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5 Top Leadership Articles for the Week of September 11, 2017

Let's Grow Leaders

Each week I read a number of leadership articles from various online resources and share them across social media. Here are the five leadership articles readers found most valuable last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like […].

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The Secret Steps to Using Stress to Your Advantage

Lead Change Blog

Why do we have stress? What causes us to feel that stress? Why do we choose the coping responses we choose when stress arises? Are there other, better coping strategies that could turn any kind of stress to our advantage? The answer to these questions is “ YES! ” . If you want to learn how to turn stress – any stress – to your advantage, and then teach your coaching clients to do the same, this is the article you need to read.

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7 Ways to Say, “No,” When It’s Easier to Say, “Yes”

Leadership Freak

Tough and mean are two different things. Mean is uncaring. You don’t have to choose between a caring heart and tough decision. 7 Ways to say, “No.” #1. Declare good intentions.

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Weekly Round-Up: 10 Communication Tips, Everyone is a Leader, Tips for First-Time Managers, Leadership Traits, & Relationships in Change

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of recent top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog. This week you’ll read articles on the top 10 communication tips for women, tips for first-time managers, why everyone should see themselves as a leader, 5 leadership traits of great leaders, and how to forge resilient relationships in the heat of change.

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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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How to Motivate Employees to Go Beyond Their Jobs

Harvard Business Review

Marion Barraud for HBR. Every day, employees make decisions about whether they are willing to go the extra mile in ways that contribute to their organization’s success. These are important decisions because research shows that when employees are willing to go beyond their formal roles by helping out coworkers, volunteering to take on special assignments, introducing new ideas and work practices, attending non-mandatory meetings, putting in extra hours to complete important projects, and so

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25 Encouraging Bible Verses For Young Leaders

Joseph Lalonde

Three years ago I shared an article titled 20 Encouraging Bible Verses For Young Leaders. Today, I want to add to the list of encouraging Bible verses for young leaders. The Bible is one of the greatest business books any leader could read. Deep insights into human psychology, history, and encouragement can be found throughout the Bible. Let’s look at 25 encouraging Bible verses every leader should have memorized. 25 Encouraging Bible Verses For Young Leaders. 1.

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The Case for Stock Buybacks

Harvard Business Review

Laura Schneider for HBR. If paying excessive CEO salaries is the most maligned use of corporate funds, stock buybacks may well take second place. Conventional wisdom is that CEOs buy back stock to manipulate the short-term stock price. They fund the buyback by cutting investment, and so firm value suffers in the long-term. As Senator Elizabeth Warren argued , “stock buybacks create a sugar high for the corporations.

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Who Empathizes with Machiavellian or Narcissistic Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

Have you ever worked with a leader who manipulates others to get their own way? Or is there someone in your team who is so completely self-obsessed that they disregard other’s opinions and contributions? Hostile personality characteristics such as these might help people climb the career ladder, but it could be a very lonely journey to the top — unless their colleagues also share these personality characteristics.

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The High Price of Overly Prescriptive HR Policies

Harvard Business Review

Recently, one of my colleagues left our firm to make significantly more money at another company. We wanted to keep her, but the commission-based salary offered by the other company was more than we could match. She hadn’t realized how long her new commute would be during rush hour, however, and after three days of long, round-trip commutes during rush-hour traffic, she asked to shift her schedule an hour earlier to spend less time in unproductive gridlock.