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Top Down Leadership Does Work, If You’re Stuck in the Industrial Age

Lead Change Blog

Here’s where it gets sketchy… When left to their own devices under stress, these hammer-dropping leaders will lack the emotional intelligence to influence those they lead. So it does work. If you feel stuck in your top-down leadership style, the first place to start is with yourself. We call this servant leadership.

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A Guide to Use Sales Resume Keywords Effectively

HR Digest

You know the standard advice. Don’t hammer it out in an hour and expect recruiters to call you.”. Depending on what industry you want to get into and what position you apply for, you may need to tweak the sales keywords. You need to make your skills exquisitely clear to win attention.

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Voice of Experience: Joanna Cound (BlackRock)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Here is an excerpt from a profile of Joanna Cound (Managing Director, Government Affairs and Public Policy, BlackRock) written by Melissa J.

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The Industrial Revolution That Never Was

Harvard Business Review

Every schoolchild learns that the industrial revolution began in England. Forests have been felled to demonstrate why England, and only England, had the culture and institutions to be the birthplace of modern industrial capitalism in the late 1700s. This was by any measure a primitive industry.

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A Great Negotiator’s Essential Advice

Harvard Business Review

But, for those carrying out more complex negotiations — let alone those with thousands of negotiators like the Law of the Sea or the Earth Summit — Koh offers this additional advice: 1. Win Over an Opponent by Asking for Advice. Focus On: Negotiating. The Best Negotiators Plan to Think on Their Feet.

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Please Don’t Hire a Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer

Harvard Business Review

How it will impact business, industry, and society. As with earlier technologies, we are now hearing advice about “AI strategies” and how companies should hire Chief AI Officers. The very nature of the role aims at bringing the hammer of AI to the nails of whatever problems are lying around. Insight Center.

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Will Netflix Flourish Where Hollywood Failed?

Harvard Business Review

But Hollywood is not just any industry. Everyone would like to be a player and Hollywood is littered with the wreckage of careers of people who looked at the entertainment industry and thought, "I would love to be a big shot and, anyhow, how hard can it be?" Why merely manage the channel when you can start filling it? Well, sorry, no.

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