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The Age of the Customer

Lead Change Blog

You’re operating your business in a time when something is happening that is so momentous it has never happened before. Jim Blasingame identifies it as an epochal marketplace shift that’s causing the 10,000-year-old Age of the Seller to be replaced by the Age of the Customer. Jim is one of the world’s leading experts on small business and entrepreneurship.

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Top Post Series of 2019: Leading in Context Blog

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton. The Top Post Series this year reflects the challenges of applying ethical thinking and decision making to complex problems. This series answers the important question “How do we analyze and understanding the multiple connected variables in a changing context to make responsible choices? Today I’ll share a quote from each post in the series that will give you a quick overview of the topic.

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Leadership Derailers – Taking Offense

Leadership Freak

Leadership gets narrow and life shrinks for the easily offended. All leaders receive unjust criticism. You’re judged based on inadequate information, false assumptions, or someone’s unspoken preferences.

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Why Are You Building Relationships?

Joseph Lalonde

My heart has been heavy lately. I’ve reflected frequently on friendships and friendships lost. It seems more and more these days, friends come and go faster than they did before. I think this is even truer in the online, influencer world. There’s a reason for the friendships coming and going faster than they used to. […] The post Why Are You Building Relationships?

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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 to Find and Connect with Your Fans

Next Level Blog

Life is better when you have fans – people who know and appreciate you, support you and can’t wait to see what you do next. It doesn’t matter if you’re not a rock star, Instagram influencer or a professional athlete. All of us need fans. Fanocracy. In a recent conversation with David Meerman Scott , co-author of the new book, Fanocracy: Turning Fans into Customers and Customers into Fans , I learned a lot about how to find and connect with your fans.

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Request for Vacation Leave Email Templates

HR Digest

There is nothing to feel hesitated about sending a request for vacation leave email. However, it would rather look nice and leave a good impression by convincing your employer or immediate supervisor to accept vacation leave. To achieve this end, the vacation leave request email should be framed in a professional manner wherein concerns of the employer and the organizations are immediately addressed.

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If You’re Paid Biweekly, You’ll Probably Get an Extra Paycheck in 2020

HR Digest

If you’re paid biweekly, you usually receive 26 paychecks in a given year. It seems pretty straightforward – except that every 11 or 12 years, because of our calendar system and leap years, there are actually 27 pay periods in the year. Does this mean you’ll get an extra paycheck in 2020? Probably. Does this mean you’ll earn more than your annual salary in 2020?

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Most Corporate Acquisitions Take Place Close To Home

The Horizons Tracker

In our increasingly global economy, you might imagine that when looking for companies to buy, no stone will be left unturned, and scouts will scour the world looking for the best fit. Alas, new research from UConn School of Business suggests that isn’t really the case, and a disproportionate number of acquisitions occur much closer to home. Indeed, the research suggests that companies are around 2.5 more likely to buy firms that have a headquarters in the state where the CEO of the acqui

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Common-Sense Website Tips For Newbies

Strategy Driven

If you’re starting up a business, one of the first things you’re going to need is a website. But if you’ve never built a website before, it can feel like an impossible task – especially if you’re not very tech-savvy. But that doesn’t mean you can’t do it! Building a website is straightforward, with a lot of tools out there to help you get started.

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What Can Fitbit Data Tell Us About Discrimination?

The Horizons Tracker

Fitbit and other wearable devices have undoubtedly transformed the way we track our activity levels. After their acquisition by Google however, perhaps more people will appreciate the value in the data generated by the devices. New research from the University of Washington provides a salient reminder by showing how data from the devices can highlight how discrimination in our daily life affects how we behave.

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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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Important supplies every office must have

Strategy Driven

If you are trying to set up a new office or have been assigned a task to make sure all the important office supplies are available, then let us help you compile a list of all office essentials. Thorough research will help you create a list of all the necessary items and save you a great deal of time and money. Without proper planning, you can end up spending money on the items that are not required or might miss out on the items which are most essential.

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How Our Peers Influence Our Faith In The Media

The Horizons Tracker

Trust in the media has suffered greatly from the prevalence of fake news and misinformation over the past few years. A new study from Rutgers University-New Brunswick reminds us that this break down in trust is also influenced by our peers and the people we encounter online. The research found that the interactions we have with people both online and offline have a strong influence on our faith in the media, especially when those views are negative.

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A Guide to Use a Scaffold Safely

Strategy Driven

You can find scaffold everywhere, even around an under-construction small building or substantial triple-story buildings. The scaffold can ideally be used in a great variety of inspection, construction, repair, and maintenance projects. As per the recent survey of OSHA, around 65% of the workers in the construction industry work on a scaffolding recurrently and one of the most reliable is Bayside scaffolding.

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Building Your Resilience As A Leader

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Jon Wortmann, thoughtLEADERS’ Principal, sat down with Jim and Jan of The Leadership Podcast to discuss Leadership Resilience. In continuation of our new collaboration with The Leadership Podcast, Jon explains leadership resilience in this short form “chalk talk.” These chalk talk series are bitesize sessions on a common (but challenging) leadership issue.

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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 to Choose the Perfect Catering Service for Your Event

Strategy Driven

The way to one’s heart is via their stomach. Truer words have never been spoken. Whether you are a 4-year-old, a teenager or a young adult, we all love food. Food is art. It is passion. It is determination. You see it only as sustenance but it is so much more than that. Food speaks so many different stories for everybody. A bowl of chicken soup might just be soup for you but it can be so much more than that for someone else.

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Predictions for 2020

Harvard Business Review

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir review last year’s predictions for business, technology, politics, and culture. Then they debate their new predictions for 2020.

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Create a Productivity Workflow That Works for You

Harvard Business Review

You don’t need to be a programmer to build your perfect system.

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How Corporate Cultures Differ Around the World

Harvard Business Review

What you told us about your workplaces.

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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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Why the Best Developers Keep Customers Front-of-Mind

Harvard Business Review

Create Windows 10, not Windows 8.