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Leaders Should Be (More) Human Too: In Praise of Touchy-Feely

Terry Starbucker

post coming up next Sunday, on August 23rd. I’m so grateful you’re here reading this today, and I hope you’ll join me again next week to help me celebrate this milestone (to make it easier for you please be my guest to sign up for email delivery of my posts in the box on the right side bar).

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Improving Your Company Starts with You

Strategy Driven

Many leaders wrongly attempt to improve their companies with a bottom-up approach, focusing on the smallest issues and hoping to work their way up. But in the end, that’s why the position of the leader is so important in any organization – because few are willing to step up to the task and do what has to be done.

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Many Employees Have a Mid-Career Crisis. Here’s How Employers Can Help

Harvard Business Review

The “midcareer crisis” is a real phenomenon for many workers; research has shown that career satisfaction bottoms out when people are in the middle of their careers. KPMG offers a very structured CPA mentorship program to ensure its newer employees succeed in detail- and compliance-oriented areas.

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Leaders Can Be Human Too: In Praise of Touchy-Feely

Terry Starbucker

He liked hiring young accountants (I happened to be a CPA at a large firm at the time) because of their bottom-line savvy and buttoned-down approach to looking at a business. People that could match his style of leadership: autocratic and one-way, with a large helping of fear. It could be your best decision in a while!

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

In light of this, an employee is evaluated not based on what she contributed to the company’s bottom line, but whether she identified a new, breakthrough idea. First, they create a new venture capital (VC) arm within the existing organizational set up. Traditional companies therefore rely on two strategies.

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44 Content Marketing Agencies Defined by 65 Marketers

Miles Anthony Smith

” The bottom line is that most people don’t want to be “sold” by an ad anymore; they want to develop a relationship where a business earns their purchase by offering invaluable content. They have been marketing masters since the beginning of the direct response and haven't let up. Work backward from there.

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