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How to Use Reflection to Bring Out Your Best in the New Year

Organizational Talent Consulting

Reflection facilitates learning, provides perspective on self-limiting beliefs when used purposefully, and improves productivity. Evidence suggests spending 15 minutes a day improves productivity by as much as 23% more than those without reflection time. Journal of Work-Applied Management. Why Reflection Makes A Big Difference.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

Emotional intelligence helps you build better relationships, reduce workplace stress, create productive conflict and improve employee retention. Appreciative Inquiry is a positive, strength-based approach to change management that can bring new life to change initiatives. Nursing Management, 21 (8), 15-15.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models? How effectively has the company adapted its legacy business to change and disruption, giving it new life? That vision prompted Danone to divest product lines such as biscuits and beer while broadening its core dairy franchise.

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After a Merger, Don’t Let “Us vs. Them” Thinking Ruin the Company

Harvard Business

What makes sense on paper — i.e. a high-end product-line company merging with a low-end product-line company — can devolve into an us vs. them dynamic as the companies’ different approaches and cultures inevitably conflict.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

They came up with incredible solutions in change management and supporting tools for the human resources side of marketing and sales. Its recommended outputs yield greater revenue, lower costs, increase productivity and improve overall business performance. Medical Products and Services. Industries. Communications.

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The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business

An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver something of value to customers, rather than focus simply on products and sales. It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. Bagged salad would not have risen to what is now, a $2.5-billion-a-year