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Team Building 101: Techniques to Improve Your Team’s Productivity

Women on Business

Once the shopping budget and the spree deadline are set, each team develops a purchasing strategy which it believes would best help the charity, from assessing what it would need based on its mission statement and/or other information. Volunteer At Your Company’s Local School.

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What Employee Handbook Topics Should You Cover?

HR Digest

The HR Digest has curated a list of employee handbook topics that’ll come in handy when you set up the organization’s human resources policies. By clearly setting out company policies, the handbook can promote a safe, productive and positive work environment – and one free from improper or harmful conduct.

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A Manifesto’s Unbridled Power

In the CEO Afterlife

Cook said, W e’re on the face of the earth to make great products. We believe we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution. Mission Statements are full of illusionary and distant visions.

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3 Tips to Designing a Startup Office Where People Want to Work

Chart Your Course

If you want to make employees more productive and happier to be working for your startup, office design is key. Since technology enables always-on productivity, workers are embracing flexible hours that provide a better work-life balance. Displaying your company mission statement in an artistic way. Add Some Personality.

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Strategic Planning Alternatives: Mission Discernment

LDRLB

John Bell wrote a great post called “Why Mission Statements Suck”. I agree, but only because most organizations write the mission statement, post it on their boardroom wall and then forget about it (until the next SP retreat of course). Mission is usually figurative, not integrative. 2010, Nov-Dec).

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Strategic Planning Alternatives: Mission Discernment

LDRLB

John Bell wrote a great post called “Why Mission Statements Suck”. I agree, but only because most organizations write the mission statement, post it on their boardroom wall and then forget about it (until the next SP retreat of course). Mission is usually figurative, not integrative. 2010, Nov-Dec).

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Work That Matters starts with Matters that Work

In the CEO Afterlife

The outcome is lower stress, lower turnover, and higher productivity – in business, a ‘win-win’ for employees, customers and shareholders. We read about these factors in the quintessential mission statements that occupy real estate in annual reports and gather dust in reception lobbies. The logic is infallible.

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