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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth. Whether leading meetings, managing newsletters, or handling internal communications, having a platform ensures that voices are heard and not stifled.

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David Langford Presentation on Motivation and System Improvement

Deming Institute

David Langford’s presentation at our 2015 annual conference was titled: Education – Implementation Intentions and Automatization. Those with knowledge of how human systems work can predict the likely consequences of creating poor management systems. Those that learn from W.

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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

In retrospect, if I had to write it again, I’d include a section or chapter on ethics. The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Most of the times people won’t mind or won’t care….but

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Stop Setting Goals You Don’t Actually Care About

Harvard Business Review

For example, this year, I decided to make writing a book proposal for a new book my primary professional development goal. It had been on my mind since September 2015, and I couldn’t wait to get started at the beginning of 2016. Nothing about writing the proposal felt like a “should.”

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Working as a Prison Guard Convinced Me That Bosses Should Never, Ever Date Subordinates

Harvard Business Review

In prison, the ethics and the tradeoff were apparent. While many managers and employees would probably say the power dynamics of a prison and a workplace are completely different, I have seen enough of both worlds to disagree. Managers can tell themselves that they don’t have that much power over people.

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Women Directors Change How Boards Work

Harvard Business Review

Dhir , an associate professor at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, has done extensive research for his forthcoming 2015 book, Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity: Corporate Law, Governance and Diversity. More effective risk mitigation and crisis management, and a better balance between risk-welcoming and risk aversion behavior.

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What HoloLens Has That Google Glass Didn’t

Harvard Business Review

As one former digital agency executive told me after watching Microsoft’s event, “If I were managing a brand, I’d head right to my digital agency and say, ‘What is our plan for holograms?’” On the one hand it was proposing a future where we would have ubiquitous computing on the go.