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How to Harness the Power of Empathy for Effective Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Imagine: a leader who knows how to gain efficiencies, decrease costs, increase employee retention, and inspire customer loyalty based on taking another’s point of view? Explore with Your Imagination: Getting inside the minds of employees and customers means getting inside the minds of human beings. The POWER of Empathy?

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Technologies Your Business Really Can’t Afford Not To Embrace

Strategy Driven

The advantage of these lasers over their counterparts is that they represent a more energy efficient alternative that is every bit as versatile and currently used in a range of applications such as industrial welding. Whatever the nature of your business you would benefit more than you may think from an app. Photo courtesy of Pixabay.

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What We Know, Now, About the Internet’s Disruptive Power

Harvard Business Review

Supplier relationships, brand identity, process coordination, customer loyalty, and many switching costs were all forms of information. Napster, Amazon, and the Apple store have annihilated Tower Records and Musicland; digital cameras replaced film and then smartphones upended camera makers.

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