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WordPress Resources at SiteGround

Let's Grow Leaders

WordPress is an award-winning web software, used by millions of webmasters worldwide for building their website or blog. SiteGround is proud to host this particular WordPress installation and provide users with multiple resources to facilitate the management of their WP websites: Expert WordPress Hosting. SiteGround provides superior WordPress hosting focused on speed, security and customer service.

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What is Meaningful Leadership? (Part 5)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton What is Meaningful Leadership? Making a Difference By Building a Better Society For the Future In Part 1 of this series we looked at how leaders generate meaningful environments where others can thrive. In Part 2 we explored a leader's own quest for authenticity. In Part 3 we looked at the role of powerful conversations and a focus on relational ROI.

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Greatness Comes At A Cost

Joseph Lalonde

Everyone talks about wanting to be great. They claim they want to make a difference in the world. But is that the truth? Do people really want to be great? I don’t believe they do. Greatness comes at a cost. A cost many people aren’t willing to pay. Are you willing to pay the price to be great? Click To Tweet. Greatness will cost you: Your time.

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DS Hydraulics | Great Place to Work

Chart Your Course

I always talk about the importance of employee retention. Retention starts by treating your employees with respect and dignity. Here is an example of one of those businesses. Greg Smith. I started working for D&S Hydraulics, a family owned company, almost 35-years ago. The company was making little money and raises were scarce to say the least.

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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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Seek Openness – Not Transparency

Leadership Freak

New Book giveaway!! 20 complimentary copies available. Leave a comment on this guest post by Edgar and Peter A.

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13 Life Factors That Can Fuel Your Everyday Success

Eric Jacobson

Jack H. Llewellyn , PhD is a sports psychology consultant who has helped a major league baseball pitcher become a Cy Young Award winner, A NASCAR driver go from number six overall to number one and with the Winston Cup Series Championship, and countless leaders at Fortune 500 companies. Now, he’s written the book, Commonsense Leadership: No-Nonsense Rules for Improving Your MentalGame and Increasing Your Team’s Performance.

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Thank you OPC

Izell Leadership

Thank you to Orthotic and Prosthetics of Canada for the invitation to speak at their meeting last week. It was a great meeting. They had terrific attendance, excellence participation. My compliments and appreciation to Dana Cooper and staff for a very well organized and executed meeting. I had a wonderful two days talking about change, leadership and marketing.

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Assess the health of your business – FAST!

Rapid BI

As the economy stays tight for many businesses, now is the time to carry out a health check to look at what is and what is not happening in a healthy way. Its easy to focus on the day-to-day, but taking a short amount of time to work on the business rather than work in the business can pay dividends. The post Assess the health of your business – FAST!

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Izell Leadership

Thank you to Orthotic and Prosthetics of Canada for the invitation to speak at their meeting last week. It was a great meeting. They had terrific attendance, excellence participation. My compliments and appreciation to Dana Cooper and staff for a very well organized and executed meeting. I had a wonderful two days talking about change, leadership and marketing.

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Research: To Get People to Embrace Change, Emphasize What Will Stay the Same

Harvard Business Review

Eric Raptosh/Getty Images. Common wisdom in management science and practice has it that to build support for a change project, visionary leadership is needed to outline what is wrong with the current situation. By explaining how the envisioned change will result in a better and more appealing future, leaders can overcome resistance to change. But our research, recently published in the Academy of Management Journal , leads us to add a very important caveat to this.

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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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Izell Leadership

Thank you to Orthotic and Prosthetics of Canada for the invitation to speak at their meeting last week. It was a great meeting. They had terrific attendance, excellence participation. My compliments and appreciation to Dana Cooper and staff for a very well organized and executed meeting. I had a wonderful two days talking about change, leadership and marketing.

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How to Avoid Loneliness When You Work Entirely from Home

Harvard Business Review

Carlo Allegri/Getty Images. Working from home can be a coveted perk, allowing you to opt out of rush-hour traffic and eliminate the tedious banalities of office life. But it can also cut you off from the spontaneous interactions that can spark new insights (part of the reason Marissa Mayer famously rescinded Yahoo’s telecommuting policies). And, at times, the solitude may lead to isolation or the feeling that you’re left out at work.

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Thank you OPC

Izell Leadership

Thank you to Orthotic and Prosthetics of Canada for the invitation to speak at their meeting last week. It was a great meeting. They had terrific attendance, excellence participation. My compliments and appreciation to Dana Cooper and staff for a very well organized and executed meeting. I had a wonderful two days talking about change, leadership and marketing.

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What Data Scientists Really Do, According to 35 Data Scientists

Harvard Business Review

burakpekakcan/Getty Images. Modern data science emerged in tech, from optimizing Google search rankings and LinkedIn recommendations to influencing the headlines Buzzfeed editors run. But it’s poised to transform all sectors, from retail, telecommunications, and agriculture to health, trucking, and the penal system. Yet the terms “data science” and “data scientist” aren’t always easily understood, and are used to describe a wide range of data-related work.

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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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Izell Leadership

Thank you to Orthotic and Prosthetics of Canada for the invitation to speak at their meeting last week. It was a great meeting. They had terrific attendance, excellence participation. My compliments and appreciation to Dana Cooper and staff for a very well organized and executed meeting. I had a wonderful two days talking about change, leadership and marketing.

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Whether a Husband Identifies as a Breadwinner Depends on Whether He Respects His Wife’s Career — Not on How Much She Earns

Harvard Business Review

Harry Haysom/Getty Images. Professional careers are notorious for demanding that people be single-mindedly devoted to work. It’s a demand that is often especially acute for men, who face rigid expectations that being a successful man requires having a successful career, and that “success” means power and money. Men have traditionally satisfied these expectations by taking on the role of a work-devoted breadwinner, supported by a wife who does not work or who places his career f

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