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Guest Post from David Burkus
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So much of the struggle of working on teams comes down to one key task: getting a team aligned. Aligned teams lead to better engagement, performance, and retention. Getting and keeping a team aligned is a key task for leaders at all levels. But recognizing the importance of alignment is a lot easier than actually getting everyone on the same page.
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Guest Post from Mike Shipulski
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I don’t like resolutions, but I do like looking back to assess how spent my time differently over the previous year. Below is a short exercise that could help you get ready for 2024.
Below are some questions intended to help you assess how you spent your time differently in 2023. Take fifteen seconds, or so, to think through each one.
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Guest Post from Shep Hyken |
Are your customers happy, or not? How do you know? How often do you ask them? If you do ask them, and they tell you, what do you do with that information?
This is all about customer feedback. If a customer is willing to take the time to give you feedback, good or bad, it’s a gift.
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Guest Post from Robyn Bolton |
It’s been over 20 years since “Psychological Safety” exploded onto the scene and into the business lexicon. But as good as it sounded, I always felt like it was one of those “safe space, everyone gets a trophy, special snowflake” things we had to do to make the Millennials (and subsequent generations) happy.
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Guest Post from Dennis Stauffer |
You’ve no doubt heard—and perhaps used—the expression: Don’t reinvent the wheel. Or another overused cliché: If it’s not broken, don’t fix it. Both get injected into conversations and ideation sessions to reject ideas perceived to be redundant or weak, and both are profoundly bad advice.
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Guest Post from Greg Satell |
In 1957, Ken Olsen founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) with his MIT classmate, Harlan Anderson, and by the 1960s, the company had pioneered the minicomputer revolution. Much cheaper than IBM mainframes, but still powerful enough to be useful, these machines helped make DEC one of the world’s leading technology companies.
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We hope you had a great 2023 and that your new year gets off to a flying start!
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