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Remote Positivity: Emulating Optimism for Your Work-From-Home Employees

Strategy Driven

The applications that the tech world has developed have been a mainstay in the work from home atmosphere. Addressing this topic with your employees will eliminate any chance of discomfort for them during video conferences. The consensus seems to be that it is alright. Collaborate and Listen.

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Effective Meetings - A Summary of the Best Guidelines

Building Personal Strength

All the resources needed to communicate effectively should be made available: room, hand-outs, presentation media, attendance by outside experts, refreshments, etc. Contribute to team consensus decisions. But what about conference calls and Skype/video-oriented meetings. 'Skype' Prepare thoroughly for meetings.

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Top Quotes from the Art of Management 2010 | RoundtableTalk

Roundtable Talk

Collaboration does not = consensus.” “The Before building community you need to build engagement.” “If your product or service sucks; social media, marketing or management won’t save you.” “Management is not a science, it is an art.” The future is not created, it is co-created.” “We Knowing the way is crucial.

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Sprints Are the Secret to Getting More Done

Harvard Business Review

These aren’t all-out, late-night, stack-of-pizza-boxes-on-the-conference-table types of affairs that only work for fledgling internet companies though. For podcast startup Gimlet Media , an abstract question — “Should we become a technology company?” Sprints move you from abstract to concrete.

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What Africa’s Leaders Have Learned About Facing Huge Challenges

Harvard Business Review

The AGI team focused Johnson-Sirleaf’s Cabinet on developing a 150-day plan. Having gained consensus from her Cabinet on a realistic set of measurable goals, the president’s next challenge was to influence their fulfillment. Liberia’s troubled history was an almost uninterrupted chain of broken promises.

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Harper Lee and Dr. Seuss Won’t Save Publishing

Harvard Business Review

Though exact numbers are hard to come by, there’s a clear consensus that following the economic shocks of 2008, advances paid to writers are declining —in some cases precipitously. So what can publishers do to remain relevant beyond trawling attics for lost masterpieces and signing deals with Snooki ? Yes, of course.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. That’s how groups become mired in consensus, and after a while, everyone thinks and acts alike.

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