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Is give-and-take an old-fashioned notion?

Lead Change Blog

While companies provide wages in exchange for work, less care is taken with providing training and development, minimizing bias, not expecting 24 x 7 email availability, and consulting employees on issues that concern them. Six people volunteered to develop a workbook for a nonprofit workshop.

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Leadership and Time

N2Growth Blog

Through making good use of personal time, leveraging staff and technology, working across different time zones, associating with quality people and organizations, managing risk, understanding opportunity, and having a laser like focus on highest and best use principles, it is quite possible to leverage time by creating scale.

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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2019

Leading Blog

Too many leaders approach complexity the wrong way—they push their people harder and harder and tackle problems one at a time over months, sometimes even years, and nearly always in a linear fashion. Everyday Chaos : Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility by David Weinberger.

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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

While some companies talk a good game with regard to competitive strategy, in my experience very few businesses actually address the issue in adequate fashion. If we didn’t study films and scouting reports, develop plays that would exploit match-ups, and execute our game plan we would lose…it was as simple as that.

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Fashion Friends Make a Fresh Start :: Women on Business

Women on Business

More than that, we had confidence in the idea that we were truly going to be introducing a new kind of shopping experience to the fashion-forward customer. This we believed to be particularly true in terms of the sorts of brands that we were going to be offering.

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Hackathons Allow Developers To Try Out Platforms

The Horizons Tracker

The developer world is a rapidly changing one, and it demands practitioners keep on top of the latest languages and platforms. Becoming fluent, however, can take some time, especially as the number of platforms largely demands developers focus their time and energy rather than spread themselves too thinly. Testing the waters.