Effective Leadership Skills: Learn to Delegate the Right Way

The Harvard Business Review is doing an interesting series on how to delegate work—including selecting the right projects to delegate, finding the right people to delegate to, communicating what and how you want to delegate, and ensuring that you keep the right tasks for yourself. This component of effective leadership can’t be overstated, because no…

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The Power of Left Brain Right Brain Marketing

When you think of Apple what are the words that first come to your head? Creative…innovative…beautiful…artful…sleek? What generates that kind of response? Think about the ads you see for Apple products of all kinds…it’s a clear message—a right brained creative company designed to appeal on emotion and the “cool factor”. This kind of strategy can…

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Trust Fall

How many people remember the “Trust Fall” exercise? Whether at camp…at a teambuilding session…at a company retreat. It’s a tried-and-true idea that hits at some of our primal fears (abandonment, anxiety, loss of control), not to mention the entirely real possibility of falling on one’s head. Of course, this never (or rarely) happens, because your…

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