Wed.May 11, 2022

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How To Build Leadership Identity

Tanveer Naseer

Alisha struggled in her new leadership role. She found it difficult to think of herself as a boss when just a few short weeks before she was working alongside the coworkers now reporting to her. Alisha wasn’t prepared for dealing with conflict, making tough calls, and initiating difficult conversations. When. Click to continue reading.

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5 Unexpected Teaching Insights

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton After teaching for more than 20 years, I was surprised last week by the University of Richmond School of Professional and Continuing Studies with the Itkowitz Family Distinguished Faculty Award. This is especially meaningful recognition for me, since I had 'learned through' the process of completely redesigning my Applied Ethics course as an online course and changing my teaching approach during the pandemic.

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6 Ways to Find Freedom While Leading

Leadership Freak

Leading can become a ball and chain for sincere leaders. Relentless challenge sucks the life out of everyone. Eventually you go through the motions but you’re dead inside.

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Creating an (authentically) Positive Energy Workplace™ & Leadership (video)

Anese Cavanaugh

Why is positive energy important? How do we create it? How does it impact our culture? For years we've worked with leaders and organizations on building healthier more positively contagious cultures and authentic positive energy leadership. Often when I speak about how to do this, people will ask for the "checklist" -- the checklist for building a healthy culture or leading better.

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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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What Makes Some People Thrive In New Cultures

The Horizons Tracker

I’ve written numerous times about the advantages of migration, both to host communities and to the migrants themselves. It goes without saying, of course, that the key to success is settling in as quickly as possible, and it’s equally true that some people are more successful at doing this than others. Research from Columbia Business School explores what it is that makes people successful in their adaptation to a new culture.

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How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose And People

Eric Jacobson

Jenn Lim is the CEO Of Delivering Happiness, a company she and Tony Hsieh (the late CEO of Zappos.com) cofounded to create happier company cultures for a more profitable and sustainable approach to business. Lim ’s mission is to teach businesses how to create workplaces—led with happiness and humanity—that generate more profit, sustain all people at every level of the organizations, and share how we can make an impact by being true to our authentic selves.

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Defining the Context of a Negotiation

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Understanding the strategic environment of a negotiation can help you achieve the outcome you want. The first step in any negotiating process is defining and understanding the context you’re operating in. You have to understand the strategic environment of the negotiation in order to be successful. There are several elements to defining this context.

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How We Determine If A Bribe Is “Worth It”

The Horizons Tracker

Bribery is inevitably something that sits under the surface, yet the scale of the problem is nonetheless enormous, with statistics suggesting over $1 trillion is paid in bribes each year around the world. A recent study from the University of Cambridge explores some of the thinking companies go through when deciding whether to make a bribe or not. The researchers found that, unfortunately, bribery appears to pay off, with a $1 investment generating a return of up to $9 in company value.

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Are You Green and Growing or Ripe and Rotting?

The Practical Leader

As a gardener, I love this time of year. My office looks over our back gardens. After looking at a brown, dead landscape for the past months, the garden is alive with spring flowers and vigorous green growth. The 19th-century British theologian and essayist, John Henry Newman once said, “Growth is the only evidence of life.” Again, this spring I’ll be in the garden pruning winter kill and nurturing growth.

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Tornado season in the markets

Decker Communication

I grew up in Central Texas. When May rolls around, the most active month of tornado season, I always think about the time a tornado came to visit our elementary school. You’ve probably heard those loud bells that go off in public places during an emergency. They are shrill and cold; the first thought is RUN… somewhere. That’s what our tornado alarm sounded and felt like, every child in class started screaming and you could see those ominous dark clouds getting darker somehow.

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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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Close to 2,500 Carvana Employees Get Laid Off Over Zoom

HR Digest

Carvana employees were in for an unpleasant surprise last Tuesday. Over a Zoom call, the company announced that it will be reducing its workforce by no less than 12%. The used-car retailer informed stakeholders that it will be laying off 2,500 employees. The company was founded in 2012 with an aim to change how people bought and sold cars. Carvana offered a simple solution to run down customers who did not wish to jump numerous hoops as they tried to purchase a car.

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What to Do When Your Head is About to Explode with Ideas

Ron Edmondson

What should you do when your head is about to explode with ideas ? This is a quick post for creatives. I have in mind the big idea people like me. . If you are like me then you have days – even seasons – where you have more ideas than you can process – certainly more ideas than you or your team can handle – you need a system.

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Are You Tracking the Customer Service Metrics That Really Count?

Harvard Business Review

Don’t just focus on tactical, operational goals. Ask what your customers are actually experiencing — and continuously push for improvement.

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How to Build Strong Business Relationships — Remotely

Harvard Business Review

Researchers talked to managers around the globe about how the pandemic affected their ability to develop new connections.

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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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The Downsides of Making a Counteroffer to Retain an Employee

Harvard Business Review

Managers, beware these three unintended consequences.

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Flying Taxis Are Coming (with Volocopter’s Florian Reuter)

Harvard Business Review

Are flying taxis coming to a city near you soon?