Fri.May 11, 2018

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Leaders Learn, Forgive, and Move On

Lead Change Blog

At first, I was worried. Might she have been in an accident? Taken ill? Ten minutes after the time our coffee meetup was supposed to start, a horrible thought leapt into my mind. Had I gotten the date or time or place wrong? A frantic scroll through sent emails confirmed I was in the right place, right day, and right time. I called her. She’d forgotten about our get-together.

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Creating Strong Family Relationships

Joseph Lalonde

Relationships Matter If you were to ask someone what their most important relationship is, the answer would most likely revolve around a family member. My relationship with my wife is most important to me. My children are the most important people in my life. Or I love and cherish my parents. But if you were to ask them how they’re creating strong family relationships, you’ll probably get a blank stare.

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Choosing the Right Web Hosting Provider for Your Business

Women on Business

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How Experts Become Idiots and Leaders Become Blockheads

Leadership Freak

The trouble with ignorance is it’s easy to spot in others. I can predict your future with one question, “What are you learning?

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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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Weekly Round-Up: How the Best Companies Stay Relevant, Unexpected Quality of Successful Leaders, Curing Team Ails, Stop Overcomplicating Leadership, & Quit Babying Employees

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. How the Best Companies Stay Relevant By Skip Prichard ( @SkipPrichard ) “The number one reason for organizational success or failure is the ability to stay relevant. Staying ahead of the continual marketplace changes may seem an impossible task. How do you continually evolve at a pace that keeps you ahead of the curve?

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Key Practises You Must Get Right To Grow Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

Too many businesses fail within their initial stages, and you don’t want yours to be next. That’s why it’s crucial to optimize your business procedures right from the start. It will be much easier to implement them when you only have a few staff, rather than waiting until you have dozens or even hundreds. Hiring. If your company is small, then every team member is crucial.

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Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures”

Harvard Business Review

Dragan Todorovic/Getty Images. “We have a great culture.” We have all heard it. We have all said it. But what does that mean? Ping-Pong tables, free meals, and beer on tap? No. Yoga, CrossFit classes, and massage chairs? I so need that, but no. The promise of being part of a hip, equity-incentivized, fast growing team? Closer, but still no.

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How to Collaborate with a Perfectionist

Harvard Business Review

Richard Drury/Getty Images. It can be draining to work with a perfectionist. While it’s great to work with colleagues who care about the quality of their work, perfectionists take it a step further. Their unrelenting standards can result in unnecessary stress, conflict, and missed deadlines due to a failure to prioritize the big picture over the details.

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Denmark Has Great Maternity Leave and Child Care Policies. So Why Aren’t More Women Advancing?

Harvard Business Review

Westend61/Getty Images. In Denmark, we are well known for our welfare system — a system that is supposed to give women and men equal access to the job market and equal possibilities of making a career. We have daycare, schools, and other public institutions at the top of global rankings. Both men and women have great opportunities to have their loved ones (whether children or elderly relatives) taken care of during the daytime, allowing them to work.

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How Nextdoor Addressed Racial Profiling on Its Platform

Harvard Business Review

chuttersnap/unsplash. On March 3, 2015, hyperlocal social network Nextdoor announced that it had raised $110 million in venture capital. The deal valued the company at more than $1 billion—revered, unicorn status. It had to be a giddy moment for CEO Nirav Tolia and co-founders David Wiesen, Prakash Janakiraman, and Sarah Leary. But just three weeks later, all of that celebrating must have seemed like a distant memory.

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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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Tomorrow’s Factories Will Need Better Processes, Not Just Better Robots

Harvard Business Review

CSA Images/Mod Art Collection/Getty Images. When people think of the automotive Factory of the Future, the first word that comes to mind is automation. They think of the “lights-out” factory that General Motors Chief Executive Roger Smith fantasized about in 1982 and Elon Musk talks about building today—plants so dominated by robots and machines that they don’t need lights to work.