When was the last time your boss asked you to give them some feedback on how they could improve? If your boss is like most managers, you’re probably thinking “I can’t remember the last time they asked me for my perspective on their performance.” This lack of feedback is a big reason why most people […]
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Yvonne: According to some studies, about half or slightly more than half of the people around the world land on the introverted side of the spectrum. Yet, according to one survey, 9 out of 10 people feel pressured to act extroverted.[1] Close your eyes. Picture a great leader. How would you describe that person’s personality
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By Michael Timms | May 12, 2020 Getting things done through others has long been thought to be the primary goal and challenge of leadership. However, the more we learn about people and performance, the more we understand that there is another factor leaders must be concerned with: employee engagement. Ensuring that employees enjoy their work and that
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Greek philosopher Heraclitus is credited with saying, “The only constant is change” around 500 BC. This idea rings true today. I get a close view of the complex change nonprofits face when we do strategic planning together. Managing complex change is inevitable, and it’s something we could all understand a little better. Here is one framework I first saw
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Leaders who understand how brains work can make themselves and their teams more nimble, innovative, and resilient. By Leigh BuchananEditor-at-large, Inc. magazine@LeighEBuchanan Kevin Chin wants his executives to limber up their brains. Chin’s investment company, Arowana, based in Sydney, Australia, is expanding into London, Los Angeles, and Asia, and “it is imperative to have a
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The following piece was authored by Patrick J. McKenna for Ark Group’s publication Managing Legal Change Initiatives. The following represents comments that I offered in a recent interview and are based on my three decades of working with large law firms internationally who invariably are trying to execute a particular strategy, implement a new
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By Nick Jarrett-Kerr | Jan 29, 2019 Lawyers have always been a distrustful bunch, but in the last twenty years the growth of larger law firms on the back of increased accountability and performance management seems to have repressed independence of thought amongst professionals, who have been encouraged to focus much of their effort on fee generation
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