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Preparing for Re-entry into the Physical Workplace: Lessons from NASA

Michael Lee Stallard

Their interest in our work has been to help their leaders and managers learn to cultivate a culture of connection so that everyone can give their best performance. This could be especially important for employees who live alone and have primarily relied on interactions in the workplace to meet their need for social connection.

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Navigator Newsletter #180

Chart Your Course

They are realizing if employees and managers are unhappy, they are going to leave. By hiring the right people, they reduce turnover, training costs and insure their team of Zapponians stay motivated and passionate about what they do. 3) Manage your managers and make them lead by example. Creating a Great Place to Work.

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Brand Surgery ? excerpts from my Marketing Magazine article | In.

In the CEO Afterlife

When I was a young product manager back in the ’70s, the only people I could talk to about brands were my colleagues in the marketing department and the advertising agency. Now my accountant, my lawyer, my portfolio manager and even my neighbour talk to me about brands. A vast number of famous brand names need brand surgery.

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What Makes ABSOLUT, Absolute? | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

The original concept, created by Art Director Geoff Hayes in a bathtub, and perpetuated by several creative notables, has managed to stand the cruel test of time and create the 3 rd largest-selling liquor brand on the globe. Marketers operate in a dynamic world. How has this campaign lasted so long? April 2011. March 2011.

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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

If you’re operating as a know-it-all, you have an underlying belief that that any new stuff really isn’t of much value. Empathy is a uniquely human skill. In fact, it’s the most human skill. Here’s a shocking statistic: two-thirds of senior managers can’t name their firm’s top priorities! The second cost is ego.

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Being a Parent Made Me a Better Manager, and Vice Versa

Harvard Business Review

Over the last 10 or 15 years those of us who work for organizations have gotten more and more comfortable talking about work-life balance as a business issue; about making the workplace more human, authentic, and compassionate; and about discussing work as something that deserves passion, meaning, even love.

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5 Myths about Giving Praise

Great Leadership By Dan

When I first started out in the corporate training business, I was responsible for training new managers and supervisors. We had a mandatory three week program that covered all the usual HR and operational topics, including performance management. Why is praise such an undervalued and underused management skill?

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