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Frontline Festival: Leaders share about favorite apps, technology, and productivity hacks

Let's Grow Leaders

Now on to our topic for June: What tools do you use to stay productive? Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership has been tracking his productivity for around fifty years now. Productivity is never an accident. The other “tool” that helps stay productive: exercise–preferably a good hike in nature.

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Our Stewardship Responsibility

Leading Blog

In Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A , former executive vice-president and chief marketing officer, Steve Robinson explains that for Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A, the most important phase in the purpose statement was, “ by being a faithful Steward.” The stewardship idea guides their marketing. It’s about relationships.

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8 Traits of Ineffective Leaders | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

“My way or the highway&# leadership styles don’t play well in today’s world, will result in a fractured culture, and ultimately a non-productive organization. Not Customer Focused : Leaders not attuned to the needs of the market will fail. They understand the power of, and necessity for contextual leadership.

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Focus - Concentrate on one thing at a time.

Your Voice of Encouragement

In this video I explain why focusing your attention is more productive than trying to handle multiple priorities simultaneously. Unfortunately, multi-tasking has often been perceived as a characteristic of energetic, hard-working, and goal-driven workers; a necessity to get things done in a competitive, time-to-market world.

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Apple: Luxury Brand or Mass Marketer?

Harvard Business Review

Tech blogger John Gruber and The Atlantic’s Robinson Meyer both expressed concern recently about Apple abandoning middle class roots. Meyer writes: So far, Apple has been a company focused on the mainstream, on the mass consumer, in an era where the most reliable profits could be found in the luxury market.

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Love and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Lori Meyer Thank you so much for this post. And there’s no professional development without personal development… In this case, I suspect those leaders who find it difficult to express their compassion publicly could do so with some developmental work.

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What Marissa Mayer should bring to Yahoo

Women on Business

As a CEO she could have set the tone that happy productive employee is more preferable than burnt out ones. Yahoo has had its share of head scratching ideas and now as they make the grab for market space with Google TV and media streaming, it is more important than ever to make sure that they have a plan. A clear strategic vision.