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Innovation through Inspiration: Presidential Leadership

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.”. Abraham Lincoln. “99% of excuses come from people who make excuses”. George Washington. Does anybody send cards to the President on President’s Day?

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5 Ways to be a Better Public Speaker

Women on Business

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Be Selfish

Lead Change Blog

Are you selfish? What was your answer? You said no, didn’t you? Nobody wants to be known as the selfish one. Nobody wants a reputation as a taker. For the next 900 words or so, be selfish. Here. Let me ease your mind a bit. Instead of thinking “selfish,” think “self-care.” Think about taking care of you so you can take care of others.

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Three Immediate Strategies to Increase Your Influence at Work

Career Advancement

“Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.” ~Robin S. Sharma~. Client Lorenzo asks: I’ve worked hard to improve my perception and increase my visibility in my company, and I feel I’ve succeeded.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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6 Things You Should Stop Doing As A Leader

Joseph Lalonde

When you’re a leader, a lot is required of you. You’re called upon to cast vision. You’re supposed to lead with unwavering conviction. You’re expected to do stuff. But something that Peter Drucker once said struck me: We spend a lot of time teaching our leaders what to do. We don’t spend enough time teaching them what to stop.

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Ryan Blair’s Five Rules for Being a Rock Star

Leading Blog

R YAN BLAIR is a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of ViSalus Sciences. In Rock Bottom to Rock Star he shares lessons from his own journey. Not surprisingly, the journey begins with taking personal responsibility. Without it you can’t move up from your rock bottom. You are your own competition. Blair explains, “ There is a way to shape everything in life so that it serves you and drives you toward success. ” In whatever you chose to do “your timeline will be filled with smile sand c

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Why All Decisions Aren’t Created Equal

Kevin Eikenberry

Decision making is a perennial topic for leadership and employee training around the world. It is one of those skills that we all use every day, yet we know it is sometimes hard, and we could probably be better at it. There are many tools and techniques that can be employed to help make decisions, […]. The post Why All Decisions Aren’t Created Equal appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Creating a culture of persistence

Lead on Purpose

We live in a world that makes it increasingly easy to justify failures and abdicate responsibility.

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A Compelling Communicator

Coaching Tip

Getting to the Story. You've established the critical insights and how those insights will be based on our understanding of the limitations of working memory. You have simplified the argument by managing down quality and by "decomplexifying." You have assembled a body of content that is both relevant and elegantly simple. Now you take this material and find the overarching storyline that's hidden within it.

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7 Suggestions to Motivate the Leaders on Your Team

Ron Edmondson

Have you ever wondered how to motivate a leader? If you have leaders on your team, no doubt you want the maximum potential out of them. You want their best contributions to your team. How do you motivate them to achieve their best – personally and for the team? It may not be as difficult as we one may think. Most leader-types share some common traits.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

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

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Software Code Reviews from a Deming Perspective

Deming Institute

Software code review is the practice of reviewing the software code written by colleagues on your software development team. Like many practices the form it takes can vary quite a bit. W. Edwards Deming stated in Out of the Crisis: Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.

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Becoming an Innovative leader – the eight faces of innovation

Rapid BI

Becoming an Innovative Leader When we take innovation away from the technologists and start to look at innovation as a set of behaviours that can drive change and culture, we start to look at innovation as a leadership model. Using the Creatrix from the Richard Byrd Co in MN USA, we can identify the eight […]. The post Becoming an Innovative leader – the eight faces of innovation appeared first on RapidBI.

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Companies Are Bad at Identifying High-Potential Employees

Harvard Business Review

A high-potential employee is usually in the top 5% of employees in an organization. These people are thought to be the organization’s most capable, most motivated, and most likely to ascend to positions of responsibility and power. To help these employees prepare for leadership roles in a thoughtful, efficient manner, companies often institute formal high-potential (HIPO) programs.

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Everyone Likes Flex Time, but We Punish Women Who Use It

Harvard Business Review

Offering flexible workplace schedules seems like a no-brainer. Work has become more flexible — tied less to specific times and places — and gender roles have changed. Letting employees shift their hours to accommodate hectic life schedules makes sense. Surveys show that flex time ranks high on the list of benefits employees want and that women value it even more than men do.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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What 20 Years as a Remote Organization Has Taught Us About Managing Remote Teams

Harvard Business Review

In his 1974 interview with ABC News , science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke painted a picture of how computers would change our way of life by the year 2001. One of his many extraordinarily accurate predictions: “Any businessman, any executive, could live almost anywhere on Earth and still do his business through a device like this.” Now, this prediction about remote working has not only come to life; it’s proved to be more beneficial than the traditional office model for som

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