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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

Businesses and society endorse busyness, overwork, and extreme commitment as the most valued traits in workers. Many workers believe that to compete with other top talent, they must embrace a culture that rewards long hours and a constant connection to work. It's time to fight back.

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Texas Roadhouse and a Leader’s Legacy

Mark Sanborn

A personal note: This post is a tribute to Kent Taylor, founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse who tragically passed in March 2021. Kent Taylor, founder of Texas Roadhouse, not only openly admits that three of his first five restaurants failed, but he has a memento from each mounted behind his desk with a plaque detailing the money lost. .

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3 Keys For Building Relationships With Those You Lead

Tanveer Naseer

That we no longer view employees through the lens of Fredrick Taylor’s scientific approach to management – where people are merely assets, and interactions are transactional in nature. Rather, it’s about those connections, those bonds we develop and nurture with our employees.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. He is the poster child for a thoughtful, caring, empathetic, and committed leader who just also happens to be wicked smart. Find a strong and well positioned employer brand.

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How To Embrace Change In Today’s Organizations

Tanveer Naseer

However, as the crows demonstrate, even when change is forced upon us externally through unexpected or uncontrollable factors, we can still transform these disruptions in how we operate into opportunities that can provide us with a beneficial advantage over our competitors. Leaders like Billy R.

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How To Win With People Analytics

HR Digest

Workers are always subjected to performance monitoring where business profit dominates the employer-employee relationship, and workers need a nice and charming life, paid for by their work and commitment to their employer. The notable industrialists Taylor and the Gilbreths formulated plans to understand worker productivity.

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Guest Post: 10 Secrets of Effective Leaders

Lead on Purpose

And stay committed to helping your team members achieve them. Product management focuses on releasing the right products to the right markets at the right time; set both financial and operational goals for your product line. #4: Set clear goals. Set goals that are clear, reasonable and attainable. Grow your skills.

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