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Flip the Switches in the Brain: 5 Ways to Motivate Your Team, Staff, or Client

Leadership

The brain has two important electrical circuits for motivation. One activates feelings of reward and the other, feelings of threat. Whether staff, teams or clients, the reward circuit is the more reliable, long-term motivator of behavior. Unfortunately, the threat circuitry (via the amygdala) is more easily activated. The good news is that you can, with […]

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Best Practices for Big Data: On What Business Leaders Should Focus on and Why

Management

Ruth Veloria, Executive Dean, The University of Phoenix School of Business Essential Question: How can the CEO or business leader use data analytics to the benefit of his or her organization? How can data help inform decisions, drive customer engagement and streamline business operations beyond what we’re seeing now? In 1946, an era of incredible

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Learning What Leadership Is NOT

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Self Governance, Small Business

Leadership has been the tip of everyone’s tongue of the last decade. From convention keynoters, to coaches, to political pundits, everyone insists they want a cadre of leaders to carry out their mission. So for all the talk, techniques, training, and tips on the leadership topic, you’d think managers, executives, and professionals at all levels

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Supplier or Advisor?

Small Business

This past week I had two very different interactions that caused me to think about how my business interacts with customers. The two customers have some common characteristics. They are both successful organizations with dedicated staffs and competent CEOs. But there are big differences in the way they work with outside resources. Customer #1 is

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the ceo magazine, negotiation,

Enhancing Your Negotiator Power

Management

Dr. Robin L. Pinkley, Professor, Management and Organizations, Cox School of Business at SMU Whether professional negotiator or novice, you negotiate when you rise in the morning until you sleep at night, over everything from carpool duty with your spouse to managing relations with external vendors.  Shifting organizational forms, unprecedented economic pressures, and the need to

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the ceo magazine, personal growth,

Taking a Chance on Life

Self Governance

Bill Thompson I spent twenty years in the corporate world creating, building, and selling companies and twenty more helping my son grow a computer memory manufacturing operation he’d started at age fourteen. Over that stretch I held every “chief” title there was, it seemed—except Chief Financial Officer. I was always smart enough to know someone

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