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What is a Great Teammate, and WHY Should You Be One at Your Workplace?

Great Results Team Building

In my book, The 10 Commandments of Winning Teammates , the main character has lost his job and is traveling to take on a new position in a nother town – and during the journey, he asks each of the people he talks with one very interesting question: “Who is the best teammate you ever had?

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Smart Ways To Enhance the Efficiency of Your Business

Strategy Driven

While prioritizing the quality of your products or services is quite okay, checking on every small detail rather than delegating can lead to wastage of everyone’s valuable time. You can also put the money you saved up from outsourcing into marketing, innovation, and any other aspects that are vital for the smooth running of your business.

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. The principle then travels down through the various functions, and ends at sea level with an individual’s daily “to do list.” This journey isn’t an easy one.

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Leadership Lessons from Outward Bound

Skip Prichard

Regardless of the focus of the endeavor or the product or service of an organization, Expeditionary Leaders like Arthur know that they are ultimately responsible for the well-being of other people—those they lead, those they encounter—and for the web of relationships that flow from their center. .” ” -Warren Bennis. .

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How Homesickness Can Harm Migrants Performance At Work

The Horizons Tracker

New research from Harvard Business School highlights the scale of this mistake, especially in terms of our productivity at work. The company randomly assigns people to work at one of eight production centers across India. It’s one of those ’embarrassing’ impediments that one is expected to suck up and get on with it.

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Be Flexible, Attract Talent

Marshall Goldsmith

With hiring freezes and layoffs, companies increasingly are asking themselves how to produce the results they need with limited or decreasing human resources. One innovative firm in the Bay Area, Flexperience, has created a different talent market: experienced professionals who seek flexible work opportunities.

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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. And it’s one that stems from a very human problem in most big organizations. It seems we’re all racing to get more entrepreneurial.