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The 4 Origins of Influence

Lead Change Blog

If you influence others, I can think of four possible origins. 1. Position. 2. Power. 3. Performance. 4. Personality. Position. Many can influence our behavior because they have a position. They’re the boss or the president. You see many today resisting traditional positional influence. Positional authority is necessary for civilization, even though we may resist.

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10 Steps to Navigating the World of Wholesale Importing

Women on Business

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Why You Want To Become A Disciplined Leader

Joseph Lalonde

The Disciplined Leader Series Becoming a disciplined leader takes hard work. You can see that through the previous articles in The Disciplined Leaders series. You have to work hard to become disciplined. But the payoff is well worth the effort. Photo by Annie Spratt. Something amazing happens when you become a disciplined leader. You become a leader worth following.

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How Curiosity Leads You Astray and What to do When it Does

Leadership Freak

Not all questions express genuine curiosity. #1. Curiosity as resistance: Perfectly intelligent people feign ignorance as an act of subversive resistance.

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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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Does Your Personality Style Change Over Time?

The Recovering Engineer

After taking a DISC assessment , people frequently wonder if their style can change over time. The question shows up in two common ways: I think I was more reserved (or outgoing) when I was a kid, and now I'm not. Could my adult style be different from my style when I was a kid? I took the assessment a few years ago, and I was more _ style than I am now.

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Weekly Round-Up: 5 Ways to Maintain Momentum, CEOs: Get Prepared, Corporate Culture & the Bottom Line, Chapters of Every Leader’s Journey, & 6 Strategies to Increase Followership

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. 5 Ways Leaders Can Maintain Momentum This Summer By Julia Felton ( @Julia_Felton via @leadchangegroup ), LeadChange “The summer months can signal the death knell for a business unless managed properly. As leaders and business owners, we all know that it is important for us and our team members to have balanced life; but have you ever stopped to consider how the summer months can literally kill t

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Money Management Tips Every Business Should Consider

Strategy Driven

Running a business is something that takes grit and resilience. This is because you’re likely to face many hiccups along the way as well as challenges as most businesses do. However, if you make a conscious effort to ensure you’re continuously learning, taking in new information, and keeping up with industry trends, you should find that your business continues to grow.

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Customer Service Training 101

Eric Jacobson

Whether you are in a new customer service role or simply need some customer service refresher tips, Customer Service Training 101 , is the book for you. Now in its third edition (originally published in 2005), you’ll find practical and actionable techniques and behaviors to ensure you are providing the best possible service for your customers. Along with dozens of scenarios, examples, guidelines and practice lessons, author, Renee Evenson , also provides a focus on customer service in today’s ma

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How Your Business’ Digital Marketing Strategy Can Best Utilize Online Platforms

Strategy Driven

If you run a business, you will most likely have a digital marketing strategy in place, and this will probably be one of the main methods in which you communicate with your current customers, and reach out to further potential customers as well. Utilizing your online platforms effectively can see you easily boost your business, but to do this, it is important to understand how best to use the online platforms that are available at your fingertips.

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How Consultants Project Expertise and Learn at the Same Time

Harvard Business Review

Carlos Osorio/Getty Images. Young management consultants may be novices, but they’re sold as experts. Conversely, even experienced consultants, who legitimately present themselves as experts, still feel like novices when they embark on a new project. The challenge with effective consulting is that it depends on in-depth situational knowledge that consultants simply can’t have when they start an assignment.

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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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Tips For Running A More Efficient Business

Strategy Driven

The less time and energy you waste on a daily basis, the more smoothly your business will run and the more you’ll get done. Run a more efficient business when you pay attention to a few aspects in particular and are proactive about making changes to how you’re currently functioning. You’ll thank yourself down the road for the hard work you put in now to increase productivity and create a better working environment.

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How to Be a Smart Consumer of Social Science Research

Harvard Business Review

pchyburrs/Getty Images. Academic studies in the social sciences often find very different results. Even in disciplines like medicine, where one might imagine there to be a direct, physical relationship between the intervention being tested and its consequences, results can vary — but many think the situation is worse in the social sciences. This is because the relationship between an intervention and its effects may depend on multiple factors, and differences in context or implementation c

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4 Ways Women Can Build Relationships When They Feel Excluded at Work

Harvard Business Review

timsa/Getty Images. A male friend of ours recently had a realization. He was walking through the bar at a private golf club, looking for a colleague he was meeting for dinner. The dark-paneled bar was filled with men and they all seemed to know each other. Will wasn’t a member of the club, and he felt a little out of place. When he found his friend and they sat down at a table, he felt more comfortable.

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Why the U.S. Trade Deficit Can Be a Sign of a Healthy Economy

Harvard Business Review

Yuji Sakai/Getty Images. “We lose $800 billion a year on trade, every year,” President Trump said in March when he announced his new tariff plan, referring to the size of the U.S. trade deficit in goods. Trump has lamented the U.S. trade deficit repeatedly, tweeting that as a result of it , “our jobs and wealth are being given to other countries.” The trade skirmishes that have broken out as a result have the potential of becoming a full-scale trade war of the sort that t

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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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The Democratization of Data Science

Harvard Business Review

Patricia Toth McCormick/Getty Images. Want to catch tax cheats? The government of Rwanda does — and it’s finding them by studying anomalies in revenue-collection data. Want to understand how American culture is changing? So does a budding sociologist in Indiana. He’s using data science to find patterns in the massive amounts of text people use each day to express their worldviews — patterns that no individual reader would be able to recognize.

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