Virtual meetings are the norm today. No matter your industry, virtual meetings are not only formal, but they can also be engaging. How? By looking to these 6 helpful tips on virtual meeting engagement.
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If you’ve ever faced a difficult challenge, you know the skills and resources required, rarely fall into place for you to solve it immediately.
Read MoreTopics: Business Culture, Company Culture, Employee retention, Harmonious Culture of Accountability, Culture, Strategy vs. Planning, Why Employees Leave, Employee Wellbeing, Employee Acquistion
Good Jobs Strategy - People Are Not a Cost - They Are an Investment
Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, Oct 11, 2021
Topics: People, People Decisions, Harmonious Culture of Accountability, Culture, Rewards & Compensation, Scaling Up Compensation
Scaling Up Compensation - 5 Design Principles for Turning Your Largest Expense into a Strategic Advantage
Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, Oct 4, 2021
Scaling Up Compensation by Verne Harnish, and Sebastian Ross offers great examples of companies that have turned one of the most challenging and thorny issues a business can face into a strategic advantage.
Read MoreTopics: People, People Decisions, Business Culture, Harmonious Culture of Accountability, Culture, Rewards & Compensation, Scaling Up Compensation
What’s the difference between hard and soft skills? Why is it important to develop both? Guest writer Frank Hamilton shares these important considerations.
Read MoreTopics: People, Leadership Training, Growing Your People, Worker Performance
CEO TEST - #1 Can You Develop a Simple Plan for Your Strategy
Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, Aug 2, 2021
The CEO Test: Master The Challenges That Make Or Break All Leaders, authors Adam Bryant, and Kevin Sharer provide the key elements a CEO needs for success. This is not a touchy-feely book, although it does address the need for establishing culture. Nor is it a prescriptive book about how to create the right strategy. It reveals Seven Key Tests to be a successful CEO with key insights from leaders who are provided as examples.
Read MoreTopics: Discipline Plan, Strategy Decision, Strategy - How, Strategy Question, Competitive Strategy, The CEO Test
At $30 Billion, 180-year-old Mass Mutual Insurance bright helium balloons at desks represent an ongoing experiment. The balloons are to stimulate discussion so new ideas and methods can be explored.
Read MoreTopics: Innovation Process, Big Little Breakthroughs, Josh Linkner, 10,000-experiment rule, Richard Sheridan, Menlo Innovations
EIGHT OBSESSIONS OF EVERYDAY INNOVATORS – Break it to Fix it
Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, Jul 19, 2021
In Big Little Breakthroughs: How Small, Everyday Innovations Drive Oversized Results, Josh Linkner shares a wealth of creative ideas on how small breakthroughs can lead to big innovations and results.
Read MoreTopics: Innovation Process, Big Little Breakthroughs, Josh Linkner, 10,000-experiment rule, LEGO
Hubert Jolly’s Best Buy Turnaround “Work is Love Made Visible.”
Posted by Douglas Wick on Tue, Jul 13, 2021
“Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life. And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life’s inmost secret.”
Read MoreTopics: Core Purpose, Clarity of Purpose, Purpose, P-Squared (Passion & Purpose), Hubert Jolly, The Heart of Business
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