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10 Essential Facilitation Skills for Meeting Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

When a meeting leader paraphrases, checks for understanding, and asks follow-up questions, it encourages more participation and keeps the discussion flowing. Consensus building skills. Consensus does not mean that everybody must agree with a decision. Consensus does not mean that everybody must agree with a decision.

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The Case for the 6-Hour Workday

Harvard Business Review

” A 10-year McKinsey study on flow found that top executives are up to 500% more productive when they’re in a state of flow. A study by scientists at Advanced Brain Monitoring also found that being in flow cut the time it took to train novice marksmen up to an expert level in half.

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Looking to Join the Lean Start-up Movement?

Harvard Business Review

There is a growing sense that so-called lean start-up techniques — developing a minimal viable product, learning in the marketplace, and pivoting based on market feedback — can help to unleash this potential. That doesn''t mean that companies should either outsource the task or bring in entirely fresh blood. Innovation'

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