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From the front lines to the C-suite, every employee makes decisions. While decisions can be strategic and long-term, most are tactical in nature, occur daily, and are made fairly quickly. How do your employees make decisions? Are they data hounds—not content until they’ve analyzed every possible scenario? Do they make snap decisions based on gut…
Voids Lettings Case Study
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Paul Krugman, a Nobel prize-winning economist-cum-polemicist, argues that it is difficult to think of any noteworthy financial breakthroughs that have benefited society in the past 25 years. Joseph Stiglitz, another Nobel laureate, has highlighted the fact that most financial innovation in the build-up to the financial crisis “was not directed at enhancing the ability of…
The Antidote for VUCA is OODA
The date is September 15, 2008. The crisis in subprime mortgages had been going on for a little over a year. It was triggered in the last half of 2006 when house prices began to fall as the housing bubble in the United States burst. This caused those who had taken NINJA (No Income, No…
Julian Treasure: How to speak so that people want to listen
Sound consultant, Julian Treasure studies sound and advises businesses on how best to use it. In this helpful TED talk, the sound expert demonstrates the how-to’s of powerful speaking – because everyone wants to be heard when they speak. Surely you’ve had that feeling, that you’re talking but nobody’s really listening. Julian Treasure is here to help…
How to Change People
The one question I am asked more frequently than any other is, “How can you get people to change?” Many managers and business owners I talk to seem to be stumped by this question. They feel that people often resist change in order to keep things status quo, which is often motivated by fear of change. While…