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How Google Humanizes Technology In The Workplace and You Can, Too

11 April 2014
Blog Admin
Categories: Communication, Future, Leadership, Technology

Technology keeps us from interacting face-to-face more often, but Google is changing the way we adapt to this new era of communication. The Internet turned 25-years-old a few weeks ago, a milepost that commemorates the day Tim Berners-Lee proposed the creation of a new kind of “information management system,” and…

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Let’s Simplify Innovation

31 March 2014
Blog Admin
Categories: Communication, Innovation, Leadership

What’s your biggest challenge? Remember the Rule of 3 to 5 Start small Innovation. Big, complicated subject. Let’s try to make it just a little simpler together, with a few easy steps… 1. Know Your Biggest Innovation Challenge It’s not some break-the-rules start-up, or a 14 year-old who…

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Why You Should Treat Laughter As A Metric

21 March 2014
Blog Admin
Categories: Communication, Leadership

I was following the same yoga video I had followed more than 30 times in the past. Because I know the routine well, I usually have little trouble breathing rhythmically through the postures, feeling the subtleties of each movement, and sliding gently into a mind-body meditation. This time, though, was…

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3 Tips for Helping Employees Take Ownership In Their Jobs

7 March 2014
Blog Admin
Categories: Employees, General, Leadership, Management

Are your employees owners or renters? Studies have shown that employees who take an ownership in their jobs are more accountable for their performance, helping lead the company to greater success. A leader’s first step in building accountability in a company’s culture is making sure everyone owns something. Everyone needs…

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Realizing Your Olympic Dreams

14 February 2014
Blog Admin
Categories: Leadership, Motivation, Teamwork

Believe it or not, you are only six inches away from experiencing huge successes and breakthroughs in your life. Six inches? Sure! That’s the distance between your ears. What I’m saying is you were created with all the resources needed to make your fondest dreams come true. You only need…

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Lessons In Teamwork from NYT Best-Selling Author, Robyn Benincasa

3 February 2014
Blog Admin
Categories: Leadership, Teamwork

I’ve learned about building world class teams the hard way: by winning the world’s toughest adventure races. From the leech-infested jungles of Borneo to the towering peaks of Tibet, my teams have run, paddled, mountain biked, climbed, and whitewater rafted for up to ten non-stop days and nights, with no…

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Underdog Leadership: The Necessity of Stacking the Odds Against You and Your Organization

3 January 2014
Blog Admin
Categories: Leadership

When I was growing up my dad had a variety of sayings that he repeated many times. His favorite was, “I always cheer for the underdog.” If two teams were competing and he didn’t know either one, he would ask, “Who’s the favorite?” After I told him, he would say,…

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Recruiting the Right People: Nature vs. Nurture in Management and Leadership

9 December 2013
Blog Admin
Categories: Leadership

“It’s amazing what you can achieve when you don’t care who gets the credit.” – Anon Nature vs. Nurture Can leadership be taught? Some years ago, I saw an interview with an ex-Commandant General of the US Marine Corps, in which he was asked a question along the lines…

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Why Companies are (Finally) Falling All Over Each Other to Become Best Places to Work

2 December 2013
Blog Admin
Categories: Leadership

“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” – Former U.S. General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower According to a seemingly endless number of research studies–all arriving at the same…

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