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5 Books Leaders Should Read In December 2020

Joseph Lalonde

Reading is a great way to discover new thoughts, challenge old thoughts, and become wiser. There’s no shortage of books out there and that’s a GOOD thing. The knowledge of ages is stored within these tomes. They contain the blood, sweat, and tears of those who have led before us. Their knowledge is waiting for you to […].

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Leading Thoughts for November 26, 2020

Leading Blog

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Dietrich Bonhoeffer writing to his parents from prison on gratefulness: “In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

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You Have to See This – An Experiment in Gratitude

Leadership Freak

Gratefulness turns unhappiness on its head. People run toward gratefulness and away from ingratitude. Thankfulness feels like love.Ungratefulness feels like hate. Gratitude invites.Ingratitude repels. Gratitude transforms.

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9 Characteristics of All Great Leaders

Strategy Driven

The world is experiencing unprecedented times like we’ve never seen before. The global COVID pandemic is changing the way most of us live and work. Some companies have managed to make it through these times fairly untouched, while others have faced many great challenges and struggled significantly. One of the defining reasons why some organizations are able to weather a storm is due to the leadership.

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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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Are Skeptics The Ones Keeping Gender Bias Alive At Work?

The Horizons Tracker

For all the unquestionable progress that has been made in reducing gender biases at work, there is still clearly more that can, and should, be done. New research from the University of Exeter suggests that those most culpable for biases persisting are those among us who are skeptical about biases existing at all. The research saw participants given identical descriptions of a worker, with the only difference being the name of the worker.

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Top 6 Tips for Project Management Success

Strategy Driven

Whether you are managing a multi-million dollar project or overseeing tasks for a small startup, being a project manager can be a stressful and challenging role. To find project management success you have to understand the project, assemble the perfect team, utalize your resources effectively, and manage everything from the beginning to the end. One small problem or missed deadline can result in a disaster for you, your team, and your client.

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Importance of Practicing Emotional Resilience at Work

HR Digest

“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”. ? Nelson Mandela. Emotional Resilience is the ability to pick yourself up, no matter how many times life and its events push you down. Psychologists call the ability to walk through bad experiences ‘resilience’. “It generally means adapting well in the face of chronic or acute adversity,” says neuroscientist Dr Golnaz Tabibnia, who studies the neurological basis of emotional resilience at the Universi

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Has Poor Data Usage Undermined The Pandemic Response?

The Horizons Tracker

Data has been growing in importance in recent years, but our ability to make effective use of it remains somewhat short of what it could be. So says a new report from the Royal Society into the use of data during COVID. It suggests that the UK has been poor in its use of data to gain real-time understanding of the spread of both the virus and the economic fallout from the pandemic.

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Is The Spotlight On You ?

CEO Insider

Have you ever heard the saying “The eyes are the windows to the soul”? How is it possible to see someone’s soul through their eyes. The fact is, we can learn a lot about others from their facial expressions, and other people can tell a lot about us from our faces. Even new born […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Is The Spotlight On You ?

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How To Be The Leader You Want To Be

Eric Jacobson

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day. Su shares both Western management thinking and Eastern philosophy to provide a holistic yet hands-on approach to becoming a more effective leader with less stress and

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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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Neither EVA® nor CVA®, but NVA

CEO Insider

Ottosson & Weissenrieder published ‘CVA, Cash Value Added – A new method for measuring financial performance’, re SSRN_ID_58436. It was followed by Weissenrieder, re SSRN_ID_156288, on the question ‘Economic Value Added or Cash Value Added?’ Shareholders have financial requirements on management’s strategic decisions, that create value.

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How willing is your organization to walk away from low-margin business?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How willing is your organization to walk away from low-margin business? Very — we do it all the time: 29.06% Somewhat — it has to be really low margin before we consider walking: 41.89% Rarely — we only walk away in extreme situations: 21.13% Never — if they’re buying, we’re selling! 7.92% Is the work worth it?

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Lead. Care. Win. How to Become a Leader Who Matters 

Roundtable Talk

By: Dan Pontefract Reviewed by: Glain Roberts-McCabe The Premise: How to become a leader who matters? Dan Pontefract explores nine factors in his latest book, Lead. Care. Win. Drawing on his extensive career in “big corporate” as well as his experience consulting and working with organizations around the globe, Dan distils all his learning and … Lead.

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Building a Better Workplace Starts with Saying “Thanks”

Harvard Business Review

Three ways to practice gratitude.

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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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Predicting Consumer Demand in an Unpredictable World

Harvard Business Review

Don’t abandon forecast modeling. Just change how you do it.