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Clarity and Character-Based Leaders

Lead Change Blog

A lack of clarity can be very frustrating. We obsess over meaningless details and our uncertainty makes us decide over and over again. We waste effort worrying about factors outside our control. Clarity produces many benefits for character-based leaders. Being clear demands effort, but produces great results. Clarity brings out our courage. When we select something, we must choose not to select many others.

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3 Steps To Self-Awareness For Leaders

Joseph Lalonde

In the midst of being put on trial for corrupting the youth of Athens, Socrates uttered the famous line, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” He was well aware of the fact that, in order to truly live and lead as we ought, we first have to know who we are. As leaders, this is especially true since, by definition, we are going to influence and impact other people.

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How to Get Creative, Organized, and Productive Using Paper at Work

Women on Business

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How to Practice Ethical Buttering Up

Leadership Freak

Butter is the reason we eat popcorn. Broccoli is intolerable without butter. In our house we put butter on peanut butter sandwiches. Everything’s better with butter. (Except watermelon.

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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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Getting the Best Deals from Coupon Codes

Women on Business

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Weekly Round-Up: 25 Quotes by Great Female Leaders, Building Your Team’s Capacity to Think, 3 Leadership Lessons From Pilot Tammie Jo Shults, Workplace Inclusion, & Positive Culture

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. 25 Exhilarating Quotes by Great Female Leaders By Meg Prater ( @Meg_Prater via @ HubSpot ), HubSpot “To celebrate their incredible minds and contributions, I’ve put together a list of 25 quotes by amazing women whose words encourage me to push a little harder, speak up a little louder, and swap doing for dreaming.

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When Solving Problems, Think About What You Could Do, Not What You Should Do

Harvard Business Review

Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images. On a Saturday night in Modena, a picturesque city in one of the most well-known culinary regions of Italy, a couple and their two young sons dined at the three-Michelin star restaurant Osteria Francescana. The father ordered for the family “Tradition in Evolution,” a tasting menu with 10 of the restaurant’s most popular dishes.

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6 Things Successful Women in STEM Have in Common

Harvard Business Review

PM Images/Getty Images. For years, companies, universities and nonprofits have researched the reasons why women are less likely to enter STEM field s — and why, once they enter, they face challenges that frequently push them out. In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs.

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Stay Confident During Your Job Search by Focusing on the Process, Not the Outcome

Harvard Business Review

beastfromeast/Getty Images. Not long ago, I had the chance to speak to a networking group for job seekers over the age of 40. Many of the people in attendance had worked for over 10 years at companies and were then let go. A number of them had been out of work for six months or more and were starting to get worried about their prospects of finding a job.

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How Managers Can Be Fair About Flexibility for Parents and Non-Parents Alike

Harvard Business Review

Jorg Greuel/Getty Images. Bias against parents — and especially mothers — has been well documented. We call it the “ Maternal Wall ,” and we’ve been studying it for years, researching how women who have always been successful at work sometimes find their competence questioned when they take maternity leave or ask for a flexible work schedule.

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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