Leading with Trust

JUNE 27, 2021

Everything from working hours, response times, technologies to be leveraged, backup plans, and communication norms should be clear, regularly communicated, and most of all, followed. That’s what I learned, and that’s what my colleague, John Hester, calls out as one of the key skills to leading a hybrid team. Foster a Connected Community.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Their daily in-person interactions are limited to the few people they live with and their other interactions are intermediated through digital technology. As humans, we’re hardwired to connect. Connection makes us smarter, happier, more productive, and more resilient to cope with stress. Protection through Connection.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 11, 2011

The means to that end is quickly slashing sku’s and product lines to reduce inventories. Familiar examples are spending more on advertising, introducing new products or line extensions, expanding distribution. New vacuum-packing technology drove sales and coffee-roasting advancements cut costs by 15%. Damn right it will.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

They don’t even need to experience these new methods themselves, hearing about them is enough to make them demand the better way. Trend-Driven Innovation , as detailed in our book of the same name, is the end-to-end process of tracking changes in these expectations to make sure that your products, services or experiences don’t fall behind.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 18, 2018

Being stressed at work can come with many disadvantages, but some of the main ones include lack of productivity, constant pressure between employees, lack of professional growth and development, long and inflexible work hours, job insecurity and many more. Meteor Forms is essentially a technology that helps its clients build customized forms.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

For every employee, consider what enhancements are needed for safety, productivity and wellbeing.” -- David Grossman, Founder & CEO, The Grossman Group. By leading with empathy, taking time to truly listen and fostering gratitude, leaders meet a deeply human need in all of us to be understood, appreciated and connected.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

For every employee, consider what enhancements are needed for safety, productivity and wellbeing.” -- David Grossman, Founder & CEO, The Grossman Group. By leading with empathy, taking time to truly listen and fostering gratitude, leaders meet a deeply human need in all of us to be understood, appreciated and connected.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2020

For every employee, consider what enhancements are needed for safety, productivity and wellbeing.” -- David Grossman, Founder & CEO, The Grossman Group. By leading with empathy, taking time to truly listen and fostering gratitude, leaders meet a deeply human need in all of us to be understood, appreciated and connected.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

billion in sales) provides huge economies of scale throughout the operation, especially in production, fixed overheads, distribution and marketing. 5 principles of simplicity via @ matthewemay [link] Humans need a reminder RT @ hunterwalk Good design teaches. Their size ($49.2 This is a tremendous competitive advantage.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Technology has connected more people in more places at more times than ever before. Leaders need to harness the power of these connections. Customers don’t just pay for product or a service. Motivational architects work by addressing four fundamental human needs: Safety, Energy, Purpose, and Ownership.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Dubbed the “Alien Dreadnought,” Tesla’s new manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, was designed to be fully automated — no humans need apply. If all went well, AI-powered robots would enable the company to achieve a weekly production of 5,000 Model 3 electric cars to keep up with burgeoning demand.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

And second, the biggest opportunity lies in a particular kind of industrial product – those that bring about a cleaner economy. We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. GE’s experience is part of a larger story.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

However, a new survey by my HR advisory firm Future Workplace called “The Employee Experience” reveals the reality is that employees crave something far more fundamental and essential to human needs. In fact, CEOs are starting to focus on how the workspace can lead to improved productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Smart, quasi-autonomous robots and machines are replacing humans in workplaces all over the world. Intelligent technologies are increasingly delivering greater value for less money. But “better than human” comes with its own managerial challenges. They learn fast, work hard, and certainly complain less.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This means there are too many ways that an attacker can take advantage of any part of the technology infrastructure in most companies to breach them or create harm. Large enterprises typically operate dozens of security products with growing headcount in all areas of their security organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Not only is technology capable of rivaling humans on these core management tasks, it is already playing a pivotal role in helping humans to more effectively accomplish these tasks. In fact, while these basic management tasks may still be a challenge for AI, they are not precisely easy for human managers, either.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

A new wave of entrepreneurs have created innovations that address pressing human needs: a hand-powered solar lamp that reduces a family's dependence on dangerously flammable oil for adequate light; a network of neighborhood-based grocery stores that sell fresh produce; a low-cost infant warmer for vulnerable babies in developing countries.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

This finding is resonant with self-determination theory , a well-established research program in psychology that has identified the universal human need for autonomy. With the rise of social media and digital workplace technologies, it''s easier than ever to connect employees and make engagement contagious.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Feeling safe is a primal human need. When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 26, 2019

From a biological standpoint, social connection is a primal human need. As artificial intelligence further increases the presence and role of machines in people’s day-to-day lives, an unintended consequence is that technology may diminish people’s ability to connect. The Role of Chronic Stress. Cultures of Connection.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Feeling safe is a primal human need. When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

by John • October 17, 2011 • Branding , Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 3 Comments. The conversation in the 2011 branding world is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. The CEO as Chief Brand Custodian. This is the mindset essential to brand resilience.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

When we think of needs and products we often go right to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs , the ubiquitous theory that human needs manifest in a specific sequence, from base survival to the pinnacle of self-actualization. When we talk about human needs, we use four categories: Connection. Uniqueness.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Starbucks is just one of many companies using this type of technology, and it’s not hard to understand why. At a factory in Southern China, for example, executives thought that watching workers would help managers increase productivity and lower costs. Managing people Retail Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

Treating design as an add-on can work when a company commissions a "designer series" of products to briefly boost the brand's appeal, but this is hardly what we mean when we talk about innovation saving your business. Some companies are technology innovators, others are product innovators or experience innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

The first is how much action we need to take. We''re used to hearing that we''ll need to reduce our carbon emissions by some percentage. The blunt reality is that to avoid catastrophic climate change, humanity needs to essentially eliminate all emissions. And we''re entering a city-building boom, both in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

New workplace technology makes possible an unprecedented degree of control over working (and sometimes private) life – the New York Times’s account of tough working conditions in Amazon’s offices is a recent example. To give of their best, humans need to focus, tackle one thing at a time, and reflect deeply.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

I suppose this is partially as a technology executive, I think in startups and technology. As a writer with a corporate sales background, the best advice I can offer is cold call, market and sell your work the same as you would any product. It is much harder than the corporate world! April 2011. March 2011. February 2011.

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