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Business Leadership | Communicate | Delegating | Fictional Case | Leader-Follower | Leading Teams | Prioritizing A Fictional Case This fictional case illustrates two scenarios: (1) How a mismanaged 1-1 can contribute to strategic drift and employee disengagement, and...Executing, Planning, Productivity, Project Management
Managing Work Multitasking has unfortunately ingrained itself into our work habits and management techniques. Research is clear – multitasking produces sub-optimal outcomes. A person who focuses on a single activity and doesn’t leave that activity until it...Executing, Productivity, Strategy, Tools for Leaders
Metrics | Reporting | Scorecard | Strategic Execution | Strategy Measuring and Data We talk a lot about using metrics to understand our business, but which ones should we use? The obvious challenge to using metrics is to figure out which measures make sense and to be...Executing, Goals, Planning, Prioritizing, Productivity, Tools for Leaders
Nike | Planning | Prioritizing | Productivity | Time-Management | Tools for Leaders About the 9th Hour by Gordon Whitehead, Founder of Leaders247 I learned about the 9th hour from my friend and former boss at Nike, Bruce Watson. Bruce was a person who had never...Planning, Prioritizing, Productivity
Planning | Prioritizing | Productivity | Time-Management | Tools for Leaders According to the research presented in this video 41% of knowledge worker’s time is spent on low-value tasks. The following three principles can help improve our time utilization:...Case-Based Examples, Incentives, Motivation, Productivity, Trust
Culture | Engagement | Incentives | Morale | Motivation | USMC Practical Example of Incentives at Work This case draws on specific experiences from Gordon Whitehead, the Founder of Leaders247, on how organizations can practically implement incentive and recognition...Developing People, Motivation, Productivity, Trust
Motivation | Productivity | Team Productivity Dan Ariely The fact is, people who work in the knowledge industry want their work to be valued, they want to be valued, they want their time to be used wisely, and they want to contribute to great things. Great leaders...Bad Boss, Empower, Motivation, Productivity, Trust
Motivation | Productivity | Team Productivity Orbit the Giant Hairball Gordon MacKenzie worked at Hallmark Cards for thirty years. He has a witty and insightful way of looking at organizational life. In one of the chapters of his book entitled Orbiting the Giant...Goals, Productivity, Tools for Leaders
Goals | Productivity Habits are Key to Achieving Goals “If you want to really change your life you have to do something that alters your daily habits.” George Raveling Hall of Fame Basketball Coach Goal setting and goal achieving are essential parts of being a...