Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 5, 2024

Don’t assume your team knows just because you told them Magical thinking means you assume your team knows what you know. For example, you might think that explaining a task once is enough and everyone will understand and execute it perfectly. Of course, your team might not get it. It’s your job to ensure expectations are clear. How Magical Thinking Leads to Workplace Conflict Think about any significant conflict you’ve been a part of.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 5, 2024

S AY you have a manufacturing location with problems — three plant managers in two years, unusual variation in quality and/or safety, seemingly unpredictable swings in productivity. The options senior leadership considers may be to sell it, give it a defined period to show or go, or take on the task of rehabilitation. Leadership may wonder whether this is essentially a culture problem or whether poor performance itself creates what looks like one.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 5, 2024

As an executive leadership coach, I’ve had countless conversations with employees about their deepest fears and concerns in the workplace. These fears can keep them up at night, causing stress, anxiety, and decreased productivity. It’s essential for leaders to understand and address these fears to create a supportive and thriving work environment.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2024

The transition towards renewable energy sources has become a global imperative. With growing concerns over climate change and the depletion of fossil fuels, the focus is now on sustainable solutions that can power our economies without compromising the environment. Renewable energy systems, such as solar, wind, and hydropower, are at the forefront of this movement.

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Kate Nasser

AUGUST 5, 2024

If you still doubt that your attitude & outlook matter, embrace the phrase 'outlook output'. Why & how from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, Author, Leading Morale. The post Outlook Output: How Exactly Attitude Matters #LeadMorale #Leadership appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 5, 2024

More people are using the internet to work together on solving problems or creating new things. But not all online groups collaborate well. A study from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business looked at how computer-generated hints, or “nudges,” can help teams work better together. The results showed that these nudges had different levels of success in improving teamwork.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 5, 2024

New research from The University of Texas at Austin shows that bosses can help their workers handle time disruptions better. With work becoming more global and spread across different time zones, disruptions to the usual schedule are increasing. These disruptions aren’t just a hassle—they can actually cost businesses money by causing health issues, more mistakes, and lower productivity.

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 5, 2024

The American Psychological Association’s (APA) 2024 Work in America survey, which gathered responses from various industries and job roles, revealed that 15% of respondents described their workplace as somewhat or very toxic. The survey also highlighted a significant disconnect between employers’ perceptions and the actual mental health conditions of their work environments.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2024

All careers have highs and lows, and scope reductions can be particularly challenging. You may feel like immediately handing in your resignation or retreating and disengaging. It’s natural, but neither response is helpful. Your manager and coworkers are watching how you respond, making it even more critical to approach this difficult situation with composure and pragmatism.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2024

Image recognition apps have come a long way from their early days. Thanks to deep learning and AI, these image recognition tools can now do more than just generally categorize images based on their topic. Now they can help match images to exact duplicates. This can make it easy to search by images, find similar options, or even find the original source of an image.

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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

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2024

Many efforts to build an AI ethics program miss an important fact: ethics differ from one cultural context to the next. Ideas about right and wrong in one culture may not translate to a fundamentally different context, and even when there is alignment, there may well be important differences in the ethical reasoning at work — cultural norms, religious tradition, etc. — that need to be taken into account.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 5, 2024

The new book, The Venture Mindset , is all about how to make smarter bets and achieve extraordinary growth. The authors, Ilya Strebulaev and Alex Dang , explain that if any company wants to win big in competitive times, they need to think differently. They need to think like a venture capitalist (VC). “This book teaches you to spot new opportunities, nurture the right talent, foster a culture of innovation, and take calculated risks,” say Strebulaev and Dang.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2024

Sponsor content from Ministry of Culture.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 5, 2024

Currently, academic freedom is lacking for 3.6 billion people, or 45.5% of the world’s population. The state of academic freedom globally, as revealed by the 2024 Update of the Academic Freedom Index (AFI) , crafted by the University of Gothenburg and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), is reminiscent of conditions from fifty years ago in 1973, despite a peak in 2006.

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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.

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