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Applying Improvement Concepts and Tools to Your Daily Life

Curious Cat

In this blog I write about using management improvement thinking in my personal life. That extends from management concepts such as optimizing the entire system and not getting trapped by habit or convention, for example in: The Aim Should be the Best Life – Not Work v. Bishop trail, Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia.

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There's Still Time

Women on Business

Time is something we either manage well or have no sense of. If we are lacking in time-management skills it could take away from the time and love we get to share with our families. This post was mentioned on Twitter by Debra Fraser. Debra Fraser said: There’s Still Time: If you are like me, you know how precious time is.

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Olympian Leadership Lessons in Peak Performance

The Practical Leader

Dawn Fraser, gold medal Australian swimmer at three Olympics declares, “ The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.” The games certainly do have their detractors and a history of controversy, violence, and scandal. Pursuing excellence demands change.

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Building Emotional Competencies In Our Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

The impact these two neurological factors have on our employees can be best appreciated in the findings made by researchers from Simon Fraser University. Conversely, when managers had a positive work life, they were more energetic and engaging in how they approached their roles, and this positive mood also impacted their employees.

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Fortune Favors the Prepared, and Hiring Managers Favor the Fortunate

Harvard Business Review

Almost as soon as Ron Johnson was fired by JC Penney, blame for the retailer’s annus horribilis shifted to board member and billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman, who had lured Johnson to Penney from Apple in 2011. Now Ackman is out too , and Fraser P.

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Win 2 Tickets to PLAY DEAD in NYC

Women on Business

This post was mentioned on Twitter by Gretchen Glasscock, Stilettos At Work, Stephani, Debra Fraser, Women On Business and others. Categories : Contests 10 Comments 1 Tweets that mention Win 2 Tickets to PLAY DEAD in NYC :: Women on Business -- Topsy.com January 24th, 2011 at 3:11 pm [.]

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Better Value in Health Care Requires Focusing on Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

At Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH), in the early days of its pediatric cardiac surgery program, newly recruited director Charles Fraser investigated the hospital’s performance relative to national referral centers as reported in the literature.