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6 Books Leaders Read to Become Stand-out Leaders

Career Advancement

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”~Ralph Waldo Emerson~. Damion’s goal was to become a great leader. He’d been under some mediocre leaders and wanted to do a better job than that. He looked at other leaders in the company and got some ideas of leadership skills from them. But he felt there was more than what he was seeing.

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Simple Ways to Market Your Business in the Local Community

Women on Business

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Are You Living an Adult Story?

Leading Blog

I N The Leadership Gap , Lolly Daskal makes clear to us that “if we want to continue to have a positive impact on the world and make a difference, we must constantly rethink the instincts that drive us.” Leaders need to question “who they are being while they are leading.” This need for leaders to rethink who they are gets to the heart of what Rosamund Stone Zander describes in Pathways to Possibility.

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5 Reasons Your Business Needs a Blog (Even if You’re Too Busy)

Women on Business

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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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12 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Ghost In The Shell

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article Ghost In The Shell is a live-action remake of the classic anime of the same name. The live-action Ghost In The Shell features Scarlett Johansson as Major Motoko Kusanagi. With my love of anime (Akira and Vampire Hunter D are two of my favorite classic anime movies), I was excited to see Ghost In The Shell brought to life. I was also excited to see the leadership lessons in Ghost In The Shell.

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One Secret to Innovation, Collaboration, and Engagement

Leadership Freak

“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion ….” Albert Einstein 3 advantages of compassion*: Innovation. Compassion enables learning by fostering psychological safety. Collaboration.

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Building trust with your customers

Lead on Purpose

One of the key elements to business success is customer engagement. When you have customers that are excited about your products or services, your business grows and you prosper.

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The Fine Line Between Intuition and Judgment

Kevin Eikenberry

I could give you examples of the premise of this article every week. This particular week I spent in New York City on vacation with my wife and daughter. I will share two examples from our experiences to define the fine line between intuition and judgment. Sunday, sitting in a restaurant by the street. It […]. The post The Fine Line Between Intuition and Judgment appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Leadership Ego

CEO Blog

In my last post, I spoke about leadership ego. A friend then asked me how to keep leadership ego in check: “Leadership ego is what kills most companies.” I hear this message a lot, and try to live by it, but I haven't had much luck finding information on how to make this value actionable, beyond things like valuing ideas over seniority, avoiding a superstar culture, and empowering the people on your team to shine more brightly, even if it means personally being in the background.

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Your "Focus Line"

Jason Womack

This month - April - Get Momentum members worldwide are learning Advanced Time Management techniques. We've established a significant goal: To free up 15-60 minutes each day. Now, truth is "freeing up" time isn't the hard part; deciding what to.

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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 Ego

CEO Blog

In my last post, I spoke about leadership ego. A friend then asked me how to keep leadership ego in check: “Leadership ego is what kills most companies.” I hear this message a lot, and try to live by it, but I haven't had much luck finding information on how to make this value actionable, beyond things like valuing ideas over seniority, avoiding a superstar culture, and empowering the people on your team to shine more brightly, even if it means personally being in the background.

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Shakeup the Status Quo

Coaching Tip

We live in an evolving economic environment, one in which job security and career certainty are distant memories. At any moment, life can throw you a jolt --whether it's an opportunity or an obstacle--that causes a shift in thinking. "Either way, when a jolt happens or a career trajectory flat lines, it's time for disruption," says Roopa Unnikrishnan, author of " THE CAREER CATAPULT. ".

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How To Connect With Employees Individually

Eric Jacobson

Here, from the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader , are some tips on how, as a leader, you can connect with your individual team members : Send cards on their birthdays and anniversary-of-joining dates. Keep yourself updated with what's happening in their personal lives. Show your support during personal or family crises. Schedule weekly one-on-one phone calls or meetings.

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Leadership Caffeine™—Less than 3 Gigaseconds

Management Excellence

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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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Caption Contest 2017.4 and a Winner Announced!

Chris Brady

Congratulations to the winner of the recent Caption Contest 2017.3! Here is the winning entry: Todd Moser said. "Not widely known, the comeback of the Patriots is even more amazing considering Tom. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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10 Identifiers to Spot a High Character Leader

Ron Edmondson

Do you want to know if a leader has high character? You simply have to observe them long enough. We demonstrate whom we really are by what we really do. Leaders with character can easily be identified. I’m sure there are others, but let me share a few suggestions to spot good character in leaders. Here are 10 identifiers which show a leader has high character: The way they win.

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Things To Ask Your IT Support Provider Before Signing

Strategy Driven

Photo courtesy of Pexels. Outsourcing large tasks and functions is fast becoming the thing to do in business because of the success it can offer, and the top of that list is IT support. Of course, this is an utterly logical thing to do because it will take the technical pressures off you and allow you to stay focused on the core operations of your company while saving a buck or two.

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Counterintelligence Tactics to Help you Hire the Best Candidate

Steve Farber

It’s important to do business with people we like, but I confess a tendency to let my emotions drive too many of those types of decisions. I conduct what Justin Recla calls “intuitive due diligence,” and if the other person passes my gut-check, I’m eager to roll forward with a deal. That’s not a wise approach, Recla says, and he knows a few things about due diligence.

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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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April 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the April 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Writing about an organization with a fantastic culture recently, the author praised the organization’s approach to gratitude — describing it (among other aspects of the organization) as “lateral not vertical.” In other words, someone who stocked the dairy section was as empowered to share positivity through leaving a note on a store-wide gratitude board as was the manager.

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Strategic Choices Need to Be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially

Harvard Business Review

The CEO of a large Australian company called me to relay a particular strategy development problem his firm was facing, and ask for my advice. The company was an eager user of my “cascading choices” framework for strategy that I have used for decades and written about extensively, most prominently in the 2013 book I wrote, with friend and colleague A.G.

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Meaningful Work Should Not Be a Privilege of the Elite

Harvard Business Review

It is hard for anyone to be against the idea of inclusive prosperity. Of course the bounty produced by economic growth should be broadly shared. But the devil is in the details, and when people advocate for inclusive growth they don’t always have the same things in mind. Some, for example, are inspired by Thomas Piketty, who seems to have singlehandedly set a new agenda for economics research.

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How to Offer Support to a Grieving Colleague

Harvard Business Review

Over the last year, my brother, my mother, a close friend, and six relatives have died. A couple of weeks after my brother’s death, I felt terribly guilty. I suddenly realized that, until that point, I’d had no clue how to support colleagues and friends who had lost loved ones. While I had good intentions, I had done the very things that were not working for me now.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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Automation Makes Things Cheaper, So Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way?

Harvard Business Review

Many Americans have been experiencing massive economic insecurity and want to return to a time when they were able to earn a good living and create a decent life for themselves and their families. President Trump promised to deliver on that wish, to “Make America Great Again,” by reducing business regulations, fixing trade deals, and stopping the loss of manufacturing jobs.

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Should CEOs Respond When Employees Complain About Them Online?

Harvard Business Review

Last month, a Tesla employee criticized the company in a Medium post , spurring a public exchange between the employee and Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO. In November, an IBM employee resigned by posting an open letter to CEO Ginni Rometty, in response to an open letter that Rometti had written to President Donald Trump. Many leaders expect to be challenged by employees in the privacy of their offices, but there are greater risks when it happens online, in public.

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