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The Holy Grail of Content Marketing – and When to Recommend It

Strategy Driven

With much of the business world abuzz about content marketing, smart marketers are taking stock of opportunities for their clients to use the power of story to convey a message and build stronger brands. Conspicuously absent from most content strategies, however, is the granddaddy of all content marketing: writing a book.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2019

Leading Blog

The Good Fight : Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team and Organization Back on Track by Liane Davey (Page Two, 2019) Liane Davey shows you how to create the productive conflict your organization needs to get along and get stuff done. It’s like having a mentor guide your journey. Blog Post ).

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Humility and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Greenleaf in 1970. Especially from a leadership coaching standpoint. Mitch A very good article, thanks. I have always been intrigued by the concept of the "servant leader" a term coined I think by Robert K. He said that servant leader will consider the priorities of his "followers" or team, first.

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Author Interview: “The 8 Essential Skills for Supervisors and.

Persuasive Powerhouse

and Gretchen Johnson of Virtual Wordplay Marketing Communications for a few years, a caring and supportive group of individuals who have helped each other without reservation to be successful in business and in life. He was, and still is, my Myers-Briggs Type Indicator mentor as I was learning my way around that instrument.

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Are We Responsible for Bad Leadership?

Persuasive Powerhouse

We may be snowed by the public relations machine that “markets” a poor leader. I agree it is hard to confront your boss and it is even harder to go over your boss but it can hurt the organization and its productivity. We might simply vote without doing our homework first. Worse yet, we may not vote for anyone.

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Interview: Rebel Brown

N2Growth Blog

Rebel Brown : I’ve been a consultant for over 20 years now, focused on helping international clients in areas of business and market strategy, positioning and market launches. They didn’t want this book – they wanted a tactical book on sales and marketing. Defy Gravity is every person’s guide to challenging their status quo.

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How Technology Has Affected Wages for the Last 200 Years

Harvard Business Review

More recently, it took decades for computers to show up in the productivity statistics. One mill girl, Lucy Larcom, studied German and botany, and published poems in the mill girls’ literary magazine during the 1830s and 1840s; she came to the attention of John Greenleaf Whittier, who became her mentor.