Dateline: January 24, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week we continue to explore personal leadership topics, since January is a time of reflection, resolutions and personal-objectives-setting. Recently, Nancy Settle-Murphy, President of Guided Insights, published an article at Executive Briefs titled Great (Virtual) … [Read more...]
Toxic Habits of an Organization
January 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: January 17, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. January seems to be a time of taking stock of ourselves and doing a personal inventory of our strengths and our opportunities for growth. Recently, Fast Company published a blog titled, "How to Turn your Toxic Habits into Better Patterns of Behavior" and that caught my … [Read more...]
Most Impactful Ideas of 2013 According to HBR
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Dateline: January 3, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. To kick off our new year, this post is not really about one idea…but about 7. At the beginning of each year as a way to wrap up the past year, we look for the most insightful 'summary'. This year, we found just the list at Harvard Business Review's Blog Network by Katherine … [Read more...]
IT for Economic Growth
December 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 13, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Last month, former President Bill Clinton addressed an audience in China about the role of IT in creating economic wealth. Clinton contends universal access to high-speed broadband raises education levels across any given community, which in turn creates the skills needed to … [Read more...]
Structure Deadlines that Work
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Dateline: November 29, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent blog post from Fast Company came to the surprising conclusion that setting 'extremely short' deadlines was not just more productive, but reduced anxiety and made work less boring. Building on Parkinson’s Law about how work expands to fill the available time, Blogger … [Read more...]
