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Five Ways Leaders Turns Doubters into Doers

Chart Your Course

Effective June 2013, all employees were required to work in the office. Your business is adding a new time-management system, which requires employees to log their hours on specific projects. This past February Yahoo!’s s fledgling CEO Marissa Mayer made her first misstep. In a company-wide email, she announced Yahoo! Create a vision.

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3 Ways Pixar Gains Competitive Advantage from Its Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

If any doubt existed that Disney’s magic was back, it was put to rest with the 2013 release of the blockbuster movie Frozen. By the end of the nine months, one-third of the staff had repetitive stress injuries. The Incredibles, Bird and Walker’s first project at Pixar, was a homerun.

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Managing Distraction in the Digital Era

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Amy Blankson: In 2013, the National Center for Biotechnology Information reported that the average attention span of a human has dropped to a mere eight seconds , one second behind that of a goldfish. I’m stepping away from my email to finish this project. Why does this matter? Know your stats.

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Employee Empowerment: A Key Force in Leadership

Lead on Purpose

This disenchantment is painfully clear in the Gallup 2013 State of the American Workplace survey. Empowered Employees Ease Managerial Stress. Delegating these tasks to employees allows managers to focus on improving company morale and advancing workplace projects. Worse, their frustration is understandable.

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17-Point Program to Have the Best Year of Your Life

Rajesh Setty

2013 is days away. Don’t blindly hate stress: Everybody takes the bad effects of stress. But not all stress is bad. As my friend Jnan Dash says, stress is directly proportional to the gap between “who you say you are to the world” and “who you are.” Happy New Year.

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Stress Test Your Company’s Competitive Edge with These 4 Questions

Harvard Business Review

Despite being a leader in the mobile phone market with a market share of over 40%, Nokia experienced a dramatic decline that led to a sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft in 2013. Asking questions about the strategic plan is necessary for stress-testing a strategy and for applying a moderate amount of stress to your strategy.

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How to Drama-Proof Your Workplace

Skip Prichard

Why is positivity diminishing and hostility, stress, and depression increasing? 29% of Americans believe that armed rebellion might be necessary in the near future to protect their liberties from government intrusion (Cassino, Jenkins, 2013). You spend some time talking about connectedness and how it’s nature’s antidote to stress.

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