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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To 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. Use plain language to describe what you are trying to accomplish. I drive a Fiat 500.

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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

They learned and practiced how to communicate effectively and resolve conflicts, build teams to succeed, lead meetings that didn’t waste time, lead change that would stick, walk the talk with our organizational values, and finally how to engage and manage our talent. Leadership Inspirations – How to Have a Positive Impact.

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

The company has promoted a culture of health for more than 30 years, with countless peer-reviewed studies showing that employees’ health has improved and company costs have been contained. This, of course, takes time and support. A company like Dow Chemical is a success story in this way. Asking for help.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

There are also heated academic debates over how to measure leadership effectiveness, motivation, and culture. These are not the foundations of a proper science that verifies knowledge through experiment and replication of findings in peer-reviewed studies. The issue is that they operate as artisans, not scientists.

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Here’s What Mindfulness Is (and Isn’t) Good For

Harvard Business Review

The tricky thing about trying to interpret research about mindfulness is that many studies that claim great things for mindfulness are less rigorous than others, even though they may be peer reviewed. Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure. How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience.

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Focus on Keeping Up with Your Customers, Not Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing). Or figuring out how to help them do what they want?

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Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

To understand how the current political instability in Egypt will affect the NPV of a foreign subsidiary located there, we should first establish a no-instability benchmark, which assumes that the operation there will generate the same level of profitability (adjusted for inflation) for the rest of time. Vinod K.

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