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Servant Leadership: The Antidote to Toxic Workplaces

Rick Conlow

Employees want and need leaders who are humane, empathetic and skilled in emotional intelligence. Managers of the future will have the people skills to lead highly productive and engaging hybrid work teams. Companies lose $22 trillion dollars a year globally in poor productivity and performance because of toxic workplaces.

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Will Cognitive Computing Disrupt the High-Skill Labor Market?

Tom Spencer

Striding along Omotesando Street in Harajuku, Tokyo in summer 2 years ago, I came across Pepper , an emotionally intelligent humanoid robot created by Softbank Robotics Holdings Group (SBRH) in one of its more grandiose Softbank Mobile stores. She greeted and guided customers through the shop.

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12 Tips to Better Manage Virtually

LSA Global

But, when teams are virtual, you need to double down on the fundamental management and team skills that you learned in new supervisor training. Clear expectations, especially for virtual teams, reduce uncertainty and enhance trust and productivity. Provide Virtual Team Tools and Training. Let your team know what you expect.

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Understanding Customers by Blending Human Insight and Machine Learning

Harvard Business

My company is in the business of helping other firms create new products and services that will be both functionally useful and emotionally resonant with customers. Chief among them are the biases implicit in the training sets themselves, which can lead to wrong, ineffectual, or even unethical conclusions.

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Why You Should Tell Your Team to Take a Break and Go Outside

Harvard Business

After all, research shows that a happier workplace is more productive. Leaders participate in mindfulness and compassion trainings and are coached to learn emotional intelligence. One study found that exposure to greenery through office plants boosted not just employee well-being but also productivity - by 15%!

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How Rudeness Stops People from Working Together

Harvard Business

Twenty-four medical teams from four neonatal intensive care units in Israel were invited to a training workshop designed to improve quality of care. Teams were told that an expert from the United States would be watching them remotely (with video) and would occasionally comment and advise them. Leaders set the tone.