Tue.Dec 28, 2021

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Nailing It: How Historys Awesome Twentysomethings Got It Together

Leading Blog

R OBERT DILENSCHNEIDER looks at the lives of twenty-five accomplished men and women and asks what they were doing at around age 25 that led them to become the people they became in Nailing It: How History’s Awesome Twentysomethings Got It Together. Specifically, he looks at the influences like education, parents, friends, and events in the world that helped them make the choices they made.

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Sorry, It’s Company Policy Is Bad Business

Joseph Lalonde

I recently purchased a Kamado Joe Classic I charcoal grill. These grills are called egg grills because of their shape. The deal had been too good to pass up. It was almost half off the original price. I placed the order, the item arrived, and Pamela and I assembled the grill. A few days later, […].

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The Case for Mental Fitness – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

How we think about mental health and mental illness has changed a lot in my lifetime societally. More and more awareness of mental illness is emerging, and while this is really good, unfortunately, there’s actually more mental illness than ever. People are willing to talk about it, but there’s all sorts of factors like anxiety […].

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Amazon Just Launched A New Type Of Grocery Store. How Should The Industry Respond?

Joseph Lalonde

The grocery industry is going through a highly disruptive period. Amazon is now bringing a brand new business model to the sector where customers literally walk in, pick up what they want, and walk out. The innovative ecommerce retailer and tech firm says that it can work out exactly what consumers select via its “walk […].

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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 Deliver Your Message Effectively to Your Audience

Women on Business

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The Risks Involved In Using AI To Make Human Decisions

The Horizons Tracker

Human decision-making is far from perfect, with biases causing considerable variation, discrimination, and unfairness. Artificial intelligence is increasingly being deployed to try and improve matters, but is it working? A new report from Rotman investigates, and finds that while it does indeed have the potential to overcome some of our most damaging biases, it can also reinforce gender and racial inequality.

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Key post-Brexit tax and customs changes

Strategy Driven

The financial, political and tax world in the European Union has changed for good. One word Brexit, i.e. the UK leaving the European Union, has a huge impact on the European economy, population migration, the UKs domestic economy. For businesses, the most significant changes relate to customs and tax issues. What after Brexit? Tax issues. The financial, political and tax world in the European Union has changed for good.

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How to Deliver Your Message Effectively to Your Audience

Women on Business

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Even Being Inauthentic Can Help Us

The Horizons Tracker

There has been considerable commentary in recent years around the benefits of authenticity at work. This narrative suggests that when we’re able to be authentic at work, we’re usually happier and more productive, which is evidently a positive thing. The flip side of that, of course, is that when we’re not authentic, it’s universally bad.

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Consulting For Executives: A Framework to Package & Position Your Expertise

CEO Insider

Have you ever wondered how you could monetize your expertise outside of your corporate role? As an executive and business leader, other companies would benefit from your expertise. Companies around the world will pay you to solve problems and create results for their business. However, your challenge isn’t delivering your expertise. You do this on […].

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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 Testbeds Can Help Us To Co-Create The Future

The Horizons Tracker

The late Clayton Christensen famously highlighted that consumers are not buying our product as much as they are hiring it to complete a particular job. In Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice he argues that the most successful companies are those who are able to understand why customers make the choices they do. Unfortunately, to use the vernacular of Stephen Haeckel , many innovators adopt a make and sell approach rather than sense and respond.

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How to Uninstall WinRAR on Windows 10

Strategy Driven

WinRAR is the most well-known compressing application that also encrypts, archives, and backs up all the files. This application is user-friendly as the user can easily manage and sort out any compressed file but one thing that perks up the worth of this app is it’s free for use but for a limited time. You must install the version of WinRAR according to the bit version of your laptop, for example, if your laptop is compatible with the 32-bit version and you have installed the 62-bit versio

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How to Generate Reactions to Your Consulting Firm’s Marketing

David A Fields

Your consulting firm can increase the amount and quality of engagement from the readers, listeners and viewers of your marketing content (a.k.a. your thought leadership). You utter pithy proclamations in your podcasts, write alluring arguments in your articles, and present a veritable treasure trove of value in your videos. You even pepper your content with … Continued.

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How To Be The Best At What You Do

Eric Jacobson

Prepare to be inspired and then to work hard as you read Bo Eason ’s book on how to be the best in the world at what you do. The book, published a few years ago, and is called, There’s No Plan B For Your A-Game. Former NFL All-Pro and now one of the most in-demand motivational speakers and trainers, Eason provides you the four-step, real-world, game plan to help you reach your goals (declarations) and to play your A-game.

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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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5-Step Action Plan To Make A Successful Career Change

HR Digest

It’s never too late to take a step back in order to map out a path that fulfills your career aspirations. The HR Digest has curated a five-step guide to help you make a career change. . 1. Know what you want to change. 2. Decide on the industry you want to be in. 3. Get the education. 4. Change your resume. 5. Do networking. The word “change” can sound quite misleading.

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Best of IdeaCast: What Sets Successful People Apart

Harvard Business Review

Revisiting a conversation with psychologist Heidi Grant about the behavioral secrets to success.

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Always Do Your Best

Frank Sonnenberg Online

Do you remember back-to-school night? It’s an opportunity for parents to meet with teachers and hear what their kids will be learning that year. When I was a youngster, if I was lucky, the session ran long so my parents didn’t have a chance to meet one-on-one with my teacher afterward. After all, the inevitable question many parents ask is, “How’s my kid doing?

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HBR Readers Reflect on 2021

Harvard Business Review

Takeaways from another challenging year.

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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.