Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Before getting to my tips on how management can get started with this mission, it’s important to review the various definitions of mental health. Mental Health Defined. At its core, mental health is “the emotional resilience which allows us to enjoy life, create friendships and be productive at our jobs.”

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Presenteeism Strategy Absenteeism Fashion 239

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Reality check: Great presenters have the mindset of a great Sales Manager. Just ask the Sales Manager. In addition, you may have put together great content for that Human Resources talk, but tomorrow you are talking to the marketing team. Simply, you can’t beat good old-fashioned hard work.

Self-aware 279

Self-aware Content Audience Tips 279

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

I didn’t think I was going to enjoy Kevin Murray’s new book on how top CEOs communicate to inspire, influence and achieve results. In an easy to read story-telling fashion, the author sticks to his main topic – but in very short order, he identifies the critical issues leaders should be communicating and why. I have to be honest.

Fashion 197

Fashion Crisis Audience Entrepreneur 197

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

We also find regional knowledge out of fashion in business schools, a critical shortcoming that the Tony Elumelu Foundation is addressing in a new program called the African Markets Internship Programme (AMIP), which began just last month.

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

You use old-fashioned search techniques. For example, when Andy started his job search as a senior manager in marketing for a major nonprofit, he hadn’t taken the time to create a compelling online presence for himself – he didn’t think he needed to. Write a letter directly to the CEO. Real people will be straight with you.

Bottom-up 11

Bottom-up Seminar Career Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

If the operation being closed or downsized is large or historically important to the company, the CEO should make at least one visit. Other executives — the division manager or the head of the business unit — should be visible from beginning to end. Manage the closure or layoff like a project. Set the tone.

Hammer 8

Hammer Operations Quality Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

When I was CEO of ThedaCare in Wisconsin, we chose a medical-surgical unit at our Appleton Medical Center in 2007 as the place to develop an innovative process for caring for inpatients we dubbed Collaborative Care. I studied its model-cell work for my book Management on the Mend.) It involves several steps: Begin with one unit.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8