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Your career will soar if you avoid leaders’ #1 blind spot

Michael Lee Stallard

Many leaders unknowingly sabotage their careers by wrongly assuming their employees are actively engaged in their work. This lack of understanding about engagement — enthusiasm, effort and enjoyment at work — will eventually affect the bottom line and make the leader look ineffective. Help Employees Achieve their Career Aspirations.

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First Look: Leadership Books for April 2024

Leading Blog

Co-Intelligence : Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could do previously. Why is having a mentor crucial to success?

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When Skills Are Mismatched In The Labor Market

The Horizons Tracker

With the world in the midst of a recession, the researchers examined how labor markets reallocate talent via creating and destroying vacancies and via the formation of relationships at work and the changing of jobs and careers. A kind of creative destruction on an individual level. Therefore, there is also a sullying aspect at play.

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It’s the People, Stupid!

Lead Change Blog

People show up with emotions that affect how they act. People have lives outside business that affect what they’re like when they show up. People are creative. They come up with good ideas. Bottom Line. Jack Welch had a stellar career as one of the great CEOs of all time. People are Not Things.

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Being a Good Leader is Tough Stuff

Lead Change Blog

These priceless individuals value results and the bottom line. They value traditions while encouraging innovation and creativity. The leaders people want to follow balance bottom-up and top-down decision-making. Their people know they’re more than a cog in the wheel or a means to an end. But they don’t stop there.

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The Glass Wall Facing Female Freelancers

The Horizons Tracker

The very nature of the gig economy lends itself to the so-called “portfolio career”, whereby freelancers have various strings to their bow. In the Great Resignation, people are looking for new opportunities outside the traditional career. The bottom line is you may make a good living as a specialist.

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Scaling Leadership

Leading Blog

The top half of the circle are the 18 Creative Competencies that lead to leadership effectiveness. The bottom half is comprised of 11 Reactive Tendencies. First and foremost, we have to consciously move our leadership from reactive to creative. How do you show up as a leader? They underuse their High-Creative strengths.