Wed.Jun 07, 2017

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Stop Thinking “Productivity” — Start Thinking “Problem Solving”

Lead Change Blog

Whether you’re facing price pressure from domestic competitors, startups, powerful customers, or low-cost overseas providers, you’ve heard the mantra of “productivity” preached again and again. What typically comes to mind when your organization starts talking about increasing productivity? Asking employees to find a way to do more with less. Large, clunky capital projects to upgrade assets.

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Great Leaders Unite

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton. The most capable and ethically competent leaders reach for unity, which represents the highest levels of interpersonal and global responsibility. While it would be much easier, the best leaders don't just aim for "getting along" or "getting by.".

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Networking Like a Pro

Women on Business

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Get More Done By Doing Less

Joseph Lalonde

I don’t have enough time in the day to get everything I need to done. That’s the cry of so many leaders out there. You’ve probably uttered those words as well. You feel overwhelmed by all the responsibilities of your leadership role. I’ve got a little something for you today. You can get more done by doing less. Image by Evan Rummel.

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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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Funding Sources For Women Entrepreneurs

Women on Business

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Ducks to Monkeys

Leadership Freak

It takes largeness of spirit to value ducks when you’re a monkey. Foolish monkeys complain about ducks. Wise monkeys maximize their potential. Persistent disapproval de-energizes ducks.

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Be The Best Person To Run Your Business

Strategy Driven

As much as it’s down to your business idea, you are part of the package when it comes to making your company successful. After all, if you don’t have the right skills, it’s going to affect your business. In fact, you might struggle to find clients if you aren’t winning them over with your passion. Therefore, here are some ways you can ensure you are the best person to run your business.

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4 Ways Leaders Create Capacity

Ron Edmondson

Capacity: the ability or power to do, experience, or understand something. Great leaders know the more capacity the organization has the more potential it has to accomplish its mission. When the organization begins to exceed its capacity for too long things eventually stall. If you want to spur growth you have to increase capacity. Therefore, one of the best ways a leader can impact an organization is to create capacity so the organization and its people can grow.

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Today's Leadership Thought: Celebrate Learning

Eric Jacobson

Today's leadership thought comes from the new book, Trap Tales , by David M. R. Covey and Stephan M. Mardyks. " Rejoice and celebrate in the effort, the journey, and the process as much as in the end result. Mistakes are instructive. Learn from them instead of hiding them. ".

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What is persona mapping in change management?

Rapid BI

What is persona mapping in change management? We can use Persona mapping to help understand the needs and wants of a target audience or market. Persona maps can ensure we meet the needs of our stakeholders. A Persona map is a fictional character. At the same time, it needs to be a realistic profile […]. The post What is persona mapping in change management?

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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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The Ways Your Brain Manages Overload, and How to Improve Them

Harvard Business Review

Information overload is everywhere , from non-stop news to rat-a-tat email inboxes. At the receiving end of this deluge of verbiage is the human brain — your brain— metaphorically endowed with a vacuum cleaner that sucks up information; a container for short-term memory; a blender for integrating information; a memory bank for storing long-term information; a garbage disposal for getting rid of information; and a recycling machine extraordinaire.

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The Behavioral Economics of Why Executives Underinvest in Cybersecurity

Harvard Business Review

Determining the ROI for any cybersecurity investment, from staff training to AI-enabled authentication managers, can best be described as an enigma shrouded in mystery. The digital threat landscape changes constantly, and it’s very difficult to know the probability of any given attack succeeding — or how big the potential losses might be.

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How One Medical Group Is Decreasing Physician Burnout

Harvard Business Review

Physician burnout is a growing problem for all health care systems in the United States. Burned-out physicians deliver lower quality care , reduce their hours, or stop practicing , reducing access to care around the country. Primary care physicians are particularly vulnerable: They have some of the highest burnout rates of any medical discipline. As part of our work researching high-performing primary care systems , we discovered a system-wide approach launched by Southern California Permanente

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Bringing the Best Business Ideas to Healthcare

Harvard Business Review

Thomas Lee, MD explains how ideas from Michael Porter and other business thinkers could fix healthcare.

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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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Great Businesses Scale Their Learning, Not Just Their Operations

Harvard Business Review

Ronald Coase nailed it back in 1937 when he identified scalable efficiency as the key driver of the growth of large institutions. It’s far easier and cheaper to coordinate the activities of a large number of people if they’re within one institution rather than spread out across many independent organizations. But here’s the challenge.

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If Your Company Isn’t Good at Analytics, It’s Not Ready for AI

Harvard Business Review

Management teams often assume they can leapfrog best practices for basic data analytics by going directly to adopting artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. But companies that rush into sophisticated artificial intelligence before reaching a critical mass of automated processes and structured analytics can end up paralyzed. They can become saddled with expensive start-up partnerships, impenetrable black-box systems, cumbersome cloud computational clusters, and open-source toolk

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ExxonMobil’s Shareholder Vote Is a Tipping Point for Climate Issues

Harvard Business Review

Last week the world listened as Donald Trump announced, ‘We are out,’ proclaiming the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate accord. Such a move might create inertia for some companies and investors if they see it as evidence that “business as usual” is now the most likely climate scenario. We call this the “Trump climate trap,” and it is a real danger.

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