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Accomplish Important Tasks by Not Sweating the ‘Small Stuff’
The "small stuff" is keeping executives and employees alike from accomplishing their important tasks. Finding a way to overcome the little things will go a long way toward addressing bigger goals and ...
‘Hyper-Learning’ Could Be Good Tool to Rapidly Transform Your Company
Hyper-learning — the process of continuously learning and unlearning — is a way to help transform companies and other large organizations trying to adapt in the Digital Age, a University of ...
Executives: Treat Employees Just Like Your Primary Customers
Executives: Treat your employees just like primary customers and good things will happen. This leadership tip comes from S. Chris Edmonds, an executive consultant, speaker and author who wrote a ...
6 Qualities of a Strong Insurance Leader
Sometimes leadership sneaks up on us. It starts out with our volunteering on a committee or speaking up at a meeting. Someone may nudge us at first, giving us encouragement. Or perhaps we raise our ...
Become a CEO by Starting Small and Making Big Leaps
So you want to be a CEO. What's the fastest way of getting there? One answer is to start small first, in order to go big later. Another is to simply take a risk and make a huge leap to a higher ...
Share Your Story: Sexual Harassment and the Workplace
From Hollywood to the corporate world, sexual harassment — the making of unwanted sexual advances or obscene remarks — is drawing greater public scrutiny than ever before. Victims (mostly women) ...
A Little Nudging Goes a Long Way Toward Helping Your Team Make Better Decisions
A little nudging is one way an executive can help make his or her team make better decisions. Lisa Shu, assistant professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School, explains in a new ...
For Executives, Transparency Isn’t Always a Good Thing
Transparent decision-making processes aren't necessarily a good thing for executives and the companies they run. The reason: Company heads may end up never hearing honest, valuable perspectives. ...