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  • Defining Direction in Business and Life

    • October 29, 2010
    • Posted by: Ted Bullen
    • Category: Leadership, News
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    Recently, Dr. Kim B. Clark, President of Brigham Young University – Idaho, and former Dean of the Harvard Business School, presented a seminar on defining direction in a business context.  His presentation is outlined below.  While the focus was business, the application to our personal lives, from a spiritual and temporal perspective, is obvious: 1)    

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  • Councils in the Workplace

    • June 22, 2010
    • Posted by: Ted Bullen
    • Category: Leadership, News
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    Traditional leadership systems involve close supervision, simplified tasks, narrow job descriptions, detailed procedures, and formal controls. On the other end of the scale are high commitment work teams which are based on participation, open communications, empowerment, and mutual trust. Such a system involves little of no supervision, complex tasks, broad job descriptions, few procedures, and

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