Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 22, 2019

With about one week before 2012020, it's time to identify your New Year's Resolutions for next year. To get you started, how about selecting one or more of these 70 New Year's resolutions for leaders? Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and January 1, think about which couple you want to work on during 2020. Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Santa is making his list and checking it twice. He’s going to find out which leaders have been naughty or nice. Actually, I think any person willing to step into a position of leading and managing others deserves whatever he/she wants for Christmas! (Try selling that to your spouse or significant other and see how far it gets you!). If I were to play Santa at the office Christmas party, I’d give the following gifts to leaders: 1.

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Stress Learning-by-Doing Budgeting Morale 56

Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The topic of this post is a bit different from what I write about, but just as important. For as long as humanity’s been around, innovators have always been creating the future. As a result, we’ve made tremendous progress and changed our world for the better in so many ways. However, these innovations have also.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 22, 2019

It makes sense that happy employees are more productive than their unhappy peers, but a new study from Oxford University’s Saïd Business School attempts to quantify just how much of a difference happiness makes. The study found that happy workers in the contact centers of the British telecoms firm BT, were around 13% more productive than their unhappier peers. “We found that when workers are happier, they work faster by making more calls per hour worked and, importantly, convert more

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Management Excellence

DECEMBER 22, 2019

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 22, 2019

When exploring the origins of language, and how we use and process language, it is perhaps logical to assume that the vast canon of published works may provide some guidance. That was indeed the hypothesis of a new study from the University of Buffalo, which examined around 26,000 books to explore how they can help inform a wide range of questions about language. “Previously in linguistics it was assumed a lot of our ability to use language was instinctual and that our environmental exper

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