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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Yes Man

Joseph Lalonde

Jim Carrey stars as No Man Carl. Carl lives his life in a constant state of NO. No matter what it is in his life, his answer is no. That is until a conference changes his life and he becomes a Yes Man. The movie makes it humorous. It makes us laugh. Yes Man should also […].

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Join our Virtual Book Club!

Kevin Eikenberry

Book Clubs. Some people love them, and many have wanted to join one but never have. Lest you think that isn’t an option when we are supposed to stay home, enter the virtual book club. More specifically, The Long-Distance Teammate Virtual Book Club. Imagine being able to read a brand-new book, on a timely and […]. The post Join our Virtual Book Club!

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Change is continual – stability is an illusion

Mike Cardus

“… changing is a continual process and stability is an illusion or a memory of one moment during the process of changing.” -Steve de Shazer ‘The Death of Resistance’ Change and the metaphors you use will impact how you see and navigate change. For example: change as grief or death – will set you up to focus on change as a loss, and that will reinforce that change is something to be feared or fret over. change as war – you will see others as enemies or

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How to Develop Mental Toughness

Skip Prichard

Train Your Mind. Dr. Jason Selk is a mental toughness expert who has not only worked with athletes in Major League Baseball and the National Football League, but he has also advised executives on achieving success in both their personal and business lives. While serving as the Director of Mental Training for the St Louis Cardinals, Jason helped the team win their first World Series in over 20 years, and in 2011 he assisted the Cardinals in the historic feat of winning their second World Champion

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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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4 Ways Managers Cheat Their Employees

Leading with Trust

The legendary college football coach Woody Hayes once said there were four ways he could cheat his players: do for them what they can do for themselves, allow them to get by on less than their best effort, allow them to believe their athletic talent is the only education they will need, and allow them to believe that football makes them privileged. As a manager you may have never thought of it this way, but there are times when you cheat your employees.

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Leadership Caffeine™—Here’s Where You Should Slow Down to Move Faster

Management Excellence

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Ask Why Multiple Times

Eric Jacobson

Asking Why multiple times helps you get to the root cause and helps your company to prevent undesirable results from occurring again or allows you to repeat a desirable results, explains author Michael Kallett in his book, T hink Smarter: Critical Thinking To Improve Problem-Solving And Decision-Making Skills. For example Ask why to get to “I don’t know” and then go learn what you don’t know.

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Leadership Caffeine™—Here’s Where You Should Slow Down to Move Faster

Art Petty

It's easy to swallow the dogma that has emerged around the "Cult of Speed" in our management thinking and teaching. Yet, the pursuit of speed in poorly designed systems exposes weaknesses and often precipitates project, strategy, and even organizational failure. Said simply, raw speed kills. Sometimes you have to tap the brakes and slow down to ultimately move faster.

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How Tradable Skills Impact Likely Impact Of Immigration On Jobs

The Horizons Tracker

The last few years have seen considerable angst aimed at immigrants, who people worry are taking the jobs of native people, or at least undercut the wages of them. Of course, research doesn’t really bear these concerns out, and data actually shows that immigrants create more jobs than they take. There is, of course, a degree of nuance to these findings, and the impact of immigration on native workers’ employment does differ according to things such as skill, sector, region, and occu

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