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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-06-03

Tanveer Naseer

Here’s a compilation of some of the articles/tweets I shared on Twitter this week: Thanks @SmartBrief for including my piece on #leadership and Babe Ruth in SmartBrief Career newsletter! by @ wallybock [link] # productivity # Thanks! link] # Grateful and humbled by response to my latest # leadership piece.

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Stop People from Wasting Your Time

Harvard Business Review

That’s why people who waste our time have become the scourge of modern business life, hampering our productivity and annoying us in the process. Meetings are also dangerous when their list of invitees has been wantonly constructed, filled with irrelevant people and lacking decisionmakers with the authority to get things moving.

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Take the Bias Out of Strategy Decisions

Harvard Business Review

The condition is rare but, fortunately, there appeared to be several specialists both in Germany and France who had each treated hundreds of cases during their careers. Yet, the change happened, because they relied on their so-called “production capacity allocation rule”. Tap into the wisdom of your crowd. Decision making Strategy'

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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

Much as I want to believe that a glaringly good idea will stand on its merits, I have come to realize that just like any product or service, ideas require good marketing if they’re going to reach their intended customers. New ideas tend to evoke fear and anger – we are programmed to prefer the comfort and safety of established norms.