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Not Getting What You Want out of Your Instagram? Here’s What to Do

Women on Business

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Three Basic Truths About People That Busy Leaders Should Not Ignore

Next Level Blog

Lately, I’ve been working with a company that’s about to make a big leap. They have a potentially world-changing product and are on the cusp of scaling up in a big way. It’s very exciting stuff. Everyone from the CEO on down is super busy. There is a lot of work to do both internally and externally. With all the demands, time and attention is a scarcer resource than money.

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Leadership Lesson from Your Dog. Be Doggedly Determined

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post b y Krissi Barr: They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. That, of course, is #FakeNews. I know because my 12 year-old dog Yoda just learned how to pull a coffee cake off the kitchen counter and make the entire thing disappear in under 10 minutes. The real question is whether a dog can teach new tricks to people. If by “people” we mean “business leaders” then the answer is a resounding “woof yes!

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How Your 18-Month-Self is the New You

Leadership Freak

The most challenging transition is letting go of the leader you used to be. Growing leaders aren’t who they used to be.

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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 Create a Culture of Workplace Accountability

Chart Your Course

Your aversion to confrontation creates an unproductive, toxic work environment. Your motivated workers slowly become less engaged as they see underperforming individuals avoid accountability. We are here to show you how to hold your employees accountable and improve overall performance. Have the Tough Conversations. Holding workers accountable does not have to be confrontational.

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Strategies for Certified Public Accountants to Grow Their Business

Strategy Driven

As a business owner, you have a lot on your mind. There’s never a dull moment and if it’s not one fire you’re putting out, it’s another. That’s why you need a plan in place for managing your business and workload. As a small business, you don’t have the luxury of calling upon a handful of employees to help you out. One area that’s always intriguing is how to expand your company.

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4 Ways That Returning to Higher Education Can Change Your Life

Strategy Driven

In life, it is never too late to make a change. The fact that you are heading down a certain path doesn’t mean that you have to keep moving in that direction. Instead, you can make decisions that will change your every day. One of the best ways to alter your future is by investing in your education. This will provide you with the opportunity to advance your career and improve your intellect.

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Management is Prediction

Deming Institute

This post is an excerpt from Ed Baker’s book (pages 47-48), The Symphony of Profound Knowledge , which was created in partnership with Aileron.org. Find a recent interview with Ed on the topic of this blog post at this link. About Aileron. At Aileron, we fervently believe privately held business fuels free enterprise and raises the quality of life for us all.

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How to Apply for a Job You’re Overqualified For

Harvard Business Review

ia_64/iStock. A job opening catches your attention but the required experience is only eight years — and you’ve been in the industry for 15. Should you still apply? And if you’re called in for an interview, should you acknowledge you might be overqualified? What should you consider before taking the role? What the Experts Say. There are many reasons why you might go for a job that doesn’t match your level of experience.

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Tips for a Healthy Side Hustle

Lead Change Blog

A friend of my brother’s made the ideological move to Israel and would spend hours sifting through job ads trying to land an entry-level programming gig in this somewhat challenging job market. When his savings had dried up, he took on a not-so-glamorous side hustle: cleaning houses. Fast-forward a couple years, that same kid gave up the job hunt long ago, and is now managing a multi-city cleaning company, focusing on using technology to connect top-rated cleaners to discerning English-spe

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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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All Management Is Change Management

Harvard Business Review

Maria Galybina/iStock. Change management is having its moment. There’s no shortage of articles, books, and talks on the subject. But many of these indicate that change management is some occult subspecialty of management, something that’s distinct from “managing” itself. This is curious given that, when you think about it, all management is the management of change.

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Bologna Shows How a Business Cluster Can Stay Vibrant for Centuries

Harvard Business Review

Matteo Fagiolino/Getty Images. Today when we talk about business “ clusters ,” we’re usually talking about the technology industry in Silicon Valley, the financial sector in London or New York, or automakers in southern Germany. But clusters go back much further than these examples. “Businesses have clustered into networks of various sorts throughout history,” writes the U.S.

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Leaders Aren’t Great at Judging How Inclusive They Are

Harvard Business Review

Joseph Clark/Getty Images. Many organizations today are making concerted efforts to become not only more demographically diverse but also more inclusive and welcoming of difference. The latter is much harder to measure than the former. It’s not that hard to count the percentage of women or people of color in your organization, but how can you tell if leaders in your organization are genuinely welcoming?

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How Blockchain Will Accelerate Business Performance and Power the Smart Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

Political economist Francis Fukuyama predicted a future when social capital would be as important as physical capital, and that only those societies with a high degree of social trust would be able to create large-scale organizations capable of competing in the new economy. Two decades later, an incredible tool is shoring up the foundations of social at the level of every transaction—blockchain.

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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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To Combat the Opioid Epidemic, We Must Be Honest About All Its Causes

Harvard Business Review

Stockbyte/Getty Images. The opioid epidemic is a source of deep national anguish in the United States: It now kills almost 100 Americans each day, more than motor vehicle accidents. President Donald Trump today will officially declare the epidemic a national public health emergency, which should accelerate efforts at the federal, state, and local levels to identify and implement ways to combat it.