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This month’s Inspiring Ideas provides insights and ideas into achieving success at both an individual and an organizational level. We look at how ideas on individual happiness and the ability to influence yourself and others can play a key role in improving performance, plus reveal some of the attributes of organizations that truly excel.
Chris Stanley – Editor HSM Inspiring Ideas
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Tips from the Top
Tal Ben–Shahar is a professor at Harvard Business School whose course on happiness and positive psychology is the most popular ever run at the university. Here are his 6 tips on achieving the state of mind that will let you perform to your potential.
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Million Dollar Tales
Treat employees like they make a difference and they will. That is the employee–focused philosophy behind SAS – the world's largest private software company. At the heart of its unique business model is a simple idea: Satisfied employees create satisfied customers.
This is what has taken SAS to the number 1 position on Fortune's list of the “100 Best Companies to work for.”
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DELVING DEEPER
Over the past 20 years Joseph Grenny has taught and advised more than 100,000 leaders from all over the world on how to get the best out of themselves and others. His experience – combined with the latest research in behavioral economics and the social sciences – has led Grenny to develop what he calls “six sources of influence”. He contends that these sources of influence – if carefully and consistently nurtured – will provide you with a systematic strategy for executing on influence and give you the power to change anything. Read on to learn more.
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