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4 Steps to Make Decisions on the Fly

Lead Change Blog

If you are put into a situation where you need to make decisions quickly, you may find that you react differently than you would if you had more time to consider your options. I was reminded of this familiar situation recently when I was in a local coffee shop that uses an iPad screen for payment. After the server took my order, she swung the iPad screen around, allowing me to sign and tip while she and all the other customers in line looked on.

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Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership

Leading Blog

A LTHOUGH BORN INTO PRIVILEGE, Theodore Roosevelt’s life was not without struggles, tragedy, and failures. The way he dealt with these experiences, defined his leadership. He referred to life as “The Great Adventure.” He wrote in his Autobiography , “life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living. There are many forms of success, many forms of triumph.

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Leadership Lessons From A Marathon Run

Joseph Lalonde

What a marathon taught me about leadership. Never in my life did I want to run a marathon. I thought it wasn’t for me. And the distance, 26.2 miles, seemed too far for my legs to carry me. Yet, this past Sunday, I ran my first (and I’m saying my only) marathon. I ran the marathon for a reason. In areas without access to […] The post Leadership Lessons From A Marathon Run appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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15 Questions that Invent the Future

Leadership Freak

Progress is the answer to a question. If you feel stuck, you have aspiration without progress. But the right question re-ignites forward movement.

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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 Employers Should Handle Workplace Bullying

HR Digest

Bullying has become one of the most common vices in a hostile work environment. It has to do with any sort of harassment (verbal and non-verbal) and uncomfortable situation/maltreatment from a coworker. Bullying may not be obvious, but prevalent in most workplaces even while the existence is contrary to the basic code of conduct in a work environment.

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Weekly Round-Up: Creating High-Performance Teams, What Culture-Savvy Leaders Do, Speak Like A Successful Leader, How Email Can Impact Your Leadership, Simple Concepts For Great Communication

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. 5 Tips to Create High-Performance Teams By Julia Felton ( @ Julia_Felton via @leadchangegroup ), LeadChange “Many of the strategies leaders have adopted to improve teamwork, while well-intentioned, are not all that effective.

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Fun Friday – Office Password Security #HRBLOG #413

Rapid BI

A little laugh before the weekend – password security I don’t understand how this happened, I just changed my password from 12345 to 123456! Friday Fun – software security, password, office humour #413 #ff IT Says these new laptops they gave us […]. The post Fun Friday – Office Password Security #HRBLOG #413 appeared first on RapidBI.

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The Role of a Manager Has to Change in 5 Key Ways

Harvard Business Review

pchyburrs/Getty Images. “First, let’s fire all the managers” said Gary Hamel almost seven years ago in Harvard Business Review. “Think of the countless hours that team leaders, department heads, and vice presidents devote to supervising the work of others.” Today, we believe that the problem in most organizations isn’t simply that management is inefficient, it’s that the role and purpose of a “manager” haven’t kept pace with what’

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To Get Your Team to Use Data, Demystify It

Harvard Business Review

MEHAU KULYK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. For some of your team members, the idea of using data to inform decision-making can feel intimidating. Maybe they don’t consider themselves to have strong analytical skills. Maybe they felt overwhelmed by their statistics course in college. Maybe they like to “go with their gut,” or simply dread the idea of wading through a ton of data.

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A Way to Detect Major Medical Complications Sooner

Harvard Business Review

Nick Veasey/Getty Images. A study of surgical patients , across 168 hospitals, showed that 23% of patients experience a major complication during their stay. We like to think of complications as atypical events. However, the unfortunate truth is that they are quite common. While most medical complications are easily identified and are treated in a timely manner, not all are recognized soon enough.

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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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Do People Trust Algorithms More Than Companies Realize?

Harvard Business Review

Westend61/Getty Images. Many companies have jumped on the “big data” bandwagon. They’re hiring data scientists, mining employee and customer data for insights, and creating algorithms to optimize their recommendations. Yet, these same companies often assume that customers are wary of their algorithms — and they go to great lengths to hide or humanize them.

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Research Shows Immigrants Help Businesses Grow. Here’s Why.

Harvard Business Review

Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images. It has been well documented that immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship. This is true both in the United States, where they represent 27.5% of all entrepreneurs but only 13% of the population , and in many other countries around the world. On average, immigrants contribute twice as much to U.S. entrepreneurship as native-born citizens do.

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Do People Trust Algorithms More Than Companies Realize?

Harvard Business Review

Westend61/Getty Images. Many companies have jumped on the “big data” bandwagon. They’re hiring data scientists, mining employee and customer data for insights, and creating algorithms to optimize their recommendations. Yet, these same companies often assume that customers are wary of their algorithms — and they go to great lengths to hide or humanize them.