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Carefrontation — The Ultimate Leadership Trait

Great Leadership By Dan

The pastor was clearly providing guidance to parishioners on how to help others confront tough problems, but to me it sounded a lot like a leadership strategy. HP had a great training program for new managers, but I decided to add carefrontation to my management style and had great results almost immediately.

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How to Manage a Perfectionist

Harvard Business Review

Managing a perfectionist can be challenging but it's not impossible. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and the author of Flying Without a Net. Accept that they may not be good managers as they are likely to demand too much of their people (see "hypercritical" and "bad at delegating" above).

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It’s Time for Companies to Be Strategic About Energy

Harvard Business Review

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. As Kern put it, “We always manage costs so closely, but we weren’t really measuring energy — we didn’t know how much we spent!

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Don't Like Your Job? Change It (Without Quitting)

Harvard Business Review

It is often costly to career momentum and earnings as much as it is a boon," says Amy Wrzesniewski, an associate professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management and coauthor of " Turn the Job You Have into the Job You Want." Here's how to make the most of an imperfect job situation. What the Experts Say.

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The Internet of Things Will Change Your Company, Not Just Your Products

Harvard Business Review

Here are some of the challenges that I’ve observed: Product management. Specifically, it requires reimagining the business you are in, empathizing with your target customers and their challenges, and creatively determining how to most effectively solve their problems. Building an IoT offering requires design thinking from the get-go.