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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

The problem rests however in how this pre-occupation with being acknowledged as a “leader” by your peers is perceived by your employees. My most recent peer review included a comment that I needed to get a better car. To break away from the lemmings, give these techniques a try. I drive a Fiat 500.

Six Sigma 209
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Cracking the Behavior Code

Great Leadership By Dan

Marketers claim that cajoling in just the right way will get things done. Demand Attention… Wisely If the problem is inattention, then one solution is to figure out how to capture people’s scant fifty bits. See Beyond Bad Behaviors to Underlying Intentions There are nearly as many behavior change strategies as there are professions.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. There has been a rapid uptake in health care, consumer marketing, crime reduction, agriculture, scientific research, and many other areas.

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How to Manage a Toxic Employee

Harvard Business Review

Include “supporting material” too: formal complaints, relevant information from performance evaluations, such as 360-degree or peer reviews. Christina Del Villar, the director of marketing at accounting software firm Webgility, managed a small team at a start-up earlier in her career.

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Projects Are the New Job Interviews

Harvard Business Review

interrogatory genre; the real question will be how well candidates can rise to the "appliject" challenge and help redesign a social media campaign, document a tricky bit of software, edit a Keynote presentation, produce a webinar or peer review a CAD layout for a contract Chinese manufacturer. Exploitive?

Project 20
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Your Writing Isn’t as Good as You Think It Is

Harvard Business Review

They write website copy, memos, reports, blogs, marketing materials, and social media posts. I asked: “On average, rated from 1–1o, how effective is the material that you read? How to Improve Your Business Writing. The job of an editor or a peer reviewer is to show you what you cannot see. Josh Bernoff.

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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

Digital therapeutics are being increasingly validated in clinical trials published in peer-reviewed medical journals and are available or are being developed for most chronic diseases. These solutions are new to market and some of them may not be included in the standard offerings of your health insurer or third-party administrator.