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Leading by Lending a Hand to Others

Harmonious Workplaces

These insights underscore the need for leaders to maintain regular, constructive communication with their teams. The relationship between workers and their leaders can make or break the way organizations operate. For instance, in a previous role, a former football coach played the part of a VP for a construction firm.

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What's Servant Leadership?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Businesses need leaders able to take action amid economic uncertainty and operate effectively in a digital workplace with a diverse workforce. Studies reveal that a servant leadership style improves employee productivity and creativity. Innovation is required to remain relevant and succeed in a fast-paced digital marketplace.

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Flourishing in a Social Enterprise World

Tom Spencer

Your employer operates with the express aim of benefiting members of the community and reinvests all profits to further its social aims. Imagine waking up in a world where you feel positive and motivated about going to work, knowing that your work provides value to customers in a way that is sustainable and responsible.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. In addition to improved product quality and delivery times, the lean approach has been linked to improved terms of employment. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business

The most basic form of communication is constructing a compelling story. For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating. He wrote a short document titled Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager and used it to train his team on his basic expectations.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

Development is hard pressed to interface with operations. Yet it is extremely important that this interface be workable because developments are not relevant until they find their way into operations. An operation is charted to preserve the status quo, the current thinking and methods. Operations are based in control.

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Why Mass Migration Is Good for Long-Term Economic Growth

Harvard Business

Higher diversity is therefore associated with lower productivity, which inhibits the capacity of the economy to operate efficiently. At the same time, diversity in societal norms, customs, and ethics can nurture technological innovation and the diffusion of new ideas, and thus the production of a greater variety of goods and services.