Wed.Nov 06, 2019

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The Most Misunderstood Aspect Of Great Leadership

N2Growth Blog

I was recently asked what I consider to be the most misunderstood aspect of great leadership; in other words, what makes great leaders great? What immediately came to mind is not only misunderstood, but it also happens to be the most often overlooked element of leadership, and the one which also affords leaders the greatest opportunity for personal, professional, and enterprise growth.

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8 Leadership Principles to Elevate Others to Success

Leading Blog

L EADERSHIP, says John Eades, is “inspiring, empowering, and service in order to elevate others over an extended period of time.” In Building the Best he tells how to do just that. To that end he presents 8 practical principles you can use to elevate others. Principle 1: Use High Levels of Love and Discipline to Elevate Others. In terms of the workplace, Eades defines love as contributing to someone’s long-term success, and well-being and discipline as promoting standards in order for an individ

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What is Duality?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton What is Duality? What is duality? This is a tricky question, because the answer depends on your perspective and why you're asking. Each discipline answers the question from a different angle. This post samples the varying disciplinary perspectives on duality.

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Leaders Go First: The Surprising Impact of Making the First Move

RapidStart Leadership

We know that leaders go first, that's part of the definition of being a leader. But there's a surprising impact that going first can have on those who follow that is more powerful than we may have thought. The post Leaders Go First: The Surprising Impact of Making the First Move appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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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 Change Impacts Your Leadership

Joseph Lalonde

Leading Through Change. We know change is a constant in our lives and leadership. There’s nothing you can do to stop change from coming your way. IT IS COMING. But do you know what change will do to your leadership? How will it impact your leadership? This is the thought every leader needs to keep in the back […] The post How Change Impacts Your Leadership appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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Why Technology Matters For Your Business: A Guide

Tanveer Naseer

Most people living in the modern era are strongly aware that new technologies, like those developed by Apple, Amazon and Google, are helping to reshape the whole of human life. Without these technologies, we’d find it hard to imagine how we’d shop, travel, work and play. But in business, this. Click to continue reading.

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Three Ways to Raise Your Decision-Making Confidence

Next Level Blog

When you’re the leader, you have to keep things moving. To avoid being the bottleneck that slows your team’s work to a crawl, you need to make decisions on a timely basis. In a fast-paced environment, it can be hard to gather all the information you’d like to have when making important decisions. That can definitely affect your confidence in making the tough calls.

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4 Ways to Develop the Mindset of a Leader

Leadership Freak

Skills, circumstances, opportunity, and the people on your team impact the results of your leadership. But mindset – habitual ways of thinking – effects everything about you.

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Encore Series Video #1: What do I do if there are conflicting mindsets on my team?

Kevin Eikenberry

Last week, over 500 leaders in organizations all around the world joined me for my webinar titled, Why It Takes More Than Skills to Be a Remarkable Leader. And at the end of the webinar, we had a lot of great questions that we were unable to get to before our time ran out. But…as […]. The post Encore Series Video #1: What do I do if there are conflicting mindsets on my team?

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Top 20 Innovation Articles of October 2019

Innovation Excellence

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 8 as part of our FREE email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut? But enough delay, here are October’s twenty most.

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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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View from the 40th Floor: Communications on Steroids

Decker Communication

(Part 3 of a series by Bert Decker ). We live in a one-click world. Technology has shortened our expectations of time. Impatience reigns – sometimes that’s not so good, but it’s reality. The ability to deliver communications faster and better – now that’s good. Paraphrasing a favorite client: “The better the communication of the leader—the more trust and believability—the faster you can influence.

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Is There A Dark Side To Teamwork?

The Horizons Tracker

Team work is a standard part of most workplaces today, and so pervasive is collaboration that it’s supporters seldom report a bad side to it. Alas, new research suggests we shouldn’t automatically push the collaboration button, as team work can come with some side effects that can render it more harmful than helpful. The research revolves around the theory of ‘management-by-stress’, which argues that most stress faced by employees is due to the pressure placed on them by

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5 Tips to Delegate Tasks Effectively

HR Digest

One of the biggest questions first-time managers often face is how to delegate work. As the most reliable person on the team, one of the best ways to prepare your staff for future assignments is to delegate tasks effectively. Sadly, this is the part where people newly moved into a leadership role need a considerable amount of expert advice. 1. Set Expectations.

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How Can Autonomous Cars Progress When People Want To Drive Themselves?

The Horizons Tracker

In the various discussions around the development of autonomous vehicle technology, one somewhat uncomfortable truth has been brushed under the carpet. There has been a prevailing assumption that once the technology is ready and the legislation arranged, that people will automatically choose the technology because it’s better, more efficient, safer, less polluting and so on.

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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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Eight Steps To High Performance

Eric Jacobson

“Higher performance comes from doing many things well—but some of those things are not in your power to change,” says author Marc Effron. Therefore, he recommends in his new book, 8 Steps to High Performance , that you focus on what you can change and ignore the rest. Effron reveals in his book the eight key factors you do control and provides practical advice for improving yourself on each one.

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New Research Explores The Keys To Success

The Horizons Tracker

The guru trade appears to be in rude health, with no shortage of experts providing us with advice and guidance on how to be successful, whether that’s in our careers, our love life, our health or wellbeing. An unlikely addition to that canon comes via new research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. They set out to identify some of the more decisive factors behind success in a variety of fields.

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12 Principles of Leadership Inspired by Jesus

Ron Edmondson

There are many leaders I admire who have influenced my own leadership. I admire the teachings on leadership by guys like John Maxwell, Andy Stanley, and Patrick Lencioni. There are leaders from my personal life such as a former pastor, a former boss, a high school principal and leaders in my own community who have influenced me as I have watched their leadership.

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The Influence Effect

Lead Change Blog

Women hold over half of all professional jobs today, yet they represent just four percent of CEOs in the S&P 500. Even worse, that percentage has barely budged in a decade. That’s because, when it comes to political savvy, what works for men at work won’t work for women. Everything that we’ve been told about women succeeding in the workplace?

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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.

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Google Buys Fitbit, and Twitter Bans Political Ads

Harvard Business Review

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir discuss Google’s announcement that it’s buying Fitbit and what this tells us about the future of wearable computing. Later in the show, they discuss how Twitter and Facebook are handling political advertising.

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Aim Higher: Servant Leaders Put Others First

Skip Prichard

Put Others First. “Influence through service is more powerful than influence through position.” -Skip Prichard. One of the traits of a servant leader is the ability to think, “you, not me.”. Now, obviously, this doesn’t mean that you discount yourself at all costs. I like to think about the speech that we hear on airplanes all the time. About how, in the event of an emergency, you put on your own oxygen mask first.

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How Free-Market Economists Got It Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Azeem Azhar and Binyamin Appelbaum discuss how a group of free-market economists managed to reshape our modern world. They promised growth and broad prosperity, but instead left us with fractured societies and weakened democracies. Appelbaum is the author of the new book, “The Economists’ Hour,” a deep dive into the history of ideas that formed capitalism, as we know it.

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Research: How Men and Women View Competition Differently

Harvard Business Review

Understanding it can help break gender stereotypes.

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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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We Need a Global Standard for Reporting Cyber Attacks

Harvard Business Review

Regulators should be collecting a standardized data set, so we can measure the threat.

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Geisinger’s Home Care Program Is Cutting Costs and Improving Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

It reduces emergency room visits, hospital admissions, and spending.

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How Machine Learning Pushes Us to Define Fairness

Harvard Business Review

The systems we build reveal what we value.

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