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How to Improve Your Managerial Skills

Strategy Driven

A professional career as a business manager, regardless of size, scope, or industry, demands a certain set of skills, unlike many other job roles. With that being said, here is how to improve your managerial and leadership skills.

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What’s the Secret to Strong Leadership?

Great Leadership By Dan

They accept obstacles as part and parcel of the process. Technology has connected more people in more places at more times than ever before. Instead of commanding, they need to become skilled facilitators. Collaborative leaders call on a variety of skills. Collaboration If there’s one constant in 2020, it’s change.

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Psychology of Time – The Impact on Your Orientation

CO2

Cohen Full Bio Leadership • Lifestyle • Media and Technology [link] Tony Murphy Hi Gary, I agree this RSA lecture and animation is really cool. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Technology and its role in travel 2.0 About the Author As President and Co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc.,

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Sometimes Cutting R&D Spending Can Yield More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. In fact, we think Cisco is one of the all-time best at this corporate skill.

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What to Do When Each Department Uses Different Words to Describe the Same Thing

Harvard Business Review

Specialized vocabularies develop in the business world every day to support new or specialized disciplines, departments, problems, and innovative opportunities. Instead, companies must thread the needle, following two rules: First, do all you can to encourage innovation and the growth of specialized language that comes with it.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

The induced innovation literature has taught us that drug companies focus their efforts on researching and marketing new drugs for which there is expected to be great demand (think of aging baby boomers’ aching knees). Innovation in Cities. Anywhere where skilled traders and bankers cluster will become a productive hub.

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Workforce Analytics Isn't as Scary as It Sounds

Harvard Business Review

ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." The goal is simple: put the right people with the right skills in the right work. How can we share insights and innovations that allow our employees to be more productive? Take Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times. A man who is. Take Sprint.

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