Leadership Freak

JANUARY 3, 2025

Feed me! Feed me! Feed me! Bad habits scream for attention like hungry babies. When you break a bad habit, you wrestle to quiet self-defeating comforts. Unhealthy practices are bondage-makers. The longer you do them, the easier they become. Bad habits aren't defeated. Here's what to do instead.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 3, 2025

When Everyone Leads , by Ed OMalley and Julia Fabris McBride , presents a revolutionary approach to leadership; not based on position or authority, but an activity that anybody can undertake by learning to spot opportunities for improvement and taking the initiative to engage others. It can be unfamiliar and uncomfortable, but in a culture where everyone leads, organizations start to make progress on their most difficult problems, explain the authors.

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Books Learning-by-Doing Short-term Letter 65

HR Digest

JANUARY 3, 2025

Need some tips to improve your managers performance at work so your organization can start the year on a high note? Helping managers thrive is in every companys best interest and happy managers mean happy workers overall. Managers play a key role in any employee’s experience on the job. A manager who is able to explain tasks properly or provide appropriate guidance to employees can ultimately provide the workers with the basic tools they need to get the job right.

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Skills Tips Management Resources 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2025

Corporate executives often use war metaphors like declaring war on the competition to project strength and confidence in their strategies. Research reveals that these aggressive metaphors may provoke negative reactions from a critical audience: financial analysts. After analyzing nearly 1,000 acquisition announcements, the authors find that war-related language tends to trigger negative reactions from analysts, who see it as a sign of excessive risk.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2025

A new study suggests that employers overestimate how informed employees feel when they agree to policies, contracts, and even extra tasks at work — which can result in disengagement and turnover.

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Policies Information Ethics Article 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2025

Don’t get blamed for their unreliability.

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