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Start Here to Inspire Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

“David, it’s a mess.” Barb ran her hand through her hair and sighed. “I’ve been here 20 days and have met with people at every level and every department, asking what it’s going to take to turn things around.” What a Mess […].

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5 Tips to Increase Workplace Engagement

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Naphtali Hoff: The statistics about worker disengagement are staggering. We read all the time about how workplace engagement levels are low here in the U.S. and even lower around the world. Loss of productivity is estimated to cost employers hundreds of millions of dollars annually, if not billions. And it all stems from how disconnected folks feel from the people working around them, the work that they do each day, and the purpose that it serves to them and to others.

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5 Ways to Obtain Funding for Small Business

Women on Business

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Successful leaders are intensely curious

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Thursday Thoughts Successful leaders are intensely curious. Instead of giving quick answers, they ask great questions. Be curious! A good question can take you a lot farther than a quick answer! * * * * * * […]. The post Successful leaders are intensely curious appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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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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How Experienced Leaders Become Stagnant and Mediocre

Leadership Freak

Repetition isn’t the path to improvement, unless you persistently work to improve. The only way to improve is to focus on improvement.

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The Schmuck in My Office with Dr. Jody Foster

Kevin Eikenberry

How many times have you heard, “there is a schmuck in my office”? Maybe, you have made that comment yourself. In this episode, Kevin is joined by Dr. Jody Foster. Dr. Foster is the author of The Schmuck in My Office and a clinical psychiatrist whose practice includes corporate development that provides support and evaluation […]. The post The Schmuck in My Office with Dr.

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Doing Big Business With Big Data? Avoid These Big Dangers

Strategy Driven

Photo courtesy of Pexels. Big Data is that important that businesses are doing more than using it to increase traffic. Today, savvy enterprises realise there is money to make, and they are trying to monetise the information they have. In fact, this blog has a post about why a business needs to start monetising data. There is no doubt that companies can make a lot of money from information, as seen by Big Data’s rise in popularity.

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Thought For The Day

Eric Jacobson

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in a world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it." -- David Beckahm.

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One Thing You Must Do if You Want to Attract Leaders

Ron Edmondson

One of the most frequent concerns I receive from young leaders about their organizations is they aren’t being given adequate responsibly or authority. Instead, they are handed a set of tasks to complete. They don’t feel they have a part in creating the big picture for the organization. Since most of the young leaders I talk to are in ministry, this means it’s happening in the church too.

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The Transformed Map of a Recovering Management Accountant

Deming Institute

This post is an excerpt from Ed Baker’s Book (pages 140-141), The Symphony of Profound Knowledge , which was created in partnership with Aileron.org. About Aileron. At Aileron, we fervently believe privately held business fuels free enterprise and raises the quality of life for us all. As businesses move beyond the start-up phase, a systematic approach to your business is critical to sustainable and strategic growth.

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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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Health Care Providers Can Use Design Thinking to Improve Patient Experiences

Harvard Business Review

A hospital administrator recently talked to us about an issue that is all too common for patients: missed medical appointments. The story was about a woman named Mary (a pseudonym), a patient with a painful chronic condition who continually failed to keep her regular appointments. In an effort to better understand the problem at hand, the administrator tried to put herself in Mary’s shoes, and asked about her experience: Was there an issue with transportation?

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LeadershipNow 140: August 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from August 2017 that you might have missed: Two Questions You Need To Stop Obsessing Over by @PhilCooke. The Courage to Deliver Difficult Messages by David Grossman. There’s One in Every Group (and How to Make Sure It’s You) by @ScottEblin. Why It's Essential to Invest in Developing Your Managers as Leaders by @artpetty.

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How Netflix’s Content Strategy Is Reshaping Movie Culture

Harvard Business Review

Tim Evans for HBR. “Bueller? Bueller?” If you’ve seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, that one line probably conjures up memories of Oh yeah, chicka chicka, Ferraris, playing hooky, and dating in high school — all of which feature heavily in the hit coming-of-age film. Like The Usual Suspects ( “Who is Keyser Soze?” ) , Old School ( “You’re my boy, Blue!

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Why Everyone Should See Themselves as a Leader

Harvard Business Review

Sue Ashford, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, breaks down her decades of research on leadership—who achieves it, and how a group grants it. She explains that the world isn’t divided into leaders and followers. Instead, it’s a state that everyone can reach, whether they’re officially in charge or not.

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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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A Simple Way to Be More Assertive (Without Being Pushy)

Harvard Business Review

In the workplace, we all run into conflict. Many of us would love to speak up and assert ourselves to correct it. And, in a perfect world, it would be easy. You could finally tell that colleague who keeps interrupting you exactly how you feel. You could give him a piece of your mind, releasing the frustration and anger that’s been gnawing at you for months.

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What Happens When Men Don’t Conform to Masculine Clothing Norms at Work?

Harvard Business Review

Every morning, men make a seemingly mundane yet crucial decision: what to wear to work. Most pull out some variation of the charcoal, navy, or black suit from their closet. Some might add their own twist: a polka-dot pocket square or colorful socks. This probably isn’t surprising. In Britain and North America, the suit is the most culturally accepted form of office wear for men.

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