The people part of business operations.
Steve McIntosh, Chief Fan Ambassador, Fanhub Everyone seems to know the ‘secrets’ of entrepreneurship—so why are successful businesses so rare? Nearly 90 percent of businesses in the U.S. have less than 20 employees, and half of all businesses close within five years. In tech, the stats are especially grim: Henry Blodget, founder of Business Insider, calculated that only 1 in 200 […]
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Chip R. Bell James Cameron is a “mad scientist”—and the director of the two highest grossing non-franchise movies ever made—Titanic and Avatar. Apple Computer founder and CEO Steve Jobs was a “mad scientist.” So were Ludwig Beethoven, Booker T. Washington, Henry Ford and Amelia Earhart. Yet, who could deny their gigantic contributions or their incredible
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John Canfield Why change meetings? I think changing meetings, so that they can be more collaborative, could be the most important thing an organization could do to improve its performance. If you have decided to move ahead, and develop your organization so it could be more collaborative, improve your meeting
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Jeremy Kingsley, President, OneLife Leadership For many of us-especially those who had lost count of the polar vortexes by mid-January-winter can’t end soon enough. But the transition is rarely an orderly one. It often starts with a deceptively sunny day in February. Everybody breaks out their light jackets and starts talking about taking walks at lunch,
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Dr. Rebecca Bigler, director of The University of Texas at Austin’s Gender and Racial Attitudes Lab, has done a number of experiments with preschoolers and colored T-shirts. In one, she took a classroom of 4 and 5 year olds and put half in red T shirts and the other half in blue T shirts . The children
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With so much of the focus these days being placed on a company’s external messaging, it can be easy to lose focus on your internal communications with employees. The fact is, even excellent ideas don’t amount to much if you can’t communicate the finer points of them to your team. Here are some tips for
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Baloney and blarney share more than similar letter configuration. Each denotes a kind of communication that serves the speaker but not the listener. More sweetened and humorous, blarney uses flattery to deceive and beguile, while baloney does both without the witty flavor. But the outcome remains the same. The listener has not been well served
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By D. Luke Iorio, PCC, CPC, ELI-MP, President & CEO at iPEC The majority of leadership articles focus on what you can do to better lead, impact, and influence others. However, leading others isn’t possible unless you’re, first, leading yourself. Those around you follow your lead, right? At least that’s the intention. You want your
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Dr. Judith Orloff, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA Are you addicted to power? Many leaders are, and it gets in the way of their personal and professional progress. Here’s a mini-profile of a power-addicted leader. He feels he can control everything–and if he can’t, he’s going to try anyway. He believes he can “make things
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Apology speeches are best when they actually include an apology. An apology needs to be an acknowledgment expressing regret or asking pardon for a fault or offense. An apology means something when the audience decides that it is authentic. The audience decides not the speaker. It is not an authentic apology until the audience identifies
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