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Motivate with a Memorable “Vision Phrase” that Matters

Michael Lee Stallard

Examples include healthcare services, food and beverage products, lawn care, construction, clothing, lodging, entertainment and travel services, utilities and police protection. When Chuck Schwab started The Charles Schwab Corporation, his vision was to provide “the most useful and ethical financial services in the world.”

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How To Say No.

Rich Gee Group

Say ‘Yes’, but change their request around so it better suits you and the direction you’re traveling in. And he’d constructed the wall! It’s hard when we run into those who try to manufacture their own ethics and then press them on their colleagues. The next step was to hold out the olive branch.

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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

On that score, the company’s Code of Ethics claimed that “gaming” (the manipulation and / or misrepresentation of sales or referrals) was against the rules and grounds for dismissal. A traveler on an important journey comes to a raging river. When fellow travelers point this out, she’s incredulous: “You don’t understand,” she says. “If

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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

He changed the performance appraisal system to provide constructive feedback for everyone and added the requirement to leaders’ performance appraisals that they help sailors learn and grow. He encouraged what he referred to as “constructive friction.” He required everyone in the Navy to have a personal development plan.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Traveling down the path set by the service academies, it may well be that the most effective people in any organization are those who are equally adept playing both leadership and followership roles. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

Autonomous vehicles will profoundly affect insurance, road design and construction, traffic management, taxi and limousine services, the materials and safety equipment in vehicles, and asset ownership (who needs to own a car when one can simply be summoned from the most efficient location?).

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A Guide to Solving Social Problems with Machine Learning

Harvard Business Review

In bail, it turns out that different forms of crime are correlated enough so that an algorithm trained on just one type of crime winds up out-predicting judges on almost every measure of criminality we could construct, including violent crime. A time traveler going back to the dawn of the 20 th century would arrive with dire warnings.