Leading in Context
APRIL 3, 2024
By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethical leadership learning is an issue that is gaining attention. Expectations of “good leadership” are increasing and leaders and organizations are scrambling to keep up. While sometimes people disagree about implementation, there is a strong consensus among scholars and research organizations that today’s leadership requires broad, high level, inclusive thinking.
Leadership Freak
APRIL 3, 2024
Culture is mortar, not bricks. Culture building is laying a bed of mortar on bricks. Culture binds people together. Culture is expressed by the way people treat each other while they do the work. This post explains the foundation of culture building.
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Lead from Within
APRIL 3, 2024
The role of a CEO is one of the most challenging and complex in the business world. While CEOs are often admired for their leadership, vision, and decision-making abilities, they are not immune to making mistakes. In this blog post, we will explore seven powerful examples of common CEO mistakes and the valuable lessons that can be learned from them.
Strategy Driven
APRIL 3, 2024
When you run a business that is all about hauling (or trucking), you will want to make sure that you are kept in contact with your carriers on the road. In the olden days, this was done via the somewhat infamous 2-way radio, which many people associate with trucking and being on the open road. In 2024, this method has had a bit of an update, and at Haulk, we are proud to offer you a transport management system, or TMS, that helps you keep track of your carriers and so much more.
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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
HR Digest
APRIL 3, 2024
Having to leave an organization you enjoy working for is never a great feeling but being on the receiving end of McKinsey’s 9-month pay leave offer does help to soften the blow. Marking a tough time in the consulting industry, McKinsey’s staff exit offer details how employees can continue to look for alternate sources of employment while still being able to support themselves and use the company’s resources to transition in their careers.
The Horizons Tracker
APRIL 3, 2024
If your boss yells at you, criticizes your work, and takes credit for what you do, even if it only happens once, it can really affect how you feel and how well you do your job. But even after lots of research, we’re still not exactly sure how bad bosses make employees perform worse. A recent study from Stevens Institute of Technology has a new idea about why abusive bosses make employees do worse at their jobs, and why some people are more affected by bad bosses than others.
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The Horizons Tracker
APRIL 3, 2024
That working under a discriminatory boss is harmful to us is probably self-evident, but research from Oklahoma State University reminds us that it can also be harmful even if the discrimination works in our favor. The researchers recruited around 1,200 volunteers to undergo a series of experiments designed to replicate the kind of situations they would find in the workplace.
Ron Edmondson
APRIL 3, 2024
There are some things visionary leaders hate to hear. They make us cringe. Mostly because they distract the team from the vision and from being healthy attempting to achieve it. Visionary leaders hate to hear: “We’ve never done it that way before.” Well, of course you haven’t. See, here’s there thing about leadership. Leaders take you somewhere new – somewhere you haven’t been before.
The Practical Leader
APRIL 3, 2024
How would you score yourself on these questions: I am happy at work most of the time. My work has a clear sense of purpose. Overall, I am completely satisfied with my job. I feel stressed at work most of the time. How would people on your team or organization answer these questions? These questions are from the Work Wellbeing Score from “Indeed, a major jobs website, to assess the relationship between workplace wellbeing and firm performance.” Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Director
Roundtable Talk
APRIL 3, 2024
We often joke that The Roundtable is like Hotel California – participants may graduate from our programs but they never truly leave us! As part of our commitment to build community and make an impact, we continue to support past participant learning in a variety of ways, including through exclusive alumni only webinars. Last week […] The post Top 3 Takeaways from “Stop Trying to Cram it All In” appeared first on The Roundtable.
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Diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical for an organization’s success. And companies that take bold action to help ensure an inclusive workplace will win every time. Discover how your company can create a culture that celebrates DE&I while achieving higher revenue and growth.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 3, 2024
The strength of any organization depends on its people. Research has found a strong positive relationship between employee well-being and firm performance. When people feel healthy and engaged, their work performance improves, their relationships are stronger, and they’re better motivated to impact change. This is what’s at the heart of “human sustainability”— a concept introduced in Deloitte’s “2023 Global Human Capital Trends” report.
The Horizons Tracker
APRIL 3, 2024
Recent research from Northwestern University tells us something surprising about the world’s richest folks: more than one in ten billionaires have dipped their toes into politics. The researchers pored over the records of over 2,000 people listed on Forbes’ Billionaires List. What they found was that billionaires tend to aim for important political positions, they’re pretty good at winning elections, and they usually lean to the right in their political views.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 3, 2024
Research involving multiple experiments found that consumers have biased views of their driving abilities relative to those of other drivers and automated vehicles. These findings have implications for the adoption of partly or fully automated vehicles, which one day could reduce traffic-related deaths. This article discusses the findings and offers five ways for auto manufacturers and government policymakers can counteract consumers’ biases.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 3, 2024
While gig work has offered workers benefits like flexibility, it has also come at the expense of lower pay, limited protections, surveillance, and limited privacy. Tactics such as petitions and boycotts have been used to effect change for workers in the traditional economy, but these have proven far less effective in the gig economy. To explore why, the authors use sociologist Robin Leidner’s concept of the customer service triangle to illustrate the ways that workers, companies, and customers a
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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 3, 2024
Why you shouldn’t typecast your business units as “cash cows” or “growth engines.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 3, 2024
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