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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

Perhaps it starts within your organization, then within your industry? At some point in your career journey, have you started to focus more on status as a leader than the job at hand? My most recent peer review included a comment that I needed to get a better car. But what happens when you assemble a group of leaders?

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Dr. Tasha Eurich on Unleashing Potential through Self-Awareness

HR Digest

Learn beyond your industry for fresh perspectives. Read widely : Consume industry publications, thought leadership articles, and books (we rarely read the books we buy—aka “nightstand of guilt.”). My advice, in rapid-fire: Stay curious, stay engaged, stay ahead : Always be in learning mode—it’s a competitive edge, and fun to boot.

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What Is The Future Of Ageing Populations?

The Horizons Tracker

The report revolves around 22 peer-reviewed evidence reviews and expert meetings that aimed to debate everything from health and care to housing. “This will require the UK to move towards a model where training and re-skilling opportunities are available throughout people’s careers.”

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Stop Treating B2B Customers Like Digital Novices

Harvard Business Review

If you have a problem with your industrial cement mixer, you usually have only two options: read the manual or call your sales rep. 97% of professional buyers believe that user-generated content, such as peer reviews and group discussion, is more credible than content provided by the company itself. Wide topic focus.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business Review

This is because promotions and salary increases at most business schools are primarily based on professors’ number of peer-reviewed, “A” journal publications (or those appearing in journals with the highest impact factor, or frequency of citation-counts). Where has this stuff been hiding?”

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

When we interviewed 45 such people across 39 companies in 8 industries in the United States and Europe, we found that by identifying low-value tasks to either drop completely, delegate to someone else or outsource, the average worker gained back roughly one day a week they could use for more important tasks. Lead by example.

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

At Lincoln Industries , a manufacturer and distributor of trucking accessories, promoting workers’ health and well-being is embedded in the company’s core mission and values. Senior leaders not only speak of its importance to the organization’s success, they lead by example. This, of course, takes time and support.