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When to Ignore Your Inner Voice

Leadership Freak

Christiana Aguilera sings, “When there’s no one else, look inside yourself, like your oldest friend, just trust the voice within.” Sometimes your inner voice is wrong.

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7 Essential Leadership Qualities Every Successful Leader Must Have

Lead from Within

Effective leadership is much more than just managing people and processes. Successful leaders inspire confidence, foster a positive workplace culture, and drive their organizations toward long-term goals. Certain qualities distinguish truly effective leaders from mere managers. As an executive leadership coach, I have identified seven essential qualities that every successful leader must possess to achieve outstanding results and cultivate a thriving team environment.

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ChatGPT's Sam Altman: “The Intelligence Age”

Rich Gee Group

Sam Altman’s essay “The Intelligence Age” envisions a future where artificial intelligence (AI) becomes the catalyst for a new era of human advancement. Altman argues that AI will not just accelerate but fundamentally transform the human capability to solve complex problems and drive global prosperity. This transformation will create a world where technological advancements enable us to achieve feats that seem magical today, inspiring hope and optimism for the future.

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How to Mitigate Unnecessary Team Drama Using Psychometric Assessments

Sales Wolf Blog

Show me a team that is unaware of one another's personality styles and I will show you a team with unnecessary friction and drama. There is a "personality storm" brewing in every team and organization. It builds quietly, often unseen, until it escalates into full-blown team drama that derails projects, sabotages productivity, and turns high-potential teams into toxic battlegrounds.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

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

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How Branded Hoodies Can Boost Your Business’s Brand Identity

Women on Business

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The confidence boost of Chartered Manager status

Chartered Management Institute

Blog: The confidence boost of Chartered Manager status Written by Beth Gault Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Chartered Manager of the Week Zarine Azizyan CMgr MCMI shares how becoming Chartered has helped her confidence, decision-making and understanding of management theory “The biggest challenge in my career has been navigating my role as a female leader,” says Zarine Azizyan CMgr MCMI.

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5 Defenses Against Large Consulting Firms

David A Fields

Small consulting firms offer numerous rationale in order to persuade clients to turn to them rather than one of the well-known consulting behemoths. In truth, most of those reasons don’t hold water. There are, however, (at least) five arguments that legitimately elevate your consulting firm above your outsized competition. Before you, your fellow readers and … Continued The post 5 Defenses Against Large Consulting Firms appeared first on David A.

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Are You a Giver or a Taker?

Frank Sonnenberg Online

Some people will offer you the shirt off their back, while others take everything they can without a second thought. One might wonder how they live with themselves, but they don’t see anything wrong with it — if they benefit, of course. Don’t get me wrong, while it’s completely natural for people to prioritize their own self-interests, some take it to extremes — and it isn’t a pretty picture.

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Research Highlights The Bias Against Hiring Former Entreprenuers

The Horizons Tracker

Nearly half of new businesses don’t make it past the five-year mark, leading many ex-entrepreneurs to seek traditional employment. However, a recent study from Rutgers University sheds light on a surprising barrier: hiring bias. In the study, researchers presented 219 individuals with experience in corporate recruitment with fictitious resumes.

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Curious Cat Management Improvement Institute

Curious Cat

I have established the Curious Cat Management Improvement Institute as a non profit that will serve as an online resource to help those that want to improve the practice of management. Curious Cat Management Improvement Institute is dedicated to furthering the education, professional growth and development of current and future managers and the practice of management in organizations.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Rejoice! The financialization of ESG is dying

CEO Insider

It is not often that a thoughtful newspaper like the Financial Times gets it backwards. In a recent editorial, the FT examined the trend for outflows from ESG funds. It stated that ‘the lustre of ESG has largely been dimmed by politicisation.’  This is what has it exactly backwards. ESG is not a financial issue that has been politicized. Rather […] The post Rejoice!

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Boeing’s “Final Offer” to Striking Workers Will Not Be Put to Vote

HR Digest

Boeing made its final offer to its striking workers, stating that this was the “best and final” deal they were going to receive. The union behind the strike, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District (IAM), has been leading the workers in their demand for better wages, but the previous offer that Boeing made involved a 25% hike.

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CMI Awards: who made the International HE Partner of the Year shortlist?

Chartered Management Institute

Listicle: CMI Awards: who made the International HE Partner of the Year shortlist? Written by CMI Insights Tuesday 24 September 2024 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Higher education providers play a key role in developing the next generation of better managers. This autumn, CMI will recognise one overseas provider with its International HE Partner of the Year 2024 award.

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Surprising Ways Your Office Environment is Stifling Innovation

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Often, little though goes into our physical surroundings. By starting to make small changes to the environment you work in every day, you can make a big difference to your creative output. Today’s post is by Dr. Amantha Imber, author of The Innovation Formula. Nine out of ten offices I visit through my work at Inventium are grey, dull and illuminated by horribly artificial fluorescent lighting.

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Why (and How) to Switch to a New HR & Payroll Platform

Speaker: Speakers:

HR and payroll impact every aspect of your business. Choosing the right provider is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. Before you decide, hear first-hand customer accounts in Paycor’s webinar to learn: The three most important things to look for when switching. How to begin your search. What are some of the red flags?

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“I found the calling I never knew I had”

Chartered Management Institute

Blog: “I found the calling I never knew I had” Written by Caroline Roberts Tuesday 24 September 2024 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Chartered Manager of the Week Marie Coombes CMgr FCMI shares how CMI has helped her develop in her career in conflict resolution Marie Coombes CMgr FCMI had a lightbulb moment a decade ago when she was working in HR at Royal Mail and was asked to deal with a grievance.

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When is a System Not a System?

Deming Institute

Is there such a thing as a broken system, or are the undesirable results evidence of a system performing precisely as intended? In this guest post, Dr. Doug Stilwell explores the nature of systems.

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Julie Winkle Giulioni joins Art Petty to Talk About ‘Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go’

Management Excellence

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7 Powerful Reasons to Embrace Imperfections and Transform Your Life

My Own Coach

Explore 7 powerful reasons to embrace imperfections and how doing so can transform your life, alleviate stress, enhance self-compassion, foster genuine connections, and unlock your full potential for personal growth and creativity.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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How to Keep Learning at Work — Even When You Feel Fried

Harvard Business Review

Continuous learning is the key to having lasting influence in your career, yet a heavy workload makes it hard to find the time. To ensure you’re creating opportunities even when you’re feeling depleted or overwhelmed, try these five strategies: 1) Challenge your beliefs about your capacity; 2) Start with topics that solve urgent problems; 3) Don’t limit yourself to formal programs; 4) Make an emotional connection to learning; and 5) Work with your brain, not against it.

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Partisan Loyalty Reduces Our Ability To Spot Misinformation

The Horizons Tracker

A recent study from UCL reveals that people are more likely to believe political news if it confirms their existing beliefs, even if the information is extreme or incorrect. When participants were presented with politically charged information, they found it difficult to discern its accuracy and tended to trust news that matched their political views.

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4 Steps That Can Optimize Your Sales Process

Harvard Business Review

Closing a sale is the result of earlier actions such as customer discovery, lead qualification, and performance management. Framework IT improved its sales process by better qualifying prospects, understanding key stakeholders, and promoting its differentiators, leading to increased deal sizes and customer satisfaction. In this way, proactive customer selection and lead qualification are crucial for driving profitable growth and maintaining a competitive edge.

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Partisanship Causes Us To Defend Misinformation From “Our” Side

The Horizons Tracker

A recent study from Carnegie Mellon University reveals that both Republican and Democratic voters often defend politicians’ false statements if those statements match their own political beliefs. The study, based on online surveys conducted mostly during Donald Trump’s presidency, found that people from both parties justified politicians’ inaccuracies when they aligned with their moral views. “What we found is that political misinformation isn’t just about whether v

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HR’s Complete 2025 Calendar of Important Dates

HR leaders can use this calendar from Paycor to track important HR and payroll tax dates. The 2025 calendar includes: Tax filing dates Federal reporting deadlines Bank holidays Links to relevant tax forms …and more! Get your 2025 HR calendar today!

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When Your Actions Surprise People — and Provoke Blowback

Harvard Business Review

Start by trying to understand why people balk when you challenge their assumptions about who you are.

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Video Quick Take: Intercom’s Brian Donahue on How AI Customer Service Agents Are Delivering Massive Value - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM INTERCOM

Harvard Business Review

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What We Can Learn from Great Political Speakers

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with former Obama speechwriter Jerry Szuplat on commanding an audience, no matter the size.