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How to Strengthen Your Curiosity Muscle

Harvard Business

Building our curiosity muscle is essential because it will aid in the efficiency of leadership, enables continual learning, and because it’s a sought after skill by employers. Like any muscle, to strengthen it, you must activate and exercise it.

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Build Team Resilience: Work Together (Part 1)

Johanna Rothman

Company A managers don't believe in flow efficiency. The so-called Scrum Masters (who look to me as if they are old-fashioned command-and-control project managers, not facilitators) ask people when “their” work will be done. When I explained the concepts of resource and flow efficiency, the managers nodded.

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How to Provide Safe and Comfortable In-Person Training as People Return to the Office

Clarity Consultants

Instead, proceed in a methodical fashion. At Clarity, we have nearly 30 years of experience in L&D, giving us the knowledge and expertise to update your training approaches efficiently. Don’t be overzealous with your reintroduction. That way, it will feel more comfortable as class sizes grow.

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Making costumes

Seth Godin Blog

Look through any fashion magazine and you''ll quickly come to understand that fashion is the act of making a costume. Most marketing, then, is costume work, not the search for the most efficient function. No, it''s a costume. And costumes are an artifice designed to remind us of something else. So packaging is a costume.

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Competitive Advantage in Consulting and in Life

CaseInterview.com

It didn't even occur to me to try to do this early in my career, but it would have been much more efficient if I had been more thoughtful about this. For example, I have two acquaintances who, in high school, both had an eye for fashion and design. She works for one of the major fashion labels. Life is easier. of all Americans.

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The Importance of Adaptive Response In The First Moments of Crisis Management

Melissa Agnes

Some crises need immediate intervention, while others can be addressed through a slower, more analytical fashion. But our law enforcement field is missing pieces to effectively and efficiently respond to those initial moments (maybe up to an hour?) I contend that adaptive thinkers respond more effectively and efficiently to crises.

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(Value Stream) Map Your Way to a Better Post-Covid Future

Markovitz Consulting

Here are three examples of how their maps have helped them see into their processes more clearly and make changes to become more efficient. Design may not be important in industrial equipment, but it’s everything in fashion. Both companies are already seeing benefits in the form of lower costs and shorter lead times.

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