Lead on Purpose

MAY 23, 2009

He compares it to halftime in sports (games like basketball and American football) that have a break during games. In his book HALFTIME: Moving from Success to Significance , author Bob Buford explores three stages of life: The first half: On average, the first 40 years of your life. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 27, 2023

“Before the trial, many questioned whether we would see an increase in productivity to offset the reduction in working time—but this is exactly what we found,” the researchers explain. Workers were much less inclined to kill time, and actively sought out technologies that improved their productivity.”

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Even in so-called “individual sports&# such as running, race car driving or gymnastics, the athletes depend on many other people for their success. Following these three things will help you progress from your work as an engineer (or support or SE or any other job) to becoming a successful product manager.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 19, 2010

Champions: Usually associated with sports, the word champions identifies the ultimate winners. — The Product Management Perspective: Recently I’ve received some great feedback from co-workers and customers. It’s the fuel that gets you going in the morning. It’s the energy that drives you throughout the day.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

You may have technology or a product that gives you an edge, but your people determine whether you develop the next winning technology or product.&#. In the world of professional sports the search for talent often starts during the middle-school years, which is long before the potential talent being tracked by the scouts has matured.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Seems to me that the alleged girlfriend effect is for socially inept girls who like being treated badly to cluster around socially retarded boys who play sports. How To Be More Productive When You Work From Home. Rich Gee 11.06.10 Have a great Saturday and keep the comments coming. Next post: A Simple Phrase That Will Change Your Life.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 17, 2010

You connect with people in a mutually productive and pleasurable way. You plant the seed of your capabilities, service, or product but you don’t overtly go for the kill. Football field - What sports are you into? How To Be More Productive When You Work From Home. You concentrate on the other person. Smile or Die!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We may be snowed by the public relations machine that “markets” a poor leader. Complacency has it’s price, up to and including some morally and ethically reprehensible leaders who have been elected to public office. We might simply vote without doing our homework first. Worse yet, we may not vote for anyone.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Remember that leadership is not a spectator sport. I am always so refreshed by the centrality of ethics, doing the right thing, and people as capital – in your work! Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game. Great insights Susan.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

Edwards Deming’s list of 14 points for western management : Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. You will often see such stroies about successful sports teams and how their season long slogan helped them succeed.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

She certainly wouldn't disapprove of an employee seeking prescription help to become more productive. Increasingly, prescription ADHD drugs like Adderall , dedicated to improving attention deficits, are finding their way into gray market use by students looking for a cognitive edge. Roughly 10% of workers in Europe and the U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?” ” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

But charging different customers different prices for the same or a similar product or service is tricky for reasons having nothing to do with ethics. Second: if you have different prices in the market for a similar product, there is no preventing your well-heeled customers from taking advantage of the lower prices, too.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

He would have to train in completely different ways, and unlearn many of the things that have allowed him to succeed at his chosen sport. His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Businesses are more profitable and productive when they act ethically, treat their staff well, and communicate better with their customers, according to the latest Lady Geek Global Empathy Index. Many British firms have been slow to recognize the direct correlation between corporate empathy and growth and productivity.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Key components of courage include clarity of one’s own values, a deep sense of ethicality, being positively self-critical,being able to let go and move on, resilience to setbacks. Deb Calvert ( People First Productivity Solutions ) The master skill for leaders is ability to learn. Leaders are learners.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. They will represent the products more consistently. Previously, working in the call center was a solo sport. Every high performer needs both. The same is true for any team or organization.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

After the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018, Dick’s Sporting Goods announced that it would no longer sell semiautomatic rifles in its hunting and fishing stores (it had already stopped selling them at its main stores after the December 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting). hbr staff/thelinke/Getty Images.

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