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A Failure To Act – The Leader’s 5 Most Damaging Inactions

Lead Change Blog

Asking the troops to work it out is a cop out; sometimes rolling up the sleeves, getting to the root of the conflict, and mediating a resolution is required. However, the bottom line is that failure to reward and recognize creates doubts in employees’ minds. Are my efforts not up to his/her standards?”

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How Competitive Intelligence Rules Encourage Cheating

Harvard Business Review

Yet when it comes to lower-level employees responsible for gathering competitive intelligence, those same lawyers impose Draconian rules that prevent employees from speaking with a competitor directly, or even engaging a third party to speak with a competitor on their behalf. These employees don't want to break the law. counterparts.

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Get More from Your Event Spending

Harvard Business Review

So consider what more productive event spending means for the bottom line. It also had a template letter with relevant data that prospective attendees could send with the data to their supervisors, justifying the expense, and, in the process, establishing accountable metrics for follow-up evaluation.

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