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Are You a Windshield or a Rear-View Mirror?

Lead Change Blog

Great leaders that build up their people and empower them to achieve greatness differentiate themselves from those managers who are not effective in those areas. Have you ever wondered why certain leaders generate great performance and others seem to flounder or fail in their leadership influence? It all comes down to opposite leadership styles: Windshield Leadership vs.

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5 Signs Your Job is Boring You and It’s Time to Make Change

Women on Business

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How I Drained the Power from a Great Question

Leadership Freak

Bill said, “I remember you asked a really powerful question. I felt the energy go up.” He was reflecting on a coaching conversation I had with him and Kevin months ago.

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How to Sharpen Your Digital Marketing in 2017

Strategy Driven

Everyone is doing digital marketing as a way to promote their products, services, and brands these days. The measurable nature of digital marketing and the fact that even small businesses can achieve great results with a good campaign make digital marketing very appealing to more and more businesses. Simply doing just an ordinary internet marketing campaign is no longer enough.

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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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The Book For Nonprofit Leaders

Eric Jacobson

If you lead a nonprofit organization, the one hour it will take you to read Peter F. Drucker's book called " The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization " will be well worth it. This book may fundamentally change the way you work and lead your organization. Perhaps one of most challenging questions Drucker asks the reader is: " Do we produce results that are sufficiently outstanding for us to justify putting our resources in this area ?

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How to Get Your Dentist Business Online

Strategy Driven

Many businesses including ones like dentist practices rely on their customers for return business. They also rely on their families and through word of mouth to attract new customers. However, sometimes those ways alone won’t drive enough patients to your door for you to be a viable practice. If that’s the case, then you will want to start thinking about other ways to attract clients.

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Boards Should Take Responsibility for Cybersecurity. Here’s How to Do It

Harvard Business Review

Clique Images/Getty Images. With news of data breaches, ransomware attacks, and zero-day vulnerabilities making headlines, cybersecurity is likely appearing even more frequently on the agenda in many board meetings. After all, no company wants to become the next brand on the front page of the Wall Street Journal or have their executives testify in front of Congress.

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Figure Out Your Company’s Make-or-Break Strategic Problems, Then Use Small Teams to Solve Them

Harvard Business Review

rosmaro/Getty Images. Can a large incumbent company rediscover how to act like an agile start-up? I believe the answer is yes, though success depends largely on another question: Can the executive team learn to get out of the way? Behaving like an agile start-up implies speed, a sharply defined mission, and a deep understanding of customers. Those qualities allow a company to consistently formulate the right strategy and execute it cleanly—but also to pivot decisively when conditions chang

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What to Do When a Personal Crisis Is Hurting Your Professional Life

Harvard Business Review

Issara Willenskomer/Unsplash. At some point, we all confront a stressful life event or personal crisis that threatens to distract us from work. Perhaps it’s tending to a sick family member, coping with your own illness, or dealing with a divorce. These are all incredibly tough situations to navigate personally — let alone professionally.

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Yes, You Can Make Office Politics Less Toxic

Harvard Business Review

Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR. I once served on the board of a nonprofit with a group of men and women I deeply admired. Board meetings were an uninterrupted joy. Even lengthy conference calls were opportunities for spontaneous sharing, personal connection, and productive problem-solving. It was Camelot. Until it wasn’t. As the composition of the board changed, so did my experience.

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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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Why Mergers Like the At&T-Time Warner Deal Should Go Through

Harvard Business Review

Britta Knappmann/EyeEm/Getty Images. Recent leaked reports suggest trouble for the proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner, an $85 billion deal first announced over a year ago. Last Wednesday, government sources claimed the Department of Justice’s antitrust division was demanding that AT&T sell Turner Broadcasting channels, including CNN, as a condition for approving the deal — and that AT&T had refused, setting up a possible court challenge.