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Put Me In, Coach: Gaming-Driven Productivity Your employees and team members are playing games for other companies. Why aren't they playing for you? Learn how many companies are encouraging productivity-boosting gaming while at work to improve everything from morale to productivity—and even customer service. |
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The Three Essential Elements of Business Analysis No question is more ripe for debate than “What is a business analyst?” While I contend we’ve been doing business analysis since the very first human organizations were consciously formed, business analysis as a formal profession has emerged much more recently and has three essential elements. |
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Counter Those Boring Meetings with Stand-up Meetings Do you consider a “boring meeting” to be a redundant phrase? As helpful as advice on staying awake during boring meetings may be, keep in mind that ten-to-fifteen-minute stand-up sessions could be an effective way to make meetings more productive and less boring. |
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Be Careful: The Internet Is Real Life, Too It's undeniable that we experience the offline and the online worlds in drastically different ways. Perhaps this difference is what leads us to feel as though the online and offline worlds are two separate things. This digital dualism leads many to think that anything that happens online is trivial. |
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Inside-the-Box Ideas about Outside-the-Box Thinking Some people don’t get outside-the-box thinking. The idea is not to do things the same old way, but as this definition puts it, to do “thinking that moves away in diverging directions so as to involve a variety of aspects and which sometimes leads to novel ideas and solutions.” |
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Approaches for Effective Meetings An interesting paradox many project teams face is that while collaboration is highly valued, collaboration often takes the form of one of the biggest time wasters humans have ever invented—meetings. Kent McDonald explores effective approaches to leading an effective meeting. |
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Being a Warrior of Ideas and Improvement Takes Courage We are warriors of ideas and warriors of improvement. If we demand greatness of ourselves, our teammates, and our organizations, we are warriors in the best sense—warriors who bring ideas to life and positive change to our organizations. Being a warrior takes courage to act and push through. |
