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Improve Yourself the Ben Franklin Way

Lead Change Blog

Benjamin Franklin packed a lot of achievement into his 84 years. He was a successful entrepreneur, a scientist who made important discoveries, an inventor, an author, and a statesman. He made “small but important changes” to Thomas Jefferson’s first draft of the Declaration of Independence. He helped found the institution that became the University of Pennsylvania.

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It’s All About Your Focus

Joseph Lalonde

The Disciplined Leader Series Becoming a disciplined leader is not for the faint of heart. A disciplined leader knows being disciplined is a choice. He also knows being disciplined is more than a choice. Leaders who are truly disciplined in their thoughts, actions, and life go the next step. These disciplined leaders know to be truly disciplined they have to control their focus.

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5 Secrets to Refinancing Your Student Loans

Women on Business

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One Foolish Conversation And Three Keys to Skillful Conversation

Leadership Freak

One foolish conversation can pollute an entire team. If we understood the pervasive power of conversations, we’d open our mouths with greater care.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Weekly Round-Up: Tough Conversation Insights, Google’s 10 Traits of a Great Boss, Speak Up to Improve Company Culture, Build Successful Multicultural Teams & Learning From Difficult People

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. The Art of the Tough Conversation: A Frontline Festival By Karin Hurt and David Dye ( @ davidmdye via @LetsGrowLeaders ), Let’s Grow Leaders “Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival on the art of the tough conversation. We asked thought leaders from around the world to share their very best post on this topic.

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A Closed Heart Can’t Be Led

Leadership Freak

A closed heart can’t be led. Anything you do or say that gives permission for people to open their hearts enhances your leadership.

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Take Control of Your Learning at Work

Harvard Business Review

Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images. Human beings have an astonishing ability to learn, but our motivation to do so tends to decrease with age, particularly in adulthood. As children, we are naturally curious and free to explore the world around us. As adults, we are much more interested in preserving what we learned, to the point of resisting any information — and data — that challenges our views and opinions.

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A Study of Thousands of Dropbox Projects Reveals How Successful Teams Collaborate

Harvard Business Review

Martin Konopka/EyeEm/Getty Images. The use of virtual file-sharing platforms like Dropbox, Google Docs, and others has become ubiquitous in business, academic, and other settings. But is your team using such collaborative platforms as effectively as they could be? Whether working on cancer cures or the latest consumer-tech products, how teams collaborate affects their performance and success.

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Most of AI’s Business Uses Will Be in Two Areas

Harvard Business Review

Oliver Burston/Getty Images. While overall adoption of artificial intelligence remains low among businesses ( about 20% upon our last study), senior executives know that AI isn’t just hype. Organizations across sectors are looking closely at the technology to see what it can do for their business. As they should—we estimate that 40% of all the potential value that can created by analytics today comes from the AI techniques that fall under the umbrella “ deep learning ,” (

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Survey: 68% of CEOs Admit They Weren’t Prepared for the Job

Harvard Business Review

Jan Stromme/Getty Images. CEOs are known for their confidence. It is, after all, one of the reasons they’ve made it to the top. And yet, that confidence sometimes flags, as we at leadership advisory firm Egon Zehnder learned from a survey of 402 CEOs from 11 countries—executives who together run companies with $2.6 trillion in sales. Participating anonymously, CEOs told us that while they did feel ready for the strategic and business aspects of their roles, they felt much less prepar

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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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Two Questions to Ask Before You Set Up an Innovation Unit

Harvard Business Review

Classen Rafael/EyeEm/Getty Images. Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At one large European energy company we consulted with, no less than four separate corporate functions were supposed to be working on innovation—yet none of them was supporting critical needs at the business unit level.