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Why Do You Do What You Do?

Claris Consulting

Why does Jeff Bezos start his senior leadership team meetings in silence? Why does Tom Brady spend voluminous hours studying film of his opponents? Jeff Bezos starts his meetings in silence to create an environment that fosters laser focus and critical thinking. Why does Taylor Swift still take voice lessons?

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Plan a Better Meeting with Design Thinking

Harvard Business

“Sometimes, when I sit in meetings, especially ones in which people don’t seem engaged, I calculate the cost in staff time. So many meetings are lost opportunities.” They should, according to these statistics on meetings: Organizations hold more than 3 billion meetings each year. Daniel Day/Getty Images.

Meeting 28
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Safe Space #9 – the never ending To Do list

The Management Centre

Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues, and gain advice from top learning & development consultants. Here at =mc we encourage every participant we meet on our programmes to get in touch if they have specific issues they want to follow up on. What is the issue? I have just got so much to do.

Meeting 66
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Safe Space #10 – the never ending To Do list

The Management Centre

Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues, and gain advice from top learning & development consultants. Here at =mc we encourage every participant we meet on our programmes to get in touch if they have specific issues they want to follow up on. What is the issue? I have just got so much to do.

Meeting 52
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The One Thing Most People Don’t Realize about Creativity

Billable Percentage

It was relegated to the weekend when I could escape from the daily grind of my work and channel the right-side of my brain to make cool stuff like webcomics, music, and films. Similarly, in creative consulting, some of my best, most creative solutions, by definition, come when I have a set of rules and constraints the solution needs to meet.

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Accountability + Psychological Safety = High Performance

Nash Consulting

Continuous Learning : An environment of continuous learning and development is fostered, with team members feeling safe to express gaps in knowledge and their need for help. For a prime example of this zone, watch the film Office Space.) Equip your team with the tools and training they need to meet high standards.

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Driverless technology: a soon-to-be reality?

Tom Spencer

Flash forward over 30 years, much of the tech that the film predicted has come true. Traditional carmakers are desperately trying to catch up with tech companies who have had a head start in developing driverless tech. But one thing it didn’t get right was the flying cars; instead, the closest thing we have are driverless cars.

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