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A Leader’s Guide To Work In An Age Of Upheaval

Eric Jacobson

Taylor, Jr. Taylor, the CEO and President of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), shares his personal experiences and candid, compassionate and practical thoughts on how to transform the way to select, retain and train employees in today’s, post-COVID and radically changed business environment. Taylor, Jr.

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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

Accelerating Decision-Making: To expedite decisions in fast-paced environments, albeit not necessarily improving them. Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth. Thought-terminating cliché.

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Embracing Emotional Intelligence: The Art of Leading as a Feeling Being Who Thinks

CO2

Leaders who show genuine concern for team members’ well-being foster a more productive and positive work environment. This authenticity encourages team members to be open about their feelings and challenges, creating a supportive environment conducive to growth and innovation. This empathy begins with self-awareness.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. And that feeds our approach in society at large. It leads to short-term thinking. That’s not the way to lead. Leadership is about hope.

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How To Embrace Change In Today’s Organizations

Tanveer Naseer

And yet, that didn’t deter the birds from trying to figure out how they could make these external changes in their environment into something that would be beneficial to them – in this case, one where they were able to continue to obtain peanuts from this vending machine. Leaders like Billy R.

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When Are You Too Innovative?

CO2

Too Much Innovation? I have the privilege recently to work with a technology company that has one of their three core values as innovative. Are we too innovative? And at times it costs us money chasing down innovation at a cost of operational excellence. In renewing their values this year we hit a speed bump.

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Guest Post: 10 Secrets of Effective Leaders

Lead on Purpose

Every great manager knows that it’s impossible to create a positive work environment if they aren’t positive themselves. Be innovative. You’ll be seen as an innovator and not just someone who goes along with the group. 4: Being innovative ties closely with understanding your markets; be the market expert for your product line.

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