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How to Hire the Right Leadership Team for Your Startup

Lead Change Blog

Are you planning to start up a business with limited resources but wanting to hire the best people? Are you currently budgeting the overall cost of setting up your dream business but not wanting to compromise to hire the right team? Here are tips on how to hire a team with leadership in your startup. It is a proven fact that your business can only be as good as the people surrounding your team.

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LeadershipNow 140: March 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2017 that you might have missed: How to Invest Today in Your Future by @SusanMazza. Revisiting What It Takes to Become You at Your Best by @artpetty. The Most Powerful (And Dangerous) Question in the World by @Kevineikenberry. How Middle Managers Provide Leadership Everyday by @JesseLynStoner. Ten Toxic People You Should Avoid Like The Plague by Dr.

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3 Simple Steps To Increase Your Productivity Immediately

Joseph Lalonde

I am always striving to increase my productivity. My guess is that you are too. I wish this was an easy goal to just check off but I have found that it’s not that easy. Increased productivity doesn’t come by blinking your eyes and clicking your heels. Oh, how I wish it did! However, there are a few steps that you can take to help make the shift in your schedule and energy output in order to push your productivity to the next level.

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How to Set Career Goals and Reach Them

Women on Business

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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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How Purpose Aids Memory and Drives Performance

Leadership Freak

I have the attention span of a squirrel on steroids. I get lost in thought and forget what I’m supposed to remember.

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Great CEOs and How They are Made - The 7 Imperatives

CEO Blog

I recently read a book by John Wilson - Great CEOs and How They are Made - The 7 Imperatives. The first imperative - EQ. I have long known EQ is critical for success. I also believe in AQ (ability to deal with adversity). I know my IQ is not as high as many people (hopefully than most of my staff) so have to make up for it with EQ. The Second is Ability to Inspire.

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Great CEOs and How They are Made - The 7 Imperatives

CEO Blog

I recently read a book by John Wilson - Great CEOs and How They are Made - The 7 Imperatives. The first imperative - EQ. I have long known EQ is critical for success. I also believe in AQ (ability to deal with adversity). I know my IQ is not as high as many people (hopefully than most of my staff) so have to make up for it with EQ. The Second is Ability to Inspire.

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How To Create An Optimistic Workplace

Eric Jacobson

In the book, The Optimistic Workplace , author Shawn Murphy , explains that the following beliefs are essential to helping create a positive work experience : The team is more important than any individual. For optimism to be strong, a cohesive team is vital. People need to believe the team will be there for them when needed. A team is weakened when the first priority is the needs of each person, or when ego dictates a team's actions or inaction.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business Review

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. But having a grasp of terms like EBITDA and net present value are important no matter where you sit on the org chart. How can you boost your financial acumen? How do you decide which concepts are most important to understand to your work and your understanding of the business? And who’s in the best position to offer advice?

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Investing in Enterprise-wide Security

N2Growth Blog

Does your organization view spending money on information systems security (cybersecurity) as an investment, a financial burden, or an unjustified cost of doing business? Is your security budget directed primarily to the Information Technology (IT) department? Realizing that business operations security is a business issue and not just an IT “thing” has become the new cybersecurity paradigm.

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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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3 Small Things Every Person Can Do to Reduce Stress in Their Office

Harvard Business Review

Photo by Pablo Charnas/Illustration by Cat Yu. In a world of tight deadlines, it’s no wonder that some of your stress might seep out and affect your colleagues. But — because they’re under pressures of their own — you risk perpetuating a vicious circle, where you mirror and magnify each other’s frenzy. You can’t control their behavior, but you can take charge of your own.

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Why You Should Pay Attention to Trump’s Leadership Style

Next Level Blog

Last week I delivered an interactive keynote presentation on “Preparing Yourself to Negotiate” to about 200 global managers and executives. One of the fun things about the session was the cool software we had that allowed the audience to use their phones to contribute to word clouds on my slide deck. The word cloud technology set up a very interesting moment that provides some insight into why, if you’re a leader, you should pay attention to President Trump’s leadership s

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How P&G and American Express Are Approaching AI

Harvard Business Review

There is a tendency with any new technology to believe that it requires new management approaches, new organizational structures, and entirely new personnel. That impression is widespread with cognitive technologies — which comprises a range of approaches in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and deep learning. Some have argued for the creation of “chief cognitive officer” roles, and certainly many firms are rushing to hire experts with deep learning expertise. 

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The U.S. Cannot Be Run Like a Business

Harvard Business Review

Donald Trump ran his campaign with the promise to manage the U.S. government like a business. In fact, he just announced that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will head up a “SWAT team” dedicated to making this happen. Trump assumes, as do many Americans, that the country’s major problem is too much government. In my view, the United States is not suffering from too much government so much as from too much business all over the government.

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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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Using Blockchain to Keep Public Data Public

Harvard Business Review

In early February, President Trump’s administration made a change to the White House website. The site’s digital updates are often small and insignificant — updating a photo, fixing a broken link — and therefore may go unnoticed. But this one was different, and it could have an impact on every single American. The update eliminated the White House’s open data.

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The Tangled Web of Net Neutrality and Regulation

Harvard Business Review

Net neutrality is a basic, but notoriously squishy, principle. It means that a broadband internet provider should not block, slow, or otherwise unfairly discriminate against any websites or online services. Despite being a simple idea, net neutrality has proven difficult to translate into U.S. policy. It sits uncomfortably at the intersection of highly technical internet architecture and equally complex principles of administrative law.