Wed.May 01, 2019

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The Most Engaging Way to Market Your Brand

Women on Business

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Shallow Thinking

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher ThorntonThe question of the day is "How does "shallow thinking" leads to ethical mistakes?" By shallow thinking, I mean thinking that is limited in breadth and depth. Think about taking a stroll on the beach as you read the characteristics of shallow thinking below. Think about how these characteristics describe the kind of thinking that leads to ethical mistakes and decision gridlock. .

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You Have A Voice. Be Heard!

Joseph Lalonde

The Speak Up! Series. Guys… There’s something I need to open up to you about. I struggle with an issue that affects my ability to lead well. It’s hard to admit this but I have difficulty speaking up and being heard. Yup, you heard me right. I struggle to share my thoughts and opinions with those I work with […] The post You Have A Voice.

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Planning to Be Lucky: Are We Betting on the Wrong Thing?

RapidStart Leadership

Can we really plan to be lucky? He said, “Luck is the residue of design.” Who was it, and what did he mean? And more importantly, how can we put his idea to work so that the lucky breaks come when we roll the dice? All that and more in … Planning to Be Lucky: Are We Betting on the Wrong Thing? Read More ». The post Planning to Be Lucky: Are We Betting on the Wrong Thing?

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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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How to Develop Your Team Like a Real Estate Investor

Next Level Blog

One of the keys to successfully leading at the next level is to develop and leverage a team of go-to people. When you’re thinking through your strategy and approach to team development, it can help to think like a real estate investor. Successful investors in real estate or any other sector think through their goals and then develop a portfolio of investments to align with them.

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Women in Business Choose How You Show-Up

Leadership Freak

Choose how you show up, before you show-up, or you’ll end up pushed around by strong people and stressful situations.

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An Interview with Tesla’s Felicia Mayo on Creating a Culture of Diversity and Inclusion

HR Digest

Creating an Environment that Encourages Cognitive Diversity In a remarkable interview with The HR Digest, Felicia Mayo talks about the value of cognitive diversity in the global business sector and what makes a great leader. “The ability to inspire, motivate and create followership is nirvana,” she says. “When you have a leader that exhibits this strength, that leader can rally employees towards the impossible.

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How to Set Personal Goals That Align With Your Values

Center for Creative Leadership

Avoid These 3 Common Mistakes When Goal-Setting. Setting personal goals can help you improve and change, and achieve satisfaction, and feel like you are moving through your life and your career with direction. Yet too often, people set goals based on their thinking alone. You are much more likely to achieve your goals if they align with your values.

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Uncomfortable Entrepreneurship Truth Nobody Wants to Talk About

Innovation Excellence

Entrepreneurship is a lonely journey filled with ups, downs, and a few directions you never knew existed. But is it your journey? I often liken the entrepreneurial journey to parenting; no matter how much you study it, observe it in others, ask for advice, prepare for it, or convince yourself you’re ready for it, there.

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Success as a New Manager Starts with the Right Attitude

Management Excellence

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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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An Interview with Diane Gherson, CHRO at IBM, on Driving Organizational Transformation

HR Digest

Meet The Woman Who Has Changed IBM’s History Harnessing the power of data analytics to transform process, people, and culture is not easy. It demands conscientiousness - but when you master the organizational muscle of using data, it can contribute to greater prosperity. Today, as Diane Gherson, CHRO IBM, transforms global workforce outcomes through talent analytics and data, she is not afraid to put forward profoundly ambitious and path-breaking ideas.

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Communication Breakdown: Are You Thinking About Your Audience?

leaderCommunicator

Over the course of my career many leaders have lamented this: “Little I say seems to be resonating !?!?”. Although this can be very frustrating, it certainly does not mean that you should just stop communicating (as I’ve also heard…).

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Success as a New Manager Starts with the Right Attitude

Art Petty

Much like most other things in life, the attitude you bring to the job of new manager is a significant contributor to your success or failure. The post Success as a New Manager Starts with the Right Attitude appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty. Related Stories Three Big Priorities When You’re Stepping Up to Managing Managers Great Managers Make a Hard Job Look Easy—Here’s How Free Mini-Course: How to Deal with 5 Difficult Characters.

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Developing Your Personal Brand

Decker Communication

When my niece was two, she pointed to the alarm bell button in her building’s elevator and yelled “Taco Bell!” At a very young age, she could recognize the iconic symbol thanks to years—and millions of dollars— they’d spent developing their brand. As a business leader, it’s just as important to develop your own personal brand. Think of it as a value proposition.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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How to Build Business Credit Speedily in 14 Painless Steps

Miles Anthony Smith

How to Build Business Credit Fast in 14 Painless Steps in 2019 & Beyond Note: This post was written in collaboration with Nathan Grant, a Credit Industry Analyst from Credit Card Insider. When you are a business owner, you should want to build good credit for your business and build it fast, right? With great business credit comes a host of benefits, saving you a ton of time and money.

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Marketing Help For Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

You’re out on your own finally and that’s a great thing. Free from the cubicle and the 9 to 5 and free from having to do everything to someone else’s schedule. But with this comes the freedom from the support of your colleagues, a steady, predictable salary and the focus you had on just being able to do your job. While setting up on your own was certainly the right choice, it doesn’t mean that it’s going to be easy and it certainly doesn’t mean you’re going to be an expert in all the jobs that y

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Be A Leader Who Teaches

Eric Jacobson

Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Nearly everyone likes to learn and is capable of tackling a new challenge. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology.

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Master These Vital Aspects To Digital Marketing

Strategy Driven

You really can’t expect your business to get far at all without a good, strong focus on digital marketing. Any digital marketing campaign you have will need to have a lot of focus and drive behind it, and generally you will find that it is important to make sure you are putting whatever effort into it you are able to. Digital marketing will prove to be an essential aspect to running your business and ensuring that it remains popular and continues to grow.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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6 signs of an ineffective management team that threatens organizational performance

CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

Research findings across a variety of industries and organizations indicate that a strong management team is a key ingredient of organizational performance. While this claim might sound straight-forward, recent examples from the corporate and public sector show that it is incredibly difficult to build and develop a management team that functions well.

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How To Keep Your Employees Happy

Strategy Driven

If you are keen to grow your business, there will most likely come a time when you are no longer able to do everything by yourself, and you will need to hire people to help you. This is an exciting time, but there is a lot to consider before you take anyone on. Apart from the obvious need to be able to pay everyone on time each month or week, you also need to make sure that your employees are happy.

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10 Inexpensive Ways to Develop People on Your Team

Ron Edmondson

When budgets are stretched, development often is pushed to the back burner or cut altogether from the budget. This is dangerous for a team, which wishes to remain healthy and continue growing. If a team is not learning and improving it will soon struggle to maintain any level of success. It’s important, therefore, to find ways to develop even with stressed budgets.

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3 Types Of Responsibilities All Business Owners Must Meet

Strategy Driven

As a business owner, your primary responsibility is relatively straightforward: to ensure that your business is as successful as it can possibly be. You are the captain of your ship, and you have to chart a course to profitability and success, navigating the occasional choppy waters but nevertheless always advancing and covering new ground. However, as well as shouldering the responsibility for the business’ ultimate success, there are other types of responsibilities that business owners will al

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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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Quick Takes on Uber, Apple/Qualcomm, Pinterest, Brexit, and More

Harvard Business Review

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir offer short takes on six different topics, including: Uber’s S-1, Apple and Qualcomm settling their lawsuit, Pinterest’s prospects as a public company, Brexit, and the best TV shows about business.

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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2019

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2019. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases. Turn Enemies Into Allies : The Art of Peace in the Workplace (Conflict Resolution for Leaders, Managers, and Anyone Stuck in the Middle) by Judy Ringer. Leaders often believe they don’t have the time to help employees navigate conflict.

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When AI Meets Medicine

Harvard Business Review

Eric Topol, the foremost expert in artificial intelligence in medicine, explores how the technology promises to revolutionize healthcare, making life better for both doctors and patients. The views expressed on this podcast are those of its hosts, guests, and callers, and not those of Harvard Business Review.

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INTERVIEW: Shannon Schuyler, Chief Purpose Officer at PwC, on CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion

HR Digest

"Inclusion Without Exclusion". Adaptability is one of the mainsprings of diversity. While much needs to be done to neutralize our biases and unleash untapped talent – Shannon Schuyler, Chief Purpose Officer of PwC, is already hard to work developing the one asset she feels will help ensure deep-level diversity and inclusion throughout the organization.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Boards Are Overlooking Qualified Women. Here’s How to Fix That

Harvard Business Review

At the current rate, U.S. boards won’t achieve gender balance until 2055.

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The top 10 business promotional tools

Strategy Driven

Every business should have a carefully-selected arsenal of promotional tools at their disposal. Investigating and researching each one is just one way of creating a smart and savvy marketing strategy that is tailored around their business’s needs. Some might be suitable for one business, whereas others may be completely redundant – and might even form a bit of stumbling block in their overall marketing strategy.

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Boeing and the Importance of Encouraging Employees to Speak Up

Harvard Business Review

It shouldn’t take a tragedy to fix a culture.

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Should Your Company’s Voice Strategy Be Based on Platforms Like Alexa?

Harvard Business Review

There are more risks than most companies realize.

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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.