Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 26, 2020

I don’t know about you, but it seems there are more things to distract me than ever. And since distractions are the enemy of productivity and achievement, I’d like to change that. Rather than lamenting those distractions, I’d rather learn the skills for managing distractions. Enter this book, which promises to help us control our […]. The post Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 26, 2020

With creativity and change , there are two types of problems: Normal Problems = These are growth and adaptation challenges that are normal to most change. You and the team can figure these issues out or work through them with little to no outside help. Normal problems are transitional: You encounter them, solve them, learn from them, and move on. Abnormal Problems = AKA Cul-de-sac problems.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 26, 2020

Few issues have been as contentious during the Covid-19 pandemic as the re-opening of schools. Teaching unions have expressed concern over the safety and efficacy of doing so, whilst governments and parents have expressed concern about the impact the disruption to children’s education is having, especially among the most disadvantaged, whose home environment is often poorly suited to home learning.

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The Office Blend Blog

JULY 26, 2020

Photo by Anthony on Pexels.com. Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored. – Terry Tempest Williams. Notes. We planted four clump, yellow rose bushes in our backyard garden last summer. They are situated in an area where for some odd reason, everything seems to perish. I have a number of concocted theories as to why this continues to happen.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 26, 2020

It’s perhaps natural to believe that competition spurs us to do better, and therefore to be more innovative. That was indeed the finding of a study published a few years ago, which revealed the intuitive finding that overseas competition, especially from high-income countries, prompted an increase in R&D expenditure by companies in wealthier countries as they attempted to differentiate on quality rather than price.

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Center for Creative Leadership

JULY 26, 2020

Bosses Can Make or Break the Effectiveness of Leadership Training. Is your direct report preparing to take part in a leadership development program? From our work with more than 30,000 leaders annually, we’ve uncovered the primary predictor of a leadership development program’s success: the level of support participants receive from their boss, both before and after the training.

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HR Digest

JULY 26, 2020

Companies and organizations are slowly proceeding to instruct employees to delete the TikTok app from their phones. Recently Amazon directed its employees to uninstall TikTok app from the company devices. However, the conglomerate giant took off the request back later on the same day, long after it raised a hue and cry, and the company became the center of increasing paranoia about the TikTok app.

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