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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. Cultivating this trust isn’t just a moral issue; it’s a practical one. No wasted film, slides, or prints.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. Cultivating this trust isn’t just a moral issue; it’s a practical one. No wasted film, slides, or prints.

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Theranos and the Dark Side of Storytelling

Harvard Business Review

Consider the medical technology company Theranos, founded by Elizabeth Holmes, which seems to be reaching the end of an epic flameout. They told and re-told Holmes’s story until she began to seem less like an actual person, and more like a living symbol—of progress, of innovation, of female empowerment.

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Use Social Media to Build Emotional Capital

Harvard Business Review

The first (whose name is disguised to spare blushes) is TEKCO, a technology company. The company hired many open source technology developers to build new collaboration tools. Contrary to initial expectations, social media adoption improved neither the ease of internal information sharing nor employee morale.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. The story of the firing spread (as it always does) throughout the company, morale slipped, and the CMO never completely trusted his boss again. Because innovation requires it. No wasted film, slides, or prints.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures. Improves productivity by improving morale. These are just a few examples. Fosters humility in upper management.

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When AI Becomes the New Face of Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

Today some companies are taking brand anthropomorphism to a whole new level with sophisticated AI technologies. Studying those deployments led to several insights around three new types of decisions executives face at the intersection of technology, personality, and strategy. The implications are numerous. Beyond Chatbots.

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