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7 Best Practices to Boost Employee Engagement

Michael Lee Stallard

Provide Autonomy in Execution – Monitor progress and be available to help your direct reports, but refrain from “micro managing” unless they ask for specific help. Favor guidelines rather than rules and controls, and let people know that you are available if they have questions or would like you to be a sounding board.

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DiSC Team Activity: Steady Changing S–Steadiness Development Activity

Mike Cardus

Guidelines. 9) Make a change by announcing Challenge #2 : line up alphabetically by the letters of the number on your card you hold. When people are exchanging cards, some groups will think of “innovative strategies” for circumnavigating the intent of the shuffle rule. Amongst our managers? Report the time to them.

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. The Bezos Letters takes you through Jeff Bezos’ shareholder letters and distills them into growth principles you can apply in your company. Management Advice from Jeff Bezos. It just works.” Jeff Bezos. Jeff Bezos.

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How to Brand a Next-Generation Product - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Macs keep their names with each successive upgrade, analysts noted, while iPhones sport sequential numbers and letters to indicate improvements. Executive education students at Harvard Business School.

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44 Content Marketing Agencies Defined by 65 Marketers

Miles Anthony Smith

They somehow manage to engage with their audience consistently by constantly putting out articles, infographics, or anything of value, not just in content marketing but also in sales. Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. 3) That your intern can manage your content strategy.

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9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016

Harvard Business Review

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. Larry Fink, the CEO of Blackrock — the world’s largest asset owner — followed up his 2015 letter to S&P 500 CEOs with another treatise against short-term focus.

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