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Doing Less, Leading More

Harvard Business Review

Sometimes this has the desired effect–as Daniel Goleman wrote in his HBR article “ Leadership that Gets Results ,” this “pacesetting” leadership style “works well when all employees are self-motivated, highly competent, and need little direction or coordination.”

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Desperately Seeking Simplicity

Harvard Business Review

An example was a discussion session of tired-looking European finance ministers, defensive and elusive about the speed of acting on the Euro crisis. I heard it in a session led by Professor Michael Porter and Dean Nitin Nohria of the Harvard Business School who were sharing a research project on declining American Competitiveness.

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Five Good Reasons to Champion Auto-Analytics in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

The recent boom in auto-analytics, or "self-tracking," or "self quantification" has been playing out mostly as a consumer trend — as something we do during our leisure time to become more deliberate about personal fitness, finances, or diet. See here for an excellent list of 500 auto-analytic tools.)

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Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review contributors Daniel Goleman and Bill George have described mindfulness as a means to listen more deeply and guide actions through clear intention rather than emotional whims or reactive patterns. Visualize positive outcomes : As Daniel Goleman argues , positivity is part and parcel of focused attention.

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New Books from HBR Press for August

Harvard Business Review

No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up) — your world is awash with data. by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee. by Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim.

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