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5 Tips To Successfully Transition From Rookie To Leader

Tanveer Naseer

Even in organizations that invest in leadership development struggle with helping new leaders fully comprehend what it means to lead. What most leadership programs neglect to cover, but that new leaders quickly discover, is that leadership is massively freakin’ hard. Leadership can be a lonely endeavor.

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How To Retain And Find New Customers

Eric Jacobson

Thanks Bank of America and SCORE Association for these ideas from your Small Business Basics handbook. Customer Loyalty Customer Retention Customer Service Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management' Keep track of customer comments. Make follow-up calls to customers. Provide regular customers with discounts.

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Encourage Employees to Talk More

Tony Mayo

– Alex “Sandy&# Pentland MIT Human Dynamics Lab in Harvard Business Review Another study, at a bank’s telephone call center, showed that operators who spent their breaks speaking to coworkers not only got more work done but experienced less workplace stress.

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43 Weird Books to Shock & Delight: Some Odd Books, Some Funny

Miles Anthony Smith

Why Leadership Sucks™ Volume 1: Servant Leadership Fundamentals and Level 5 Leadership by Miles Anthony Smith While my book title isn't quite as gross or inappropriate as some of the others on the list, the title is meant to shock and grab the attention of readers, since there are so many leadership books to choose from these days.

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Dress for the Job You Want?

Harvard Business Review

London's Daily Mail likewise derided the banking giant for " tak[ing] the sexiness out of the City." Women, certainly, struggle more than men to achieve the look of leadership, a factor that contributes to their overall stall in middle- and upper-middle management.

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Career Growth: 4 Signs That Your Company Will Give You a Fair Shot

Women on Business

Recent data shows the majority of companies worldwide (71 percent) don’t have a clearly defined strategy for grooming and developing women as company leaders, according to a 2011 Women’s Leadership Development Survey conducted by Mercer. Are they single, raising families, older, or younger?

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The Best Ways to Hire Salespeople

Harvard Business Review

But most are a bland summary of the Boy Scout Handbook, with traits like extroversion, assertiveness, empathy, modesty, and an “achievement orientation.” It is leadership’s responsibility to adapt to markets and develop the competencies required today, not yesterday. Here are four places to start: Hire for the task.

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