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GC24: Killer Gamification: Engaging for Impact

Engaging Leader

However, the tech research firm Gartner made headlines in late 2012 when it predicted that 80% of current gamified applications would fail to meet business objectives — due to poor design, ineffective communication, or ill-defined business objectives.

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Listening as a Tool to De-escalate Conflicts

The Recovering Engineer

Two completely different situations with completely different measures of success, and one primary human need cited as the driving force for satisfaction with the outcome: the need to be heard and understood. The reason that listening works so well is that it meets a human need.

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How Effective is Your Communication?

Great Leadership By Dan

Communication is a basic human need. Interacting with other humans has been the core of human progress throughout the ages. Isolation and lack of human interaction will emotionally, mentally, and physically debilitate a person; as will ineffective conversations.

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Featured Leading Voice: Mary Schaefer

Lead Change Blog

Mary’s mission is to create work cultures where organizations and human beings can both thrive. in Human Resource Management from the University of Charleston. Mary has always been fascinated by the human dynamic at work. When asked “if money were no object, what would you do all day?” Mary has a B.S.

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The Perfect Brand Slogan | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Most folks in the branding game will judge a proposed slogan or tag line by a defined set of objectives. The most successful slogan I was associated with was for the Canadian Coffee brand, Nabob. 5 principles of simplicity via @ matthewemay [link] Humans need a reminder RT @ hunterwalk Good design teaches. April 2011.

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If You Want to Raise Prices, Tell a Better Story

Harvard Business Review

What you almost never hear about is a fifth track, which I call story analysis: an analysis of a product''s capabilities to fulfill a profound human need, to tell a story that gives your customers'' lives richer meaning. With the help of a friend, he began buying random, worthless, or low-value objects at tag sales and thrift shops.

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Indispensable Traits of a Collaborative Leader: Part 1

QAspire

Collaboration with others requires prompt responses, focus on objectives, relationship building, creativity and perceptive abilities. A collaborative leader fulfills this essential human need by listening – what is being said and what is left unsaid. They lead their own selves before leading others. Stay tuned!