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Are Bosses With Integrity Less Innovative?

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To measure a CEO’s level of integrity, researchers assigned higher scores to those who used fewer causation words in their letters. In addition to measuring integrity, the researchers also analyzed shareholder letters for keywords that are highly correlated with innovation, proactiveness, and risk-taking.

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Investors Can Influence Firms Via Dear CEO Letters

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Such is the popularity of CEO letters, famed biographer Walter Isaacson wrote his latest book largely around the letters to stakeholders from former Amazon boss Jeff Bezos. Research from the University of Georgia explores how influential these letters are both inside and outside the business. ” Influencing others. .

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From Fiasco to Opportunity: How to Reframe a Team Setback With Better Words

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It’s a narrative that can create a toxic work environment , stymie innovation, and prevent your team from adapting to change. By shifting your team’s vocabulary, you can open the door to new solutions, foster innovation , and promote a culture of continuous improvement. What’s Our Next Move?”

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Overcome the Great Resignation: How Great Leaders Put People Before Projects

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The CEO and Board Chair had looked at the ten previous resignation letters and, seeing the similarities in complaints about toxic culture, concluded that those ten executives must have “had a letter-writing party” to craft such similar messages. Cultivate Curiosity–for innovations, improvements, and efficiencies.

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Ambiverts win - Daniel Pink at World Innovation Forum.

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People were sent a personal letter to donate that has a specific and easy way to act. From those predisposed - huge response in his test (44%) compared to only 8% when the the letter was general "dear student". Those who were not got a 0 response rate when they were not predisposed to a general letter (as expected).

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A Fresh, Fast, and Fun Way to Focus Your Team

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” That approach will get the job done, but it’s unlikely to unleash breakthrough innovation or a head-turning year. The End of Year Letter. Ask each member of your team to write you a letter, as if it were January 2018. A Fresh, Fast, and Fun Way to Focus Your Team (or Yourself).

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Research Explores How ChatGPT Can Help Writers

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The study revealed that when applied to tasks such as composing cover letters, delicate emails, and cost-benefit analyses, generative AI resulted in increased productivity among workers.

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