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All-Hands Meeting: How to Ensure Yours is Amazing and Worth the Investment

Let's Grow Leaders

A side conversation can lead to the next big idea or micro-innovation, and a shared laugh can forge a bond stronger than any Slack thread. While virtual tools are invaluable, there’s something about gathering, and feeling the room’s energy, that can supercharge a team’s cohesion and creativity.

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Making the Most of Timing Differences: Managing a Team of Procrastinators and Non-procrastinators

Great Leadership By Dan

If you are task driven, the incubation period for the procrastinator is time wasted. In employment settings, recognizing stylistic differences in task completion could allow group members to strategize, organize, and find creative solutions to handling project completion.

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How Managers Can Avoid Playing Favorites

Harvard Business Review

But studies show that being exposed to different perspectives and ideas spurs creativity. If you know you have a tendency to play favorites, or at least avoid a certain team member because they aren’t your favorite, you must work on creating bonds. “Both creative, dorky, and outgoing.”

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Bringing an Entrepreneurial Mindset to the World’s Failing Systems

Harvard Business Review

They acknowledge how delicate new projects, new business models, new strategies feel during the creative process so they create safe spaces where pioneers can meet, test, and refine their ideas over and over before being released into the world. Systemprenuers are experts in using quick feedback loops to correct the direction of their work.

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