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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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3 Consequences of Promoting the Smart, Successful Jerk (with video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Oh he’s good. Very good. He gets sh__ done. It’s hard to argue with the results. So what if he’s ruffling a few feathers… with his team, with his peers, with HR, with IT? The better he does, the better you look. And so you choose to look the other way, shrug your shoulders and chalk it up to the cost of genius. And that may work.

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Becoming More Self-Aware To Improve How We Communicate

Tanveer Naseer

No matter what field or industry you work in, one thing that all leaders share in common is the necessity of having an extensive toolkit at their disposal. Of course, while there are various technical skills and aptitudes that are required for leadership positions in various industries, one thing that every leader needs to succeed in their role is to be an effective communicator.

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5 Ways to be a Better Public Speaker

Women on Business

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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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Asking the Right Questions Often Leads to the Best Answer

Leading Blog

B EING A LEADER often means making far-reaching decisions that require major investments of time, resources, and energy. Complete certainty is seldom possible. Competing agendas often complicate the process. The future is never something you can take for granted. So you need to be as dispassionate as possible in how you examine opportunities and vulnerabilities.

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Create an Adaptable Workforce to Ensure Your Company’s Longevity

Lead Change Blog

Adaptability is not an inborn trait; it’s a skill people learn, typically over time and through the “school of hard knocks.” The skill of adaptability requires mastery of many facets: attitude, resilience, creativity, ingenuity, the minimization of fear, above-average willingness to take risks that could lead to failure, and the ability to anticipate what lies ahead, to only name a few.

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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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Every Decision Changes The Ethical Culture Equation

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethics has a compounding effect on culture, and our leadership choices determine whether that effect will be positive or negative. Being diligent about ethics in every decision brings the culture ethics dividends. Being careless about ethics brings ethics penalties. The tricky part about managing ethical culture is that every leader decision and action throughout the organization is changing the equation.

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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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5 Tips to Reduce Interruptions and Get More Done

Women on Business

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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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The Three Top Priorities of a Great Church Leader

Joseph Lalonde

Time is a valuable asset. There are not enough hours in the day for a church leader to achieve everything they could do. Some of the things leaders spend their time doing produce a low return while other things produce a tremendous return or benefits. Great church leaders are stewards of their time by concentrating on certain top priorities. Those areas include personal devotions, training and equipping staff and volunteers, and building and strengthening relationships.

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How to Interrupt Others and Get to the Point

Leadership Freak

You wouldn’t be polite to someone who reached into your pocket to steal your credit cards. Don’t be polite with people who persistently steal your time by talking on and on. Common rules of courtesy don’t apply to unrepentant blabbermouths. Politely break the rules of courtesy: Interrupt – Confess confusion.

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Music and Servant Leadership — Say What?

Lead Change Blog

Today, we are pleased to share a post from the Servant Leadership Institute about their upcoming conference. Make sure to read all the way through — there’s information about a unique discount at the end. The theme for this year’s servant leadership conference hosted by the Servant Leadership Institute is “The Music of Servant Leadership.” You may think this is an odd theme for a leadership conference, so let us tell you a bit about the powerful vision we have.

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How to Use Quora to Build Your Personal Brand and Business Brand

Women on Business

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5 Ways to Improve DE&I in the Workplace

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.

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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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What I’ve Been Saying Lately: Two New Interviews

Next Level Blog

Recently, I was honored to sit down with author and mental performance expert Martin Soorjoo for an interview. His podcast — Inside Mastery — is dedicated to uncovering the proven strategies, tactics and insights of ‘elite performers and experts’ for mastering all areas of your life. During our time together, we had a wide-ranging discussion about how to move from a state of being overworked and overwhelmed to leading at your best and living at your best.

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Get a Little Better Every Day

Lead Change Blog

Here’s the big secret of personal development. If you want to make big improvements, it’s most likely to happen if you improve a little at a time. Leadership development experts tell us that seventy percent of the way we learn to lead is on the job. That’s true, and you can make that learning better with a little bit of work. I really think the world of leaders is divided into two groups.

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5 Steps to Find a Job Using LinkedIn

Women on Business

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No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results

Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.

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The Quote That Will Change Your Life.

Rich Gee Group

The great Jim Rohn once said: “Success is a few simple disciplines, practiced every day — while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.” Now step back and look at what you do every day. What actions or people move you forward? What actions or people keep you back? Stop being a baby — you absolutely know your bad behaviors.

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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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Leaders: Stop Traumatic Residue!

Lead Change Blog

They were children of the depression! My parents worried that the late 1920 and ‘30’s would return. So, my siblings and I got docked our allowance every time a light was left on in our bedroom at super time. We ate every piece of a cut-up chicken, including the back and neck. We could not throw away a piece of notebook paper if it was used only on one side.

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How Women Can Start a Business Online Today

Women on Business

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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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Peter Senge: How to Overcome Learning Disabilities in Organizations

QAspire

As an organization grows, managing the flow demands work items to move from one team/department to another. In quest to make these teams accountable, very specific KPI’s are established and that breeds non-systemic thinking. People look at meeting their own numbers and push the work to next stage and often, what happens is that while people win (in short term), the system fails.

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Kaleidoscope: 9 Foundational Stones that Drive Sparkling Service

Leading Blog

P EOPLE DON'T talk about good service, “they boast about unique, captivating services experiences.” In Kaleidoscope , Chip Bell explores what makes an experience so good that people want to tell their friends about it. What makes people become zealous advocates of your business? Creating these kinds of customer experiences works in much the same way a kaleidoscope works.

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Here’s a Leadership Hack for 2017: Start finding ways to Invert Control

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Tom Reilly: The end result will be that you will get what you want without trying as hard. Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? And yet it isn’t. The best part is that you can invert control over and over again. Not just at work, but also in any situation where you want to manipulate an outcome in your favor. Here’s what it involves: Assessing how to take back control in order to automate better results.

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The 7 Best Ways to Keep in Touch with Your Family Back Home

Women on Business

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

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.

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How Leaders Expand Their Future and Enhance Their Success

Leadership Freak

Your future shrinks or expands in relation to the strength of your connections. Depth of connection determines breadth of influence. 3 dangers of disconnection Disconnected leaders: Feel blindsided and violated by negative feedback. Disconnection gives birth to feelings of persecution. Come off as uncaring.

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Building Your Confidence With Joel Boggess

Joseph Lalonde

Answers From Leadership Podcast Episode 32 Joel Boggess knows a thing or two about building confidence as a leader. As the host of the ReLaunch Podcast and best-selling author of Finding Your Voice, Joel helps leaders around the world improve their confidence and live the life they were meant to. I’m excited to have Joel on the show to share how you can increase your confidence and lead well.

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How to Lead Better When Pressure Is Mounting

Lead from Within

Most of us work under pressure, that is a given, but not many of us who work under pressure will have our work affect hundreds if not thousands. As a leader, CEO, boss, what we do, gets magnified, scrutinized, and maximized. The idea that a leader can make decisions when times are under pressure, and still bring out the best in their people, ­­­­­­is something that we can all learn from and certainly apply to our lives and leading.

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Jane Willmott Joins the Women on Business Contributing Writers Team

Women on Business

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The First 90 Days: Onboarding Checklist

While onboarding, don’t let yourself get caught up in administrative details. Automate paperwork & training so new hires can focus on the business at hand from day one. Get Paycor’s checklist to see where your company can make HR process improvements.