Stanley Abbott, Author, Enjoy Stress In today’s professional world, many in the corporate world believe we can easily fend off or avoid stress. Nothing could be further from the truth. Defined medically, zero stress is death. Stress will automatically be in your life as a consequence of being alive. If you feel unable to cope with […]
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Kate Purmal and Lisa Goldman, Co-authors, The Moonshot Effect: Disrupting Business as Usual CEO of software company Versaic, Burt Cummings learned the hard way about the importance – and power – of making effective requests. After getting into circular and totally unproductive loops with team members involving miscommunications and missed deadlines, Burt got some advice from
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Lisa Messenger, Author, Daring & Disruptive When describing the life of a CEO, ‘busy’ doesn’t cut it. Be they at the start of their business journey when every dollar counts, or helming a team of hundreds, a CEO is usually spread thinner than that precious last scrape of Nutella. Budgets, reports, legal issues, people management
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Dr. William A. Schiemann, CEO, Metrus Group Who wouldn’t like to be more fulfilled? If you’re not feeling totally fulfilled, you’re not alone. Even if you are fulfilled, the odds are that many of your managers and employees are not, according to new study conducted by Metrus Institute. In fact, few Millennials and only some Gen Xers
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Justin E. Crawford, Founder, Agents of Efficiency There are good reasons people take pride in DIY, but it can be a trap for small-business owners. It sucks precious time away from focusing on the core of the business — and there’s nothing more valuable than your time. What makes things worse for small-business owners stuck in the
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Shawn Hunter, President & Founder, Mindscaling What are you thinking about when you are thinking about obligation? What are you thinking about when you are thinking about the things you have to do? Now, what are you thinking about when you are thinking about opportunity? What are you thinking about when you are thinking about the
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In virtually every industry, productivity ebbs and flows, depending on myriad factors. When we see these fluctuations, we rightly conclude that they have occurred because of an increase or decrease in employment engagement. We also hear countless suggestions for getting this right—for correcting the ebbs and banking on the flows. Now it’s time to challenge
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M. Tamra Chandler, CEO & Co-founder, PeopleFirm There is a revolution coming. Within the next decade, virtually all organizations of note will have swapped out their old-school, ineffective performance management programs for something far better suited to today’s chaotic, multi-generational, fast-changing business world. The vanguard is already shifting, with The Gap, Netflix, GE, and Adobe all tweaking
Janice Marturano, Executive Director, Institute for Mindful Leadership Stop for a moment, right now, and ask yourself ‘when was the last time I felt inspired?’ How did feeling inspired affect my performance, my life? Who inspired me and, more importantly, how did they do it? The same busyness and continuous partial attention that can often render
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Jay Friedman, Partner & COO, Goodway Group When I tell CEOs that our entire 300+ person staff works from home, the look I get is nearly always the same. About 10% intrigue and 90% horror. After we get past their assumption that we spend all day video chatting (we use it occasionally but not often), they
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