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Investors Can Influence Firms Via Dear CEO Letters

The Horizons Tracker

Such is the popularity of CEO letters, famed biographer Walter Isaacson wrote his latest book largely around the letters to stakeholders from former Amazon boss Jeff Bezos. Research from the University of Georgia explores how influential these letters are both inside and outside the business. ” Influencing others. .

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New Screwtape Letter on Leadership Discovered!

Modern Servant Leader

Below is a new, recently discovered letter from the infamous Screwtape demon. Your last letter suggested uneasiness at learning that your patient had recently been promoted to a managerial position by his employer. Haven’t you learned that a recently promoted manager is most susceptible to many advances?

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How Leaders Use Small Habits for Big Results

Let's Grow Leaders

The story of this engineering marvel begins with a simple picnic and a letter. While Canadian entrepreneur William Merritt was enjoying a picnic with his wife, they received a letter from their children touring Europe. In this letter, the kids described an impressive suspension bridge they’d seen in Switzerland.

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Influence of employee onboarding and its benefits

HR Digest

Another way to connect with the employees is to arrange for some unique interactions with the management. Organizations should begin the process with a pre-boarding program the moment an acceptance letter is signed as 11 percent of candidates change their minds on an offer after signing. . Increased productivity.

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Change Management Challenges

Lead Change Blog

Get commitment to change; then get Commitment to Change (note the capital letters). One step to success as a leadership level community influencer: If you want things to change, you’ve got to change, too, by modeling the change. She is the author of Serving With Significance: A Guide for Leadership Level Community Influencers.

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Tackling The Bias Against First-Generation Graduates

The Horizons Tracker

The best approach To understand the prevailing perspective, the researchers devised a simulated curriculum vitae and accompanying cover letter, wherein the applicant’s first-generation status was either referenced or omitted. This survey probed their convictions regarding the influence of socioeconomic class background.

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LeadershipNow 140: July 2023 Compilation

Leading Blog

by @DebbieLaskeyMBA The Five W's of Leadership via @LeadershipMain You’re great at this job, let’s make you a manager! Insider Ted Van Dyk Can America overcome the recent political polarization and dysfunction? Or are our circumstances so dire and unprecedented that decline is inevitable and history holds few lessons?