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Creating a Daily Masterpiece

Kevin Eikenberry

Last week, on the jetway to board a flight, I heard a young girl behind me say (to no one in particular, as far as I could tell), “Make it a masterpiece.” For emphasis, she said it three times. “Make it a masterpiece.” I’ve been thinking about her advice ever since. What if we focused […]. The post Creating a Daily Masterpiece appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How to Transform Distraction into Achievement

Leadership Freak

Distraction is natural. Achievement is intentional. My first-grade teacher, Mrs. Goodwin, wrote on my report card. “Danny has to know everything that’s going on around him.

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How Climate Change Can Drive Migration

The Horizons Tracker

One of the biggest concerns surrounding climate change is its impact on people, with the World Bank estimating that 216 million people could be displaced by 2050. These concerns are concentrated in the poorer areas of the world, with Sub-Saharan Africa seeing 86 million climate migrants, East Asia and the Pacific 49 million, and South Asia 40 million.

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5 Habits Every Mompreneur Needs

Women on Business

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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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Masculine Norms Stop Men From Asking For Parental Leave

The Horizons Tracker

At the back end of last year, tech executive and investor Joe Lonsdale argued that men in positions of power should not be taking parental leave. In a tweet, he branded “any man in an important position who takes six months of leave for a newborn” as a loser, with those men supposed, in his mind, to double their efforts at work to fulfill their side of the parental bargain.

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How to Communicate with Brevity

QAspire

Over-explanation, too much of context setting and long meetings indicate lack of preparation before communication. For many of us, it is difficult to be brief when we write or talk. Long winded and unfocused conversations in meetings is a waste that costs us our focus and productivity. Being brief when communicating is a sign of respect for the other person’s time.

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Learning & Development’s Role in Operational Efficiencies in 2022

HR Digest

The last two years have been traumatic and overwhelming for the whole world. The Pandemic changed the way the world functioned in many ways. 2021 was expected to ease things a bit, but the resurgence of variants of the virus put paid to any plans of return to normalcy. And as the Omicron variant spreads across the globe, all plans for a complete return to the office is anyone’s guess.

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Leadership Caffeine™—If You’re Leading Change, Expect Flak

Management Excellence

Don’t let the flak derail your transformation initiative. Instead, dive in to understand the core of any resistance better and strive to build your coalition. Transformation initiatives succeed on the strength of relationships, not ideas. The post Leadership Caffeine™—If You’re Leading Change, Expect Flak appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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Shelving a project? Here’s how to avoid the hidden costs

CEO Insider

It was two weeks before go-live. A small, dedicated team had worked for six months on the project’s many aspects. The software was ready to go. Publicity for this initiative had been happening for a good while. Training sessions explained the ins and outs of the new system and staff were learning the soft skills […]. The post Shelving a project?

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How To Lead With Deep Purpose

Eric Jacobson

Having conducted extensive field research, Ranjay Gulati , author of the new book, Deep Purpose , The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , reveals the fatal mistakes leaders unwittingly make when attempting to implement a reason for being. “My interviews with well over 200 executives across 18 firms revealed the secrets of these companies—not the usual facile frameworks, but new ways of thinking about business that allow leaders and companies to operate with heightened passion, urgency

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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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Why Your Company Could Be at a Major CRM Crossroads

CEO Insider

For many organizations, it’s worth considering shelving that prepackaged CRM product in favor of a purpose-built solution. For better and sometimes for worse, the pandemic has provided companies across the business landscape with a technology reality check, followed in many cases by a realization that the generic, one-size-fits-all software on which they had been depending […].

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How to Lead a Steamroller on Your Team

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Steamrollers get things done but they run people over in the process. Leading them is an exercise in reducing the friction they cause. Learn the key techniques for dealing with their challenges and make your team interactions smoother and less stressful. Today’s post is by Victor Prince, thoughtLEADERS instructor and co-author of Lead Inside the Box.

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3 Ways to Help Creative People Flourish On Your Team

Ron Edmondson

There are some lessons we only learn the hard way. One of them for me has been ways I help creative people on our teams flourish. I used to think when leading creatives, the key was to free them to create. Therefore, I gave huge blank slates, allowed people to dream, and gave them very few parameters of what I was thinking. I wanted them to come up with their “best” work – the most creative way.

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Leadership Caffeine™—If You’re Leading Change, Expect Flak

Management Excellence

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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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To Find Creative Solutions, Look Outside Your Industry

Harvard Business Review

Why gamble on untested strategies when you could quickly apply an approach that’s already been proven elsewhere?

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What Are the Most Satisfying Jobs?

HR Digest

For many people, “ satisfying ” is the best feeling in the world. Tasking with making people happy, doing work that they are passionate about, or even just helping out someone in need can be an immensely satisfying experience. The question people ask is: What are the careers with the highest satisfaction? In this post we’ll explore some of the most satisfying jobs, what is the most satisfying aspect of your job or business and why they make for such fulfilling careers. .

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How Business Can Build and Maintain Trust

Harvard Business Review

Trust is fragile. Businesses must manage it as carefully as they do their balance sheets.

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We Need Time to Rehabilitate from the Trauma of the Pandemic

Harvard Business Review

Just like with a physical injury, rushing the recovery might only make things worse.

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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.