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3 Valuable Insights Leaders Can Learn From Neuroscience

Tanveer Naseer

This is a cultural intervention in which leaders seek out a few employees who are already known to be master motivators, adept at inspiring strategic awareness among their colleagues. These master motivators are invited to recommend specific measures that enable better ways of working. That’s where neuroscience comes in.

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How To Better Engage Your Employees

Strategy Driven

Leadership has to step up and take the initiative if you want to experience real change. You don’t know what your employees want or what motivates them unless you ask. For example, if you have a call center, try sprucing it up by implementing call center gamification. Ask for their Feedback.

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The Third Ring: Enhanced Service That Delights Customers

The Practical Leader

The first two rings (my last two blog posts) deal with things — technology, products, services, systems, processes, structures, and so on. That service delivery is often performed by the most junior of our employees, often the lowest-paid and presumably least-motivated.&#. That’s even truer today.

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“We Had Gone Back 20 Years.” The Heads of Puerto Rico’s Largest Media Company on Life After Hurricane Maria

Harvard Business Review

Our call centers became the FEMA call centers. For example, now with our call center experience, we are competing for the call centers for the U.S. Or a desire to invest in other newer parts of the business — the solar, the housing, the call centers, etc? and Caribbean.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. In an experiment, we approached the call center of a bank’s consumer loans business. (We’ve This call center employed all the best practices of the day: A psychologist created scripts of talking points.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. How People Get Ahead. They pursue management challenges.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle. Deborah DiSanzo, the CEO of Philips Healthcare, was once a CMO.

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