Fri.Jul 14, 2017

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The Bridge to Growth

Lead Change Blog

Today we are pleased to share a post from Jude Rake. Jude is the founder and CEO of JDR Partners and author of The Bridge to Growth: How Servant Leaders Achieve Better Results and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever. The premise of The Bridge to Growth is a twist on an age-old debate in the business world. What’s more important, strategy or execution?

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5 Leadership Lessons I Learned by Walking the Camino de Santiago

Leading Blog

T HE Camino de Santiago is a network of ancient hiking paths that all lead to a shrine to St. James in northwest Spain. I first walked that trail – 435 miles over 29 days – in 2013 and have returned twice since. My passion for discovering new hiking trails was what drew me to the Camino, but the lessons from the Camino are what keep me going back. Here are five of those lessons that have helped me become a better leader. 1.

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Give Your Team Hope

Joseph Lalonde

There are going to be tough times in your organization. Sales might be down or you’ll lose key players. Something will go wrong. That is a guarantee. But even in these dark times, you need to do something. You need to give your team hope. The Power Of Hope. My favorite movie series has to be Star Wars. There’s an epic story that goes on.

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Screw You and Other Moments of Growth

Leadership Freak

Growth hurts. #1. Have a screw you attitude. Get up after being kicked to the curb. A screw you attitude is useful when others don’t believe in you. Prove them wrong. Plow forward.

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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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Weekly Round-Up: Leadership Lessons, Achieve Excellence in Execution, Younger vs Older Executives, & Help Employees Get Your Strategy

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of recent top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog. This week you’ll read articles on 5 leadership lessons from teaching in a Middle School, a leader’s role in achieving excellent execution, the differences in coaching younger and older executives, leadership lessons from working 40 years as a coast guard, and how to create

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How Love Turned This Veteran’s Life Around and Led to Her Life’s Work

Steve Farber

Michelle Poitier doesn’t just say that love is important to her business , she has built her business around that belief. Michelle is the founder and executive director of Healing Women Healing Nations of Northeast Florida, a nonprofit organization that works primarily with homeless female veterans and their children. It’s a work founded on love, run with love, and that generates love.

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Trends Convincing More People to Choose Freelancing Careers – Infographic

Women on Business

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Research: Writing a Business Plan Makes Your Startup More Likely to Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Jennifer Maravillas for HBR. When asked about an opponent’s plan for their impending fight, former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson once said: “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” It is a school of thought now fashionable in entrepreneurship circles. Advocates of “learning by doing” approaches such as the lean startup say it is better to act, improvise, and pivot than to waste time and resources on a 20-page plan that won’t survive f

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Offices Can Be Bastions of Civility in an Uncivil Time

Harvard Business Review

After the heated rhetoric of last November’s U.S. presidential election, Interpublic (IPG), my company’s parent corporation, held its first open call for employees to talk about concerns related to respect in the workplace. IPG wanted to reinforce its commitment to inclusion. People called in anonymously from five continents. What struck me most was how many people talked about feeling unsafe as a result of the political atmosphere.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

The success of platform companies like Airbnb, Amazon, and Netflix has led to envy bordering on despair for their competitors. When we asked one successful online retailer “How do you compete with Amazon?” the response was “You don’t.” Publicly, CEOs talk about digital transformation, but privately, they wonder if their efforts will be enough.

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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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Could Open-Source Code Make Our Y2K Fears Finally Come True?

Harvard Business Review

Almost 20 years have passed since the corporate world woke up to long-term problems in computer code, which became known as Y2K. Over the previous decades, software developers had used the date 01-01-00 (January 1, 2000) as a convenient hack to make it easier to debug software. The problem was that it wasn’t taken out. So as 2000 loomed, there was a realization that, when the clocks hit midnight, software all over the world could simply stop running.