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Setting Healthy Boundaries: What to Say When You Need to Say No

Let's Grow Leaders

01:02 – Check Out the Book! If you’re liking these practical ways to deal with workplace conflict, definitely check out our book, “Powerful Phrases for Dealing With Workplace Conflict.” Here’s why, and I’m curious about your perspective.” Phrases like, “Nope, can’t do that.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. The results are in: what does the CMI community think?

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The Importance of Testing in an E-marketing Campaign

Women on Business

Send the email you’re using now (this is your control, or “A”)) to 500 names, and send your proposed new email (“B”) to the other 500. Tracking is Everything, Too Track the recipients who click on a link, open your email or visit your website, as well as how many unsubscribe. Fridays are often weak days for email campaigns as well.

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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

I recently finished writing a book about business experimentation and its future. In retrospect, if I had to write it again, I’d include a section or chapter on ethics. In purely human terms, serious researchers are the worst possible judges of their own proposed experiments. Ethics Information & technology Innovation'

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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

When Navy budget officials proposed cuts related to training and developing people as part of the annual planning cycle, Clark wouldn’t allow it. At the end of a verse when he opened his eyes Bono discovered Adam Clayton literally standing in front of him to shield him from potential harm. Instead, he increased the training budget.

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Winning Support for Flexible Work

Harvard Business Review

And even fewer managers are open to or equipped to handle employees with alternative schedules. It just means the onus is on you to propose a plan that works for you, your boss and your company. Before you make a proposal, be sure to understand the impact your wished-for schedule will have on your boss, your team and your performance.

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Women Directors Change How Boards Work

Harvard Business Review

Dhir , an associate professor at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, has done extensive research for his forthcoming 2015 book, Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity: Corporate Law, Governance and Diversity. Phillips , the Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics, and others have found.

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