The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Reduction in training If we are to adapt to the changes seen in the workplace, however, we need to be able to get the training we need to learn new skills and either return to the workforce or pivot to a new career. This fall was particularly sharp among the under-25s. This has clear implications for those who are currently unemployed.

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Training Education Skills Sharpe 86

HR Digest

OCTOBER 19, 2020

One top performer in a company is enough to increase the production manifold as the person can deliver as much productivity as up to four average employees. A candidate who demonstrates a broader and growth mindset is a sharp person and is always open to learning new things and skills. How to spot high-performing employees.

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Company How To Sharpe Construction 59

Rich Gee Group

APRIL 28, 2014

I explain the merits of my products and services and you buy. When you communicate, you need to keep a sharp eye on the person you are communicating to. Simple, two-way and CLEAR communication. I give you information and I get your response. You tell me to do something and I tell you when I can get it done. And on and on and on.

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Skills Sharpe Bottom-up Tips 201

Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

It’s so easy to lose focus, and become susceptible to being busy but not productive. Successful entrepreneurship and productive leadership require a sharp focus and high effectiveness. Focus tip: You can be even more productive by keeping your work space clean, organized, and free of clutter. Learn to delegate.

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Tips Sharpe Real Estate Delegation 166

Engaging Leader

MAY 15, 2015

When you are fully charged, you get more done, your mind is sharp and creative, you feel fully alive – and you are a better leader, parent, spouse, and friend. When you are fully charged, you get more done, your mind is sharp and creative, you feel fully alive – and you are a better leader, parent, spouse, and friend.

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Sharpe Creativity Energy Books 100

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2011

Dress nicely and if you want to, add an element of flair to your wardrobe — a scarf, a sharp tie, a cool belt, cool shoes. I wore what they wore — sharp shirts and expensive slacks. How To Be More Productive When You Work From Home. What did I do? I watched what all of my superiors were wearing — and guess what? Smile or Die!

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Succession Sharpe Licensing Hedge 225

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2023

Not surprising, managers at every level are struggling to adapt to this new dynamic, balancing both employee satisfaction and corporate productivity. From myopically driving productivity with domination or fear to creating effectiveness through inspiration, caring, empathy, and love.

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How To Open-book Learning Curve Crisis 65

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Adam believes that a truly successful organization is not solely measured by a gain in stock price, increase in year over year sales, or higher margin, but in serving to create an environment, experience or product that aides both employees and customers in the journey of discovering their own limitless potential.).

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Leadership Tactics Management Maturity 296

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2021

As the COVID-19 crisis takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of redefining jobs moves up the agenda. This very nimble organization allows Amazon employees to build their own path by owning their development, their career, and their future. In other words, your experience and trajectory at Amazon is in your hands.

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Quality Engineering Technology Resources 59

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 4, 2016

Throughout a sales career, it’s all about the small things. As in any career, getting the basics right, first time and every time, is crucial to land that new dream job. As a base minimum you should have an understanding of the market they service, the products they sell and who they sell to? Following up on time, every time.

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Positioning SWOT Mission Statement Sharpe 50

Deming Institute

MARCH 14, 2017

In addition to an extensive international consulting career, Gipsie served as Director of Statistical Methodology for General Motors Powertrain Group from 1988 to 1992 ​ (helping implement Deming’s ideas at GM)​, following 15 years as a member of the faculty of the Department of Statistics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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Deming Sharpe Seminar Quality 28

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Having such a sharp focus ensures you can better whittle down the complexity of processes/interactions, as well as ensuring you don't become too dependent either on your top talent or even on your bigger customers, which can cause you to shift your goals to better suit their needs instead of your purpose.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 298

HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

And if you’re an employee, don’t underestimate the value of leadership skills in your career. Well, for starters, it directly impacts productivity and efficiency. They train hard and practice relentlessly to hone their skills and stay sharp. Uses time efficiently to maximize productivity and minimize wasted time.

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Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 5, 2020

“Star entertainers increased their audiences fourfold through TV, and the sector experienced sharp income concentration at the top,” the researcher explains. This contrasted markedly with the remainder of the American economy, which saw income growth across the board. ” An ideal environment.

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Audience Technology Marketing Sharpe 85

Rich Gee Group

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Success is more than just a product of skill, timing, or luck; it's often a result of something deeper and more intentional: commitment. Whether it’s a career aspiration, a fitness target, or a personal milestone, make sure your goal is specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART). It goes beyond that.

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Commitment Succession Power Sharpe 195

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Being sharp means being succinct. Practice pitches and product or service descriptions. Rehearse your pitch.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It’s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington’s corridors of power, they didn’t even stand out.” ” is a positive, productive question that we should ask ourselves each day. Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance. ” ACCOUNTABILITY.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

General Charles Jacoby is a military leader whose career culminated as four-star Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. The leadership commu­nication is critical here because motivational pep talks that are actually di­rected at increasing productivity and compliance are immediately detected.

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Agility How To Decentralization Morale 86

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Knowledge workers own the means of production — their brains. So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed.

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Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. I have seen some leaders who are great with the praise but are not sharp in handling the negative. Leadership is about care and compassion.

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 132

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

It''s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington''s corridors of power, they didn''t even stand Out." is a positive, productive question that we should ask ourselves each day. Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance. How do we make our strengths stronger?"

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 56

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Yes, a rifle or laser-sharp approach will take more planning and forethought, but in the end you’ll probably save time and resources. A laser-sharp strategy is much more practical, productive, and economical. In business, a shotgun approach gets the job done…but usually doesn’t yield outstanding results.

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Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

With the virtual disappearance of major white-collar employers like Eastman Kodak and Westinghouse — once fairly reliable career on-ramps — young talent is focusing on entrepreneurship as a path forward. Their product, a program designed to combat procrastination, quickly became the best-selling productivity app on iTunes.

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Development Levitt Real Estate IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This comes as a shock to your system, especially if you''ve enjoyed a record of success up to this point in your career. Although they don''t trumpet the fact for obvious reasons, most successful senior executives have hit speed bumps in the course of their careers. Failure Managing yourself'

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Sharpe Cooper Delegation Long-term 10

You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 20, 2009

This is one pretty sharp boss!) The only rule was they had to use past ad slogans, originally written for other products that captured the essence of Viagra. The Funniest Staff Meeting Ever…… The boss of a Madison Avenue advertising agency called a spontaneous staff meeting in the middle of a particularly stressful week.

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Advertising Blog Stress McCarthy 40

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This comes as a shock to your system, especially if you’ve enjoyed a record of success up to this point in your career. Although they don’t trumpet the fact for obvious reasons, most successful senior executives have hit speed bumps in the course of their careers. Failure Managing yourself'

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Sharpe Cooper Delegation Career 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 387

You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 30, 2011

So, the leader’s job is to strive for and encourage a balance that allows for healthy discussion, respectfully and productively conducted. The group perspective is much more broad and will help people to produce the best final product. All this sounds like work. Like this: The bottom line is this.

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Blog Diversity Learning-by-Doing Self-aware 55

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

It was led people by who have devoted their career to this topic and included Daniel Goleman, coiner of the term "emotional intelligence." Here closeness to the front line was baked into the DNA of the successive managers and where a sharp differentiation was central to the reason for existence of the company.

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Self-aware Goleman Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Three attributes stood out: 1) authenticity and sharp clarity of purpose, 2) empathy (EQ) and the ability to relate to people at the "front line" levels, and 3) self-awareness and humility to constantly question and adapt. Today, complexity has become the silent killer of profitable growth in business, and sometimes of CEO careers.

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Competitive Advantage Porter Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

But as companies get bigger, they have a harder and harder time staying close to their customers and maintaining the sharp, ground-level instincts of a younger company. Most started out as their company’s first salesperson, its first product developer, or both.

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Company Hotels Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

For many working parents and for the organizations that employ them, remote work is a go-to move for increasing work/life balance, productivity, and retention. But that same lack of traditional workplace boundaries has the potential to erode your motivation and productivity (are you really at your best getting a late start, in sweatpants?).

How To 8

How To Long-term Tactics Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

But my experience as a consultant at a very large strategy firm whose clients are giant corporations had been that if someone admitted that he or she struggled with depression or mental illness, that would often be career suicide. They don’t because they know they can’t. I am not a person who romanticizes mental illness.

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Execution Emotional Intelligence Open-book Sharpe 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

There is indeed a stark, sharp, gigantic trade-off between meaning and money in our so-called brain-dead shell-game Ponzi-scheme of an "economy.". Take it — and then damn your first year's bonus, make your first major project redesigning a product line that matters. Is there a trade-off between meaning and money? You're fired.

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Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 21

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

A seasoned CFO with a sharp mind and an abrasive style, Arthur had lost his job over a disagreement with his company’s new CEO. Whether we are forced to or choose to work too much, however, a growing body of research suggests that working long hours damages our health, productivity, and families.

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Long-term Loyalty Uncertainty Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Together they have survived some sharp rocks, literally and figuratively, in their friendship. Work Friends Make Us More Productive (Except When They Stress Us Out). I didn’t follow this advice earlier in my career and instead simply made an assumption. They’ve hiked and backpacked and taken long bike rides together.

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How To Sharpe Information Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

—Andrea Ovans Getting the Vapors Kodak Moment The Economist With the European Parliament set to vote next week on whether electronic cigarettes should be regulated as medical products, this is a good time to reflect on the inroads this disruptive technology is making in the slow-moving, not-very-innovative tobacco industry.

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Management Health Care Insurance Sharpe 8