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6 Qualities of Great Leaders

Lead Change Blog

What is the point of good leadership? Shouldn’t all team members be considered and treated equal? Why do people need someone to look up to at all? These are questions raised by people who are skeptical about someone taking on the said role and not exhibiting any such quality or simply failing to live up to the title. Everyone knows what qualities a poor leader exhibits.

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5 Benefits of Employee Uniforms to Your Business

Women on Business

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10 Ways to Win with Ambition and Not Contaminate Relationships

Leadership Freak

It’s not necessary to have ambition. It’s just unusual when leaders don’t have it. Your better off acknowledging ambition than pretending you’re above it.

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Leadership Productivity Secrets with Maura Thomas

Kevin Eikenberry

The post Leadership Productivity Secrets with Maura Thomas appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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Really Good Reasons Not to Start

Jason Womack

That thing you know you need to do, well what's the plan? Is it time? Not to commit. Not to learn what you could do. Not to subscribe to another magazine.or program. You already know what to do. Now is.

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0737 | The Disciplined Pursuit of Less with Greg McKeown

LDRLB

Greg McKeown writes, teaches, and speaks around the world on the importance of living and leading as an Essentialist. He has spoken at companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com, Symantec, and Twitter and is among the most popular bloggers for the Harvard Business Review and LinkedIn Influencer’s group. In this interview, we talk about how to focus in on what’s essential and pursue less but better in our life and career. [ Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ].

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Surviving and Thriving with Your Executive Sponsor (podcast)

Management Excellence

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] Update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. In this podcast, I share ideas to help the project manager frame, form and manage an effective working relationship with the executive sponsor. The post Surviving and Thriving with Your Executive Sponsor (podcast) appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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8 Common Emotions of Change – and How to Deal with Them

Ron Edmondson

I speak frequently to pastors and ministry leaders – and some business groups – about leading healthy change. Every time I mention one thing any leader attempting change needs to understand – the emotions of change. You cannot lead successfully if you do not understand every change has an emotion. Plus, if you don’t emphathise with those emotions – and, I’m not trying to sound dramatic here – you are either being cruel or ignorant as a leader.

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Change the Situation – Get a Different Result

Deming Institute

David Langford’s presentation at the 2015 Deming in Education conference starts with a clip from Clare Crawford Mason’s PBS presentation on Mt. Edgecumbe High School, in Sitka, Alaska. Deming was a champion of the individual. He would go into companies and he would just berate management, but he loved the workers… He would say things like “people have the right to joy in their work.” So why was Dr.

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Eight Good Company Culture Guidelines

Eric Jacobson

"The clearer your company culture, the less likely it will be hijacked by the weaker personalities in your team," explains Mary Christensen , author of the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader. "A few guidelines will ensure a level playing field for all team members as they pursue their individual goals." Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other.

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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 the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. In our era of digital disruption, this goal is more important than ever. But even the best companies still struggle to make real progress in this area. One problem is that they’ve been focused on the wrong thing.

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You Don’t Need Big Data — You Need the Right Data

Harvard Business Review

Marion Barraud for HBR. The term “big data” is ubiquitous. With exabytes of information flowing across broadband pipes, companies compete to claim the biggest, most audacious data sets. And businesses of all varieties — old and new, industrial and digital, big and small — are getting into the game. Masses of social, weather, and government data are being leveraged to predict supply chain outages.

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How to Deal with a Boss Who Behaves Unpredictably

Harvard Business Review

You can’t figure out your boss. Sometimes he’s really chummy and personable; other times he belittles you in front of the team. How do you handle a manager who acts like Jekyll and Hyde? Should you address the situation with him, especially if you think it will bring out the bully? Do you enlist others to figure out what’s going on?

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Connecting Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent

Harvard Business Review

Gap Inc. understands both hiring math and competitive strategy when it comes to filling entry-level jobs in its 3,000-plus Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy stores. Across the U.S., nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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Companies Shouldn’t Wait to Prepare for the Post-Brexit World

Harvard Business Review

What is going on with Brexit? Where are all the bad outcomes the pundits predicted? Equities are higher than before the vote, consumers continue to buy confidently, and business sentiment is buoyant. If it weren’t for sterling trading significantly lower and a new UK government being in power, things would look like business as usual. Indeed, while Brexit remains prominent in UK headlines and policy circles, we observe in conversations with business leaders that most have shifted their att

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Re-Orgs Are Emotional

Harvard Business Review

Stephen Heidari-Robinson and Suzanne Heywood, authors of ReOrg: How to Get It Right explain how good planning and communication can help employees adapt. Download this podcast.