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Leading Thoughts for January 11, 2024

Leading Blog

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. Professor Nigel Nicholson on the challenge of the other perspective: “Leaders need to remember the risks of the self-centered perspective, and the insights that can be gleaned by getting into a mental helicopter to rise above this view to understand the relativity of where people’s views emanate from.

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Exploring the Power of Collaborative Competition

N2Growth Blog

In today’s interconnected and fast-paced business world, the lines between cooperation and competition are becoming increasingly blurred. More companies are realizing they can achieve greater success by combining collaborative efforts with competitive actions, giving rise to the term “coopetition.” This dynamic approach has numerous benefits and challenges, and savvy organizations can leverage it to foster growth and gain a competitive edge.

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How to Use Imagination Today

Leadership Freak

The line between imagination and reality is fuzzy when you’re 3-years old. Sadly, we outgrow pretend. Everything in the real world began with imagination.

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Modern CMOs: Bridging Creativity with Commercial Acumen

N2Growth Blog

The Evolving Role of the CMO Previously, a Chief Marketing Officer’s or CMO role mainly involved traditional marketing activities like brand management, public relations, and market research. However, recent technological advancements and industry shifts have expanded and evolved this role significantly. As organizations become increasingly digital, CMOs are expected to spearhead digital marketing, AI, social media, and analytics initiatives.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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Transform Your Leadership with The Help of Artificial Intelligence

Lead from Within

In the challenging realm of leadership, the greatest leaders realize that success requires more than just their personal skillset and experience – it requires advanced tools like artificial intelligence (AI). AI is not just a buzzword, it’s an invaluable asset that aids leaders in enhancing their decision-making process and strengthening their strategic acumen.

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Going Beyond: N2Growth’s Holistic Approach to CRO Search

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Role of a CRO In today’s volatile business environment, the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) has emerged as one of the most indispensable positions in a successful organization. This C-suite role, although not new, has grown more significant in recent times. As the responsible head for all revenue-generation strategies, a CRO is charged with aligning all revenue-related functions.

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How Hierarchical Status Affects Our Openness To Change

The Horizons Tracker

Changes in how a company works can be scary, but they can also bring chances for good things to happen. A recent study from the University of Washington shows that how people feel about these changes at first depends on where they stand in their work group’s social order. This social order is like an informal ranking of workers based on how much others respect and look up to them.

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Team Development Mastery: The Symphony of Success in Executive Team Dynamics

CO2

In the intricate symphony of the business world, each leader plays a crucial role, blending their unique skills with others to achieve a collective masterpiece. This is where the magic of executive team development lies. It’s the maestro’s wand that brings about unity, precision, and peak performance. Using executive team coaching to build mastery is the way forward to gain both positivity and productivity.

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The Societal Misconceptions Around AI

The Horizons Tracker

A study from Charles Darwin University (CDU) warns that Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t fair, often showing biases based on race and gender. It also points out that using AI in education without caution is causing global problems. The study suggests that we should look beyond the excitement about AI and carefully consider the risks of using it in education.

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Team Coaching Mastery: The Symphony of Success in Executive Team Dynamics

CO2

In the intricate symphony of the business world, each leader plays a crucial role, blending their unique skills with others to achieve a collective masterpiece. This is where the magic of executive team coaching lies – it’s the maestro’s wand that brings about unity, precision, and peak performance. The Harmony of High Performance Groundbreaking research by the American Psychological Association highlights a striking benefit of this type of coaching: teams under executive guidance ca

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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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Trees Aren’t A Silver Bullet For Solving Urban Air Pollution

The Horizons Tracker

Trees have long been viewed as a positive contributor to urban air quality. A recent study from EPFL highlights the positive and negative impact trees have on air quality in the Geneva area. The researcher utilized data from a tree inventory in Geneva Canton. This inventory had data on about 240,000 “isolated” trees, which are trees outside of forests.

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How long does your organization’s strategic planning process take to complete?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How long does your organization’s strategic planning process take to complete? Less than a month 9.82% 1-3 months 25.77% 3-6 months 23.93% 6-9 months 9.81% More than 9 months 30.67% Moving from Strategy to Execution. While 60% of you reported your strategic planning process takes less than six months, an alarming 40% report that it takes longer with 30% stating it’s more than nine months.

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3 Functions Within Life Cycles of an Organization

Ron Edmondson

There are life cycles of every organization. Over time an organization will likely have many separate cycles. But I have also observed another dynamic within life cycles. In each life cycle, the most successful organizations I have been a part of had a team skilled at three separate functions. The three functions within life cycles are: Starters Starting involves those who can dream, vision-cast, and recruit people to follow a new idea or initiative.

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How Do You Determine Your Leadership Brand? (+Template)

Niagara Institute

Whether intentionally crafted or not, every leader has a brand. We can all reflect on different leaders and, for better or worse, the brands they portrayed, like the visionary, hot head, or coach. Your leadership brand is how people talk about you when you leave the room, and that’s far too important to leave up to chance.

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The HR Leader’s Survival Guide

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.

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Emergency healthcare in crisis: how managers can help services back to their feet

Chartered Management Institute

Blog: Emergency healthcare in crisis: how managers can help services back to their feet Written by Michael Malpas CMgr FCMI MCPara Thursday 11 January 2024 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email The ongoing decline of the UK’s emergency healthcare provision may leave its managers feeling powerless. But there’s plenty you can do on a local level to make a real difference Healthcare professionals have been under a great deal of pressure of late, but there are th

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How Companies Can Support Employees Experiencing Menopause

Harvard Business Review

Demographic change, driven by decades of low birth rates and increased longevity, is remaking labor markets and economies worldwide at an astonishing pace. That means that organizations need to quickly shift how they recruit and retain employees of all ages, including by developing new policies and benefits. Organizations that take employee well-being seriously realize early on that getting ahead of conditions like menopause reduces an incredible burden on their workforce and can improve the bot

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Sleepless in Silicon Valley: What Keeps CEOs Up At Night

HR Digest

Amidst the complexities of leadership challenges, the unique insights contributed by Anthony Horton, Stephanie Neal, and Chris McCarthy add a compelling layer to the unfolding narrative. Their astute observations on the dynamics between employers and employees, influenced by demographic shifts and economic fluctuations, resonate in the turbulent aftermath of the COVID-19 era.

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Understanding the Tradeoffs of the Amazon Antitrust Case

Harvard Business Review

Regulators in the United States and Europe have been taking on Big Tech, challenging what they say are the companies’ anti-competitive and predatory strategies that harm consumers and third-party users of their platforms. This article examines the FTC’s case against Amazon and explores the economic arguments in favor of and against each of the agency’s key claims.

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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 Lead Across a Siloed Organization

Harvard Business Review

Many leaders learned how to navigate vertical hierarchies — but not how to collaborate with peers who have different agendas, motivations, and priorities.