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If We’re Not Human at Work, What are We?

Lead Change Blog

I’ve been receiving a series of emails lately from a highly regarded organization with the subject line “How to Be More Human at Work.”. Funny. Aren’t we being human all the time? Now, for most of us it’s not that we’re being inhuman at work, but I understand the point. Creating more human work cultures is trending. The great news is that we’re beginning to realize that those who happen to be employees are human.

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How the Gig Economy Is Reshaping the Digital Marketing Industry

Women on Business

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The Mathematical Corporation

Leading Blog

Y OU WILL SOON be able to give over almost half of your cognitive work to the machine. This is not to say that you will lose control, but rather, it points to the fact that the human role will become even more critical. A mathematical corporation is one that takes advantage of machine intelligence by collaborating with it to achieve leading-edge results.

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Continuous Business Optimization is a 21st Century Next Practice

N2Growth Blog

Business optimization efforts have been around for years and are aimed at redefining the way work is performed within a business area. They explore issues surrounding what work is performed, how it is accomplished, when it’s done and by whom. It’s not unusual for a firm to totally reconstruct its departmental workflow and reorganize its workers during a business optimization.

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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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5 Tragic Blunders of Inexperienced Leaders

Leadership Freak

Blunder #1: Getting lost in their own work. Drive sabotages inexperienced leaders when they go into heads-down mode. Leaders often have work responsibilities beyond leadership.

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Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word

Nathan Magnuson

Over a decade ago I received a DVD of a past Chick-fil-A franchisee seminar. As I watched, the late founder Truett Cathy took the stage to deliver his opening remarks. They weren’t what I expected. He opened by saying, “If any of you has something against someone in this room, I want you to make it right.” Then he promptly left the stage and approached someone in the audience for a conversation.

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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Spider-Man: Homecoming

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article We first saw Tom Holland as Spider-Man in the film Captain America: Civil War. His role was brief but fun. Now we are treated to Tom Holland’s first full outing as Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Homecoming. And it is an amazing blast. Spider-Man: Homecoming continues Spider-Man’s story following the events of Captain America: Civil War.

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My example, my hero

Lead on Purpose

My heart is heavy as I write this article; my father passed away a few days ago.

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Future of Work: Ways to Prepare

QAspire

At #SocialNow conference recently, Luis Suarez shared a slide by Thierry de Baillon on ways to prepare for the dark side of technology. I loved the ideas and decided to sketch the approach. Once again these ideas reinforced my belief that leading organizations and self in the future is all about the stuff like connections, empathy, flow, learning and thinking differently.

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What To Do When Its Your Turn (and it's always your turn)

CEO Blog

That is a title of one of Seth Godin's books. Seth and I go way back - he was an early blogger as was I. We communicated a bit in those early days before he became famous. I also met him a couple of times at YPO events. And we traded some email over a business venture he was coaching. He is brilliant and insightful. Like most of his books - What to do when it's your turn is about branding and marketing.

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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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What is the Root of Knowledge?

Mills Scofield

Jonaton Pie ~ Stakkholtsgja Canyon, Iceland. I've been thinking a lot about what makes people want to create, invent, innovate, learn. So many of my colleagues and friends are innately curious and I know that, for me, learning is an addiction. So, appropriately, I was reading one of my favorite philosophers/theologians and found this: ““Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.

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What To Do When Its Your Turn (and it's always your turn)

CEO Blog

That is a title of one of Seth Godin's books. Seth and I go way back - he was an early blogger as was I. We communicated a bit in those early days before he became famous. I also met him a couple of times at YPO events. And we traded some email over a business venture he was coaching. He is brilliant and insightful. Like most of his books - What to do when it's your turn is about branding and marketing.

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Pursue Your Goals With Passion

Steve Farber

The summit of Denali (formerly known as Mount McKinley) is 20,310 feet above sea level, and Werner Berger was 200 feet from the peak. Just another 20 minutes of climbing and he would cross the tallest mountain in North America off his list. The weather, however, had turned nasty. And rather than risk getting caught in a whiteout, Berger’s group turned back. “Everybody was so disappointed for me and wondered how we could possibly quit that close,” Berger told me. “And for

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4 Easy Steps To Healthy Delegation

Ron Edmondson

Even a potential control freak leader like me knows healthy delegating actually improves the organization. . Yet, I work with dozens of pastors and leaders every year who struggle to release authority and responsibility. How do we let go of responsibility when we are wired so heavily towards not doing so? How do we delegate when the church holds us responsible for getting things done?

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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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The Courageous Communicator Quest Challenge Series

leaderCommunicator

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Pursue Your Goals With Passion

Steve Farber

The summit of Denali (formerly known as Mount McKinley) is 20,310 feet above sea level, and Werner Berger was 200 feet from the peak. Just another 20 minutes of climbing and he would cross the tallest mountain in North America off his list. The weather, however, had turned nasty. And rather than risk getting caught in a whiteout, Berger’s group turned back. “Everybody was so disappointed for me and wondered how we could possibly quit that close,” Berger told me. “And for

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What to Do When Your Heart Isn’t in Your Work Anymore

Harvard Business Review

In an ideal world, our work lives would be completely fulfilling, full of meaning, and intrinsically motivating. But what if they’re not? What if you’re stuck in a job or a career that you once loved, but your heart isn’t in it anymore? More people fit this profile than you’d think. According to a 2017 Gallup survey , only one-third of U.S. employees feel engaged at work; that is, only one of three workers brings a consistently high level of initiative, commitment, passio

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4 Ways to Help Your Workforce Feel Safer at Work | Workforce Safety

Chart Your Course

Workforce Safety At Night. Do your employees feel safe at work? While most workers say they feel generally safe, that sentiment comes coupled with some serious concerns, a CareerBuilder survey found. Ninety-four percent of employees say they feel their office is a safe place to work, but when asked if their workplace is protected from a physical threat by another person, 30 percent said no.

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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.

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How to Handle a Disagreement on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

When you manage a team of people, you can’t always ensure that they’ll get along. Given competing interests, needs, and agendas, you might even have two people who vehemently disagree. What’s your role as the boss in a situation like this? Should you get involved or leave them to solve their own problems? Ideally, you’ll be able to coach your colleagues to talk to each other and resolve their conflict without involving you, making clear that their disagreement is harmful

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Five Steps To Effective Meetings

Eric Jacobson

Here is some good and practical advice for how to lead effective meetings, from the book, First-Time Leader : Context. Understand the meeting's place in the broader journey. It's not about the meeting itself, or even the meeting experience. It's about how the meeting moves its participants forward along the path and fits with everything else. Objective.

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People Suffer at Work When They Can’t Discuss the Racial Bias They Face Outside of It

Harvard Business Review

Last month, in an unprecedented show of solidarity, 150 CEOs from the world’s leading companies banded together to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace and, through an online platform, shared best practices for doing so. To drive home the urgency, the coalition’s website, CEOAction.com , directs visitors to research showing that diverse teams and inclusive leaders unleash innovation, eradicate groupthink, and spur market growth.

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