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Do You Believe in the Planning Fairy?

Lead Change Blog

Little children believe in many things that adults don’t. You don’t believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy. What about the Planning Fairy? Sometimes, what we do and what we say don’t quite match up. Chris Argyris called that the difference between the “theory espoused” and the “theory in use.” Sure, you may say you don’t believe in the Planning Fairy, but your behavior might say something different.

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The Challenges Of A Job Transition

Joseph Lalonde

I haven’t had a lot of experience with job transitions. However, the job transitions I’ve had, have exposed me to the challenges you will face when switching jobs. Most recently, I switched companies and experienced the challenges once more. Today, we’re going to talk about what challenges you’ll face as you transition to a new […] The post The Challenges Of A Job Transition appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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Frustrated with Others But Comfortable with Yourself

Leadership Freak

It’s dangerous to evaluate others and affirm yourself. Self-affirmation – apart from self-evaluation – is the beginning of self-deception and the end of self-development.

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How to Conduct a Behavioral Interview

Chart Your Course

By Jennifer C. Zamecki. Have you ever wondered, while interviewing a candidate, how will you suspend your own personal biases during the interview? Well, if you have, you might want to read on and learn how to do just that. Behavioral interviewing is a relatively new mode of job interviewing. Employers such as AT&T and Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) have been using behavioral interviewing for 15 years, and because increasing numbers of employers are using behavior-based methods t

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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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Weekly Round-Up: Being Vision-led vs. Visionary, Finding Success in Failure, 5 Paul Allen Quotes to Inspire Comms, Employee Retention Issue Solutions, Leading Into the Future

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. The Chasm Between Being Visionary Versus Vision-led is a Big One By Robert Ford (via @LinkedIn ), LinkedIn “Taking a vision from the ‘top-floor to the shop-floor’, making it more than a fancy think-tank document, and making it something employees would run towards, is no small undertaking.

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Zingerman's + The Leader You Will Be = Ahmazing!

Anese Cavanaugh

Quick FUN Announcement! As you may know, THE LEADER YOU WILL BE: An Invitation leadership storybook, my latest release, comes out 10/24 in PRINT!! So excited. (. Pre-order here if you want one as soon as we have them!).

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Fourth Quarter Is Crunch Time, But It Doesn’t Have to Be Painful. Here’s How to Use Year-End Rituals to Get 2019 Off to a Better Start

Steve Farber

Welcome to the fourth quarter of 2018! This is your wakeup call. Yes, all leaders need one right about now, because if there’s any time of year when people are in danger of sleepwalking, this is it. These three months are highly ritualized. Things are going to happen whether you like them or not: year-end meetings, planning for next year’s projects, 2019 budgets, parties, wrap-ups—you know the drill because it’s the same one as last year.

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Working with People Who Aren’t Self-Aware

Harvard Business Review

Sven Krobot/EyeEm/Getty Images. Even though self-awareness — knowing who we are and how we’re seen — is important for job performance , career success , and leadership effectiveness , it’s in remarkably short supply in today’s workplace. In our nearly five-year research program on the subject, we’ve discovered that although 95% of people think they’re self-aware, only 10 to 15% actually are.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Internet Marketing

Strategy Driven

For any small business, having an effective strategy to market the business well is important. Any company that doesn’t use the internet in a productive way is going to find their peers overtaking them and getting well ahead within a few short years. It’s necessary for every company to ‘up their game’ with internet marketing. Here are four ways to help improve how your business is being marketed online.

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Lessons from Mayo Clinic’s Redesign of Stroke Care

Harvard Business Review

David Pereiras/Getty Images. Facing escalating costs of medications and technology, health care patients and providers in the United States continue to search for opportunities to reduce overall costs while maintaining and improving health care outcomes. At the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Stroke Center Practice, we conducted a project to design and deliver care more customized to the needs of individual patients while reducing cost and resource constraints.

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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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7 Myths About Coming Out at Work

Harvard Business Review

hh5800/Getty Images. More and more big businesses are providing workplace protections for LGBTIQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer) people. It’s becoming clear that when workers can bring their authentic selves to work, they are more productive and engaged. Research shows that coming out increases job satisfaction , intention to stay , and emotional support from co-workers, whereas staying “in the closet” has costs — both for the individual and the

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Research: Investors Punish Entrepreneurs for Stereotypically Feminine Behaviors

Harvard Business Review

Francesco Carta fotografo/Getty Images. “I would not be caught dead in a pink suit now,” says Susan Perry , the founder of SpeechMED, a startup that translates complex medical information into language patients can understand. Clothing is just one of the issues Perry has reconsidered when it comes to how she pitches her business. As a middle-aged woman, she has faced bias because she doesn’t fit the stereotype of what an entrepreneur looks like.

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Why Climate Change and Other Global Problems Are Pushing Some Business Leaders to Embrace Regulation

Harvard Business Review

Martin Barraud/Getty Images. Global carbon emissions need to be reduced to net zero by 2050 to have a good chance of holding global average temperature rises to no more than 1.5 o C, a level that would be disastrous, but not catastrophic for human civilization. So states a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which sets out the policy choices governments around the world need to make over the next 12 years to 2030 if they want to limit global temperature rises to