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“But, are they Happy?”

Great Leadership By Dan

Happiness at work leads to 300% more innovation, 44% higher retention, and a 37% increase in sales (references below). A little fun at work bonds people, enhances happiness neurochemical release, and positively impacts your bottom line. Extrinsic and intrinsic happiness are indicative of productivity. So ask yourself, “Are they happy?”

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May 2016 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the May 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Jon Mertz of Thin Difference contributed How to Trigger Innovative Leadership. To trigger innovative leadership, we need to be the example. Julie Winkle-Giulioni of Julie Winkle-Giulioni submitted From Team Building to Team Bonding.

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Why Leaders Need To Show Humility

Tanveer Naseer

The trust of many in a system that has been the most spectacular generator of innovation in history was damaged by the unbridled greed of a few. Excerpted from “ The 10 Laws of Trust: Building the Bonds That Make a Business Great ” © 2016 by Joel Peterson, with David A. Reproduced by permission of AMACOM. All rights reserved.

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How to Lead in High Turbulence – 5 Lessons from the Tunisian revolution

Strategy Driven

Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization. Our job was to come up with innovative ideas to move our country forward and for that we needed the space to think and be creative. Build bonds to strengthen trust. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Building a Great Team One Song at a Time

Lead Change Blog

This post is a part of our 2016 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. How can we achieve that same bond with our team members? Today we are pleased to reacquaint you with Tony Adams, a returning Instigator. What can a choir of society’s most disadvantaged teach us about leadership and the importance of building a great team?

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How Our Hotel Used Data to Make Our Laundry Service Glamorous

Harvard Business Review

In early 2016 some numbers surfaced at a few of the Dorchester Collection’s luxury hotels that caught leadership’s attention: Complaints about our laundry service were on the rise, as was the cost of compensating guests for damage to their clothes. In another hotel there were 55 laundry-related complaints in January 2016 alone.

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What I Learned from Leading a Tunisian Ministry During the Arab Spring

Harvard Business Review

Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization. Our job was to come up with innovative ideas to move our country forward and for that we needed the space to think and be creative. Build bonds to strengthen trust.