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Why People Lose Motivation — and What Managers Can Do to Help

Harvard Business Review

And, in my experience working with leaders across the globe, you can reach business objectives while improving the lives of employees. A second way to activate people’s seeking systems is to create an experimental “safe zone” that includes play and supportive social bonding. Experimentation.

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What It Was Like to Be a Manager in Ukraine

Harvard Business Review

We called this bonding “tent time.” Throughout it all, we provided constant communications with status updates, decisions, changes, and guidelines for how to act and react appropriately to the level of crisis at hand. Just as critically, we supported each other by spending lots of time together, sharing thoughts, and laughs.

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CMOs and CEOs Can Work Better Together

Harvard Business Review

The CMOs will need to be much more attuned to the business objectives and strategies of the company in general and the CEO in particular, while the CEO must become more immersed in the customer perspective. Make the CMO the “bonding agent” that connects the organization.

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