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

Strategy Driven

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. Other possible scenarios involve establishing that social media alerts or other interruptions don’t divert your employees.

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A Hero's Freedoms and Freedom's Heroes

Chris Brady

First, by absolute independence of mind, which springs from the ability to think everything through for yourself, and to treat whatever is the current consensus on any issue with skepticism.    Third, to ignore or reject everything the media throws at you, provided you remain convinced you are doing right.

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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

Simon Sinek @simonsinek / Author and consultant on inspiring leadership / In a nutshell: Know WHY you’re doing what you’re doing “Share one’s passion and purpose as you inspire others” “Hire people who believe what you believe – and they will work for that belief. “Management is not a science, it is an art.” Happy leading!

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Why Great Leaders Are in Short Supply

Harvard Business Review

We're living with something of an irony right now regarding leadership. On the one hand, the topic has never been more studied and written about; my recent Google search for leadership research by academies and institutes returned some 375,000 hits. On the other hand, we are experiencing a dearth of leadership in society.

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What Africa’s Leaders Have Learned About Facing Huge Challenges

Harvard Business Review

There is a sea change going on in African leadership. Great leadership rarely is. ” Leadership usually is. The first job of leadership is to focus attention. Having gained consensus from her Cabinet on a realistic set of measurable goals, the president’s next challenge was to influence their fulfillment.

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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.