Wed.Dec 28, 2016

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What is the Current State of Business Ethics?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton I met with faculty members and students at Plymouth State University on October 3rd on the topic of "Decoding the Complexity of Doing the Right Thing." They had lots of questions, including the one answered in this video, "What it the Current State of Business Ethics?" This is a question that is 'top of mind' for many people as this year draws to a close.

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3 Ways Women Entrepreneurs Can Close the Gender Gap in 2017

Women on Business

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How to Win the Battle for Your Schedule and Spend More Time Doing What Matters

Leadership Freak

The elevation of spontaneity and emotion over planning and execution explains why leaders waste themselves on non-essentials. Fall into the spontaneity trap and end up chasing triviality.

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The Day After Christmas

Lead Change Blog

Happy Holidays to one and all, however you choose to celebrate during this festive time of year! One of my personal holiday traditions involves watching the many films based on A Christmas Carol , the Charles Dickens classic short story, as often as possible and with an open mind. According to Wikipedia, the original book published in 1843 has always been available in print form and the story itself has been filmed and re-imagined over the years.

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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 Win the Battle for Your Schedule and Spend More Time Doing What Matters

Leadership Freak

The elevation of spontaneity and emotion over planning and execution explains why leaders waste themselves on non-essentials. Fall into the spontaneity trap and end up chasing triviality.

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Getting Children To Lead With Alli Polin – Answers From Leadership Podcast Episode 28

Joseph Lalonde

Today’s guest on the Answers From Leadership podcast is Alli Polin. Alli believes that leadership lessons aren’t only found at work, in a class, from a book, or a title. Personal leadership lessons are present in everyday life – you just have to be open to embracing them. Leadership is a part of who you are, not only what you do. It’s your way of being, connecting, and in relationship with others.

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This is the End. (The 11-Point End-of-Project Checklist)

David A Fields

As the final moments of the year tick down, you cast your gaze ’round the revelers gathered nearby (or perhaps at the intrepid-yet-nuts throngs televised from Times Square). Wide-eyed, overtired children and adults in various states of inebriation mumble the words to Auld Lang Syne, a song no one actually knows or understands.

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Time Management Guest post

CEO Blog

Indispensable Time Management Hacks to Get More Out of Your Work Day I rarely use guest blog posts but I thought this one was quite good. And my time management tip for me might be to use more guest blogs (since they take less time). Thanks to Surepayroll for these tips. - See more at: https://www.surepayroll.com/resources/blog/time-management-hacks#sthash.fgE5oeti.dpuf.

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Learning How to Collaborate When You’re Self-Employed

Harvard Business Review

When you work for a corporation, you often find yourself collaborating with others as part of your job — when you’re assigned to a new project team, for instance. But when you’re self-employed, collaboration becomes a choice. Working closely with others can open up new opportunities for success and personal fulfillment, but when done wrong, it can damage your relationships and your reputation.

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Why We’re Seeing So Many Corporate Scandals

Harvard Business Review

Virtually every 21 st century business scandal is reducible to a morality tale of a technology that allows us to do things we couldn’t before, coupled with major institutional failures that were enabled by failures of omission and commission of corporate leaders. Consider the major, self-inflicted crises at Wells Fargo, where two million accounts were opened without customers’ knowledge, or at Volkswagen, where emissions data was falsified , or News Corp, where editors illegally hack

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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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Your In-Store Customers Want More Privacy

Harvard Business Review

Maybe you’re eyeing a department store display when you begin to realize a sales associate is, in turn, eyeing you. Or perhaps you’re the sales associate yourself, trying to decide whether intervening will help make a sale. Regardless of which position you’re in, the relationship between shoppers and retail employees can have a direct impact on a customer’s decision to make a purchase.

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Lobbying Is Not Enough to Build Influence Among U.S. Lawmakers

Harvard Business Review

Every budget item should justify its existence. But when it comes to influencing federal policy, companies don’t always used the right yardstick—or any yardstick at all—for determining and improving return on investment. A firm may have seen success on past legislation, but how much of that outcome had to do with our company’s engagement?

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The Most Common Reasons Customer Experience Programs Fail

Harvard Business Review

Most customer experience (CX programs) are positioned as strategic, but quickly veer away from business objectives and become simply about tracking CX metrics. Time passes slowly, data continues to mount, and paralysis sets in. Big, strategic goals evolve into score improvements and incrementalism instead of gleaning useful insights that allow change with confidence.