Tue.Nov 26, 2019

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How to Find Thanks and Gratitude

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

The benefits of gratitude are indisputable. Grateful people experience more positive emotions, feel more alive, sleep better and even have stronger immune systems according to numerous research studies. However, It’s not always easy to find thanks and gratitude. Trying to stop thinking about the things that are stressful and worrying to you actually causes you to […].

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A Powerful Lesson From Warren Buffett On How To Achieve Your Goals

Tanveer Naseer

One of the key responsibilities of leaders is helping their employees to achieve their goals. And yet, with all the distractions and increased demands we face, sometimes this is easier said than done. Thankfully, Warren Buffet has shared a surprisingly simply strategy to successfully achieve our goals, a strategy I. Click to continue reading.

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Small Acts of Leadership: 50 Ways to Become More Influential

RapidStart Leadership

Opportunities to influence others are all around us; it's the small acts of leadership that can have the biggest impact; here are 50 ways to get started. The post Small Acts of Leadership: 50 Ways to Become More Influential appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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Confidence – Power and Proof of Confidence – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

When we have confidence, the results and outcomes are amazing. We try more things; we accomplish more things; and we have a bigger impact. In today’s video, I’m giving you actual proof about the power of confidence. Tweet it out: Remember that confidence is a choice. When you choose to be confident, good things happen […]. The post Confidence – Power and Proof of Confidence – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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Do You Lead a High Trust Organisation?

Lead Change Blog

Trust in an organisation is the glue that holds the thing together. The better the level of trust, the stronger the relationships are, the higher the productivity of the team, and the more successful the organisation is. Dennis and Michelle Reina are pioneering, preeminent experts on building and rebuilding trust to drive business results. They believe that trust begins with you, and they share many tools, tips, and ideas in their consulting work, blog, and website.

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How to Make Every Day Employee Appreciation Day

Lead from Within

Many of the organizations where I coach hold an annual employee appreciation day. The leadership team presents employees who have had significant accomplishments or anniversaries with some form of recognition. Then they say something about how important every member of the team is and go back to their offices, satisfied that they’ve taken care of employee appreciation for another year.

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Resources or People? Building a human first corporate culture

CEO Insider

Peter Drucker once stated that “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” I couldn’t agree more! As someone who has built a business and advises others on how to do the same, I have learned many valuable lessons about the importance of culture and how, whether good or bad, corporate culture has a direct impact on the […].

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How Leadership Impacts Company Culture

The Center For Leadership Studies

Your organization has a culture, whether you know it or not. And if you’re not proactively building and shaping your company culture, it’s being created unintentionally. Without a unifying culture, people feel frustrated and disengaged. That will be detrimental to morale, productivity and, eventually, the success of your business. What is Company Culture?

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Ignore The HIPPOs (Highest Paid Person’s Opinions)

LDRLB

You’ve probably seen them roaming around the wilderness of your open office. They’re most likely to be discovered (or rather most likely to reveal themselves) inside meetings. HIPPOs. The Highest Paid Person’s Opinions. You can tell you’ve encountered one because whenever one is spotted, discussion about whatever topic at hand ceases, brainstorming shifts from generating new ideas to generating reasons why that opinion will work, and criticism flees like an animal of prey.

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A Small Business Owner’s Emergency Preparedness Checklist

Strategy Driven

If a natural disaster were to impact your city or town, would your small business be prepared for it? Many small businesses are, unfortunately, not ready for emergency situations. It’s why about 40 percent of small businesses end up closing down following natural disasters and other emergencies. You can avoid this fate by creating an emergency preparedness checklist for your small business.

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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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Ignore The HIPPOs (Highest Paid Person’s Opinions)

LDRLB

You’ve probably seen them roaming around the wilderness of your open office. They’re most likely to be discovered (or rather most likely to reveal themselves) inside meetings. HIPPOs. The Highest Paid Person’s Opinions. You can tell you’ve encountered one because whenever one is spotted, discussion about whatever topic at hand ceases, brainstorming shifts from generating new ideas to generating reasons why that opinion will work, and criticism flees like an animal of prey.

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8 Times For Storytelling

Eric Jacobson

"Stories strengthen communications and presence for leaders," explains Kristi Hedges , author of the book, The Power of Presence. She recommends you consider adding stories to your communications when you : Want to motivate others and paint a picture of what's possible. Need to show others -- whether a large audience or one person -- that you have shared commonalities.

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The Next Generation Of AI-Driven Fact Checkers

The Horizons Tracker

As the volume of misinformation continues to rise, the ability to fact check what we consume is more important than ever. A couple of papers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory highlight the latest developments in the field. The first paper showcased the limitations of many of the fake news detectors on the market today, both in terms of detecting falsely generated text, but also in falsely condemning human authored works as fake.

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Shut Up or Speak Up – Part 2

Leadership and Change

By Graham Williams & Justin Kennedy Welcome to part 2 of this article on Psychological safety, based on extensive research (in the areas of neuroscience, psychology, behavioral economics and business science) and practical experience in consulting to workplaces around the world. Here’s our coverage of a complex and important topic in a way that is devoid of flowery, ‘impressive’ language.

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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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How Innovation Influences Organization’s Financial Performance

The Horizons Tracker

It’s intuitive to believe that innovation is beneficial to the economic wellbeing of a country, but gauging just how much is not always easy to achieve. A new study attempts to rectify that by providing a clear link between firm level data and the performance of that firm. The researchers focus specifically on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to try and fill a clear gap in our understanding.

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How to politely turn down a job offer

HR Digest

You are fresh out of college or looking for a change in career or better prospects, then the way forward is to apply at as many places as possible in the hopes of scoring an interview and hopefully the desired job. But there are many times that you end up with more than one offer on the table. Let us be clear here that interviewing for a job does not explicitly mean that you will take it up the same way it is not incumbent on the interviewer to offer you one after interviewing.

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Ask These 12 Questions And You’ll Be A Better Leader

Ron Edmondson

Have you ever heard the phrase, “There are no bad questions”? In leadership, this might be true. I have learned in my years of leadership – I only know what I know. And many times I don’t know much. Plus, the people I am trying to lead only know what they know. Therefore, one of the best skills a leader can develop is the art of asking the right questions.

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#leadershiptruth – Be your own guru

Roundtable Talk

Recently, I’ve been in conversations with people who have big dreams. Dreams to take on new careers, start new projects or shift their focus. Invariably, after sharing what they want to do, they proceed to tell me how they’re not actually ready to do it. They need one more course, one more credential, one more […].

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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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The Services That Can Pull Your Business Together

Strategy Driven

There are many services that you should be trialing for your business , with trialing being the key word here. Your business should have a lot of services that it relies on, and these will grow over time. From the moment you establish yourself as a trading business, you will begin building those connections. You’ll find yourself an accountant who can help you manage your books.

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Why the U.S. Innovation Ecosystem Is Slowing Down

Harvard Business Review

Research shows how corporate and scientific R&D have splintered since the 1970s.

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Are You Open- or Close-Minded?

Frank Sonnenberg Online

People say you should be open-minded — accepting of people from diverse backgrounds, listening without judging, and considering all sides of an issue. Even though that’s sensible in theory, some folks find it difficult in practice. That’s troubling because having an open mind is not only the right thing to do, it’s beneficial in ways you’ve never imagined.

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A Nobel Prize Winner on Rethinking Poverty (and Business)

Harvard Business Review

Esther Duflo, an MIT economist, won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. Duflo’s early life working at a non-governmental organization in Madagascar and volunteering in soup kitchens in her native France inspired her to study economics and research the root causes of poverty. With her fellow Nobel winners Abhijit Banerjee of MIT and Michael Kremer of Harvard, Duflo showed that effective policies often go against conventional

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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 Impact Of Unemployment On Male Wellbeing

The Horizons Tracker

The impact of unemployment on wellbeing is well documented, although research from a few years ago suggested that it’s ‘good work’ rather than just work that is the key to mental wellbeing. With the traditional gender roles presenting the role of men as the bread winner for the family, it seems logical that unemployment would pose a particular burden on men, and that was the subject of a recent report from the IZA World of Labor.

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The FOOD Episode!

Harvard Business Review

In this special Thanksgiving edition taped a few days before the holiday, Youngme, Felix, and Mihir discuss all things food, including food halls, the plastic problem, vertical farming, CBD menu sightings, culinary tourism, and fast whiskey.

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Why Google’s Move into Patient Information Is a Big Deal

Harvard Business Review

We need new rules for how big tech companies manage and profit from your health care data.

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Working Parents: Does Your Schedule Reflect Your Values?

Harvard Business Review

Make time for what’s really important to you and your family.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.