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Failure is an inevitable part of life, and it is no different in the workplace. In fact, the ability to learn from failure and bounce back from it is an important quality for any employee or employer to possess. Despite this, failure is often stigmatized in the workplace and people are often afraid to admit […]


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It’s been suggested that you can increase team performance by creating values that all members share. Sounds like a great idea, right? What could be better than if everyone had the same red lines, if everyone held themselves to a particular code of ethics, or insisted on a minimum standard of work? Just imagine the […]


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If there is one known constant in the business world, it is change. From corporations with offices on multiple continents to start-ups with only a handful of full-time employees, today’s businesses must change and adapt to survive in the marketplace. Some organizations stumble into change and suffer significant missteps and turmoil along the way, while […]


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Adam Grant, the youngest tenured professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and New York Times bestselling author, suggests that work should be measured in terms of the value of output rather than the volume of output. Productivity is usually about the volume of output, which means that more is better. Grant […]


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Talent flight refers to the sense of a sudden exodus of highly skilled people from the current organization. It’s not a term that employees would use of themselves. Employees would simply say that they were taking advantage of opportunities that, until now, weren’t available to them. Leaders and managers, on the other hand, would describe […]


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Ask 100 managers how they define organizational culture, and you’ll probably get as many different definitions as possible. Even scholars cannot agree; and that means that your definition is as appropriate as anyone else’s. This makes the challenge, however, of creating the culture that you want particularly difficult, because it is almost impossible to hit […]


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The 3rd Industrial Revolution gave us the rise of big data, digital automation, and faster moving markets. At the dawn of this 4th Industrial Revolution (4) what lessons can we learn from the past, so we lead our organizations to create a more valuable future? Data Requires People to Look at the Past Data came and […]



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