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6 Reasons to Give Your Team Better Executive Exposure

Let's Grow Leaders

You want to give your team executive exposure but you’ve learned the hard way that it can backfire. After all, not all executive exposure is good exposure. It can be tempting to hold back visibility in an effort to protect, you or […]. The post 6 Reasons to Give Your Team Better Executive Exposure appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Stephen Schwarzman’s 25 Rules for Work & Life

Leading Blog

B LACKSTONE chairman, CEO, and co-founder Stephen Schwarzman has written a book about the potential that can be realized when you combine personal responsibility with ambition. What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence chronicles his life leading up to the founding of Blackstone and the journey to build it into what it has become today. He shares the lessons and the opportunities that have come his way as a result of his success.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

Joseph Lalonde

R.L. Stine’s Goosebump book series was once again brought to life in Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween. Once again, an R.L. Stine manuscript wreaks havoc in a small town. This time, the town is Wardenclyffe, New York. The town Nikola Tesla built the Wardenclyffe Tower. When two boys, Sonny Quinn (Jeremy Ray Taylor) and Sam (Caleel Harris) discover […] The post Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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Shifting Your Time Horizon – The Power of Maintaining a Future Focus

Kevin Eikenberry

I love it when one skill or habit creates benefits in multiple ways. If you could build a skill that helped you in strategic thinking, problem solving, and productivity, would you be interested in developing that skill? That skill is maintaining a future focus. Let me start by telling you a story … Planting Corn […]. The post Shifting Your Time Horizon – The Power of Maintaining a Future Focus appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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The 10 Commandments of Empowerment

Leadership Freak

Top-down empowerment programs reflect the reason they’re needed in the first place. Disconnected leaders develop ineffective empowerment programs in secluded conference rooms.

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5 Benefits of Having a Strong Internal Communications Strategy

leaderCommunicator

Whether you are just beginning to think about the importance of internal communication, are in the midst of an existing internal communications plan , or fine-tuning a well-oiled communications machine, the bottom line is that this is all about the bottom line.

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Aim Higher: Servant Leaders Help People with Life Issues

Skip Prichard

Make Helping Others A Mission. When I first became a CEO, I realized that there are many misconceptions about the true power of the office. Many people think a CEO is aware of everyone that comes and goes, has a direct hand and voice in every employee dismissal or hire, and that you have a lot more power than you probably do. After all, if you run an organization of any size, you cannot be involved in every decision.

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Why It’s Highly Likely That You’ve Read Fake News At Least Once

The Horizons Tracker

Fake news has had a significant impact upon the workings of modern society, with misinformation on everything from vaccines to politics distorting the agenda. Research from Leiden University highlights just how common it is for people to digest fake news each week. The research suggests that around half of Dutch Facebook users have been exposed to fake news at least once.

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A Leadership Case—Mistake or a Lack of Discipline? What Would You Do?

Management Excellence

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Germany And The UK The Top Destinations For Migrants In Europe

The Horizons Tracker

With the advent of free movement of people across the European Union, the region has undergone unheralded migration, with citizens freely moving around the continent for work and leisure. A new study from the Universities of Göttingen, Bremen and Cologne sets out to explore which countries are the most popular. The researchers attempted to understand some of the factors involved in migration across the European Union.

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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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Introverts Don’t Hate People

LDRLB

One of the most common responses that I get when I tell people I wrote a book about networking is a simple, “Oh…well I’m an introvert…so that probably doesn’t work for me.” And over time, I’ve learned to answer that excuse with a trick question. “Well, do you hate people?”. I have yet to meet an introvert who says they hate people. And that’s great, But I’ve met a lot of people who mistakenly think that they do.

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What Impact Does The Sharing Economy Have On House Prices?

The Horizons Tracker

Airbnb has perhaps avoided some of the criticism aimed at fellow sharing economy behemoth Uber, but nonetheless there are many who believe they harm local neighborhoods and push up house prices for those who actually want to live there. New research from USC explores the impact the company is having on the long-term housing stock in cities around the world.

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Customer Satisfaction and The Deming Way at Gallery Furniture

Deming Institute

Guest post by John Hunter , founder of curiouscat.com (in 1996). This short interview with Jim McIngvale (Mattress Mack), owner of Gallery Furniture, explores Deming’s continued influence on the management practices of Gallery Furniture. Over the years we really learned to check your understanding with the customers. Dr. Deming taught us those type of things. … I think the biggest thing we did is enable the people to make more decisions, empower the employees and treat the employees

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How to get your seasonal job search strategy right

HR Digest

A lot of companies are preparing for making their big push for seasonal hiring. If you’re thinking that means only retail and holiday-related jobs, then you’re wrong. Many of these companies are preparing for year-end events such as tax season or open enrollment or gearing up for their big tourism push. Most companies – especially in the retail, tourism, and transportation sector – hire seasonal workers for Christmas, which is the busiest season of the year.

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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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How to Turn Customer Service Mistakes Into Happiness

Mark Sanborn

The experience you create for a customer is important, but how they feel about that experience is critical. Welcome to the emotionl economy. In my new book, The Intention Imperative , I explain how to design and deliver for positive emotions. Happiness isn’t the only emotion to focus on but it is primary. In designing how you deliver emotion, consider what you can do to make customers: • happier they chose you. • happier when the leave than when they came in. • happier overall with their l

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Embrace Change To Grow

Eric Jacobson

Change is inevitable. Change is good. Help your employees and team learn to embrace change. Here are some solid insights from Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan 's book, Change-friendly Leadership -- How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance : The kind of behavior change that results in lasting (sustainable) change must accommodate people's feelings--feelings that involve trust, confidence, passion, and all those other intangible but very real things that make us human.

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Four Lessons in Employee Engagement We Can Learn from Nature

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Taking a few lessons from Nature about how to keep and engage employees. Today’s post is by Dr. Kathleen E. Allen, author of Leading from the Roots (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Most organizations struggle with generating authentic employee engagement. There is an unlikely teacher, however, that can provide some interesting strategies on creating […].

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Resilience: From Corporate America to the Bobsled Track

Experience to Lead

Lauren Gibbs seems fearless. When you watch her TEDx talk, it’s easy to think she’s effortlessly courageous and resilient. Hearing her reflect back on her experience of becoming an Olympic silver medalist in bobsled, it sounds like she took the huge leap from her 6-figure corporate job to the U.S. Olympic bobsled team without a [.]. The post Resilience: From Corporate America to the Bobsled Track appeared first on Experience to Lead.

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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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A Leadership Case—Mistake or a Lack of Discipline? What Would You Do?

Art Petty

The most difficult and impactful decisions in a leader's life are the people decisions. Drawing from examples in the military, a leader has to assess whether an issue was a mistake or a lack of discipline. One merits second chances and the other demands more aggressive action. Here's a case and outcome that illustrates the situation. How would you have handled this situation?

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7 Ways a Leader Avoids Criticism

Ron Edmondson

The title is a little misleading. The only way I know of to avoid criticism as a leader – Is to not be a leader. Many in leadership positions default to what I call “The Safe Zone” to attempt avoiding criticism. (But it’s not really that safe.). Here are 7 ways they attempt to avoid criticism: Make excuses for their shortcomings. Dodge bullets by hiding behind others.

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Dealing With Critics

RapidStart Leadership

Any time we venture out of our comfort zones, it can feel like we’re sticking out, vulnerable to criticism. Someone is likely to say something. Here's how to deal with the criticism when it comes. The post Dealing With Critics appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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The Principles of Agile Planning

Strategy Driven

Agile methodology has taken the IT industry by the storm, and now it’s spreading to other sectors. Many companies have managed to gain an edge tapping into its transformative power. The benefits linked to adoption are indeed many, but there’s just one problem. Scaling Agile in enterprise-level environments is a daunting task. There are a bunch of moving parts you need to tie in together.

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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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Social Anxiety and Success

Harvard Business Review

We’re often told that to succeed in the workplace, you need to bring your A game, play office politics, and network nonstop. But how do you do that when you suffer from social anxiety? Host Morra Aarons-Mele speaks with Ellen Hendriksen, a clinical psychologist, and Arvind Rajan, the CEO of Cricket Health and a former executive at LinkedIn.

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7 People Every Young Professional Needs to Get Ahead

Nathan Magnuson

My colleague Ann challenged my thinking recently. As she transitioned into a new CEO role, she reflected, “Other people have paved a way for us to succeed in ways we probably don’t realize.” I bristled at first because I wanted to believe most of my success was self-made. (This despite my being far from CEO material.) But a few days later as I stared out the window counting the Camaros in the parking lot, I came to a realization.

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Introducing Season Four

Harvard Business Review

Women at Work is back Oct. 14 with stories, conversations, and practical advice about being a woman in the workplace. Expect to hear from us every Monday for the next couple of months. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network.

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Research: People Want Their Employers to Talk About Mental Health

Harvard Business Review

Nearly 60% of employees have never discussed their mental health at work.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Why Companies Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation

Harvard Business Review

They put too much focus on process and not enough on product.

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Will a Bachelor’s Degree Matter as Much for Gen Z?

Harvard Business Review

Faster and cheaper pathways to good first jobs are emerging.

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Why Some Rules Are More Likely to Be Broken

Harvard Business Review

And how to write regulations that people actually follow.

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