Thu.Nov 09, 2017

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One Awful (but Common) Leadership Practice and What To Do Instead

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s nearly a leadership cliché: “Don’t bring me a problem without a solution.” You’ve probably been on the receiving end of a harried manager barking these words at you. You may even have said them yourself. I’ve delivered many keynote programs and […].

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Preview Thursday: Total Value Optimization

Lead Change Blog

The following excerpt is from the Introduction of Total Value Optimization: Transforming Your Global Supply Chain Into a Competitive Weapon by Steven J. Bowen. . Your supply chain is the backbone of your company. Its performance determines the health of your daily operations and the long-term success of your enterprise. Like a backbone, your supply chain is a complex mechanism.

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The Right to Work Place Inspiration

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from regular contributor S. Chris Edmonds: You’ve heard of them. KPIs. Key performance indicators. If I were to ask you to list your company’s top five key performance indicators, you’d probably be able to tell me at least a few of them. However, there may be some that are unclear. If you are a leader, it is your responsibility to make your organization’s KPIs straightforward and succinct, to communicate them regularly, to hold staff accountable to them, celebrate their accomplishment

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Everyday Winners – How to Build Mental Toughness One Day at a Time

RapidStart Leadership

How do you win the daily struggle to get out the door? Temperatures have been dropping lately. Now it takes more effort to get out the door for my morning run. Yesterday I had to analyze the weather. Contend with warm clothing decisions. Wrestle them all on. Shiver through the first mile until the blood started to flow. Part of me did not want to fight with the layers of clothing, stumble through the darkness, or brace against the chill.

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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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Two Hours to Courage

Leadership Freak

Fear talks you out of exceptional and into mediocre. Losing the conversation with fear means: problems persist, teams reach low, and you’re less of a leader than you could be.

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How to Ensure Your Employees Have an Easy Website Management Experience

Strategy Driven

If you’re a growing business and your employees help manage the website from time to time, it’s crucial their experience is as easy as possible to keep productivity at its highest. You may well have the experience and knowledge to manage the website, but your employees may struggle if they don’t have any prior website management experience. If you’re looking to ensure your employees have an easy ride, try to implement the following tips.

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Research: Becoming a Manager Increases Men’s Job Satisfaction, But Not Women’s

Harvard Business Review

HBR Staff. Who wouldn’t want a promotion, particularly to a role with leadership responsibilities? It’s hard to argue against more power and more pay. And indeed, promotions to managerial roles are typically associated with an increase in job satisfaction. Management scholars and practitioners have long argued that employees value promotions not only for the accompanying boost in financial compensation but also because managerial positions offer more authority and opportunities for i

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Cities Should Start Small When Adapting to Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

Sleepingspider/Getty Images. Adapting to the impacts of human-caused climate change is a major challenge facing cities around the world. More than 80% of the United States’ population and 50% of the world’s live in cities, many of which are in especially vulnerable coastal areas. But what kind of planning approach should city leaders take?

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Your Strategy Should Be a Hypothesis You Constantly Adjust

Harvard Business Review

Jonathan Knowles/Getty Images. The widely accepted view that strategy and execution are separable activities sets companies up for failure in a fast-paced world. One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. We came together to consider why strategy so often breaks down in the execution stage.

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Why a Gen-X CEO Hired a Millennial to Help Him Keep a Learning Mindset

Harvard Business Review

odla3D/Getty Images. At age 41, I am where I want to be in my career: running my own sales-training business, with enough clients lined up that I can probably live comfortably for the next several years. But I’m in trouble. Every Gen Xer is. Younger generations are quickly taking over the workforce. They’re also becoming the decision makers and the most hotly pursued consumers.

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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