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Ethical Thinking and Decision Making for Leaders (Part 6)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton This series has explored 5 important leadership spheres of Ethical Thinking and Decision Making. This week I’m summing it up in a checklist that will help you apply all 5 to your daily choices. When you are making a key decision, run it through the checklist to be sure you have considered all 5 important dimensions.

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Grow and Give: Discovering the Path Forward

Leadership Freak

Talk of self-reflection felt like hippy talk to me. Now I know it's essential. Structured self-reflection enables you to grow and give.

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Are Organizations In The Midst Of A Kodak Moment Over The Future Of Work?

Tanveer Naseer

It seems like every day there’s another news report about a company’s decision to have their employees return to the office. Of course, if you’ve been following the leadership space for some time, this isn’t too surprising. After all, it was only a few years ago that organizations were limiting.

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How to Create Your Leadership Scorecard

Next Level Blog

Like a lot of my executive coaching clients, I believe that you can’t manage what you don’t measure. When it comes to leadership development, measuring your progress doesn’t have to be complicated or burdensome. You can drive a lot of change and hold yourself accountable by creating a simple leadership scorecard for yourself. Let’s say, for instance, that you’ve identified two or three leadership behaviors that if you moved the needle on them in a positive way over the next six months, would mak

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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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Steal These 5 Psychology Tricks to Improve Your Leadership

Lead from Within

It’s important as a leader to constantly be learning and improving your skills. One way to do this is to leverage the latest research in psychology to better understand your leadership. Here are 5 psychology tricks that you can steal to improve your leadership: Use the power of positive reinforcement: Positive reinforcement is a powerful tool for influencing your own behavior.

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Is Altruism Less Common In Conservative Cultures?

The Horizons Tracker

It might seem as though altruism is a fundamental human characteristic, but research from the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca suggests that it is instead strongly linked to one’s political orientation. The researchers show that left-leaning people are more likely to be altruistic, especially in the international community, whereas conservative individuals are more likely to target their altruism internally to those in their own country.

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How Social Class Affects Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

A well-known anecdote in the world of business tells the story of soldiers lost while on maneuvers in the Alps. One of the soldiers remarked that they had managed to make a successful return to base upon finding a map. Unfortunately, on more detailed inspection, the map turned out to be of the Pyrenees rather than the Alps. It’s a story that underpins the importance we often attribute to optimism, especially in uncertain environments.

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Giving Authority and Responsibility to Members of Your Team

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Members of high performing teams are going to be the most satisfied when they feel like they can have an impact on the outcome of their work. Members of high performing teams are going to be the most satisfied when they feel like they can have an impact on the outcome of their work. To get to that point you need to understand the difference between accountability and responsibility and how authority interplays with both of them.

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Loving What You Do Can Make Colleagues Dislike You

The Horizons Tracker

We’re often urged to find work that we’re passionate about, with many a respected figure stating that should we do this, then work scarcely feels like work at all. This desire for intrinsic motivation is something that is portrayed as an almost unalloyed positive, but research from the University of Colorado Denver highlights that it can also land us in hot water with our colleagues.

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Counting Down C-Suite Communication Accelerators – Opportunity #2

Decker Communication

Opportunity #2 – Leverage Personal Content Creativity The Challenge: Much of our business-oriented thinking is grounded in traditional academic, analytical, linear ways of thinking. Facts and figures, processes, tasks, financial pressures, and people clamoring for decisions all draw us away from using creative and exciting ways to engage and influence.

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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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Higher Hiring: Are You Trying to Teach Frogs to Fly?

The Practical Leader

Once upon a time, a manager had a frog named Fred working on his team. After returning from a strategic planning retreat, he passionately exclaimed to Fred, “We’re going to open an air courier division! I’m going to teach you to fly!” Fred responded, “I can’t fly. I am a frog, not a bird.” Disappointed at Fred’s lack of commitment, the manager told Fred, “That negative attitude could be a real problem.

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Is India the World’s Next Great Economic Power?

Harvard Business Review

Is India’s economic rise inevitable? There’s good reason to think that this latest round of Indo-optimism might be different than previous iterations, but the country still has major challenges to address to make good on this promise. In terms of drivers, demand — in the form of a consumer boom, context appropriate innovation, and a green transition — and supply — in the form of a demographic dividend, access to finance, and major infrastructure upgrades — are helping to push the country forward

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How to Negotiate Your Salary in the Age of Pay Transparency Laws

Harvard Business Review

Pay transparency empowers you with information about what’s possible. But how should you negotiate for yourself when a pay band is exceptionally large? In this article, the author shares insights from two experts on compensation and negotiation. They recommend not focusing on “fairness” when making your case, but rather focusing the conversation on yours and the employer’s mutual interests.

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What Makes an “Authentic” Leader?

Harvard Business Review

If you associate authenticity with what feels comfortable, you may be holding yourself back.

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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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Strategy Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated

Harvard Business Review

What’s your company’s value proposition?

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How Do I Set the Right Boundaries at Work?

Harvard Business Review

How to better recognize and protect your boundaries at work.

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AI and the New Digital Cold War

Harvard Business Review

Globalization is not dead, but it is changing. The United States and China are creating two separate spheres for technology, and artificial intelligence is on the front lines of this new “Digital Cold War.” If democracies want to succeed in this new era of “re-globalization” they will need to coordinate across governments and between the private and public sectors.