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• Communication Tips for Introverts and Extroverts
  By Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy (@fosslien and @molliewest via @susancain), Susan Cain
  
  Introverts and extroverts have different needs. Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy provide quick tips you can apply immediately to help introverts and extroverts work together seamlessly.
  
  “I’ll go if I don’t have to talk,” says Elaine when Jerry asks her to join him for coffee on Seinfeld. Some of us need more quiet time than others...”
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• 4 Tips For Improving Management Information Cascade
  By SnapComms (@snapcomms)
  
  “Staff would rather communicate with their immediate supervisor than any other level of management. This is particularly true during uncertain times. Staff may start to distrust the ‘corporate mouthpieces’ such as the intranet, and turn to their managers for interpretation ... So how can we improve manager cascade as a critical part of effective internal communications?...”
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• 5 Deadly Communication Mistakes That Kill Team Spirit
  By Dianna Booher (@diannabooher via @Forbes), Forbes
  
  “Many teams exist in name only. Their “spirit” is ghosting. Members may be assigned to the same project, but they no more feel like one big happy family than Hamlet and his crew. Conflicts constantly erupt. People hoard information. Distrust makes collaboration difficult at best. At the root of it all, typically poor communication destroys team members’ confidence that what they hear is rational, relevant, or real...”
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• The Google Way of Motivating Employees
  By Cleverism (@EntreInsights)
  
  “This article will walk you through an 1) introduction to Google’s work culture, 2) employee motivation the Google way, 3) work still gets done, 4) benefits of Google’s way of employee motivation, 5) examples of Google products created by its employees within 20% of their 'free time'...”
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• 5 Ways Millennials Are Improving Workplace Leadership
  By Warren Wright via Thin Difference (@ThinDifference)
  
  “Millennials are accused of killing everything from American cheese to mayonnaise to white bread. Are they destined to kill the workplace as we know it? Far from killing the workplace, they are saving it...”
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• Six Behaviors That Will Block Your Leadership Success
  By Kathy Caprino (@kathycaprino via @Forbes), Forbes
  
  “I’ve observed key behaviors that set great leaders apart from those who demoralize and undermine their employees. Below are six negative behaviors that will thwart your success as a leader, and crush the potential of your employees:...”
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• The Challenger Disaster: A Dramatic Lesson In The Failure To Communicate
  By John Baldoni (@JohnBaldoni via @Forbes), Forbes
  
  “There is no shortage of reporting about the failed launch of the space shuttle Challenger that took the lives of seven astronauts on January 28, 1986. Books have been written, and documentaries have been made. Now a new film aptly named, The Challenger Disaster, dramatizes the mistakes that led to the fatal launch. As such it makes a good case study about why we so often fail to communicate...”
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• How to Hold a Remarkably Effective Team Huddle
  By Karin Hurt and David Dye (@LetsGrowLeaders and @davidmdye), Let’s Grow Leaders
  
  “Of course, the best front-line leaders are doing a lot of things right. A great team huddle is just part of the cocktail. But we’ve never met a high-performing team where the team leader didn’t include a great team huddle as part of their operating plan...”
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• 3 Powerful Ways to Develop a Development Disposition
  By Julie Winkle Giulioni (@Julie_WG via @Leadershipfreak), Leadership Freak
  
  “Frequently, development gets sidelined with excuses that range from ‘no time’ to ‘no promotions available’. But developing others is among your most critical responsibilities...”
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• Make This Your New Year’s Resolution: Continue to Evolve as a CEO
  By Mike Salvino via Chief Executive (@ChiefExecGrp)
  
  “…take a few moments to read this article, and think about how you approach leadership and how you can continue to become an even greater leader and CEO...”
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