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Struggling to Engage Employees? Here are 10 Ways to Engage

Women on Business

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How to Guarantee Strong Performance Under Pressure

Lead from Within

It’s easy to do great work when you have access to plenty of resources and time. The true test of your leadership skills, ability and confidence is your ability to function at your best when pressure is high and important decisions need to be made quickly. You won’t generally have a say in when or how a high-pressure situation will strike, but you can learn to function well when it does by understanding what motivates and energizes you.

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What Do Modern Consumers Want From A Business In 2019?

Joseph Lalonde

It takes a lot of work to keep a business at the cutting edge of its particular industry. You might struggle to both stay ahead of the competition and keep your customers happy. After all, you can’t just change your business for the sake of innovation. You have to upgrade it in a way that […] The post What Do Modern Consumers Want From A Business In 2019?

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The 3 Expressions of Freedom at Work

Leadership Freak

Freedom at work isn’t earned, it’s unearned. Give people freedom to do the things you hired them to do. Treat people like the competent responsible individuals you hired – unless they prove otherwise.

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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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VIDEO: 7 Rules to Improve Any Goal

Tony Mayo

Tony Mayo Executive Coach. A quick message from The Business Owner’s Executive Coach on the 7 rules to improve any goal. You may also enjoy this blog post: Managing Yourself with Specific Measurable Results. TRANSCRIPT: Hello I’m Tony Mayo the business owners executive coach. In other videos I’ve shared the three most common reasons for not […].

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Stepping Away, Leaping Forward: Why Our Best Leadership Lies on the Other Side of Vacation

Thin Difference

A couple of years ago, I had a huge problem. I got to the final quarter of the year when I realized that I had only taken two days of vacation and I literally couldn’t use my time off before I lost it. I found a way to take one week off and just sat at home, doing next to nothing. But, that week, I realized that I had become a statistic. According to one study , I was one of 54% of Americans who didn’t use all of their vacation time (although there are some signs of this number improving).

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Why SEO Needs to be at the Heart of Your Corporate Strategy

Strategy Driven

By now, you’ve heard of SEO. Any business that has made a serious effort at launching their own website will either know what SEO is or, hopefully, have hired someone who understands (ask your web designer ). But is SEO just another corporate buzzword, or is it really as important as everyone makes out? The answer is an emphatic yes – SEO is very important to any business.

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How The Big Seven Influence Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

Recombination is something that I’ve spoken about extensively over the years, especially in terms of innovation. It basically posits that most innovation today occurs when ideas and practices from one domain are applied in a new domain. Often we think of these in terms of markets, but perhaps a more useful application is through the lens of what marketers refer to as the ‘big seven’ These are the seven industries that are believed to account for around 94% of all consumer sp

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4 Tips for Running a Home-Based Business from a Rented Apartment

Strategy Driven

You hear of home-based businesses all the time and, of course, you usually don’t think of them being run from a rented apartment. If you are honest, you think of a home that has a spare room in which to set up shop and perhaps even a nice area where you can meet and greet customers or clients if the need should arise. Actually, a huge number of home-based businesses are run from rented apartments, but there are a few challenges that are a bit different than what you’d experience when running a b

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How Slight Wisdom Inspires Us To Learn More

The Horizons Tracker

It might seem largely negative to have a fraction of the knowledge we need to truly understand a topic, but new research from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that this actually acts as the spur to encourage us to gain that level of expertise. The findings challenge previous work that suggested that curiosity on its won is sufficient to have a desire to learn, which they believe has implications, even for more novel educational approaches, such as the Montessori approach. “

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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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3 Tips for Taking Your Small Business to the Next Level

Strategy Driven

Small businesses today have a lot of obstacles that they need to be able to overcome. The world of business has always been ruthless and punishing to those that aren’t prepared for it. However, even the smallest of businesses have the potential to grow into titans, as long as they play the game correctly. Making the right moves isn’t easy, and even if you do everything right, it doesn’t mean you will necessarily achieve your goals.

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Considering the Power of Career Expectations

The Office Blend Blog

“I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.” – Oscar Wilde. Author’s Note: Thanks to Gretchen Rubin for inspiring this post. As you likely have, I hold many expectations pertaining to my career. These expectations can prove invigorating, limiting, or even humiliating — depending on my vantage point. On some days, I hold myself to unachievable standards.

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How to Formulate a Killer Marketing Strategy

Strategy Driven

Marketing is one of the most important aspects of any business; if you aren’t marketing as effectively as you can, your business isn’t going to be performing as well as it should. It’s easy enough to understand the link between good marketing and increased sales, but many business owners are getting by with mediocre marketing and don’t even realize it.

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How To Recruit Your Dream Team

Eric Jacobson

Hiring Greatness is the book by David E. Perry and Mark J. Haluska , who combined have closed more than 1,800 hiring search projects. In their book, the authors share their guide for how to attract, recruit and retain star executives. They advise that it is far more important that a leadership candidate possess specific intangible core attributes, than just decades of industry experience.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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Christine Lagarde’s ECB president role, good news for financial markets

CEO Insider

Christine Lagarde looks increasingly likely to take over the role of European Central Bank president – and, I reckon the IMF chief will be a good choice for financial markets. Ms Lagarde has been nominated and is set to succeed Mario Draghi in the post when his eight-year term at the helm of the ECB […].

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How effectively do you feel you navigate office politics?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How effectively do you feel you navigate office politics? Extremely. I’m a master at navigating office political intrigue: 7% Very. I navigate politics pretty well most of the time: 37% Somewhat. I sometimes miss important political issues: 33% Not very. I’m not very savvy at navigating political challenges: 16% Not […].

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Aggressive Leaders Are More Likely to Be Punished for Their Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

We don’t want to give them the benefit of the doubt.

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5 Questions to Consider When Pricing Smart Products

Harvard Business Review

Take into account the value of data.

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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.