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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2018

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2018. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases this month. Never Stop Learning : Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive by Bradley R. Staats. Straight Talk for Startups : 100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds-From Mastering the Fundamentals to Selecting Investors, Fundraising, Managing Boards, and Achieving Liquidity by Randy Komisar and Jantoon Reigersman.

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Are You an Accidental Soul-Sucking CEO?

Joseph Lalonde

I have to admit it. I am, frankly, quite baffled. For the last 20 years, and all around the world, we CEOs have invested untold millions into the question: “What does it take to have an engaged workplace culture?” We’ve bought books, retained consultants, rolled out surveys, looked deep into the hearts and minds of the people who work for us. We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation.

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Standing out at Trade Shows in International Emerging Markets

Women on Business

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Dependency as an Asset

Leadership Freak

An independent life is out of the question for anyone who aspires to lead. Success – in leadership – always depends on others.

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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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Weekly Round-Up: 25 Leadership Life Experiences, Times of Change, 3 Things Companies Must Master, 3 Virtual Team Strategies, & Leaders Take Employee Engagement Personally

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. 25 Life Experiences that Require Strong Everyday Leadership By Alli Polin ( @AlliPolin ), Break the Frame “Here are 25 life experiences that require confidence, courage, and strong everyday leadership.

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Where Do They Go To Get Business Advice?

Strategy Driven

Businesses operate at a pace such that they grab for help wherever it is available. More often than not, they reach toward the wrong resources, the untied advisors and sources that send them down rabbit holes. It is lonely at the top. There are many demands upon entrepreneurs and senior management of companies. Each organization is confronted with challenges and opportunities, both real and perceived.

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In Praise of Extreme Moderation

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Grizelj/Getty Images. Why does it seem like you can’t throw a paper airplane in some offices without hitting a person who is training for a marathon, planning a 10-day silent meditation retreat, or intending on scaling Kilimanjaro? On top of working 24/7 for a company that doesn’t pay overtime? Extremism is becoming the norm not only in our professional lives but increasingly in our personal lives as well, from politics and parenting to food and fitness.

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Protecting Customers’ Privacy Requires More than Anonymizing Their Data

Harvard Business Review

Becky Hayes/EyeEm/Getty Images. Today, good marketing relies on having detailed and accurate customer data. And companies, not surprisingly, are eager to collect vast troves of it. For instance, Amazon continuously tracks the behaviors of its 100 million Prime members , an example of “first-party” data. And many companies have found that sharing their own customer information with other companies creates synergies for both parties, especially with the increasing availability of ̶

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When Sales and Marketing Aren’t Aligned, Both Suffer

Harvard Business Review

Kimberly Whitaker/Getty Images. A Fortune 250 B2B company spent a quarter of a million dollars trying to solve the wrong problem. A new product line had failed, and the company believed the problem was either poor product delivery times or lack of effort by the sales force. After throwing millions at both problems, they finally realized what the real issue was: misaligned goals between marketing and sales.

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New Technologies Won’t Reduce Scarcity, but Here’s Something That Might

Harvard Business Review

Paul Taylor/Getty Images. In a book titled Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?, MIT scientists Henry Lieberman and Christopher Fry discuss why we have wars, mass poverty, and other social ills. They argue that we cannot cooperate with each other to solve our major problems because our institutions and businesses are saturated with a competitive spirit.

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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