Fri.Dec 01, 2017

article thumbnail

5 Top Leadership Articles for the Week of November 27, 2017

Let's Grow Leaders

Each week I read leadership articles from various online resources and share them across social media. Here are the five leadership articles readers found most valuable last week. Click on the title of the article to read the full text. I have […].

Article 415
article thumbnail

First Look: Leadership Books for December 2017

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December. A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs by Tren Griffin. Minds at Work : Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy by David Grebow and Stephen J. Gill. Impromptu : Leading in the Moment by Judith Humphrey. Capacity : Create Laser Focus, Boundless Energy, and an Unstoppable Drive In Any Organization by Chris Johnson and Matt Johnson.

Humphrey 154
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Fear Cannot Win

Joseph Lalonde

Have you ever been scared? Really scared? I remember growing up and having intense bouts of fear. One of those fears was the belief I was going to be left behind in the Rapture (the Biblical kind). The fear crept in whenever I would return home and find the house empty. Mom, dad, sister, brother… Nowhere to be found. Image by Evan Rummel. What was to be found was fear.

article thumbnail

Are You the Captain of the Titanic

Leadership Freak

Disconnected leaders are captains on the Titanic. Comfortable disconnection in the present signals failure in the future. Isolation may feel comfortable – especially in difficult situations – but it sinks leaders and organizations.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Emotional Intelligence Training to Position Yourself for Personal & Organizational Success

Chart Your Course

Developing Emotional Intelligence to Position Yourself for Personal, Team, and Organizational Success. Without strong and effective relationships in business, today’s fast-paced, team-based and global work environments can’t function with peak efficiency. Maximum results will not be achieved. Emotional Intelligence (EI) competencies are at the heart of effective workplace relationships and productivity.

article thumbnail

Weekly Round-Up: 3 Ways to Improve Your Communication, 4 Leadership Mindsets, Flex Leadership Muscle, & Information Overload

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. 3 Simple Ways to Improve Your Communication with Anyone By Susie Miller ( @ HuffPost ), HuffPost “Communication can be hard, messy, and totally ineffective OR Communication can lead to greater understanding, camaraderie, and success…”.

More Trending

article thumbnail

Using Facebook Canvas as a Marketing Tool for SMEs

Rapid BI

In a previous RapidBI article we discussed the effectiveness of Twitter in terms of marketing for SMEs. However, it is far from being the only social media tool that you can use to reach your online audiences. Facebook Canvas was introduced a year ago to allow companies, including SMEs, to establish their marketing presence on the […]. The post Using Facebook Canvas as a Marketing Tool for SMEs appeared first on RapidBI.

Tools 28
article thumbnail

Dealing with Change as Your Company Grows

Strategy Driven

While most entrepreneurs hope their fledgeling business will one day grow into a multi-national corporation, making the transition from being the head of a small, tightly-knit team to overseeing a large number of employees working across a range of departments can often present a host of unexpected challenges. The following tips will ensure you are ready to pay the price of success.

Company 50
article thumbnail

How to Control Your Emotions During a Difficult Conversation

Harvard Business Review

Peter Dazeley/Getty Images. It’s hard not to get worked up emotionally when you’re in a tense conversation. After all, a disagreement can feel like a threat. You’re afraid you’re going to have to give up something — your point of view, the way you’re used to doing something, the notion that you’re right, or maybe even power – and your body therefore ramps up for a fight by triggering the sympathetic nervous system.

How To 15
article thumbnail

The importance of news in a student’s life

Strategy Driven

It is very important for you to instil the habit of following the news in children from a very young age. There was a time when people used to wait for newspapers in order to catch the previous day’s happenings. Thanks to the internet, every latest information now is available with a click of a button. There are a lot of benefits of following the news, especially for growing children.

Media 50
article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Does Your Startup Have a Spending Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

Catherine Ledner/Getty Images. Starting a new business involves a host of challenges, and chief among them is knowing what to spend your money on—and how much to spend. You have to consider salaries, marketing budget, office size, technology services, and on and on. These spending choices require tradeoffs, so entrepreneurs must first develop a strategy for allocating limited resources across a wide range of available options.

article thumbnail

Are You a Santa Claus Leader?

Lead Change Blog

Winter holidays bring “visions of sugar plums” dancing in most heads. Not real plums, mind you, but modern-day versions—colorfully wrapped presents, mistletoe, eggnog, decorated trees, outdoor lights, carols, and…hopefully the real reason for celebrating this special time of year. For me, it brings visions of influential leaders and what made them so.

Airlines 250
article thumbnail

CFOs Don’t Worry Enough About Cyber Risk

Harvard Business Review

Mitch Blunt/Getty Images. Every executive team and board of directors is asking themselves the same question in regard to their cyber risk right now: what can we do differently to avoid being the next Equifax, Yahoo! or Target, and protect our shareholder value? The answer involves radically reframing one of the mainstays of the C-suite — the role of the CFO.

CFO 9
article thumbnail

The Most and Least Digital Jobs – and How Well They Pay

Harvard Business Review

Tyler Machado/HBR STAFF. In all likelihood, your job involves using computers – probably more so than it did a decade ago. In a recent study , researchers at Brookings attempted to quantify that change across the U.S. economy, using Department of Labor data on the digital requirements of 545 different occupations. They found that 95% of those occupations became more digital between 2002 and 2016, meaning that computers became a more important part of the job.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

How the Internet of Things Can Prepare Cities for Natural Disasters

Harvard Business Review

filo/Getty Images. When a disaster strikes, federal, state, and local governments need a coordinated strategy, accessible data, and a skilled workforce to manage the response. Natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods have devastating effects on communities across our country. Since 1980 the U.S. has sustained more than 200 weather and climate disasters, with cumulative costs exceeding $1.1 trillion.

article thumbnail

A Tax Plan that Hurts Education Will Hurt U.S. Competitiveness

Harvard Business Review

Jens Magnusson/Getty Images. My father is brilliant, but he grew up in a family forced to supplement what little they could earn with subsistence farming in rural Indiana. He graduated from high school two years early, at the top of his class, because he needed a paycheck to help support the family. He never went to college. His parents didn’t think it was unimportant—they just couldn’t afford it.