The people part of business operations.
Louise Kelly, CEO & Founding Executive, EnerBank In less than a month, I will be retiring as CEO of EnerBank USA. This decision didn’t come lightly. I’ve spent most of my life in banking: much of it in the mid-Atlantic region and, for the last 13 years in Salt Lake City, as the founding executive […]
Osnat Lautman, Management Consultant Understanding the power that cross-cultural communication wields on business operations is one of the most important components of international business success. Today’s corporate leaders work in an environment suffused with new technologies that make national boundaries less important, and the Internet enables us to communicate in spite of time differences and
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Think of the questions you asked or were asked at your last company meeting. It’s likely that you heard one, if not more of the following questions: What do you think? Are there any questions? What’s next? What’s the problem? What are the results? What’s the agenda for the
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The Institute for Health and Human Potential conducted a survey for our New York Times bestselling book, Performing Under Pressure, The Science of Doing More Your Best When it Matters Most (Crown Business, 2015), asking senior leaders about the impact on them and their teams when they were tasked to do more with less. Here
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No one sees a flower, really. We haven’t time. For to see a flower takes time, like to have a friend takes time. – Georgia O’Keefe The holidays are upon us. The air is crisp; the few remaining leaves crackle. As we dig out last year’s coats, we reach towards next year’s potential. Ambitious, we
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Is your organization stuck in the Engagement Paradox? Time and again, we see that the more leaders try to manage engagement, the more disengaged their employees actually become. So what causes this paradox? It’s not that employees don’t want to be engaged; many are committed and loyal workers who come in early, stay late, and try
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Ruth Veloria, Executive Dean, University of Phoenix School of Business Entrepreneurship is not just reserved for business owners. While many workers still dream of being their own bosses, today employees are also leveraging their entrepreneurial talents inside their organizations to be “intrapreneurial” at work. Companies that embrace this spirit and create entrepreneurial environments not only
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When was the last time you had a good belly laugh. I mean one of those laughs that consumes every part of your body, that literally stops you in your tracks, almost gasping for air… that kind of laughter. Have you ever thought about it? When was the last time you laughed like that? Or
When leaders continually and constantly grapple with tough questions and develop a list of standards that serves as more than a pretty poster, their beliefs serve as the bedrock of the organization’s strategy and provide guidelines about how and what to change. When beliefs veer from espoused values and create a dysfunctional or confusing set
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Top talent is crucial to your company’s success. Without it, you’re not in business. That’s why no task on a CEO’s agenda is more important than recruiting and retaining top talent. In today’s employment market, that takes work. A recent survey from the society for Human Resource Management found that 59 percent of HR executives
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