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7 Light-Weight Leadership Practices that Deliver Heavy-Weight Results

Leadership Freak

Tiny is huge. “Manny” Yarborough held the Guinness World Record for the heaviest living athlete. He exceeded 800 pounds before his death in 2015.

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The Duality of Leadership: Illuminating the Way While Casting Shadow

Lead from Within

Leadership is a complex and multifaceted concept that involves both illuminating the way, while casting shadow along the way. On the one hand, leaders are responsible for guiding others towards success. They inspire and motivate others to achieve great things, and they provide the light that illuminates the path forward. However, leadership also involves casting shadows.

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How Will Generative AI Disrupt Video Platforms?

Harvard Business Review

The technology will change what content is produced, how it’s produced, and who it’s shown to.

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Powerful Phrases to Deal With a Credit Stealer or Idea Thief

Let's Grow Leaders

Stop that Credit Stealer and Get the Recognition You Deserve “I was in a meeting the other day, and one of the executives thanked my boss for the success of a project I’ve been working on all year. And you know what she said next? Thank you. I was sitting right there. She took ALL THE CREDIT! The really infuriating thing is that she had NOTHING to do with that project.

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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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Leading Thoughts for March 16, 2023

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. Ritch Eich on natural born leaders: “Too often we hear things such as ‘he (or she) is a natural-born leader.’ A person may, indeed, have the make-up, temperament, patience, and vision to lead, but without the right attitude, experience, approach, and training, that individual’s ‘knack’ for leadership doesn’t translate into real leadership.

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What To Focus On When Starting a New Job: Role Integration

CoachStation

Starting a new job can be an exciting and nerve-wracking experience. You want to make a good impression and set yourself up for success in your new role. There are many unknowns and even fears leading up to your first day. Your success and satisfaction depends on numerous factors, many of which you can influence and control. Does onboarding and early support really matter?

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Authentic Leadership with Sean Georges and John Buford

Let's Grow Leaders

If you aspire to embody authentic leadership across all spectrums of your life, this episode is for you. Sean Georges and John Buford, are two former marine officers with a combined 80 years of leadership experience in military, business, nonprofit, and education. Sean and John share a simple but powerful servant leadership model with a focus on mission, and practical, fundamental, and timeless leadership concepts designed to help you understand what it means to lead in an authentic way.

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Culture Rules

Leading Blog

B UILDING a high-performance culture is like setting the rules of a game, says Mark Miller in Culture Rules: The Leader’s Guide to Creating the Ultimate Competitive Advantage. If you don’t “play” the organization will make up their own rules which can and will have unintended consequences. Culture is “a place, physical or virtual, where you set the parameters in which people work.

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Integration and Maximising Opportunities When Starting a New Job

CoachStation

Starting a new job can be an exciting and nerve-wracking experience. You want to make a good impression and set yourself up for success in your new role. There are many unknowns and even fears leading up to your first day. Your success and satisfaction depends on numerous factors, many of which you can influence and control. Does onboarding and early support really matter?

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How to Tell When It’s Time to Resign From Your Leadership Position

Lead from Within

Leaders are passionate about what they do and take pride in their ability to guide and inspire others to achieve great things. However, effective leadership also involves knowing when it is time to step down and make room for new leadership. While it can be difficult to let go of a leadership position, it’s sometimes necessary in order to allow the organization to evolve and grow.

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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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The #1 Thing Bad Bosses Teach Good People

Leadership Freak

A bad boss is a blindfolded monkey splashing poison. If you haven’t had a bad boss, you probably will. Blindfolded moneys are lethal.

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Outsource Your Project Management To Handle These Big Projects

Tanveer Naseer

Project managers help get things done. They manage people and processes to complete big tasks that require multiple stakeholders across more than one department. Whether it’s a branding project or a software transition, these are best done with a project manager taking the lead. Nowadays there are more options than.

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Building an Ethical Culture (Part 4)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethical Culture is a System of Systems Don’t assume that an ethical culture will just happen in your workplace. Even if you are a good leader, ethical culture is a delicate thing, requiring intentional positive leadership and daily tending. It requires more than good leadership, more than trust building, and more than good hiring.

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How to Support and Encourage Employees Who Outshine Their Leader

Lead from Within

As a leader, it’s important to support and encourage your team members, even when they start to outshine you. This can be challenging, as it can bring up feelings of insecurity or competitiveness. However, by embracing their success and using it as an opportunity to learn and grow. As a result, you can create a positive and supportive work environment that benefits everyone.

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5 Ways to Improve DE&I in the Workplace

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical for an organization’s success. And companies that take bold action to help ensure an inclusive workplace will win every time. Discover how your company can create a culture that celebrates DE&I while achieving higher revenue and growth.

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Let go – 4 Remedies for Exhausted Control Freaks

Leadership Freak

My wife thinks I’m a control freak. I reject this spectacular exaggeration. It’s true I can’t let go of control, but I’m no freak about it.

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10 Tips When Choosing Corporate Giveaways For Your Employees

Tanveer Naseer

Around 69% of employees will work harder if their efforts are better appreciated, according to TinyPulse. To boost company loyalty and morale, many companies turn to corporate giveaways, often without considering what gifts will resonate with their recipients. Common giveaways like mugs, pens, and calendars are an easy way to.

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Low-Skilled Immigrants Don’t Affect Native Workers

The Horizons Tracker

In a recent article, I wrote about the value of low-skilled immigration to a country, and that it would be a mistake to assume that only high-skilled immigration is important. A common argument against low-skilled immigration is that it produces an influx of labor that competes against low-skilled natives. Research from Dartmouth highlights how mistaken this view is.

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Why is Collaboration Difficult For Some Leaders and How to Make it Easier

Lead from Within

Effective collaboration is essential for leaders in today’s fast-paced, competitive business environment. When leaders work together with their team, they can achieve greater productivity, creativity, and teamwork. However, some leaders still find it difficult to collaborate effectively. Here are four common challenges leaders face and how they can overcome them: Not wanting to give up control: Some leaders find it difficult to let go of control.

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No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results

Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.

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Working From Home isn’t Working

Leadership Freak

Working from home and productivity. “In-person time helps build relationships and get more done.” Mark Zuckerberg In the last six months Meta has effectively cut about 30% of its workforce.

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World’s Most Influential and Innovative Companies, 2023

CEO Insider

Which companies have the strongest reputations within and across industries? That’s the question at the heart of the CEOWORLD 200 Most Influential and Innovative Companies, an annual ranking of corporate reputation based on a poll of some 125,000 global corporate executives, company directors (or equivalent), business leaders, private equity investors, investment bankers, and financial analysts […] The post World’s Most Influential and Innovative Companies, 2023 appeared first on CEO

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How Crises Affect Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

The Covid pandemic had a significant impact on innovation in healthcare, but there are signs that the changes might be proving short-lived. For instance, investment in medtech startups halved during 2022 compared to 2021. A recent study suggests, however, that the collaborative and open approach to innovation that came to the fore during the pandemic might have a better chance of enduring.

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Regularly Ask Your Employees These Six Questions

Eric Jacobson

As explained in John Baldoni 's, book, Lead With Purpose , Marshall Goldsmith suggests all leaders make it a habit to regularly ask their employees these six questions : Where do you think we should be going? Where do you think you and your part of the business should be going? What do you think you're doing well? If you were the leader, what ideas would you have for you?

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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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Master Your Inner Critic

Leadership Freak

I met a leader in California who said he didn’t have a loud inner critic. I think he was smoking weed. We talk to ourselves all the time. It’s normal.

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Do You Want to Be Heard or Understood?

Frank Sonnenberg Online

Did you ever attend a party where one person dominates the conversation? They think they’re on stage, performing for an audience. Similarly, have you ever attended a meeting where one person rambles on and on and on? I assume they’re trying to make a point, but for the life of me, I can’t figure out what. I wonder whether they’re trying to deliver a message or just want to hear themselves talk.

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When Looking At Digital Skills, Don’t Forget The Basics

The Horizons Tracker

At the recent INNOVEIT event in Brussels, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology launched its Deep Tech Talent Initiative , which aims to provide a million people across the EU with the skills required to function in the deep tech sector in the coming years. This sector is characterized by technology that is based on tangible engineering innovation or scientific advances and discoveries. “Fostering, attracting, and retaining deep tech talents is crucial to enable the green and

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5 Steps to Develop Your First Communications Plan

Women on Business

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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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The El A Mecoeo Red Cloak SelfInterest

Persuasive Powerhouse

During the campaign of Cambyses in Egypt, a great many Greeks visited that country for one reason or another some, as was to be expected, for trade, some to serve in the army, others, no doubt, out of mere curiosity, to see what they could see. Amongst the sightseers was Aeaces's son Sylo-son, the exiled brother of Polycrates of Samos.

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What if the future of our businesses depends upon our ability to be un-business-like?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Why are memorial services celebrating the life of a loved one who has passed always convened around candlelight, music, and poetry and not around bright lights, PowerPoint presentations and spreadsheets? Today’s guest post is by Dr. Robert H. Lengel, author of A Place For T: Giving Voice To The Tortoise In Our Hare-Brained World (CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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Are Green Jobs Inclusive Enough?

The Horizons Tracker

A recent report from the University of Oxford found that transitioning to a net zero economy could be worth at least $12 trillion by 2050. A big part of this is the green jobs that could be created, but a recent report from RAND Europe questions whether disadvantaged groups are being brought along on this journey and capitalizing on the green job opportunities.

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5 Steps to Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing for Small Businesses

Women on Business

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The First 90 Days: Onboarding Checklist

While onboarding, don’t let yourself get caught up in administrative details. Automate paperwork & training so new hires can focus on the business at hand from day one. Get Paycor’s checklist to see where your company can make HR process improvements.