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Why Your Team Sees You as Manipulative -- and What to Do About It

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Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How you Live and Lead,” author Laszlo Bock says that the company wants to serve as an example of how to better treat employees and do business. However, new research finds that it isn’t always a panacea for leaders and organizations. In a new book, “Work Rules!

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Why Everyone Needs to Become a Digital Master

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When hearing the term “digital masters,” many business people think of Silicon Valley and the whiz kids running dominant IT companies like Google. You don’t have to make yourself into Google,” he says. They, too, must become digital masters.

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How to Scale Up Excellence

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One of the most difficult problems a leader can face is how to spread and grow success throughout a team or organization. Rao says that those organizations that scale well do so not by spreading (see more here )' In addition, each new employee is given a non- management mentor to help him or her navigate boot camp.

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How to Get Credit for Your Ideas

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Organizations today are under intense competitive pressure, and companies like Amazon and Google have shown that there is no such thing as a crazy idea -- just employers who are crazy to ignore any idea. Finally, never rest on your laurels. Always keep pitching ideas, even though some may never get far.

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Tips for Getting Virtual Teams to Collaborate More

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So when this well-dressed Internet pioneers says that collaboration among remote workers is a concern, it’s clear that more organizations need to pay attention. Cert has expressed concern for Google’s remote team members who almost never see one another face to face, often working in different time zones.

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Did Someone at Work Just Steal Your Idea?

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Organizations today are under intense competitive pressure, and companies like Amazon and Google have shown that there is no such thing as a crazy idea -- just employers who are crazy to ignore any idea. Finally, never rest on your laurels. Always keep pitching ideas, even though some may never get far.

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How to Become Better at Delivering Feedback

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If you Google “performance review phrases” you will turn up more than 4 million sources offering advice such as how to deliver “good” feedback (the employee “is ready for any challenge”) to the “bad” review (the employee is “hostile to feedback or criticism.”)

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