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How to Drive Productivity as a Leader

Lead Change Blog

Productivity is the lifeblood of any successful business, and optimising this is one of the omni-present tasks of leadership. While this is a self-evident truth, however, it is fair to say that many leaders and managers either misunderstand the nature of productivity or fail to adopt the necessary techniques to motivate their employees. Either way, such misunderstandings can trigger a downturn in productivity within your business, while in the worst case scenario they can also drive low morale a

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Does Your Business Need a Live or Virtual Assistant?

Women on Business

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Tally Your Wins And Defeat Self-Doubt

Joseph Lalonde

E arlier this year, I started my leadership podcast. Doing so filled me with self-doubt. Could I pull this off? Aren’t there enough leadership podcasts out there already? Who wants to listen to me? I don’t know how to do this… All these thoughts flooded my mind. So much so that I had held off releasing my podcast for years even though I had purchased podcasting equipment years before.

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7 Ways to be Pigheaded without being a Jackass

Leadership Freak

Success requires stubbornness. Think Winston Churchill or Gandhi. Be pigheaded about something magnificent. It can’t be done: Successful leaders find energy in challenge and difficulty.

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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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Grit (Angela Duckworth); and Peak (Anders Ericsson) – Coming for the July 8 First Friday Book Synopsis

First Friday Book Synopsis

Note: for July, we will meet on the second Friday of July, July 8. ——————– At this morning’s June First Friday Book Synopsis, Karl Krayer presented his synopsis of Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Brandon Kowitz, and I presented my… Read More Grit (Angela Duckworth); and Peak (Anders Ericsson) – Coming for the July 8 First Friday Book Synopsis.

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Weekly Round-Up: How To Be A Good Leader, What Leaders Need To Know About Forgiveness and Sacrifices, Innovating From the Bottom, & Fundamentals To Achieve Peak Performance

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog.

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Why business improvement fails to deliver

Rapid BI

why business improvement fails to deliver. This article explores the reasons why so many business improvement initiatives fail to deliver. The post Why business improvement fails to deliver appeared first on RapidBi.

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business Review

Given all the attention that “digital” is getting at the moment, you would be forgiven for thinking that it is somehow new. In fact, the relentless drive to embrace digital technologies has been ongoing for many decades. What also seems to have been forgotten are the lessons from these earlier attempts to leverage IT (remember that IT is a digital technology).

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How Disney Found Its Way Back to Creative Success

Harvard Business Review

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. In this, Disney and Warner Brothers provide an instructive study in contrasts. When Robert Iger, Disney chair and CEO, purchased Pixar for $7.4 billion ten years ago, some in the industry thought he was crazy. The Disney empire was rooted in animation, and its classic characters — Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, the Disney princesses — are some of

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I Asked HBR Readers How They Negotiate — Here’s What I Found

Harvard Business Review

Vincent Tsui FOR HBR. What’s your go-to negotiation style, and what are the consequences of your tactical choices? That’s what more than 14,000 HBR readers from around the world, at various stages in their careers, set out to learn about themselves when they completed this self-assessment , which I created based on extensive research. Having reviewed their responses, I’m struck by two findings — one expected, one not.

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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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When Stress Helps You Get More Done

Harvard Business Review

And the groups of people who feel it most.

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What Design Thinking Is Doing for the San Francisco Opera

Harvard Business Review

On March 2, 2015, a line of people stretching around the block waited to get into the Rickshaw Stop on Fell Street in San Francisco. This was not like most nights at the funky music venue and bar; the people in line weren’t waiting to see an indie band, or dance to music spun by a DJ. This night the entertainment would be opera … of a sort.

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Getting the Most from an Online Customer Community

Harvard Business Review

More than 15 years ago, my company and several others pioneered a novel approach to understanding consumers: engage with them through private, online communities. For the first time ever, brands had an ongoing dialogue with customers. Over the years, online community research has matured from novelty to necessity – an essential tool for marketing professionals.

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