Leading in Context
JANUARY 24, 2024
By Linda Fisher Thornton This series includes 10 quotes (linked to blog posts with leadership guidance) to inspire you and help you improve your leader development as we head into the new year. Part 1 included the first 5.
Tanveer Naseer
JANUARY 24, 2024
How many of us would be happy knowing the high point of our career was that we were good at just getting through the day? Unfortunately, that’s the reality leaders need to recognize as the focus of today’s leadership becomes less and less about achieving long-term goals and more about.
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Leadership Freak
JANUARY 24, 2024
Thoughtless words are muddy roads. You can smooth the way with things you say. Or your words make life hard for others and painful for you.
Lead from Within
JANUARY 24, 2024
In the dynamic realm of leadership, the journey to becoming an exemplary CEO is an ongoing process. CEOs are known for their exceptional skills, but there are often overlooked areas that, when honed, can lead to even greater success. Here are ten crucial leadership development areas that CEOs sometimes neglect. Embracing these facets will not only make you a more effective leader but also inspire those around you.
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CO2
JANUARY 24, 2024
In the whirlwind of today’s business world, effective leadership is akin to conducting a symphony of minds. It’s less about having all the answers and more about posing the right questions. Imagine a leadership approach, let’s call it “Just Ask Leadership,” that pivots on sparking curiosity and nurturing open conversations.
Eric Jacobson
JANUARY 24, 2024
“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day. Su shares both Western management thinking and Eastern philosophy to provide a holistic yet hands-on approach to becoming a more effective leader with less stress and
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CEO Insider
JANUARY 24, 2024
Human resource departments are bedeviled by the scourge of addiction. It is estimated that 10% of Americans are suffering from some form of a debilitating addictive disorder. Many millions of dollars have been spent attempting to treat valuable employees struggling with addiction, only to result in frequent and heart-breaking failures. Doctors now view addiction as […] The post Addressing Addiction Treatment in the Workplace appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
Women on Business
JANUARY 24, 2024
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The Horizons Tracker
JANUARY 24, 2024
A study from New York University has shown that when we focus on the main reasons behind inequality, it helps children see economic differences more fairly. This study gives us new ideas about how to make sure kids don’t unfairly judge people with less money. The research helps us see how kids’ ideas about money can change, and it suggests ways to make sure they don’t have unfair opinions about people who don’t have as much.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
JANUARY 24, 2024
Assessing your negotiations can help you identify what’s really important to the other party. Throughout a negotiation, you should be assessing what’s happening. Track major negotiating points over time. See what’s a plus or a minus versus the last round of negotiations. If you go back to your initial goals and what the other party’s initial goals were, their must-haves, want-to-haves, nice-to-haves and also evaluate it for your end, you can track over time where are you
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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
The Horizons Tracker
JANUARY 24, 2024
A new study from the University of Surrey suggests that parents need to learn more about how social media works with its complicated systems, especially the smart computer programs it uses. These programs can influence what people see online. The study looked at how parents understand and use these systems that are important for their kids’ experiences on the internet.
Ron Edmondson
JANUARY 24, 2024
There is one critical leadership error most leaders make at some point. I make it frequently. If you’re leading you probably do also. The critical leadership error: Forgetting people are trying to follow. We get so caught up in our own world we forget the same people we are trying to lead are trying to follow us. We “think” we know where we are going and we assume they do also – almost like they can read our minds.
The Horizons Tracker
JANUARY 24, 2024
The rise of ChatGPT and other generative technologies has prompted a wave of hand-wringing about the potential impacts across society. Nowhere is this more so than in education, where concerns have been raised that such technologies will fundamentally undermine the education system. These fears were hardly confounded by a study from New York University, which found that ChatGPT can do as well as or even better than the average university student when answering questions in subjects like computer
The Practical Leader
JANUARY 24, 2024
There’s a quick and easy question! How would you answer it? Life lessons are one of 52 questions I’ve been asked weekly since my last birthday almost a year ago. That’s when our daughter, Jen, gifted me a subscription to Storyworth. The service is designed for older family members to answer a weekly question about their life. Questions range from what your parents/grandparents were like, to favorite movies, books, and TV shows, first dates, sports played, or favorite toys.
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HR leaders drowning in paperwork struggle to meet C-suite's strategic expectations. Burnout and high turnover plague the field, with 95% feeling overwhelmed. This guide explores how the right tools can free HR from admin tasks and empower them to become the strategic leaders they’re meant to be.
HR Digest
JANUARY 24, 2024
In the relentless churn of the modern workplace, where work-life balance is often a distant dream, it’s easy to overlook the silent toll that mental health struggles take on our productivity and well-being. But a groundbreaking study by TELUS Health shatters this illusion, revealing the staggering impact of depression on the American workforce.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 24, 2024
Why do DEI leaders burn out so quickly? Research finds that this job demands constant emotional labor and surface acting, particularly for professionals of color. As a result, frustration and exhaustion mount. One solution stems from the way DEI programs are designed. The authors found that when programs take what’s known as a discrimination-and-fairness paradigm approach, DEI leaders experience more burnout because the organization’s focus assumes employee differences are sources of problems th
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 24, 2024
U.S. employers have struggled to curb soaring health care costs. But there is an approach that could help them: involve workers in the design and implementation of health care benefits. There is a model that proves this approach can work: Taft-Hartley health plans, which arise out of collective bargaining, have succeeded in engaging employees and delivering efficient care.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 24, 2024
Step-by-step guidance for implementing a value-based strategy in your organization.
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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.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 24, 2024
Encourage collaboration, risk-taking, and learning from failure.
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