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How the Best Leaders Invest In Themselves

Lead from Within

The best leaders are not born into greatness—they work hard to become great. It’s true of leaders at every level: successful CEOs, executives, directors, managers and supervisors. And smart leaders understand that they are never done learning, because learning is a lifelong process. They treat learning as an investment in themselves. Here are some of the forms that investment takes: They’re open to feedback.

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10 Truths About Commitment That Enlarge Leadership

Leadership Freak

If it feels like you’re pushing ropes, the problem is commitment. You’re doomed to disappointment, stress, and frustration when you pressure people to do things they aren’t committed to do.

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Foolproof Tricks for Boosting Your Ecommerce Sales

Chart Your Course

96% of Americans have made a purchase online, with 44% of all sales claimed by Amazon. As an entrepreneur, it’s easy to feel like your online retail store has no chance of competing in such a competitive market. However, getting ahead of the competition is all about looking at the data and changing your strategy to […] The post Foolproof Tricks for Boosting Your Ecommerce Sales appeared first on Chart Your Course International.

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What Happens in the Brain When We Disagree

Tony Mayo

Tony Mayo Executive Coach. I happened to see this article, What Happens in the Brain When We Disagree, a few minutes after coaching a client on an important negotiation. The essence of what these scientists discovered by watching brain activity during a hypothetical real estate negotiation is, when people disagreed, their brains became less sensitive to the strength of […].

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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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The Magic Potion in Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Raghu Kalé: IS leadership overrated? I have often grappled with this question. The fact that one holds a position barely qualifies one to be a leader. Some folks manage to deceive themselves into believing that they are leaders. Why? Because they hold a position? In my life, I have worked with leaders who served for a cause. Some served as heads of businesses that operated across geographies in multiple countries and many continents.

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Hire To Complement, Not To Duplicate

Eric Jacobson

Despite the temptation to hire someone like yourself, hire someone to complement your skills --not to duplicate your skills. Managers often find it easier, more comfortable, or less threatening to hire someone with similar skills and work habits. But, to build a well-balanced team and to achieve maximum success, you need to have employees who can fill in your weaker areas.

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The Elements of Transformational Leadership

Skip Prichard

This extract from Wellbeing at Work by Cary Cooper and Ian Hesketh is ©2019 and reproduced with permission from Kogan Page Ltd. Transformational leadership. One of the popular frameworks of leadership is that of transforming leadership. Initially coined by James Downton in 1973 following his research into charismatic leadership, it was influenced largely by Bernard Bass, and his instrumental book Leadership and Performance Beyond Expectations (1985).

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The Best Christmas Gift You Can Ever Give

Ron Edmondson

What’s the best Christmas present you can ever give? Give words. Share the gift of words. Words can harm. They can bruise a spirit and injure a soul. Some people spend years trying to recover from crushing words. Of course, I’m not talking about these kind of words. I’m talking about encouraging, affirming, life-giving words. My Story.

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The Importance Of Trademarks To Startups

The Horizons Tracker

Startups have an awful lot on their plate as they attempt to scale their business, so taking care of intellectual property issues may not be at the top of their agenda. New research from Lehigh University suggests this might be a big mistake. Indeed, they argue that the trademark portfolio held by a startup is actually an important factor in their eventual success. “We hypothesized that trademarks play two important roles: a protective role, leading to better product market performance;

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#BizRAK2019: The Roundtable Holiday Happiness Guide Day 4

Roundtable Talk

This week, The Roundtable is celebrating the 2019 holiday season by giving back to our amazing community. To show our thanks and spread some cheer, we’ve put together a Holiday Happiness Guide with tips and tricks to make the most out of the holiday season. For the past 4 years, we have done a BizRAK […].

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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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The 3 Ways We Hold Female Entrepreneurs Back

The Horizons Tracker

Earlier this year I chaired a panel about female entrepreneurship at IE University’s LegalTech event in London. The discrepancies in venture capital funding to female entrepreneurs are well known, but society also tends to view men as more creative and innovative than women, even when the reality is quite the opposite. Indeed, this bias tends to emerge by the time children are three years of age.

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Becoming a Reliable Provider: 4 Proven Strategies for Building Trust in Your Industry of Choice

Strategy Driven

Most people fail to realize just how difficult starting a business and making it successful can be. If a business owner does not focus on providing their customers with top-notch service, keeping them loyal will be extremely difficult. For most consumers, finding businesses that they can trust is imperative. Establishing trust with consumers and clients can be difficult.

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Why Immigration Is So Important In The Global Race For Talent

The Horizons Tracker

The challenges startups face in recruiting the talent they need to thrive was something I touched upon in a recent article , after research from Cornell University highlighted the difficulties many scientists face in navigating the immigration process in the United States. These challenges meant that they overwhelmingly elected to go to larger companies that can help them with the bureaucracy, rather than the startup where their talents might be better put to use.

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Want To Create SMART Objectives? Here’s How

Strategy Driven

No matter what type of business you have, you’ll need to set clear objectives quarterly or annually. A way of identifying future goals, along with the timeline, they will help you to achieve growth. Whether your objectives involve increasing business revenue, maximizing your profits, providing better customer service or improving the productivity within your workplace, if you use the right tools you’ll be able to accomplish it.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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Season 3 Finale: How FOMO Was Created

Harvard Business Review

Fifteen years ago, while host Patrick McGinnis was a student at Harvard Business School, he wrote a column for the student newspaper about his observation that the student body’s social schedules were driven by two forces: The Fear of Missing Out and the Fear of a Better Option — or FOMO and FOBO, for short. Then McGinnis graduated, started his career, and mostly forgot about it — until a reporter looking into FOMO’s origins tracked it back to him.

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Spicing it Up: 4 Creative Ideas to Make Meetings More Interesting

Strategy Driven

Sitting through weekly meetings that are dull and uninteresting is not at the top of any employee’s list. Instead of making meetings an endurance test, find ways to make meetings more interesting and engaging. There are at least 4 creative ideas out there to make meetings more enjoyable and productive. Shaking up meetings with a new meeting location, catering, and other ideas may be just what is needed. 1.

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How challenging is it for you to be direct and unapologetic in an email?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How challenging is it for you to be direct and unapologetic in an email when you ask for something you have every right to ask for? Not at all challenging. I’m direct and unapologetic all the time: 49% A bit challenging. Sometimes I apologize or am indirect: 38.8% Challenging. I’m not comfortable being direct and unapologetic: 10.8% Very challenging.

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Why Don’t Women Self-Promote As Much As Men?

Harvard Business Review

Research shows it’s not as simple as a lack of confidence.

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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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Think You Have No Worries with a Job Change If There’s No Non-Compete Agreement? Think Again

Strategy Driven

perf6.000×9.000.indd. Each year, thousands of people explore and often accept a new job opportunity with a direct competitor. When they have no employment agreement or non-compete clause, they consider themselves free from risk as they talk to or move to a competing company. But in reality, this is far from the truth. The non-competition agreement is a form of contract that employees sign with their current companies to keep them from being able to work for a competing firm.

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Real Innovation Requires More Than an R&D Budget

Harvard Business Review

It’s about discovery, incubation, and acceleration.

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4 Careers for People Who Are Easily Distracted

Harvard Business Review

A wandering mind can pay off.

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