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6 Times Your Leadership Skills are Needed Most

Lead from Within

Successful leaders inspire, encourage, build trust, and boost morale. They also create organizational cultures that act as incubators for the next generation of intelligent leaders. As a leader, it is important to be proactive in addressing issues that may be affecting morale, such as poor communication or lack of recognition.

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How to Tell If a Company Is Good at Innovating or Just Good at PR

Harvard Business Review

There are a variety of legitimate reasons for companies to bolster their innovation capabilities, ranging from fighting against current and emerging competitors to raising morale and attracting younger employees. In many organization, innovation has gone from fringe to buzzword to a must-have.

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The Two Questions to Ask Before You Innovate

Harvard Business Review

But, as this team found out the hard way, there are other reasons to innovate as well, such as boosting employee morale, having social impact, or bolstering a brand. What do operating margins have to be? Certainly, the end goal of many innovations is to generate financial returns. What are ultimate revenue targets?

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How to Manage an Insecure Employee

Harvard Business Review

Is it hurting morale? Ultimately, though, the goal is for your employee to operate more autonomously, says Burris. At the time, Anand was helping to build an incubator for Verizon and the employee — we’ll call him Peter — was a front-end Android developer who had been hired as a contract worker.