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Value Is Not Diminished by Distance

Alan Weiss

Remember, for a paying client, your value is not diminished by not being present locally. In fact, your value may be increased through the flexibility (and your ability to use remote media wisely). Stop lowering your fees and start raising your marketing efforts.

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Leadership Trust Killers: 4 Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make

Organizational Talent Consulting

The distance from the frontline increases as a leader ascends within an organization threatening the leader's credibility about the work. When leaders make decisions without listening or think a paycheck is enough of a thank you, it diminishes leadership credibility. I inherently trust most people. I also can quickly distrust people.

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Making Time to Really Listen to Your Patients

Harvard Business

It allows physicians to assume the role of the trusted intermediary who not only provides relevant medical knowledge but also translates it into options in line with patients’ own stated values and priorities. All of this serves to diminish the joy of serving patients, thereby contributing to high rates of physician burnout.

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The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader

Harvard Business

Absentee leadership resembles the concept of rent-seeking in economics — taking value out of an organization without putting value in. .” But they both knew it wasn’t true — the organization was in disarray, turnover was excessive, and customers were not happy. You and Your Team Series. Emotional Intelligence.

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Uber’s New CEO Will Have to Win on Two Fronts Simultaneously

Harvard Business

market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. Khosrowshahi has much working in his favor. Remarkably, Uber has been hit by all four problems at once — a perfect storm that we rarely saw in our work.

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When Burnout Is a Sign You Should Leave Your Job

Harvard Business

You have the right to have work that enriches and enlivens you, rather than diminishing you. I looked for ways to create value for my employer that exploited my strengths. I was unable to achieve any psychological distance from the stresses of my workplace. Hamish Blair/Getty Images. Yet it’s surprisingly controversial.

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business

By the mid-1980’s, the American semiconductor industry seemed like it was doomed. Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. Much like cars and electronics, microchips seemed destined to become another symbol of American decline. The Valley of Death.