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The Importance of Asset Protection for Women Entrepreneurs

Women on Business

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Are You Leaving a Positive Legacy? (10 Questions Across 5 Dimensions)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton When we think about leadership in the "here and now" we tend to think about what will be most effective in the short run. When we think about our leadership over decades, though. we can turn our attention to the longer-term impact we have on others - our positive legacy. .

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Collard Greens and Leading Yourself

Lead Change Blog

Going into the holidays, I’d never have guessed that collard greens and black-eyed peas would serve up a leadership “aha” moment. I don’t think my table mate did either. Over dessert, my table mate remarked that she still had a nasty taste in her mouth from “that awful green dish that had been forced on her.”. “Is this your first experience eating collard greens?”.

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How to Avoid the 5 Career Derailers

Leading Blog

W HY DO SOME careers stall while others flourish? The careers of one-half to two-thirds of managers and leaders will derail. “At some point, over half of us will get fired or demoted—or our careers will flat-line, and we won’t reach our innate potential. In The Right—and Wrong—Stuff , Carter Cast shares with us the turning point in his career at PepsiCo.

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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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Leadership, Passion, And Transformation

Joseph Lalonde

I’m sure quite a few of you were in diapers as I was immersed as a teen in this 1970’s commercial about Enjoli perfume. This sexy suburbanite sang a jazzy song about the many roles she successfully played in society—a corporate executive, a gourmet cook, an involved mother and the commercial culminated as she sang to her husband, “And I’ll never let you forget you’re a man.

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5 Things I Learned Writing a Novel That I Wish I’d Known as a CEO

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Two days ago I published an interview with John Bell, former CEO of Nabob (acquired by Kraft) and recently published novelist, about his radical career change. During that interview I asked John if he would be willing to write a guest post for current leaders about what he had learned from writing a novel that […]. The post 5 Things I Learned Writing a Novel That I Wish I’d Known as a CEO appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Beyond Peter Drucker’s Five Most Important Questions

Leadership Freak

Peter Drucker believed the five most important questions you will ever ask about your organization are: What is our Mission? Who is our Customer? What does the Customer Value? What are our Results?

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Four Faulty Assumptions Diminish Your Ability to Influence Change

Change Starts Here

In your efforts to influence change at work, you may be making some common assumptions that reduce your effectiveness. These assumptions are blind spots that are lucky if they’re right, but more often, they’re wrong. They prevent you from taking action that would help your change initiative succeed. The following are common assumptions to avoid […].

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4 Tactics to Help You Survive Working for a Dictator-Manager

Management Excellence

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The benefits of evidence-based management in a nutshell

CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

Evidence-based management (also known as EBM or EMBgt) is a management approach that involves using multiple sources of scientific evidence and empirical results as a means of attaining knowledge (Barends, Rousseau, & Briner, 2014). To be an evidence-based manager is to use the scientific literature as a means of answering questions, inspiring strategy decisions, and forming long-term plans.

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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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4 tips for improving and expanding your business

Strategy Driven

As an entrepreneur, it is vital that you are always on the lookout for new ways to improve and expand your business. This will help you to increase your client base, compete with your competitors, establish a unique brand, and make a mark in your area of the industry. Even if your business is currently going from strength to strength, there is always more to be done, whether it’s to help you be the best in the business or to remain an industry leader.

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How to Have a Good Debate in a Meeting

Harvard Business Review

Hirokazu Jike/Getty Images. The modern workplace is awash in meetings, many of which are terrible. As a result, people mostly hate going to meetings. The problem is this: The whole point of meetings is to have discussions that you can’t have any other way. And yet most meetings are devoid of real debate. To improve the meetings you run, and save the meetings you’re invited to, focus on making the discussion more robust.

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5 Simple Marketing Tips for Improved Brand Visibility in 2018

Strategy Driven

For some time now, having an online presence has been crucial in business. As more consumers turn to the internet to shop, search and even socialize, ranking #1 on Google can put you in front of your competitors and increase conversions. While the internet proves far more competition than ever before, this ease of virtual accessibility can be both a dream and a curse.

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You Don’t Just Need One Leadership Voice — You Need Many

Harvard Business Review

Gregor Schuster/Getty Images. We often equate developing a leadership voice with finding ways to appear more confident. We assume that our success depends upon mimicking someone else, increasing our self-promotion, or saying things louder than others. But rather than living with imposter’s syndrome , or feeling exhausted by wearing your game face all day, you can build a truer confidence by more intentionally focusing on cultivating many different parts of your leadership voice each day.

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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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What Should You do if You Get Injured at Work

Strategy Driven

For most employees, their workplace is a safe environment that is maintained to keep everyone safe. Even if you do have to do a dangerous job, there will be measures in place to keep you as safe as possible. However, for a few people, their workplace is not so safe, and this can lead to accidents and injuries at work. No-one likes to take action against their employer, but if you do get injured, then you need to get the support you need.

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What to Do If You’ve Already Abandoned Your New Year’s Resolution to Get a New Job

Harvard Business Review

Thomas Barwick/Getty Images. According to research published by the New York Times, one in four of us has abandoned our New Year’s resolutions by January 8. Some resolutions are too daunting for people to follow through on. That’s especially true of any “new year, new job” resolution. If you are one of those who are bored, unchallenged, and overworked, but you can’t bring yourself to start yet another job search, here’s an idea.

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How to Prepare Your Business For the Unexpected

Strategy Driven

Every small business that succeeds does so at least in part as a result of the strategies employed by its owner in a bid to fulfil their personal vision of the future, but few such owners spend any time working on plans to help them deal with unexpected emergencies. Small enterprises are far more vulnerable to such events and failing to make proper provision for any kind of disaster scenario, whether a data breach or hurricane, means you risk being caught off guard.

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Do Soda Taxes Work? Not Unless Retailers Raise Prices

Harvard Business Review

Annabelle Breakey/Getty Images. Soda’s empty calories are public enemy number one in the fight against obesity, and taxes on sugary drinks are an increasingly popular tool among local governments hoping to curb consumption. State and federal taxes on tobacco and alcohol have helped reduce consumption; local governments are simply assuming a soda tax will work in the same way.

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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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The 5 Pillars of Internet Marketing for New Businesses

Strategy Driven

Launching a startup is a challenging and often humbling venture. Although financing your business idea is the first milestone to overcome, once you’re up and running, it’s time to channel your energy into targeting your niche audience and marketing your product. Most entrepreneurs understand the value of good marketing, but many of them don’t have the budget to give their business the promotion it deserves.