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What Should You Start/Stop/Continue Doing?
Feedback exchange needs to be simple and action-oriented. We outline a streamlined, easy-to-implement version of the standard “review process.”
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Strive for the IKEA Effect
Instilling a do-it-yourself ethos in your team, and even your customer base, can encourage ownership and engagement.
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Questions All Young Entrepreneurs Should Ask
These days, ideas mean business. We examine three questions you'll want to ask yourself when approaching your ideas as an entrepreneur.
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Reduce Your Level of Insecurity Work
It's easy to fall into a pattern of incessantly checking business-related stats to soothe our anxieties. But how much data tracking is too much?
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Avoid The Trap of Business Narcissism
When it comes to our own lives, we are often prone to thinking that every calamity or challenge that we encounter is a one-off, or "special case".
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Care for Chemistry Before People
Hiring great people is important. But we don't work in a vacuum. Tending to the chemistry of your team is crucial for long-term success.
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Focus on Results, Not Time
More hours spent at the office doesn't necessarily mean more things accomplished. We look at shifting the perspective from clock-time to results-time.
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Taking A Team’s Temperature
The chemistry of a creative team is absolutely critical for making ideas happen. Yet when a problem is brewing, our tendency is often to block it out.
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Stop Focusing on Visionaries
The vast majority of
new products fail; and the
root of the problem is the visionary’s tendency to focus on fellow
visionaries.
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Question Your Elders
While we don't want to waste our time reinventing the wheel, it's also true that new insights often question the conventional wisdom of our elders.
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Rely on Initiative, Not Experience
One’s past experience is typically regarded as the best indication of future success. But is it really the best way to judge a candidate?
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Fight Your Way to Breakthroughs
Many of us tend to shy away from confrontation, but the upside of disagreement is that it forces teams to explore the full range of possible solutions.…
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