Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Conference organizers and attendees will often ask you to join them for dinner the evening before, or cocktails afterward. First, social media may actually be an area where introverts, who thrive on quiet contemplation, have an advantage. I’m happy to mingle and answer questions afterward.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Imagine a conference room of individuals drawn from the far corners of the globe to work in your company or to do business with you. Now picture this group engaged in brainstorming, negotiations, or expansion planning. Try thinking about this in terms of your own global business efforts. There''s no waiting around for the translation.

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Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The media attention generated by its novelty had died down and, in spite of incremental technological improvements, sales were slipping. Steph and Tina, one of her grad-school classmates at MIT's Media Lab, were driving to Chicago for a conference and heard an ad on the radio for the language-learning company SimpleLanguage. "I

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Many don’t realize they ARE lonely because they are so busy, yet they don’t have anyone to brainstorm with and they contaminate their team as a result. link] Kathy Gillen This is a powerful article, Mike! CEO’s tend to be lonely and a poor attitude is the synptom. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

To get to the next step, it helps to find a peer coach (or two) — someone preferably outside of your immediate work circle — to brainstorm potential fixes. Example: Unplug from all digital media for one evening per week to connect with your family and friends to enable you to engage more fully, and with less distraction, at work.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 19, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Sitting near the middle of a conference table brings you more clicking opportunities , as well.

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ExactHire - Leadership

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The easy, predictable thing to do is to just have your annual meeting in your own conference room. It was my first time there and it was an excellent space for getting our brainstorming juices flowing and stepping outside the box. They just might inspire a blog related to company culture and procedural effectiveness, too.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Not by colleagues who would prod them into the brave new world of digital notebooks, but by managers and meeting chairs who forbid them from using their core work tools: laptops, smartphones, tablets and even specific kinds of applications (like social media tools).

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