Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Here is a selection of Posts from December 2024 that you will want to check out: I Have A Few Questions by @morganhousel Theyre relevant to everyone, and apply to lots of things Mitch McConnell & the Postwar World Order Are Sunsetting by @jamesstrock Entering its ninth decade, the postwar world order is decomposing before our eyes. A to Z on Why Your Strategy or Change Initiative Will Fail by @artpetty 2 Things To Write Before You Write Your Book by @WallyBock Great Advice How Trauma Really

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Celebrating Your Reader’s Choice Content of 2024 As is our tradition, we share your reader’s choice content of the year from our Let’s Grow Leaders blog, Leadership Without Losing Your Soul Podcast, and Asking for a Friend Video series. Top 5 Reader’s Choice Articles of 2024 Your top picks focused on mastering clear communication, navigating emotional conversations, challenging unproductive mindsets, and fostering trust in the face of workplace challenges.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2024

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Joe Davis on engaging the skeptics: Have you ever been in a room, presenting an idea for change, and someone says, Oh, that will never work? Or youve solicited feedback as you work through your options, and you hear the No, we cannot do that?

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Have you ever wondered how to resolve conflict within your team without getting caught in endless drama? As a leader, navigating team dynamics can feel overwhelming, especially when conflict arises. But what if resolving conflict didnt have to mean sacrificing productivityor your sanity? This episode tackles the exact steps you can take to turn those squabbles into opportunities for trust, growth, and collaboration.

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Encouragement matters because discouragement is real. Dark feelings give power to joy. Climb out of discouragement by encouraging yourself. When you seek support, you are owning your encouragement. Here's a practical list of 10 ways to climb out of discouragement.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The surprising reason great leaders are so hard to find isn’t about talent scarcity or competitive compensation. Behind every leadership selection mistake lies an inconvenient truth: organizations consistently misidentify genuine leadership capability. Despite sophisticated recruitment processes and substantial development investments, 82% of companies select the wrong indicators of executive excellence.

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Fools obscure the obvious. The path to achievement is simple. Your definition of success is irrelevant; the steps are the same for everyone. There are three factors of success within your control. You cant control the fourth.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The number one reason why your best employees may be quitting reveals a startling truth about leadership oversight: high-performing talent leaves when organizations fail to recognize and activate their full potential. Research reveals that 76% of exceptional performers who depart cite “ professional invisibility ” as their primary motivation.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 1, 2025

Here we are again the start of another year. What do you want from 2025? How are you going to make it happen? Let me suggest that your outcomes are going to depend on the factors you can control and that, when you get real about it, the only factor you really control is how you show up throughout each day of the year. While Ive yet to hit perfection (and who among us has?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2024

T ONY BLAIR wrote a book about leadership in government. However, his practical ideas on leading in the 21st century apply across the board. Leadership, both good and bad, leaves clues for us to study how other leaders have handled problems and challenges common in all leadership situations. On Leadership does just that. It is the unwise leader who thinks they know everything.

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In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 1, 2025

Its the start of a new year, which I think is the perfect time to look back on the 2024 episodes of my Leadership Biz Cafe podcast to share moments that can have a real impact on leaders going into the new year. Now when you get the opportunity to.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 2, 2025

Habits shape your future. You care about habits because you care for yourself. Life disintegrates without routines. Devise morning rituals that enable you to flourish. You cant prevent black-hole-thinking; you can redirect your thoughts. You do good for yourself when develop routines that serve your future self.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 30, 2024

every new beginning comes from another’s end The Roman philosopher Seneca gave us many gifts through his writings. His words, Every new beginning comes from another beginning’s end, resonate across centuries. They capture something fundamental about life and leadership: progress requires letting go. Every new beginning comes from another beginning’s end.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Leaders facing constant pressure to maintain universal approval are experiencing unprecedented levels of performance decline and compromised organizational health. Recent studies reveal an alarming doubling of people-pleasing behaviors among senior leaders, fundamentally compromising their ability to drive strategic outcomes. The business implications are stark: people-pleasing executives cost organizations an estimated $150 million annually in lost productivity and increased healthcare costs.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2025

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2025 curated just for you. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. Mindmasters : The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior by Sandra Matz There are more pieces of digital data than there are stars in the universe. This data helps us monitor our planet, decipher our genetic code, and take a deep dive into our psychology.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 30, 2024

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Did you know? 2025 is a square year (45 x 45) – the only square year most of us will see in our lifetimes. The last was 1936 (44 x 44), the next is 2116 (46 x 46) Go with the flow has been my mantra ever since I moved out of corporate corridors in 2021 to be on my own. I wanted to express myself fully through all my skills (and combinations of skills) rather than being confined by a box of responsibilities.

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Kate Nasser

JANUARY 1, 2025

Find the magic of transcendent collaboration with others by moving beyond these obstacles and the obvious. Insight fr Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach. The post Discover Transcendent Collaboration Beyond the Obvious | #PeopleSkills appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Do you have a chance to play to your strengths every day? Were you excited to go to work every day last week? How you answer these two questions will determine if you are more likely to be successful, resilient, and engaged at work and likely to do something great in your life by taking seriously what you love and expressing it in some sort of productive way.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 2, 2025

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Brian Tracy on zero-based thinking: To simplify your life, zero-based thinking is one of the most powerful strategies you can learn and apply on a regular basis. Heres how it works. Ask yourself, Is there anything I am doing right now that, knowing what I now know, I wouldnt get into again if I were starting over today?

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 1, 2025

Most new leaders will fail. It’s not a possibilityit’s a certainty backed by decades of data. Furthermore, when organizations promote star performers into people management, they create a perfect storm where technical expertise collides with human complexity. Consequently, current Gallup data shows that 82% of companies select the wrong person for management positions, while McKinsey reports that poor leadership costs organizations $15,000 per employee annually in lost productivity.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The WorkInHealth Foundation, established by EIT Health, and the European Investment Fund (EIF) have released a new report on the skills gap in the European health sector. The report explores the current skills shortages in the health sector and investor perspectives, providing practical strategies to develop a skilled and adaptable workforce. Talent Shortage in Healthcare The healthcare sector faces a significant talent shortage, particularly in emerging roles that require specialized skills in

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2024

"Ninety percent of business problems are actually recruiting problems in disguise," declares Jeff Hyman , author of the book, Recruit Rockstars: The 10 Step Playbook To Find The Winners And Ignite Your Business. Hyman, who has recruited more than 3,000 people during his career, also explains that "nothing will accelerate the growth of your company faster than a commitment to placing Rockstars in every role at every level.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Does it feel like youre drowning under an ever-growing, never-ending to-do list? No matter how fast you check things off, more tasks pile up. If youre like most people, its a relentless cycle of frustration and stress with no finish line in sight. The weight of these demands leaves you exhausted and takes a toll on your peace of mind. (Ugh.) The solution might be obvious, but its not always applied.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 27, 2024

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As marketing becomes more tech-driven, the role of marketing operations (MOps) is getting more complex. Today, the discipline is increasingly interwoven with other vital go-to-market motions — including sales and customer support — and is responsible for all business elements associated with marketing, including the tech stack. In this eBook, we’ll show you how marketing operations can create efficiencies in your tech stack, reporting, and budget that will not just improve internal processes, bu

Lead from Within

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Great leaders understand that feedback is more than a routine obligationit’s a strategic tool that can transform organizational performance. Yet many executives struggle to deliver input that truly moves the needle. The reality is sobering: ineffective feedback costs organizations an estimated $1.2 million annually for every 100 employees in lost productivity and declining performance.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 26, 2024

In the run-up to the Brexit referendum, the then justice secretary Michael Gove famously argued that Britons had “had enough of experts” Of course, he was primarily arguing against the mainstream orthodoxy who thought that Brexit was a terrible idea. As is so often the case, Gove’s remark was extremely reductionist, albeit with an element of truth to it.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 1, 2025

Ive spent the last 18 years researching why we are so bad at learning and what we can do about it, states Bradley R. Staats. And thats primarily what prompted him to write his book, Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive. Further explaining, Staats says that when it comes to learning, we are our own worst enemy and we often work against ourselves: Instead of doing the things that will help us learn, we often do just the opposite.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

DECEMBER 30, 2024

An unhealthy lifestyle can decrease productivity, reduce creativity, increase absences from work, and negatively affect our moods and relationships. Are you living a healthy lifestyle that enables you to be a better leader? If not, when will you start? Todays post is by Helen Sanders, chief editor at HealthAmbition.com. Being a leader requires hard work, efficiency, creativity, the ability to form and maintain relationships (i.e., people skills), persistence and dedication.

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