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Eat That Frog! (Brian Tracy)

Let's Grow Leaders

Winning Well Connection. We’ve been fans of Brian Tracy’s ideas on productivity and efficiency for a long time. So we were delighted to find that we were all keynoting at the HR Asia Summit in Singapore. We enjoyed chatting with Brian about his thoughts of getting results that last and building confidence. Thanks, Brian for your decades of thought leadership and inspiration.

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7 Tips to Instagram Your Way to Success

Women on Business

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Radical Resiliency: An Interview with Eileen McDargh @Macdarling #Podcast

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Radical resiliency is about more than simply “bouncing back.” Eileen McDargh, internationally recognized keynote speaker, master facilitator, award-winning author, and founder of The Resiliency Group, shares her insights on resiliency and leadership. Eileen is the author of Your Resiliency GPS: A Guide for Growing through Life and Work and The Resilient Spirit: Heart Talk for Staying Rightside Up in […].

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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Alien: Covenant

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Article Alien: Covenant is a sequel to the 2012 Prometheus and a prequel to the 1979 Ridley Scott Alien film series. Seeing the backstory of the Alien series brought to life was intriguing. I knew where the movie was headed but couldn’t quite wrap my mind around it. Set in 2104, we see the spaceship USCSS Covenant headed for a distant planet when something goes terribly wrong.

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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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Why we need to re-think learning

Lead on Purpose

Long-time readers of Lead on Purpose have seen this quote by Eric Hoffer: “In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future.

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How to Succeed with Mules in a Beauty Pagent

Leadership Freak

Mules come in many forms. Some are loud, opinionated, and adversarial. A pleasant mule is stubborn in a beauty queen’s skin. Beauty queen mules are more dangerous than conspicuous resistance.

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The future of leadership: From the Great Man Theory to the Great Team Theory

CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

Leadership is a phenomenon that has interested people for hundreds of years. One rather outdated explanatory approach still plays a prominent role in practice and the media in particular: The so-called Great Man Theory. In this blog we present what this theory is all about and why it is time to look for alternative approaches.

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5 Ways to Take Back an Already Delegated Project

Ron Edmondson

I’m a fan of delegation. In fact, I consider myself somewhat of a professional delegator, if there is such a thing. I certainly love to delegate. I think it makes the team stronger. As a leader, have you ever given away a project and wished you could take it back? It doesn’t happen often, but when it does it can be one of the more difficult and awkward parts of leadership.

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How to Improve Your Sales Skills, Even If You’re Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business Review

At some point in your career, even if you’re not a salesperson, you’re going to have to sell something — whether it’s your idea , your team, or yourself. So how can you improve your sales skills, especially if you don’t pitch people often? What should you focus on first? And what should you do if you lose a sale? What the Experts Say.

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Managing Millennials

Eric Jacobson

The second edition of Managing the Millennials is an important read. Because, in 2015, Millennials comprised 35 percent of the workforce--nearly 54 million workers. And, by 2020, one in three adults will be a Millennial, and then by 2025, three of four workers will be from the Millennial generation. Further, according to the book's co-author Chip Espinoza , more than 60 percent of employers say that they are experiencing tension between employees from different generations--more than 70 percent

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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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8 Ways to Get a Difficult Conversation Back on Track

Harvard Business Review

Despite our best intentions, conversations can frequently veer into difficult territory , producing frustration, resentment, and wasted time and effort. Take David, one of my coaching clients. Recently appointed to a business school leadership role, he was eager to advance his strategic agenda. Doing so required building his team members’ commitment to and sense of ownership over the proposed changes.

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5 Ways Leaders Can Promote Themselves via Pinterest

Lead Change Blog

In October 2016, it was reported that Pinterest had amassed 150 million monthly users. Pinterest has often – and, arguably, unfairly – been labelled a platform aimed squarely at people building fanciful virtual pin boards for forthcoming weddings or house renovations, but its impressive growth (it had ‘just’ 100 million monthly users the year previous) hints at a tool whose use extends far beyond that of a couch companion.

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Research: How You Feel About Individualism Is Influenced by Your Social Class

Harvard Business Review

It’s often assumed that getting a college education or professional job means that a person from a working-class or low-income background has finally “made it” and will seamlessly join the middle or upper class. The reality, however, is often quite different. As Della Mae Justice, a successful lawyer who was raised in poverty, explained to the New York Times in 2005 , “My stomach’s always in knots getting ready to go to a party, wondering if I’m wearing the ri

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Your Builder Personality

Coaching Tip

The task of building a business from the ground up is enormously challenging. There are many elements at play--but when building for growth is imperative, the most important and often least understood is the personality of the builder or founder. It shapes everything from the team and product to the overall business strategy and it is the one resource that founders can directly control.

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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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Why Is Cybersecurity So Hard?

Harvard Business Review

After nearly 20 years of trying and billions of dollars in investment, why are organizations are still struggling with cybersecurity? In fact, the problem seems to be getting worse, not better. Answering this question requires moving beyond a purely technical examination of cybersecurity. It’s true that the technical challenges are very real; we don’t know how to write bug-free code, for example.

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As Machines Take Jobs, Companies Need to Get Creative About Making New Ones

Harvard Business Review

Jobs in retail, transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture are highly vulnerable to technological change. Retailers such as Macy’s and The Limited are closing hundreds of stores and cutting tens of thousands of jobs as people buy more and more products online, and others are testing robotic assistants or planning for autonomous stores. Over 33 companies are now working on autonomous vehicles, which will soon replace transport jobs.

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