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The Ten Greatest Promotional Products of All Time

Strategy Driven

In the 150 years since the modern era of promotional marketing began almost every class of product has been custom branded. But some products have endured better than the rest. Here we list the ten all time greatest promotional merchandise ideas based on their ongoing popularity and return on investment. Badges & Pins. Wristbands.

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To Cope with Labor Shortage, Raise Emotional Compensation

Michael Lee Stallard

Over the nearly 20 years that my colleagues and I have been studying and helping leaders, we’ve learned that boosting emotional compensation is based on meeting seven universal human needs to thrive at work: respect, recognition, belonging, autonomy, personal growth, meaning, and progress. Photo by Leon on Unsplash.

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Overriding Our Instincts in Order to Become Caring Leaders

Leading Blog

Perhaps it’s because as managers, we face a horde of challenges. Mid-level directors and managers don’t fare well either. The human brain is a miracle of survival and, from a psychological and evolutionary perspective, this makes sense. We have a human need for steadiness and predictability. We like consistency.

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Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader. by John • September 12, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 4 Comments. How is it possible for three months of crisis management ineptitude to occur in an organization the size of BP with a product as environmentally toxic as oil? Leadership.

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Fostering Team Emotional Intelligence

QAspire

Leaders have a choice of either noticing those emotions intentionally and intervening constructively when needed or just ignore the emotions to focus only on the outcomes and the process.

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Green Company, Red Products, Black Ink | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Green Company, Red Products, Black Ink. Houweling’s latest challenge, other than managing increased demand for their tomatoes, is adding a combined heat and power system to both its US and Canadian facility—a cogeneration initiative that will exceed the operation’s power needs and actually feed energy to the grid, eliminating waste.

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Are We Likely To Work Only 50% Of The Time In The Office?

The Horizons Tracker

From the three psychological basic human needs – autonomy, competence and connection – the latter is most under pressure when people work home for such a long period of time as during the corona crisis,” the researchers say. Will managers manage to construct a more equitable situation in the post-pandemic world?

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