Welcome back. You belong here. Language and communication is such an important issue with regards to Immigration (and I don’t mean learning Spanish). I mean, how do you present it so that both citizens and non-citizens can put fear or anger aside and have a conversation. Yesterday, Jenn Piper from the Americans Friends Service Committee, […]
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Welcome back. You belong here. My Communication Grid. The circles are “communication balls” that get dropped. My job is to develop a culture that picks them up off the floor. Have a great day. Into the future, davidT
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Welcome back. You belong here. Back at work, communication breakdowns in many places. I spoke to one of our producers today and she was pretty frustrated at the “lack of communication.” How many times have you heard that? Looking back at last week (I was off last week), the issue is nobody picked up the
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Welcome back. You belong here. I prefer Keynote, but rules still apply. rules of powerpointoptimal slides in a powerpoint is TENgive slides in 20 minutesmost of the time, people need 45 minutes to get the laptop to work with the projectoroptimal point font size is 30 pointsrule of thumb: take the oldest person in the
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Welcome back. You belong here. Leaders do get discouraged and sometimes even quit when the status quo gets in the way of change. From a friend who recently quit due to opposition to progress: “I’m sorry you didn’t know that I was leaving. It has been quite the fuel for the gossip fire lately. I
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Welcome back. You belong here. This one is not on innovation, but on something deeper, on my amazing life with my wife and children and Family Council, so maybe it is on innovation, communication and collaboration after all. We just finished Family Council, and it was amazing, one of the best ones in a long
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Welcome back. You belong here. Seth’s Blog: Getting serious about your meeting problem. I’m going to try #4 and #5… 4. Remove all the chairs from the conference room. I’m serious. 5. If someone is more than two minutes later than the last person to the meeting, they have to pay a fine of $10
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Welcome back. You belong here. These are the traits visionary leaders posses, plus being very bad at details and thinking too much! “Visionary leaders possess many traits, including: The unique ability to see exactly where they want to go. Plus, being emotionally connected to where they want to be. The ability to help people around
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Welcome back. You belong here. During this recessions, wages and jobs are decreasing, but companies are increasing Innovation spending. “The Innovation Climate Survey also asked practitioners what innovation strategies they were using: – Looking for creative ways to improve or extend your existing products (50.9%)– Looking for opportunities to improve collaboration (47.2%)-Increasing focus on changing
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Welcome back. You belong here. Listening to podcast by Dr. Vijay Govindarajan of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth: Innovation: Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: 1. Box#1 – Manage the Present2. Box#2 – Selectively Forget the Past3. Box#3 – Create the Future Most companies focus on Box#1. Innovation is about Box#2 and #3. Strategy
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