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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

Leadership BS : Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer Leadership BS is a compendium of human nature. Comparisons with Steve Jobs are not off the mark. Blog Post ). It describes well the hypocrisy in all of us. We don’t always meet our own standards. We don’t always reward what we say we value.

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How SWOT Analysis Harms Leaders

Lead Change Blog

We make these mistakes not only in work, but also in other life areas, for example in our shopping choices, as revealed by a series of studies done by a shopping comparison website. Martha, the CEO of a Midwestern healthcare company for whom I started consulting in early 2016, showed me her SWOT analysis from mid-2015. Cognitive Bias.

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Companies Invest In Automation To Plug Gaps In An Aging Workforce

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers used the same techniques used internationally to examine the adoption of robotics and automation in around 700 metropolitan areas across the United States between 1990 and 2015. Generally speaking, the same trends appeared locally as they did globally.

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Can You Really Turn a Hobby into a Business? part 1 of 3

Strategy Driven

But is simply enjoying stamp collecting enough to translate your hobby into a successful, thriving, and sustainable career? Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. What we’re really talking about here is ‘passion.’ Embrace these things and use them to help set yourself apart from the competition.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Don't base the training decisions on 'apples to oranges' comparisons. Training, professional enrichment, membership in associations and constructive business interaction are vital for career longevity and economic independence. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. merely begins. Mentorship. Workplace literacy.

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Are U.S. Millennial Men Just as Sexist as Their Dads?

Harvard Business Review

” And in 2015 the Huffington Post wrote that Millennial men are “likely to see women as equals.” The researchers found that male students systematically overestimated the knowledge of the men in their classes in comparison with the women. ” The gap was similar when it came to child care responsibilities.

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Your Company Needs Independent Workers

Harvard Business Review

Recent research illustrates the growing corporate use of contingent workers: In 2014, nearly 35% of the average company’s workforce was contingent or contract-based and this percentage will grow to 45% by 2017, says supply management firm Ardent Partners in its 2015-2016 State of Contingent Workforce Management.