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Dr. Tasha Eurich on Unleashing Potential through Self-Awareness

HR Digest

Tasha delves into the evolving perception of leadership, the critical role of self-awareness in navigating change, and strategies for leaders in multicultural environments. Diversify your sources : Innovation thrives no cross-pollination. In a chaotic world, it feels harder than ever to excel, elevate, and connect.

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The Countries with the Boldest Business Leaders

Harvard Business Review

This accords with other, peer-reviewed research that shows a connection between displaying confidence and being perceived as competent. (If We found a highly significant correlation (r= 0.936 sig.000 If you would like to participate in this survey to get a sense of your preference for engaging in bold leadership, you can do so here.).

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Is Employee Engagement Just a Reflection of Personality?

Harvard Business Review

Many innovators also have problems with authority and a predisposition to challenge the status quo. To some extent, all innovation is the result of people who are unhappy with the status quo — who seek ways to change it. To illustrate this point, imagine that a friend tells you that she hates her job.

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Good Bosses Switch Between Two Leadership Styles

Harvard Business Review

If a marketing team is charged with creating an innovative new advertising campaign, for example, a prestigious leader can release the constraints on team members and encourage them to think outside the box. This creates a safe environment where team members feel respected and free to innovate and generate creative solutions.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo''s CEO, ended the company''s work-from-home policy to foster a more collaborative, innovative environment. Atomic Object, a software company in Michigan, put in place a standing-only rule in meetings, to keep them focused and short. Lead by example.

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How Brigham & Women’s Funds Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. To date, these innovations have saved an estimated $4 million in annual medical expenses while decisively improving quality. But it needn’t always be. Here’s how we did it.

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Who's the Best at Innovating Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

Most companies put innovation at the top of their agendas. But how many devote the energy and resources it takes to build innovation into the values, processes, and practices that rule everyday activity and behavior? Not many, as we argued when we launched the Innovating Innovation Challenge in October.