Where your company is headquartered makes a big difference to your bottom line

Strategy Driven

For example, Austin, Dallas, Kansas City and Salt Lake City are among the fastest-growing hubs for high-tech startups in the country, according to a 2013 report by the Kauffman Foundation. The Lone Star State has also been cited for its entrepreneurial culture, ability to create jobs and pro-growth public policy.

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Leadership actions that are not an option for leaders.

Strategy Driven

Don’t focus on task or project completion. Rather, think what will happen AFTER the project is completed. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Corporate Cultures – Why Policies Don’t Match Actions. Great leaders focus on OUTCOME to ensure completed tasks. Outcome, not task.