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Are You Leading for the Right Reasons?

Leading Blog

Y OU either lead for yourself or others. Why you took the role you now fill, affects the results you are getting. Patrick Lencioni has penned another leadership fable that follows the discussion of two CEOs getting to the bottom of why they lead and the results they are getting from their two different mindsets. The Motive is classic Lencioni, with plenty of let’s-get to the-core-of-the-issue insights.

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Dare To Serve

Lead Change Blog

Our culture celebrates the Spotlight Leader. The leader is on stage – the spotlight is entirely on them – in short, it is all about them. This leader declares a new vision, has all the answers, and is a high achiever. We tolerate them being a bit self-absorbed because they are going places that we want to go; and if they are successful, we will be successful… or so we think.

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Success Isn’t Complicated

Joseph Lalonde

I was recently listening to a Facebook Live session hosted by Jonathan Milligan from Blogging Your Passion. He was sharing about blogging success. He stated something profound. Well, it was profound to me, at least. Jonathan Milligan said: Success isn’t complicated. At first glance, you may say Jonathan’s lost his mind. His quote about success […] The post Success Isn’t Complicated appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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Truth and Misinformation: How to Spot False Narratives (Part 2)

Leading in Context

This is Part 2 in a Leading in Context blog series sharing information on how to spot misinformation and false narratives. In case you missed it, Part 1 explored truth and narrative. In Part 2, I will explore how data relates to the truth.

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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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What I Learned from Jack Welch

Next Level Blog

One of the most memorable moments of my professional life was the first time I got to present from the Pit. (The picture that accompanies this post is me in that moment from 2013.). In case you’re not familiar with it, the Pit is the well at the bottom of an amphitheater style room that seats about a hundred people on GE’s Crotonville leadership development campus in the Hudson River Valley.

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How Painful Experiences Changed the Trajectory of a Fortune 300 CEO

Leadership Freak

Being fired changed the trajectory of a former CEO of Campbell Soup Co. Doug Conant walked in and got unexpectedly fired from his job as the Director of Marketing for Parker Brothers.

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202: Overcome the Invisible Barriers Holding Women Back at Work | with Michelle King, Netflix’s Director of Inclusion

Engaging Leader

In recent years, most companies have been trying to advance the representation of women and minorities in leadership positions. For example, most organizations have diversity recruitment targets as well as Diversity & Inclusion programs, including initiatives like mentoring, networking groups, and unconscious bias training. But despite these efforts, women account for only 4.6% of Fortune […].

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Resume Builder Sites that will make your CV Employer-Friendly

HR Digest

Resume builder websites have interactive online resume templates and samples which allow users to input the information and build a good resume. . A resume and CV are an integral part of the job hunting session. Prospective candidates need to have the perfect resume highlighting the qualifications and experiences to send it to the employer and get selected.

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How Low Personal Achievement Results In Medical Burnout

The Horizons Tracker

Harvard’s Teresa Amabile has famously highlighted the importance of progress to our sense of wellbeing at work. She argues that unless we feel like we’re making progress in our work, it’s very difficult to feel content. It’s a theory that perhaps underpins a recent study from Ohio University, which found that 80% of medical students feel a low sense of personal achievement.

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How to Grow Your Ecommerce Startup in Year One

Strategy Driven

As many proud business owners can attest, the growth cycle for ecommerce businesses doesn’t necessarily adhere to older principles related to the growth of physical stores. Indeed, when you’re setting up online, you’re bypassing many of the difficult aspects to scaling that you’d have had to work through with brick-and-mortar stores. In this article, you’ll learn about your priorities in year one in order to make a sustainable and profitable business that scales effectively into your second year

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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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Leadership Caffeine Podcast—Professor Thomas J. DeLong

Management Excellence

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4 Tips for Renovating a Commercial Property: Are You Ready to Upscale Your Business?

Strategy Driven

As a business owner, you know that attracting customers has almost as much to do with how your business looks as to how your business is run. Consumers are bombarded every day with ads from competitors trying to draw them into their store and sometimes, success comes down to something as simple as the way your business looks. Renovating a commercial property can be a huge endeavour, but upscaling your business’ appearance can also be the thing that takes your company to the next level.

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Leadership Caffeine Podcast—Professor Thomas J. DeLong

Art Petty

The best leadership book I've encountered in years isn't ostensibly about leading. The book is Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire, by Thomas J. DeLong at Harvard. You'll love getting to know Tom and his passion for teaching, and you won't be able to help drawing some fabulous leadership lessons from him along the way. The post Leadership Caffeine Podcast—Professor Thomas J.

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Live Auto Reply

Rapid BI

The out-of-office for everyday use. The post Live Auto Reply appeared first on RapidBI.

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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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My Manager is a Lousy Career Coach. Now What?

Roundtable Talk

I’ll never forget the moment. I was in an alignment meeting with one of our Roundtable group coaching program participants and his direct manager. We were talking about the key behaviours that my coachee was going to need to demonstrate to be successful. With great confidence, his manager leaned back in his seat and said […].

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What can business learn from Big Data through DJ’s and music bands?

Rapid BI

Why collect work and activity data? Often the causes of success and failure are there in front of us. All we need to do is learn from the data available. So what can we learn from Big Data that improves success in what we do? This week while travelling, I was taken out for dinner […]. The post What can business learn from Big Data through DJ’s and music bands?

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Healthcare Companies We’re Watching, and Productivity Hacks

Harvard Business Review

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir discuss compelling healthcare companies and productivity hacks.

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Keeping Your Business Safe: A Guide

Strategy Driven

There are a number of online threats that you can experience while running your business, and while some can be minor, some can be so catastrophic that it results in business closure. Building up a solid business idea and turning it into a profit-turning organization takes hard work and dedication, and the idea that it can fail due to someone else’s actions is devastating.

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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 Humans Judge Machines

Harvard Business Review

Why are people and machines judged differently when making the same decisions?

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How Do We Feel When We Know What Our Colleagues Earn?

The Horizons Tracker

For some time Norwegian tax records have been a matter of public record, so you could, if you so wished, see how much your friends, neighbors and colleagues earned. Since 2001 this process of snooping was made that bit easy by moving the records online. Similar laws exist in the other Scandinavian countries, and they have prompted much debate about the ethics of such a policy.

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Productive Conversations Take Real Empathy

Harvard Business Review

How to demonstrate it, even when you’re upset.

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The Fragility of Modern Employee Handbook

HR Digest

An employee named Molly filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging sexual harassment at workplace. In her complaint, Molly described the egregious nature of sexual misbehavior she had to live through. She narrated how her employer used to stare at her breasts when addressing her, touched her inappropriately, and made provocative comments about her appearance.

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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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Why the CEO Shouldn’t Also Be the Board Chair

Harvard Business Review

Lessons from Boeing, WeWork, and Facebook.

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What Impact Do Politicians Have On Corporate CSR?

The Horizons Tracker

With politicians like Donald Trump and Boris Johnson leading the United States and United Kingdom respectively, it may seem foolish to look to them for leadership on issues pertaining to corporate social responsibility, and yet new research from San Francisco State University suggests that’s exactly what CEOs are doing. The study suggests that business leaders are less likely to follow their values when they agree with the incumbent president.

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What Are Companies’ Legal Obligations Around Coronavirus?

Harvard Business Review

Eight factors leaders should consider.

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Working Parents Need a “Parenting Posse”

Harvard Business Review

Four steps to building your network.

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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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What Healthcare Organizations Can Learn About Optimizing Clinical Operations from Germany’s Martini-Klinik - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from Siemens Healthineers.