Thu.Jan 11, 2018

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What to Do When Your Boss Can’t Focus? (Asking for a Friend)

Let's Grow Leaders

Dear Karin & David, What do you do with a boss who makes it impossible to focus? We agree on a direction and three days later he has seventeen new ideas, dumps them on us, and the managers are expected to somehow […].

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Preview Thursday: Benefit Corporation Law and Governance: Pursuing Profit with Purpose

Lead Change Blog

The following excerpt is from Benefit Corporation Law and Governance: Pursuing Profit with Purpose by Rick Alexander. It has gone largely unremarked that 35 states introduced a new corporate governance model in the past decade. Yet the introduction of the “benefit corporation” gives leaders an opportunity to remake our business culture, and perhaps save the planet from our very human short-term bias.

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How Getting Involved with a Charity Could Make Your Business Newsworthy and Admirable

Women on Business

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3 Laws of Vitality: Defeat Energy Vampires Before they Defeat You

Leadership Freak

Energy vampires* cheer when: Urgencies distract from priorities. Meetings suck the life out of people. Tough conversations get rescheduled or avoided. Elephants – taboo topics – crowd conference rooms.

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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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How To Know When It's Time For Change At Your Company

Eric Jacobson

Stacking the Deck: How to Lead Breakthrough Change Against Any Odds , is as relevant today as it was when published a few years ago. That's because the pace of change in business is just as fast as it was a few years ago. Unfortunately, even when business leaders know they need to make changes at their company, many struggle with how to start making that change.

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5 Important Lessons of Successful Career Reinventors

Management Excellence

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5 Important Lessons of Successful Career Reinventors

Management Excellence

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3 Paradigms For Hiring the Right Staff

Ron Edmondson

I deal with pastors often who are trying to make leadership decisions. One of the most frequent discussions, and honestly one of the hardest things we do as leaders, is attempting to add quality and qualified staff to the team. When you go to look for a new staff member I think it helps to have a paradigm through which you are seeking the next person.

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Why People Really Quit Their Jobs

Harvard Business Review

MirageC/Getty Images. People don’t quit a job, the saying goes — they quit a boss. We’ve heard it so many times that when we started tracking why employees leave Facebook, all bets were on managers. But our engagement survey results told a different story: When we wanted to keep people and they left anyway, it wasn’t because of their manager…at least not in the way we expected.

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The Number One Leadership Activity to Drive Innovation

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Dr. Kumar Mehta: Every leader wants to consistently create mind-blowing products and offerings that customers love and line up for. They know that if they don’t innovate, they will be left behind, the world’s simply moving way too fast. They are looking to institutionalize the innovation process. This means building a culture where innovation happens every day.

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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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How Automation Will Change Work, Purpose, and Meaning

Harvard Business Review

eva bee/Getty Images. The vast majority of humans throughout history worked because they had to. Many found comfort, value, and meaning in their efforts, but some defined work as a necessity to be avoided if possible. For centuries, elites in societies from Europe to Asia aspired to absolution from gainful employment. Aristotle defined a “man in freedom” as the pinnacle of human existence, an individual freed of any concern for the necessities of life and with nearly complete persona

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5 Things I Learned Writing A Novel That I Wished I Knew When I was a CEO

In the CEO Afterlife

I’ve written over a 100 blogs about leadership, strategy and culture. Within that portfolio are several accounts of business reinvention and transformation. Yet it was only a few months ago that I composed my first post on another type of reinvention – personal reinvention. My own. You see, after I departed the corner office I had this crazy idea to write a thrilling historical novel.

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When an Email Exchange Turns Ugly

Harvard Business Review

Hayon Thapaliya. It was Monday morning, and Lee opened his inbox to find an email from his manager: “Lee, I’ve decided to have Carlos present to the governing board, instead of you. I’m sure you’re good with this.” Lee had spent the entire weekend preparing for the presentation. Not only did he know the numbers inside and out, he was also excited to get some face time with the board.

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If Retailers Want to Compete with Amazon, They Should Use Their Tax Savings to Raise Wages

Harvard Business Review

Enis Aksoy/Getty Images. Walmart announced today that it is raising its starting wages in the United States from $9 per hour to $11, giving employees one-time cash bonuses of as much as $1,000, and expanding maternity and parental leave benefits as a result of the recently enacted tax reform. It is part of Walmart’s broader effort to create a better experience for its employees and customers.

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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 to Make Sure People Won’t Hate Your New Open Office Plan

Harvard Business Review

frank lloyd wright/ullstein bild/Getty Images. Organizations are rushing to implement open office spaces in hopes of retaining talent, encouraging cross-functional collaboration, enhancing exposure to different kinds of expertise, and accelerating creativity and innovation. Sometimes this works, but often it doesn’t. In our research, we discovered that success with open offices may have as much to do with how people feel about the space — something called place identity — as wi