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Self-Care for Coaches

Ed Batista

Manage Your Assets (and Say No More Often) When wearing my CEO hat I have to be mindful that my small business has two (and only two) assets: my time and my reputation. I'm the sole steward of those assets--if my time is wasted or my reputation suffers, no one pays a price but me. Get Outside (Jessica Stillman, Inc.

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Very Cheap, Then Very Expensive (On Job Titles)

Ed Batista

7] Cash itself--and any other medium of exchange--is nothing but a collective narrative, and when the story changes, so does the value of the asset in question. A Company Without Job Titles Will Still Have Hierarchies , Harvard Business Review, 2014). When enough people--or the right people--believe a story, it suddenly becomes true.

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Talking About Promotions (with Very Ambitious People)

Ed Batista

But note that the ability to successfully level an adequate employee who's not an elite performer is a tremendous managerial asset, and you won't learn how to do it if you never try. The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy, but Doesn't, What Shouldn't Make You Happy, but Does , pages 131-132 (Sonja Lyubomirsky, 2014). [3]

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Beyond HR KPIs: Strategic Metrics for Organizational Development

AIHR

In fact, different recommendations and directions have been developed from the institutional arena ( Directive 2013/34/EU ; Directive 2014/95/EU ). The difficulty lies in measuring “intangible” assets. Are HR KPIs enough to carry out strategic workforce management? Clearly not.

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Creating Personal Time Management Techniques

Liquid Planner Productivity

New York, NY, Penguin Random House, 2014. With more than 20 years’ professional experience, James Arrow has played a key role in successfully delivering critical capital assets, in a variety of locations, around the world. The Procrastination Cure: 7 Steps to Stop Putting Life Off. Pompton Plains, NJ, Career Press, 2011.

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A Handful Of Expert Tips To Sustainably Increase Workplace Productivity

15Five

In 2014, Guy Kawasaki wrote a popular post entitled, Let’s Stop the Glorification of Busy. Leaders who view their employees as mere cogs or assets will soon see productivity decline. Only progress on short-term goals and long-term objectives should count towards productivity, not just busy-work. By: Stephanie Vozza.

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10 People Sustainability Strategies for Your Business

Vantage Circle

Angela Davis, Activist As McKinsey says , the 2019 analysis finds that companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on executive teams were 25 percent more likely to have above-average profitability than companies in the fourth quartile—up from 21 percent in 2017 and 15 percent in 2014. trillion in total assets under management.