Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2023

New research shows daily physical activity can even impact your creativity the next day.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2022

Move beyond brainstorming.

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Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

One exercise is the nightmare. In this episode, Christian Stadler talks with host Michael Zipursky about the winning business strategies you can use to grow, adapt, and beat your competition. Christian is the Professor of Strategic Management at Warwick Business School.

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Effective Managers

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Practice Self-Care Self-care is essential for sustaining high performance: Healthy Lifestyle: Maintain regular exercise, a balanced diet, and adequate sleep. Automation: Automate routine tasks to save time and reduce manual workload.

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Effective Managers

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Techniques such as deep breathing, exercise, and mindfulness can help in maintaining emotional balance. Regular one-on-one meetings and open communication channels can provide opportunities to understand team members better. Manage Stress and Emotions Managers should develop strategies to manage their stress and emotions.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

While this exercise won’t take a lot of time, it may be psychically intensive. Many times clients have come back to me after completing this exercise and said, “Why didn’t anyone tell me this before? It only takes a couple well-worded questions to a few key people to get the information you need. (If

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Post-traumatic growth is possible.

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Effective Managers

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Practice Self-Care Self-care is essential for sustaining high performance: Healthy Lifestyle: Maintain regular exercise, a balanced diet, and adequate sleep. Automation: Automate routine tasks to save time and reduce manual workload.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2024

This article offers a series of questions that can help any leader evaluate and exercise their own strategic fitness.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2024

This article outlines practical strategies for exercising four types of active listening: emotional, informational, analytical, and reflective. We try to support our colleague by providing our opinion or offering a solution. Active listening can be hard to do, but it’s a great skill to practice.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This meditation exercise can help you face — and overcome — your fear of failure, says Harvard Business School Professor Arthur C.

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2019

All it takes is a piece of paper and three questions.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2024

And it’s an opportunity to exercise some intellectual humility, which includes having respect for other viewpoints, not being intellectually overconfident, separating your ego from your intellect, and being willing to revise your own viewpoint — especially in the face of new information.

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Simon Associates

JULY 20, 2022

Regular exercise improves our physical health, decreases our risk for severe health conditions and helps us feel better emotionally. But for many of us, our lives are so full that we don't know how to add exercise to our already packed days.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2024

An exercise to help leaders and employees make better business decisions by anticipating climate risks, assessing vulnerabilities, and implementing adaptive and mitigative strategies.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Three questions can help determine whether enough has been done: First, have you participated in a cyber tabletop exercise recently? Many have warned over the years of the growing cyber threats and some have offered thoughtful advice for how to strengthen an organization’s protection and resilience.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2019

Great teams aren’t afraid to disagree.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Like any muscle, to strengthen it, you must activate and exercise it. 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.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2024

Finally, just as archers to develop their ability to adapt to varying conditions—wind, light, and even their physical and mental state on a given moment or day—executives can try similar exercises to better prepare for the unexpected.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Once you can identify the five common manipulation tactics, you’ll be able to run through a protective mental exercise anytime a pitch for a product, idea, investment, or a course of action feels potentially inauthentic.

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Use visuals, real-life examples, and practical exercises to make learning more manageable. Incorporate interactive elements such as quizzes, simulations, and hands-on exercises—Foster collaboration and discussion among learners to stimulate meaningful learning.

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David A Fields

MARCH 8, 2022

Today’s exercise in questionable metaphor usage features The Beatles’ hit single, “Baby You Can Drive My Car,” which was decidedly not about cars. You may be focusing on the wrong “level” of your consulting firm’s problems to create rapid progress in your firm’s results.

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David A Fields

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Unfortunately, handing off parts of your consulting practice proves increasingly difficult as you graduate from administrative tasks and low-level analytical exercises to high-value work that fits your personal … Continued The post 3 Mindsets + 2 Plans to Relieve Your Consulting Firm’s Growth Obstruction appeared first on David A.

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David A Fields

JULY 13, 2021

Sorta) There’s a straightforward exercise you can complete that will deliver the following benefits (and others) for your consulting firm over … Continued. How cool would it be if you could choose greater success for your consulting firm from a drop-down list?

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 1, 2024

Here are three exercises to get you started. Exercise #1: Reflection. Exercise #2: Study Your Work History. Exercise #3: Get Input from Colleagues. Best regards, ~~~ These three exercises will help you identify your particular sweet spot. Pinpointing your niche is hard. What am I good at? What do I enjoy doing?

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2023

It’s critical to schedule time for simulated exercises and “scrimmages.”

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A three-part framework to move your organization beyond box-checking exercises.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2020

Three exercises.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A conversation and mindfulness exercise with Potential Project CEO Rasmus Hougaard.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2021

An exercise to help you uncover what you learned during the pandemic and what you want to take with you going forward.

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Steve Shu Consulting

AUGUST 13, 2017

Presuming that the focus on health is mostly on physical exercise and diet (versus mental health or social relationships), here are some things I’ve used to try to strike a balance: On the job, really focus on what is strategically important; try to cut bait or minimize involvement with small stuff that you shouldn’t sweat.

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Successful Independent Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Will you be able to exercise more or eat a healthier diet? This may seem like a waste of time—like just a fluffy exercise—but trust me, it’s well worth taking the time to do it. For example, “I want to make at least X dollars a year,” or “I want to make enough money to pay for an amazing family vacation every year.”

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David A Fields

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Most business vision exercises are farsighted. If you’d like to shake the rust off your consulting firm and jump-start fast moving progress, shift your gaze from the lofty peaks that will take years to ascend to a nearby hill you can crest now. They create plenty of clarity around a long-term vision, but the near-in [ ]

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2023

Striking the right balance between these two extremes is a tricky exercise for leaders. Saying nothing can undermine people’s trust in your motives and compassion, whereas saying too much can leave people feeling overwhelmed and vulnerable as they struggle to process the information and implications.

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Steve Shu Consulting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The goal of the exercise was to help people develop better team communication styles as an early part of the process of forming project teams. ” Well students got to role play that they were fishing together. They got to try different communication modes based on concepts from improv (e.g., “Yes, and”).

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

In this resource you'll find a series of exercises to help you quickly master politics. Tactically knowing how to enhance your ability to see your client's true political system and how to navigate it. If that's the case for you, I'd love for you to grab your copy of my guidebook "Organizational Consulting 101."

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2020

Some exercises for reframing your fears, doubts, and uncertainties.

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