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What to Do When You Can’t Face Your Team

Lead Change Blog

Every leader has experienced this at some stage during their professional life. You wake up, take one look in the mirror, and realise that you simply can’t face going into the office. The thought of standing in front of the team and addressing them on a particular issue, challenge, or announcement made by your superiors is overwhelming. What happens next is crucial.

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50 Trends to Follow in 2018

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton What trends will impact your leadership and your business this year? Get settled in with your favorite morning brew and review these 50+ trend reports on what to expect in 2018. Adapting to these changes will require constant shifts in direction and focus, while staying grounded in positive ethical values.

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Beyond the Drama Triangle

Leading Blog

Y OU’VE HEARD of the Bermuda Triangle, where ships and aircraft disappear without explanation. There’s a workplace equivalent, a triangle where good will and productivity vanish. How many working hours of the average day do you and your team spend in the Drama Triangle? This triangle was developed as a social model years ago by Stephen Karpman, a student of Dr.

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Communication is Job #1 for Your Organization’s Success

leaderCommunicator

There’s clearly no shortage of strategies for helping your organization grow and succeed today – innovation, transformation, strategy models, marketing, customer insights, and on and on. We all know the list. Yet I remain a big believer in effective communication as the best – and often most overlooked – way to ensure strategic success. Without effective communication, all the strategic levers in the world won’t succeed because employees, clients and customers don’t understand and embrace the co

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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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3 Ways to Make the Most of Difficult Feedback

Leadership Freak

New Book giveaway!! 20 complimentary copies available.

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Do You Have A Money Making Personality?

Cooperperson

by Do You Have A Money Making Personality? Suppose you have observed four young people on their first day at your company and you are asked to tell which one of them will make it to the top? Which one will make the most money? And which one will be recognized in their chosen field? Let’s call them Diana, Ivan, Shawn and Carmen. They are all intelligent, ambitious and come from the same modest economic background.

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4 Things You Must Do If You Have A Startup

Strategy Driven

If you are willing to enter the competitive, field and engage in some high intensity battle for the title of a successful executive then you cannot avoid a few things at all costs. You will be likely to go against some of the most seasoned competitors in the market and therefore being aware of the conditions is the need for the hour. The seasoned competitors will be always on the lookout for opportunities to take down your venture.

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Feel Busy All the Time? There’s an Upside to That.

Harvard Business Review

bs photo/Getty Images. Imagine yourself at a restaurant, trying to decide between two desserts: a chocolate cake and a fruit bowl. You’ve been trying to eat healthier, but the cake just sounds so tasty… What do you do? As it turns out, your decision is likely to be influenced by how busy you perceive yourself to be. Busyness has previously been studied through the lens of time pressure.

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How To Create An Environment That Attracts Ideal Team Players

Joseph Lalonde

Author and leadership consultant Patrick Lencioni talks about The Ideal Team Player in his latest book. The Ideal Team Player lays out what a leader should look for in new employees. Ideal Team Players have three traits you need to consider. These team members need to be hungry, humble, and smart. Image by Nicholas Swanson. Hungry means they’re looking for more.

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Why Microsoft Is Willing to Pay So Much for GitHub

Harvard Business Review

Drew Angerer/Getty Images. Microsoft’s $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub is a perfect illustration of how value is ascribed differently in Silicon Valley than in the rest of the world. GitHub was acquired for close to 30x annual recurring revenue (an astronomical multiple). To put this in perspective, Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $26 billion in 2016 (7.2x revenue), in what was considered one of the richest tech deals ever.

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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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The U.S. Isn’t Just Getting Older. It’s Getting More Segregated by Age.

Harvard Business Review

HBR/Martin Barraud/Getty Images. Judson Manor is a gracious former 1920s luxury hotel near The Cleveland Clinic, Case Western University, and many of the museums and arts institutions in Cleveland, Ohio. Today it houses 120 highly educated retirees with an average age of 79 — and seven 20-something graduate students. Back in 2010, one of Judson’s residents realized that the goal of enlivening the cultural life of the retirement community and the need to provide affordable housing for

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Don’t Neglect Your Customers During a Merger

Harvard Business Review

HBR Staff/Chris Ryan/Getty Images. When companies merge, customer experience (CX) is often overlooked — yet it’s arguably one of the most important aspects of any company. In fact, according to Gartner research , tomorrow’s companies are expected to compete primarily on customer experience. I just took my company through an acquisition and found that even the smallest operational change can have a significant negative impact on both employees and customers.

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How to Make Sure Good Ideas Don’t Get Lost in the Shuffle

Harvard Business Review

Justin Tierney/EyeEm/Getty Images. In 2007 Joseph Golan, a division leader at Elop, an Israeli electro-optics company, faced a challenge. As an experienced manager, he knew that his manufacturing and operation division’s success depended on getting creative ideas from his employees. But he also realized that the existing system was not working as needed.

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5 Surprising Findings About How People Actually Buy Clothes and Shoes

Harvard Business Review

HBR Staff/CSA Images/B&W Archive Collection/Getty Images. Retail has been constantly reinventing itself, and participants race to keep up with what feels like a series of epic shifts in consumer preferences. Apparel brands are investing especially heavily in online shopping capabilities and introducing interactive features that complement apps and websites.

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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.