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How to Get Where You Want to Go (Jesse Lyn Stoner)

Let's Grow Leaders

Winning Well Connection. I was first introduced to Jesse very early on in my blogging journey, by Dan McCarthy , another well-established and highly respected leadership blogger. She graciously spent time with me to share her journey and insights about how to make the best impact. Since then, we’ve enjoyed collaborating and supporting one another’s work.

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10 Ways to Tame Your Out of Control Inbox

Women on Business

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158: Multipliers — How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter | with Liz Wiseman

Engaging Leader

Are you a genius or a genius-maker? We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the smartest person in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and […] Are you a genius or a genius-maker?

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3 Wise Sayings You Need to Stop Saying Today

Leadership Freak

Some ‘wise’ sayings are evil affirmations that staying the same is a good thing. They’re dangerous because they’re half true. #1. We did our best. Bull crap! You didn’t do your best. You don’t even know what your best is.

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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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Don’t Tolerate Dysfunctional Teams

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from regular contributor S. Chris Edmonds: Two key indicators of a healthy team are that they are productive (getting tasks done to standards, on budget and on time) and effective (working together with a minimum of drama.) A 2013 University of Phoenix survey revealed that nearly 7 in 10 American workers have served on dysfunctional teams.

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Challenges for the Modern Businesswoman

Women on Business

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30 Minutes To Build Your Freelancing Blog

Strategy Driven

If you’ve always had a soft spot for the digital world, you may be interested in embracing the blogger life. Bloggers work primarily online – although they can do their research and meetings offline too if this is necessary for their articles – and have found a way to monetize their writing hobby. Here’s a little hint for you, it isn’t the actual content that generates revenues, but the advertising that can be published on the website, as display ads or as part of a link building exchange – all

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Overcoming Self-Doubt

Kevin Eikenberry

We got this question recently from a viewer: How do I overcome self-doubt as a leader? And when we’re talking about self-doubt as it relates to leadership, it falls into one of two categories. In the video below, we’ll talk about what these categories are and share some simple solutions for helping you to manage […]. The post Overcoming Self-Doubt appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Your Customers Don't Want To Hear These Four Words

Eric Jacobson

Author Harvey MacKay wrote the following spot-on advice in his column in the Kansas City Business Journal a few years ago. He wisely points out that all employees at every level should never use these four words in front of a client/customer for both obvious and perhaps not so obvious reasons: Can't -- As in, "We can't do that." "We can't meet that deadline.

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The Way I Respond as a Leader of Leaders

Ron Edmondson

I often get asked about the difference between leading leaders and leading followers. It’s a great question. The question ultimately points to a paradigm of leading people. I certainly know I want to attract and retain leaders on our team. I don’t want a bunch of people waiting for me to make a decision or who fail to take initiative. I ultimately want people who will lead me.

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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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Leaders Can Make Music

Deming Institute

Guest Blog by Edward Martin Baker. From Ed’s recently published book, The Symphony of Profound Knowledge: W. Edwards Deming’s Score for Leading, Performing, and Living in Concert , published in partnership with Aileron. Foreword by the family of W. Edwards Deming. An example of a system, well optimized, is a good orchestra. The players are not there to play solos as prima donnas, each one trying to catch the ear of the listener.

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How to Rebrand Yourself as Creative When You’re Not Perceived That Way

Harvard Business Review

The contemporary business world lauds those who are seen as creative. Innovators such as Elon Musk and Jony Ive have become household names. Yet, for many of us, despite our best efforts to be recognized as creative thinkers, our suggestions in meetings are ignored and our pitches to bosses get rebuffed. If your colleagues have already formed an opinion of you as technically competent but a little staid, it’s going to take a lot to change their minds and get them to listen — a situat

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Why You Should Value the Nonconformist

RapidStart Leadership

I’m not paying you to agree with me. I’m paying you to think. That’s Colin Powell’s approach to leadership. When it’s time for planning and problem-solving, the best leaders aren’t looking for unity and agreement. They want the opposite. They want dialogue, a clash of ideas. It’s not the time to get comfortable. It’s the time to seek discomfort. The friction of ideas and concepts rubbing against each other can produce a spark of creativity that you can’t get in a consensus environment.

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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business Review

On November 9, 2016, the shareholders of Australia’s largest company, and the world’s tenth-largest bank , revolted. The Commonwealth Bank’s shareholders were reacting to the board’s annual Remuneration Report, which contained a recommendation that the CEO be granted a bonus based on what critics saw as “soft” measures.

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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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3 Health Care Trends That Don’t Hinge on the ACA

Harvard Business Review

Laura Schneider for HBR. In early May 2017 Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare). Subsequently, Republicans in the U.S. Senate began working on their version of a law to do the same. The House bill is flawed, leaving many uncertainties that the Senate has promised to address.

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How an Airplane Laptop Ban Would Expose Company Data to Espionage

Harvard Business Review

To ban or not to ban laptops? Millions of global travelers are anxiously awaiting the answer to this question. Since the U.S. government received credible intelligence that ISIS had developed the capability to conceal explosive devices within laptops, tablets, and other large electronic devices, these devices have been banned, as of late March, from the airline cabins of U.S.

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