Wed.Nov 07, 2018

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When Leadership Becomes Too Much: How to Unwind

Lead Change Blog

When you become a leader of a team, business, or organisation, there’s one certainty: at some stage, it’ll all become too much. This isn’t an indication of failure, either. You’re human, and leadership is tough. It requires long hours, intense meetings, big decisions, and the ever-present challenge of dealing with multiple personalities. So, you’re bound to burn out at some stage.

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Who Will Lead Us Tomorrow?

Leading Blog

W E ARE RAISING TODAY, the men and women who will lead us tomorrow. It is a responsibility that should not be taken lightly. It should be done with forethought and with a consideration of the kind of world we hope they and we will live in when it’s their turn to lead. Developing leaders places a huge responsibility on us today that goes beyond telling those future leaders what we think.

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The Seductive Power of the Status Quo

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Why do we have such a powerful negative reaction when we find out that we need to change? The status quo literally has a grip on us.

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The Areas A Leader Must Balance

Joseph Lalonde

The Work-Life Balance Series. When you think of balancing your life, what do you think of? You probably think of balancing work and family. These two areas are the first things people think of when they think of balancing life. And for good reason. Family and work are the two most important areas in most leaders lives. But balancing […] The post The Areas A Leader Must Balance appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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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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The Importance of Truth-Telling for Your Organization’s Success

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Guest post by Jim Haudan and Rich Berens Lack of truth-telling in organizations can take many forms. It could be information not reaching the boss because no one wants to pass on the bad news. It could be departments not sharing information because it might put them in a bad light with peers. Leaders need to […]. The post The Importance of Truth-Telling for Your Organization’s Success appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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5 Ways to Stop Solving the Wrong Problem

Leadership Freak

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

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To Give a Great Presentation, Distill Your Message to Just 15 Words

Harvard Business Review

Caiaimage/Martin Barraud/Getty Images. Fearless public speaking is about more than combating nerves. It’s about knowing the technique, the art, and the business of public speaking. In my two years working as a TedX producer, and my 27 years working in film, television, theater, and events production, I have worked with hundreds of speakers, and with actors including Kate Winslet, Christopher Walken, Susan Sarandon, and the late James Gandolfini.

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What We Can Learn About the Economics of Discrimination from a Chilling Study of 1930s Germany

Harvard Business Review

MirageC/Getty Images. Large-scale, government-directed discrimination against a group of people is extremely damaging to those being targeted. It also permeates every aspect of society, including business. For example, talented people are often excluded from leadership positions if they belong to the group that faces discrimination. What are the costs of this, beyond stifling or ending the careers of thousands of people?

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Can Netflix Keep Winning? And Why People Are Fleeing Latin America

Harvard Business Review

Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee debate whether Netflix’s success is sustainable, before trying to wrap their heads around the unthinkably high murder rate in Latin America. They also share their After Hours picks for the week. Download this podcast. For interested listeners: Latin America is the Murder Capital of the World (Wall Street Journal)You can email Youngme, Mihir and Felix with your comments and ideas for future episodes at: harvardafterhours@gmail.com.

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business Review

Renee Comet/Getty Images. In recent years, much has been written about how the Blockchain is poised to transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture.

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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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How Children’s Health System of Texas Is Improving Care with Design Thinking

Harvard Business Review

Hero Images/Getty Images. The potential for improving the quality of healthcare has never been greater. Advances in data analytics give us the ability to look at large populations and precisely segment their needs and new technologies such as tele-medicine give us the capabilities to deliver customized experiences at scale. But the most powerful drivers of change are not necessarily technological; radical improvements increasingly also come from applying new innovation methodologies like design

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The Fundamentals of Leadership Still Haven’t Changed

Harvard Business Review

Gary S Chapman/Getty Images. Recently the Chief HR Officer for a healthcare firm asked us to identify the best new framework for leadership that she could use to train and develop a cadre of high potentials. The challenge, she said, was that these managers were highly proficient in their own disciplines such as finance, marketing, research, clinical care, and insurance reimbursement — and had demonstrated that they could manage people in these areas — but she needed them to be “