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The Key to Sustainable Performance

Lead Change Blog

As an organization, as a leader, sustainable performance is key to build and maintain an excellent organization. Sustainable performance means coworkers do excellent work without falling into the traps of burnout or workaholism. Sustainable performance means your organization efficiently and effectively provides quality products and services, is blessed with low absenteeism and low staff-turnover.

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How to Win in Africa

Leading Blog

I N THE WESTERN WORLD, we often do not have an accurate picture of Africa as a growing marketplace. We frequently imagine a continent of villages and stories of corruption and violence dominate our perspective. Authors Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga and Georges Desvaux of McKinsey and Company, take a different view in Africa’s Business Revolution. They say business leaders tend to “underestimate Africa’s size and potential as a market, and overestimate the challenges of doing business there.”.

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Making This Your Best Year Ever

Joseph Lalonde

This past year might have been a year full of struggles. You may have faced overwhelming business challenges. You may have gone through a relationship breakup. Or you might have lost your home due to reasons beyond your control. But maybe last year wasn’t so bad. Maybe it was one of your best years ever. […] The post Making This Your Best Year Ever appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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Someone to Know: Q&A with Gail Golden Consulting Principal Gail Golden

leaderCommunicator

Gail Golden has been a highly sought-after psychologist and leadership consultant for over 25 years. With a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, she ran a fulltime psychology practice before quickly finding her passion in helping leaders, teams, and organizations lead effectively. Among many insights here, Gail helps us confront the unconscious biases we face as leaders, and challenges us to think differently about our pursuit of the perfect work/life balance.

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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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Study Finds 58% of Tech Professionals Feel Like Frauds

HR Digest

Developers run the world. They are among the most accomplished and respected professionals, and yet half of them feel their successes are undeserved. According to a new informal study from workplace social media site Blind , 58 percent of people with technology-focused careers grapple with intense feelings of Imposter Syndrome. Imposter Syndrome was first defined in 1978 by psychologists Suzanna Imes and Pauline Rose Clance as “phoniness in people who believe that they are not intelligent, capab

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Hey Leader, One More Time: It’s Not About YOU!

Leadership Freak

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How To Cultivate Enduring Customer Loyalty

Eric Jacobson

"Today's customers demand something unlike anything they have ever wanted in the past -- a connection with your business," explains Noah Fleming , author of the must-read book , Evergreen. "This means that in order to increase customer loyalty, you need to create a relationship with that customer on a deeper and much more profound level," adds Fleming.

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Using Big Data in the Classroom

Strategy Driven

Businesses the world over are leaping into the use of big data. The analysis of the vast amounts of consumer data is helping business to create more effective marketing strategies and streamline their business process. However, it’s not just businesses that are using this valuable tool. Big data is starting to make its presence felt in the classroom, and the results are proving to be worth it.

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Manager, Public Relations – Adworkshop – Lake Placid, NY

HR Digest

HR Jobs. Job posted in partnership with HR Resolved. Adworkshop is an integrated marketing agency providing strategic consulting and creative marketing solutions that. From Adworkshop - Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:00:58 GMT - View all Lake Placid, NY jobs. Manager, Public Relations - Adworkshop - Lake Placid, NY. The post Manager, Public Relations – Adworkshop – Lake Placid, NY appeared first on The HR Digest.

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How to Plan Your Own Networking Event (and Invite the Right People)

Harvard Business Review

Strategies for extroverts, introverts, and everyone in between.

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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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Systems Thinking: Using the 5 Whys

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton In my Applied Ethics Class last fall, I introduced my students to the Five Whys. This is a simple and valuable tool for getting to the root cause of problems. We may think we understand why something happened but when we "fix" whatever we think is the sole cause we don't always get the intended result. The reason for that is that problems tend to have multiple causes.

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Managing When the Future Is Unclear

Harvard Business Review

Periods of uncertainty don’t have to be paralyzing.

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7 Ways We Frustrate Fellow Team Members

Ron Edmondson

With every team or organization I have led there have been people who get frustrated with someone else on the team. In full disclosure, sometimes others have been frustrated with me. Frustration is common among relationships. It happens within the healthiest of families – and the healthiest of teams. We certainly shouldn’t strive to frustrate others, but we shouldn’t be surprised when we do.

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