Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
O UR mindset can either work for us or against us. A mind full of false narrativesfalse beliefswill keep us from growing into our potential. Unchallenged, these negative beliefs will become the soundtrack we live by and keep us from moving in the direction of our best selves and change the outcome of our lives. Josh Axe identifies in Think This, Not That twelve mental barriers that obstruct personal growth and hinder success.
Next Level Blog
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Back in the early days of the COVID pandemic, I wrote a post on how to lead under volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous conditions. You may know those four words by their common acronym VUCA. To be honest, I didnt think that things could get any more VUCA than they were during the pandemic. Im beginning to think I was wrong about that. Practically every week over the past year theres been a new breakthrough or application in the field of artificial intelligence.
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Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
The right communication strategy helps your message cut through noise and distraction. Youve said it. Youve said it again. And yet, somehow, people still dont seem to know whats going on. If you’re ever frustrated that your team doesnt act on important priorities, youre not alone. Leaders everywhere wrestle with getting their message to stick.
Rich Gee Group
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Listen to the audio Listen, I get it: trying to get someone to do what you need - when theyre higher up than you or not even in your department - can feel like youre yelling into a void, especially if they talk down to you. Or worse, if they brush you off like youre not worth their time. Ive been there, and it can be frustrating as hell. But heres the thing: influence isnt all about titles.
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Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Prolonged stress shortens our lives. Every time we loiter over stressful issues, we ruin our health and shorten our lives. Yet we multiply stress by putting things off. Lower stress quickly with action. Dont say, I need more misery, before you grapple with a decision thats stealing your peace of mind.
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the hearts controls. Aeschylus M ANY people view fear as a negative, crippling emotion. However, it can act as a potent stimulus that enhances performance if we take the time to understand and modulate its power. The Sweet Spot of Fear Table tennis Olympian Amy Wang has had plenty of practice performing in the face of fear.
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N2Growth Blog
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
When Fortune highlighted Medtronics appointment of Thierry Piton as CFO, it wasnt just a leadership hiring updateit was a referendum on modern leadership. As N2Growths CEO with over 25 years in the industry, having placed and consulted private and public organizations across the globe ranging from early-stage start-ups and NGOs, to Fortune 100 companies and top-tier higher educational institutions, Ive long argued that clinging to industry tenure as the gold standard for executives is like using
Leading in Context
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
By Linda Fisher Thornton The human journey. Were all taking it, but we dont always know where its headed. We cant always see where weve been until later, when we have the long-term perspective and can begin to make sense of the twists and turns weve taken throughout our lives.
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Its easier to fail casually than to give your best and fall short. Only the humble learn from responsible failure. Those who hide failure fail again. Those who never fail reach too low. The sooner you address what isnt working, the sooner trajectory changes. How to fail like a pro.
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Jonah Sachs on the experts trap: While expertise can make us enormously efficient at playing an established game, it can also make us slower to realize when the game has changed and less able to respond to those changes.
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Great Results Team Building
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Most meetings are relatively joyless experiences They become routine checklists and overlong discussions that end in a whimper. But team meetings dont have to be this way. They can (and SHOULD) be culture-building experiences that inspire action, creativity, and growth. Your team gatherings are a prime opportunity to foster collaboration and engagement, especially if you rethink how they end.
Lead from Within
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
The harsh reality facing today’s executives isn’t whether AI will transform leadershipit’s whether you’ll be relevant when it does. In my work with C-suite leaders across major corporations, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend: while 82% acknowledge AI’s impact, most resist the fundamental changes required to thrive in this new era.
HR Digest
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Google is abandoning its diversity hiring goals. Meta, Facebooks parent is dismantling its flagship DEI programs across the company. Target has announced plans to phase out DEI initiatives in its stores and warehouses beginning this fall. This list of companies ending DEI policies in America goes on and on. What went wrong? The question on everyones mind is why are companies getting rid of DEI?
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Leading feelings begins with setting intentions. How will people feel after their one-on-one with you? Focus on two areas. How will they feel about themselves and their work? You cant make people feel something. Leading feelings require influence, not coercion.
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Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
W ITH THE SUPER BOWL around the corner, what can business leaders learn from elite athletes about high-level performance? Be like Roger. And Michael. And Simone. And Usain. And many others. Thats key advice for business leaders seeking to improve their impact and excel in a sustainable, long-term way thats good for them and everyone around them. The Roger, in this case, is none other than Roger Federer, the tennis legend considered an exemplar of athleticism and sportsmanship.
Eric Jacobson
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
"Stories strengthen communications and presence for leaders," explains Kristi Hedges , author of the book, The Power of Presence. She recommends you consider adding stories to your communications when you : Want to motivate others and paint a picture of what's possible. Need to show others -- whether a large audience or one person -- that you have shared commonalities.
Frank Sonnenberg Online
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
We all have dreams and ambitions, but ambition alone isnt enough what are you prepared to sacrifice to achieve yours? Will you push through exhaustion, forgo momentary satisfaction for lasting success, and forge ahead when every fiber of your being urges you to stop and give up? Its easy to say yes now, but will your actions align with your promises?
HR Digest
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
Its officialAI is replacing Gen Z jobs, or it might soon enough. According to a new survey, 37% of managers would rather hire artificial intelligence bots over humans, or young Gen Z graduates to be more precise. While workers have long been afraid of technology taking over their jobs, especially since the AI uprising began a few years ago, most were reassured by the fact that the technology would take some more to develop into a form that would be able to do their jobs better than them.
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.
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Leaders dont change people people change themselves. You can influence transformation. You can encourage it. You cant force it. Self-discovery is growth. Listen to peoples stories if you want to inspire growth. People see themselves in their stories. MORE.
leaderCommunicator
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Learn how to use 5 Ws and H to capture important perspective, share all-important content, and make it relevant for your audience when communicating virtually anything.
Eric Jacobson
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
Here is a book that provides workplace leaders an urgently needed methodology for helping companies to reduce worker loneliness, and it delivers a blueprint for building strong, high-performing workplace teams. The book is, Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated To All In , by Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen. 72% of workers suffer from loneliness.
The Horizons Tracker
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Researchers at the University of Liverpool have published the first peer-reviewed study on workers using foodbanks in the UK. The study found that the main reason employed people are turning to foodbanks is the poor quality of available jobs. The research involved speaking directly with foodbank users in Liverpool. It revealed that 65% of participants, including 76% of those of working age, said their food insecurity was due to jobs with unreliable hours, low pay, the difficulty of balancing ins
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thoughtLEADERS, LLC
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Today’s post is by Anil Singhal, author of “The 5% Rule of Leadership: Using Lean Decision-Making to Drive Trust, Ownership, and Team Productivity.” We live in an age of corporate layoffs. Whenever companies encounter a setback, the inevitable go-to move is to cut overhead. A challenging stock market, a significant customer loss, the retirement of an aging product line?
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
The more power you have, the more lies you hear. People agree when you state your opinion. They smile when theyre upset with you. When you ask how things are going, they say, Great. Here are 4 practical ways to be worthy of hearing the truth.
The Regis Company
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Instructional designers are the chief architects of learning experiences, designing impactful learning experiences that equip employees with the skills needed to perform their best and help organizations remain competitive. Yet the growing demand for scalable, engaging, and personalized training programs places immense pressure on Learning & Development (L&D) professionals to deliver more with less time and fewer resources.
Eric Jacobson
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Bruce Tulgan s book, The Art of Being Indispensable at Work is all about how to win influence, beat overcommitment, and get the right things done in your workplace. Tulgan says that what truly sets go-to people apart is how they think and what they do, including: They understand the peculiar mathematics of real influence doing the right thing for the long term.
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The Horizons Tracker
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Even if the term “rockets and feathers” is new to you, the idea behind it is probably familiar. When companies face higher production costs, they quickly raise priceslike a rocket shooting up. But when those costs go down, prices tend to drop slowly, like a feather floating to the ground. Economists have tried to explain this pattern, but their answers havent been fully convincing.
HR Digest
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Dear Jane, I have a coworker from hell, who also happens to be a few years older than me. I truly believe she wakes up every day with the sole purpose of giving me plenty of life advicewhen I say plenty I mean everything under the sun, possible to be experienced or achieved by humans. She wants me to manage my finances her way, try hobbies that she thinks would be good for me; to dole out dating experiences with her so she can tell me what I should and shouldnt do in the dating game.
CEO Insider
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
A recent survey of major Japanese companies has revealed that more than 80% of respondents anticipate raising the prices of their products and services in 2025, largely due to rising costs of raw materials, energy, and labor. The survey, conducted by NHK between mid-December and mid-January, targeted 100 firms, with 68 providing responses. Among them, […] The post NHK Survey: Over 80% of Japanese Firms Plan Price Hikes in 2025 appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
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