Mon.Mar 26, 2018

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5 Reasons to Track Team Accomplishments and Focus For Success

Lead Change Blog

What did we accomplish today? As a leader of a team, I want to take 5 minutes and recap this every day. Personally, I used to try to track things I was grateful for. And I have also struggled with to do lists (and lists of lists) or tasks or tickets. Adam Grant and Sheryl Sandberg talked about tracking accomplishments in Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy.

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What I’ve Learned from the Young Leaders of Stoneman Douglas High School

Next Level Blog

I took the picture that accompanies this post from atop a trash can at the corner of Ocean Avenue and Montana Avenue in Santa Monica on Saturday. Thousands of people rallied there at the end of one of 800 March for Our Lives events that were held around the world that day for students, their families and friends to speak out against gun violence. As you’re no doubt aware, the largest of the marches took place in Washington, DC where the student leaders from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School i

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How Social Relationships Impact Professional Success

Women on Business

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Developing Your Team Purpose

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by John Izzo, PhD and Jeff Vanderwielen PhD Today’s product managers wear many hats and are required to be motivators, counsellors, mentors, and enforcers.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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#Podcast Interview With John Izzo on Leadership and the Purpose Revolution

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

I had a fascinating discussion with my friend and colleague John Izzo, author of six books including the newly released The Purpose Revolution, on the topic of leadership and purpose in an age of social good. What We Explored John says there is a global, growing cross-generational movement of employees, customers, and investors who want their work […].

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How to Show Up Like a Leader Today

Leadership Freak

The most important leadership choice of the day is choosing how you show up. Don’t react to people and circumstance. Respond from intention.

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Three Surprising Skills of the World’s Top Leaders*

Leadership Freak

You cannot lead effectively until you can lead yourself. “To be an effective leader you need to understand and manage yourself well.” Rasmus Hougaard (video) Self-management: The idea that top leaders are burning the candle at both ends is a myth according to research by Harvard Business Review.

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Talent Wins

Coaching Tip

People, not companies, generate value, so why isn't talent at the center of every company's strategy? Most executives today recognize the competitive advantage of human capital, and yet the talent practices their organizations use are stuck in the twentieth century. Written for all leaders across organizations, TALENT WINS by Ram Charan, Dominic Barton and Dennis Carey, provides a much-needed framework for transforming how companies acquire, manage and deploy talent for today's agile, digital an

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What To Look For In A Potential Employee’s Resume

Chart Your Course

For the 452,835 startups established in 2014 and thousands more that followed years later, hiring the best talent is a must. After all, businesses are only as good as their workers and choosing the wrong talent for the job can do the company a lot of harm.It all starts at the hiring level, according to experts and the very first thing that should be scrutinized by an employer is an applicant’s resume.

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Insights on High-Tech and High-Touch Customer Experience

QAspire

I created a series of sketch notes for Tiffani Bova’s “ What’s Next ” podcast where she meets brilliant people to discuss customer experience, growth and innovation. Tiffani Bova is a Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. I will post sketchnote versions of selected podcast episodes that enlightened me. Common perception is that people who face the customers are accountable for customer experience.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Another Battle Over Workplace Email

leaderCommunicator

New Yorkers would get a break from after-hours work emails under a bill introduced this month by a New York City Councilman.

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Work, Rest, Sleep – Does It Ever End

Strategy Driven

It is nice once in a while to remember the good old days when I was a kid. Nothing too much was expected of me, except to be cheerful, happy and get a good night’s sleep. Years went by and all the stress started to build up. School and college were still the fun part of my past. But, after that I became a grown up. Now that’s a completely different thing.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Pacific Rim

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article Five years after the original Pacific Rim released, the world is treated to the second Pacific Rim film, Pacific Rim: Uprising. Starring John Boyega (Finn in the new Star Wars films) as Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba), the hero of the first Pacific Rim. Jake is a troubled young adult. He’s been in trouble with the law.

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Kickstarting Your Biz The Right Way

Strategy Driven

Starting a new business can not only be exciting, but it can also be quite overwhelming. There is just so much to add to your plate as a business owner. You have to think about initial start up costs, the manufacturing if applicable, the relevant services to offer, the advertising and marketing, all while ensuring that you don’t fall into a pit with some of the common issues every startup business can face.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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How Black Women Describe Navigating Race and Gender in the Workplace

Harvard Business Review

CSA Images/ Color Printstock Collection/Getty Images. A few years ago I started attending classes for my part-time MBA. What I noticed almost immediately was that my experience in the classroom largely mirrored my experience of close to a decade in corporate America: I’m consistently one of very few black women and black people in the room. In September, Ellen McGirt published an article in Fortune exploring why there are zero African-American women running Fortune 500 companies.

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Driving Traffic To Your Ecommerce Site

Strategy Driven

When you have a physical store gaining footfall is a huge influence on your advertising and how you design your store. And all of that is still valid with an ecommerce site. The only differences lie in the fact that you aren’t aiming to grab the attention of someone walking by, but to target your audience when they are browsing the internet – whether or not they are searching for you.

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Taming the Epic To-Do List

Harvard Business Review

jennifer maravillas for hbr. The to-do list can be an indispensable tool when used to mindfully manage your time. But used indiscriminately, you become its servant. The first step in making your list work for you is to be clear on what job you’re “hiring” it to do. Most of us fail to do this, and so our lists are crammed with urgent priorities we must get done immediately ( send revised slides to client ), important tasks we’re afraid of forgetting because they have no sp

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My Fictional BFF: Forrest Gump

In the CEO Afterlife

A Daydreamer’s Thoughts is a blog that consists of book reviews, film reviews, book articles, film articles, and author interviews. Yesterday, the blog’s founder, Faye Rogers posted her Q & A with me regarding my recent novel, The Circumstantial Enemy. She began the interview by asking what I enjoy most about writing books. . At the outset, Faye, I should point out that I’m a relatively new writer with just 4 books in my repertoire.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Research: The Industrial Revolution Left Psychological Scars That Can Still Be Seen Today

Harvard Business Review

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art/The New York Public Library. The Industrial Revolution, which brought together large-scale coal-based industries like mining, steel, pottery, and textiles, helped create the foundation of modern society and wealth. At the same time, the early industrial economies that formed in this era were also associated with brutal working and living conditions.

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Using AI to Invent New Medical Tests

Harvard Business Review

clem onojeghuo/unsplash. Artificial Intelligence, which has already had a major impact on industries such as transportation, retail, energy, and banking, is only just beginning to be applied in medicine. Its profound capabilities hold promise for enabling early detection of disease and metabolic abnormalities and hope for empowering doctors and patients.

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Is the Confidence Gap Between Men and Women a Myth?

Harvard Business Review

Paul Garbett for HBR. How working women are kept from positions of influence and power is by now well-documented by scientists and journalists alike. While the research has not been specifically remedy-directed, where gender-based bias has been discovered some have sought to counter it with HR policy changes, training, awareness campaigns, equal opportunity legislation, and more.