Your Policies Should Match Your Intentions
Yesterday in Bangkok we ran a workshop called NEW LEADERS: Managing and Leading for the First Time. Our participants came from a variety of industries, including hospitality, banking, recruitment, manufacturing, and food production. We spent the day looking at the role a leader plays in boosting their employees’ effectiveness, establishing effective relationships with your employees […]
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Mar, 18, 2015
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Maintaining Your Own Balance
This week the Internet exploded briefly with stories headlined “Google CFO retires with a candid memo about work/life balance,” or something similar. Patrick Pichette announced his departure from Google and what sounded like a retirement, though many commenters predict he will be back to work somewhere else soon, just as soon as he satisfies his […]
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Mar, 13, 2015
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Be Up Front, In Front
As a leader, your main job is to make decisions. There are plenty of other things you do that help your employees do their job, but the bottom line is, you need to make the decisions that take your organization in a particular direction and turn opportunities into realities. I like to say that sometimes […]
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Mar, 11, 2015
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Book Review: Closing the Innovation Gap
Judy Estrin is worried about the innovation gap that developed in America in the early part of this century. Her ideas for overcoming it are useful for any country that is trying to build up some degree of innovation and creativity in business and technology. Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in […]
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Mar, 09, 2015
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Shift the Learning, Shift the Style
A few years ago, the American radio show All Things Considered talked about the new way of learning to design video games. In days of old (which was only, what, 25 years ago?) most video game designers learned from other designers, a form of apprenticeship that was common 200 years ago and is still often […]
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Mar, 06, 2015
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