Fri.Apr 20, 2018

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Pareto, Juran, and Your “Vital Few”

Lead Change Blog

In late nineteenth-century Italy, about twenty percent of the people owned eighty percent of the land. Economist Vilfredo Pareto didn’t think much about that until he noticed that twenty percent of his peapods produced eighty percent of all his peas. He wrote about the phenomenon and added equations to describe it, but he never called what he found by any particular name.

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10 Ways to Start Your Day Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

Peak performance is built on rest. Exhaustion breeds discouragement and fear. I hope you woke up this morning refreshed. 10 ways to start your day like a leader.

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9 Times These Female CEOs Inspired Us with Their Words

Women on Business

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The GuruBook

Leading Blog

J ONATHAN LAW created The GuruBook to change, refine, and enhance your thinking. He has curated ideas from 45 internationally–known doers and thinkers on the topics of entrepreneurship, innovation, and authentic leadership. You’ll find great insights here from the likes of Sonia Arrison, Edgar H. Schein, Henry Mintzberg, Tom Peters, Pascal Finette, Andreas Ehn, Murray Newlands, Brian Chesky, Hampus Jakobsson, Craig Newmark, Alf Rehn, Paul Nunes, Nathan Furr, Mette Lykke and others.

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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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Leaders Must Make Disciples

Joseph Lalonde

When I read through the New Testament, I see countless examples of leaders who, at their core, were passionate about making disciples. These men, following the example set before them by Jesus, poured themselves into those that were close to them. In order to be a true leader, you must make disciples, not fans. Photo by Toa Heftiba. Anyone can have fans.

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Weekly Round-Up: Company Culture, Innovative Leaders, National Health Service Leadership, Keeping Remote Employees Motivated & Engaged, & What Successful People Do

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. The Power of Company Culture By Skip Prichard ( @SkipPrichard ) “A powerful culture fuels an organization to achieve greatness. When a new book by Chris Dyer titled “The Power of Company Culture: How any business can build a culture that improves productivity, performance and profits” hit my desk, I was interested to see the author’s view of culture and his interpretation of the latest research…

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7 Traits of Super-Productive People

Harvard Business Review

htu/Getty Images. Is there someone on your team who seems unusually productive? Someone who gets a huge amount done — without working longer hours? Super-productive people are in every industry. The most productive software developers write nine times more usable code per day than the average developer, according to research by Michael Mankins.

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Why Career Progression Starts with Self-Improvement

Strategy Driven

We are not always happy in our current job, and want to make changes that will improve our lives, self-esteem, and bank balance. However, to successfully improve your career, you’ll need to adapt a new approach and attitude. Instead of waiting for the opportunity to knock, you have to get proactive and search for ways of improving your knowledge, getting extra work, promotion, or new qualifications.

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How to Lose Your Best Employees

Harvard Business Review

CSA Images/Getty Images. You want to be a great boss. You want your company to be a great place to work. But right now, at this very moment, one of your key employees might be about to walk out the door. She has consistently brought her best game to work and has grown into a huge asset. But her learning has peaked, her growth has stalled, and she needs a new challenge to reinvigorate her.

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Bad Bosses

Harvard Business Review

Is your boss making your life miserable? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR: , cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Moshe Cohen , a senior lecturer at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. They talk through what to do when your boss is a jerk, a workaholic, or simply incompetent.

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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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The Best Flu Prevention Might Be Behavioral Economics

Harvard Business Review

diane555/Getty Images. Alongside popular misconceptions that healthy people do not need the flu shot and myths about the harmful side effects of the vaccine, numerous studies have shown that one of the biggest reasons people don’t get vaccinated is that a physician never recommends it. (Eighty percent of patients say they would be more likely to get a vaccination if a health care provider recommended it.).