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Featured Instigator – Chris Edmonds

Lead Change Blog

Chris received his BA from Whittier College, a secondary teaching credential from California Lutheran College, and a Masters of Human Resources and Organizational Development from the University of San Francisco. He responded, “sending a player whose bad behavior was impeding team progress and success home for the day.

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Top Leadership Experts to Follow in 2015

Modern Servant Leader

Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. It is a manifesto of human creativity. Humans Create Futures. Assisted here by Team LBJ. I write, teach and consult across the world on human resource strategy. Leadership Expert.

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Why You Should Tell Your Team to Take a Break and Go Outside

Harvard Business Review

Wellness programs are becoming an integral priority for most human resource managers. After all, research shows that a happier workplace is more productive. To this end, workplaces are adding health-related perks from exercise rooms to yoga classes.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

A well-run sprint takes talented, cross-functional team members out of their daily routines and focuses them in weekly increments on creating breakthroughs in products or processes. Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

They are experts on something but they don’t care much about the structure of the company, they lack the knowledge about planning, accounting or even human resources. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank. That is because owners of small and medium size businesses focus mostly on the product and how to sell it.

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