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12 Ways to Reduce Resistance to Change ? Part 2

Lead Change Blog

It may go like winning the lottery, or like the grim reaper running amok! That is the likely spectrum of emotion you will encounter on announcing your change plan to the team or the organisation. No matter how brilliantly researched, planned, and executed, you will meet resistance to change. Why? Simply put, our brains are hard-wired to protect us in a myriad of ways when we feel threatened.

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Use Your Setback For Your Comeback

Joseph Lalonde

How Your Failure Sets You Up For An Epic Comeback Setbacks… Something you hate to experience. Something that tells you that you’re not good enough. That you should just go home. When you experience a setback, you feel like you’re 3 steps further back than when you began. You may think you don’t have what it takes to lead anymore.

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How Women in Business Can Benefit from Life Insurance

Women on Business

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How to Bridge the Gap Between Intention and Perception

Leadership Freak

Leaders fail because they don’t see themselves as others see them. Disconnection between internal intention and external perception limits leaders. Misalignment: You make space for others to thrive. Others see you as passive.

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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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Weekly Round-Up: Improve Communications in Virtual Teams, Be a More Influential Leader, How to Avoid Arrogant Leadership, Making Meaningful Change, & Fantastic Company Culture Hacks

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. Five Ways to Improve Communication in Virtual Teams By N. Sharon Hill and Kathryn M. Bartol ( @mitsmr ), MIT Sloan Management Review “As collaborative technologies proliferate, it is tempting to assume that more sophisticated tools will engender more effective virtual communication.

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Why Vague Feedback is So Destructive and What to Do About It

Management Excellence

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Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?

Harvard Business Review

Tim Robberts/Getty Images. There was a time when the American steel industry seemed invincible. The American automotive industry looked rock-solid. American consumer electronics industry seemed untouchable. In every one of these cases, global competition changed the game forever. Will the same happen to health care in the United States? By almost any measure, American health care costs are out of control but the system refuses to change.

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The Most Productive Meetings Have Fewer Than 8 People

Harvard Business Review

vgajic/Getty Images. There are many problems with the way most meetings are run. One of the most political is the invite list. Deciding who to include can be tough but too many managers default to including everyone. In an effort to not make anyone feel left out, they unknowingly decrease the quality of the meeting. Robert Sutton, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University, looked at the research on group size and concluded that the most productive meetings contain only five t

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Why Network Effects Matter Less Than They Used To

Harvard Business Review

Nisian Hughes/Getty Images. When we teach strategy to MBA students, our student want magic bullets, things they can do to make their companies thrive forever. For a long time we emphasized “network effects” as a potential secret sauce for business models. Economists use “network effects” to describe contexts where a good or service offers increasing benefits the more users it has.

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What Subscription Business Models Mean for Sales Teams

Harvard Business Review

CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images. Across the technology industry, subscription sales models are growing in popularity. The trend is having a big impact on sales forces. For example, an enterprise software company recently transitioned from selling custom software as a one-time product to selling monthly SaaS (software as a service) subscriptions. The company’s salespeople were used to seeking out new customers, closing big deals, and then moving on to the next prospect.

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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