Tue.Jun 23, 2020

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3 Keys to Engaging Young Professionals

Lead Change Blog

How would you describe the young professionals in your organization? Are they entitled, lazy, and unmotivated? Or are they responsible, creative, and productive? How are their needs and desires different than the seasoned veterans on your team? What is it they value most in the social contract that exists between employees and employers? Young professionals today are the leaders of tomorrow, as I share in my book Stand Out!

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Winning Now, Winning Later: Playing the Infinite Game

Leading Blog

W HEN David Cote became CEO of Honeywell in February of 2002, the company was a train wreck. He inherited unhealthy accounting practices, unresolved environmental liabilities, and a board and staff that were denying reality. Cote shares in Winning Now, Winning Later , a practical example of playing the infinite game. When he took over, Honeywell was plagued by short-termism.

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4 Ways to Tame the Stress Monster

Leadership Freak

Stress isn’t a germ you catch from an uncovered sneeze. Stress isn’t a thing. Scientists examine the results of stress, but they can’t examine stress itself.

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How to Recognize A Strong Leader In A Group Of People

Lead from Within

Strong leaders emerge in different ways and at different times. Some people seem born to leadership, and others build their abilities more slowly. Some have the capacity but need their confidence to develop before they can make best the best use of it. Others don’t step into their leadership until the circumstances call for it—usually in difficult times.

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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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Who Owns Your Development? – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

When you work on your own personal development does it just benefit you? Not at all. In fact, everybody wins when you take the time to work on your development. The organization. The team. Your boss. And of course, you. So, the next question is, who is responsible for your development? Tweet it out: Hopefully […]. The post Who Owns Your Development?

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The Economic Consequences Of An Aging Population

The Horizons Tracker

The aging (and in many cases shrinking) population is a demographic phenomenon across much of the developed world. As women enter the workforce in greater numbers, this has provided a significant boost to economic growth, but it has coincided with falling birth rates that have put pressure on the demographical makeup of countries. An obvious answer to this problem is to encourage immigration, but that has proven politically challenging, especially in the face of growing right-wing populism that

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Tax Credits Can Spur New Business Development Post-Covid

The Horizons Tracker

Entrepreneurs are likely to be vital to the economic recovery in the wake of covid-19, and the fortunes of startups have suffered enormously during the pandemic. New research from MIT suggests that an effective way of supporting the sector is via R&D tax credits, which helps to fuel high quality growth. “What we see is an improvement in the environment for entrepreneurship in general, specifically for those growth-oriented startups that ultimately are the engine of business dynamism,&

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4 Frequently Asked Questions About Outsourcing Answered

Strategy Driven

For those who are not yet on board with the prospect of outsourcing, this Q and A post shall help to quell your concerns. Below are four commonly asked questions that are often asked by business owners about outsourcing. And accompanying them, the answers to help you decipher whether or not outsourcing of some kind is a good choice for your business.

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How Tax Incentives Can Boost Employment In Rural Areas

The Horizons Tracker

The last few years has seen considerable attention given to the economic and social inequalities within nations, and particularly between cities and rural areas. New research from UCL and the University of Oslo explores how tax incentives can provide economic stimulus for rural areas, thus boosting employment and prosperity. The researchers explored how tax reforms that harmonized payroll taxes across Norway affected economic activity.

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5 Stages of a Sales Funnel_ Are You Adjusting Your Approach

Strategy Driven

Getting your sales “up there” is always going to be an uphill climb. It’s even more disconcerting when you see everyone else around you succeeding. So how do you make the best of it? By taking a look at the sales funnel, you can see what the different stages are and adjust your approach so that your profits can start to soar. First Stage: Lead/Suspect.

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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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Resilience: Lex Gillette, U.S. Track & Field

Experience to Lead

During final training and preparation for the upcoming Summer Paralympic Games, current long jump world record holder Lex Gillette got the news that the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics were being postponed. Instead of being devastated, Gillette focused on the positive by saying, "I have another year to get ready." Click below for inspiration on how to [.]. The post Resilience: Lex Gillette, U.S.

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5 Money Management Tips for Entrepreneurs

Strategy Driven

As an entrepreneur, you know how important money management is. Both inside and outside of the workplace, it can be the difference between struggling to make ends meet and paving your way for financial success. What’s more, it can be the difference between making and losing a profit. For this reason, money management simply must be a skill that you work on and try to become well versed with regards to.

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#leadershiptruth – Job Expectations are Like Quicksand

Roundtable Talk

Welcome to the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world. Gotta love that an acronym developed by the US military has now gone mainstream as a way to describe today’s workplaces. With the pace of change now simply relentless and industries being disrupted at increasingly rapid paces, the challenge that many leaders face is the ability to keep up with performance expectations.

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Pushing The Digital Aspects Of Your Business

Strategy Driven

Lockdown is easing and with that comes the perfect chance for you to reboots your business. You may have had to diversify your business methods over the last few months and perhaps had to make some changes. Some of which you at be sticking with. However, you may want to look at ways you can push the digital aspects of your business now things are slowly getting back to normal.

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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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How to Have the Courage to Move into A Brave Place

Frank Sonnenberg Online

Guest Post by LaRae Quy. Life can suck. There are days when things go so badly that you want a refund. We’ve all heard that acceptance is the key to good psychological health, but that does nothing more than leave us in a continual state of anxiety because what we all want is a semblance of control in the way our day unfolds around us. Since life is nothing but a series of problems, the fantasy of control gets flushed down the toilet on a regular basis.

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3 not-so-obvious reasons to use employee scheduling software in your small business

Strategy Driven

Makes a bigger dent than you might think. Turnover rates in the restaurant industry are among the highest in any industry. In 2017 the employee turnover rate in the US restaurant industry edged over 70%. The estimated turnover rate for front-line staff like servers and waiters came in even worse at 110%. The Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell University estimated the average cost to a restaurant of a turned-over employee is $5864.

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Applying Porter’s Five Forces to Fix U.S. Politics

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with executive Katherine Gehl and HBS professor Michael Porter about making U.S. politics more competitive.

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Why Workplace Security is More Important Than Ever

Strategy Driven

Regardless of whether you run a small start-up business or a huge company, you must understand the importance of workplace security. Having a comprehensive security policy will not only protect you and your staff, but it will also protect your equipment, products and sensitive data. By knowing which aspects of your business are at risk, and the security options available to you, you can establish a solid security policy to keep you protected.

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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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Is It Time for Big Apple Circus to Fold the Tent?

Harvard Business Review

With ticket sales in steep decline, is there a future for New York City’s famous Big Apple Circus?

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Why Should You Use the Content Writing Services Offered by an SEO Agency?

Strategy Driven

1. Content Is the Most Important Factor in SEO! Nowadays, content is one of the most used marketing methods. The effectiveness of content marketing is very big and most online businesses depend on it to acquire leads. It is very hard to have success in online marketing without good content. This is why content writing services became very popular between marketing agencies and professional writes.

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We Need to Relocate ICU Patients Out of Covid-19 Hotspots

Harvard Business Review

Increasing the number of beds in a hard-hit location may actually result in more deaths.

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How to Network When There Are No Networking Events

Harvard Business Review

Step one: Turn canceled conferences into private networking opportunities.

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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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How to Convince Your Sales Team to Adopt a Subscription Model

Harvard Business Review

Nearly 90% of subscription businesses are stable or growing right now.

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Building Resilient Supply Chains Won’t Be Easy

Harvard Business Review

It’s time to look past simplistic solutions.

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If You Have Free Time Right Now, Spend It Helping Others

Harvard Business Review

Four ideas to fill your open calendar.

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