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The new episode of a corporate break just arrived 🎧🎧 Merely increasing the pace of production or service often leads to decreased value over time. Hear more about how to slow down to speed up.

Business strategy isn’t about winning or losing. The essence of strategy is about playing the right game. It is about shaping the game you play, not just playing the game you find.

The world has always been one of change. But as technology evolves and speeds up our lives, something about the changes we face is different. It is a more extreme shift, more rapid and complex, and the challenges more difficult. In the face of this, leaders work harder and faster to cope. However, just speeding up isn’t the answer. It often makes things more complicated, consumes more energy, and, in the best case, solves only a part of the challenge.

What to do to go deeper and faster into achieving our objectives? In this episode, we consider slowing down to speed up. Because the topic is very complex, we decided to break it down into free separate parts. The first one contains real-life examples of well-known companies like Nokia, Tesla, General Electric, or PricewaterhouseCoopers. It is a general introduction to a Strategically Fast Companies Vs. Strategically Slow Companies.

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Go ahead and crack that joke, research suggests. Leaders with a sense of humor are more motivating and admired by 27% than those who don’t joke around. Their employees are 15% more engaged, and their teams are more creative. That said, having a sense of humor come across while working remotely can be challenging for some, to say the least.

"In past episodes, we discussed manager types and co-operation between employees. When Leading employees, we always face challenges, and recently with Covid, a new challenge is homeworking and managing employee and leadership expectations.

With this in mind, today we want to discuss the resilience of teams and what areas to focus on to improve this key attribute."

The real cost of attrition in shared service centers is often overlooked and thought of as a simple measurement versus a market benchmark. It remains a figure that drives action only regarding the attractiveness of the work environment, salaries, and other benefits paid to employees.

However, what is the real cost of attrition, is it healthy to have a high or low attrition rate, does attrition matters at all for a new work environment?

All of those question and more is what we are discussing in this episode.

Good collaborations and finding synergy are essential to innovations and improved outcomes. Things business desperately needs to face new challenges and secure sustainable growth.

Good management and managers are centric to business success. Successful people management is the core of managers' responsibility, and at the heart of that success lies the manager's appreciation.

A short read on people management, managers, and management style inspired by Marcus Buckingham's book: The One Thing You Need to Know: About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success.

During my career as an economist, I used to be told by my mentor. “Energy consumption is the signal the economy is recovering or heading to depression.” In this episode, I'll be talking to my good buddy Hursh (@hurshidn - Twitter) and discuss the thesis: Why oil is cheap?

Crypto space is one of the busiest in the FinTwit and investment world in 2020. It is considered wild, volatile, and not for faint-hearted as much as being profitable. In this episode, you'll hear our thesis on why XRP seems to be an exciting bid.