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Behind every story stock is a great storytelling CEO

Opinion: Innovation and motivation hinge on clear communication It has become fashionable to exhort leaders to tell stories, but why? What’s really at stake? Is it just a matter of making yourself a slightly more interesting leader? No. Stories have enormous power to change our perception of reality. Before…

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A Great Leader Has Three Plans

Great leaders don’t need just one plan – they need three! A strategic plan A professional plan A personal plan The strategic plan is the core to any successful organization. Created through a process of evaluation of the current state, recognition and agreement of where we want to be at…

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

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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Could You Be a Stressaholic?

Stress, like love or beauty, lies in the eyes of the beholder. In perhaps it’s most simple definition, stress is simply a stimulus for change. Positive opportunities such as a family vacation, getting married or even winning the lottery all come with their share of stress and stimulation. And while…

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Let’s Simplify Innovation

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

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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Shine a Light on Your Fears

I believe that many of us spend our lives running wildly through an endless pitch black corridor desperately searching for a light switch. The dark consists of all our fears. Suddenly we find a light switch and frantically turn it on. Light! Relief! Our fears are gone. We are happy.

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Conflict Strategies for Nice People, from Team and Leadership Psychologist, Liane Davey

Do you value friendly relations with your colleagues? Are you proud of being a nice person who would never pick a fight? Unfortunately, you might be just as responsible for group dysfunction as your more combative team members. That’s because it’s a problem when you shy away from open, healthy…

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What’s the Best Kind of Speaker to Open an Event?

We have been helping clients find speakers for their events for 14 years, and without a doubt speakers that focus on some aspect of communications are a great choice to open an event. Conferences are really great pools of information and ideas circulating at a specific venue, but not all…

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