"There is a greater group we belong to: the human family.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
The Only 3 Things That Matter if You Want to Be an Entrepreneur
The Entrepreneur Insiders network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in America’s startup scene contribute answers to timely questions about entrepreneurship and careers.
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Sunday, November 27, 2016
The 5 Most Underappreciated Skills of Millennial Workers
Whether or not you hold a favorable opinion of Millennials, the fact of the matter is that they have surpassed Gen Xers as the largest generation in the U.S. labor force and now make up more than one third of the workforce.
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Saturday, November 26, 2016
Lessons in Leadership: The 5-Step Method to Working Quickly (Without Losing Quality)
Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman are CEO and president, respectively, of Zenger/Folkman, a leadership development consultancy. They're also co-authors of the book Speed: How Leaders Accelerate Successful Execution.
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Thursday, November 24, 2016
Leadership Lessons
UPDATE: The US President-elect exemplifies the charismatic leader, which is not necessarily a good thing....
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016
4 Secrets to Learning Anything, According to Neuroscience
The future of work is all about innovation and agility. We have to be prepared for ever-changing circumstances, and that means being open to learning new things. Learning is no longer something we just do in schools.
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Sunday, November 20, 2016
Stop Measuring Employee Engagement
I know this sounds drastic from someone who has a personal mission statement of helping people to "discover the hero within", who wrote a book on the Art of Engagement, and who has said many times "the things that get measured get done".
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Saturday, November 19, 2016
3 Personality Traits That Make Successful CEOs So Outstanding
Read enough articles about top-of-their-game CEOs like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and Richard Branson, and you start to see a few common threads. It makes you wonder: Do certain personality traits make some CEOs more successful than others? Yes, but not the ones you might think.
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It’s Time for Interns to Stop Hating on Coffee Runs
The Leadership Insiders network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in business contribute answers to timely questions about careers and leadership. Today’s answer to the question, “How do you turn an internship into a full-time job?” is written by .
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Friday, November 18, 2016
How to Lead with Authenticity
Winning leaders are accessible and authentic. That formula for leadership success has not changed in 25 years. Here are some current examples and steps you can take to step up your leadership game.
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3 Tips for Being a Truly Great Leader
The MPW Insiders Network is an online community where the biggest names in business and beyond answer timely career and leadership questions. Today’s answer for: “What’s the key to great leadership?” is written by Tonya Love, integration and operations executive at Xerox Services.
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7 Ways Millennial Women Can Build Their Brand and Own Their Future--Now!
Being conscientious and intentional about your impact on the world today--and your legacy in the future--requires you to be aware of how others currently view your brand. This is especially the case for Millennial women, who are in the early years of their careers.
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How to Deal With the Elephant in the Room
Are there conversations that no one wants to discuss or obvious truths that are going unaddressed? Well, maybe there is an elephant in the room.
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Thursday, November 17, 2016
Power Sheet
You’ve got to wonder what George H.W. Bush thinks of this presidential race. You can wonder, but he won’t tell us, a reticence that may be one reason the 41st president is lately being reevaluated in a distinctly kinder, gentler way.
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How Apple Works: Inside the World’s Biggest Startup
Apple doesn’t often fail, and when it does, it isn’t a pretty sight at 1 Infinite Loop.
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The 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials
Rankings for the 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials are based entirely upon employees' own feedback and selected from a database of more than 600 organizations that have been certified by Great Place to Work.
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What I Learned From Leading a Mission With Little Combat Experience
The Leadership Insiders network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in business contribute answers to timely questions about careers and leadership.
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Easy Ways to Make Work More Fun
The Entrepreneur Insiders network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in America’s startup scene contribute answers to timely questions about entrepreneurship and careers.
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6 Dumb Things Managers Do to Drive Away Talent
I often hear managers complaining about losing their best people, and I don't blame them. Turnover is costly and disruptive.
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The 7 Ways Great Leaders Inspire Their Teams
I've had my fair share of bosses throughout my career. In the corporate world, they were mostly conditioned to manage by fear, which was a product of the toxic company cultures that existed. Their go to motivational tactic was to constantly threaten people with their jobs.
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6 Tony Robbins Life Hacks That Will Help You Become a Better Entrepreneur
By Kristopher Jones, founder and CEO of LSEO.com. When in search for the ultimate life coach for everything from business leadership to controlling our own destiny, Tony Robbins is the undisputed master.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016
27 Books These Successful Executives Say Inspired Them the Most
Whether you flip pages, tap an e-reader or listen to audio, a good book can be a perfect companion, relaxation aid or source of inspiration. Check out these quotes from more than two dozen executives who name their favorite book and explain why it's worth your attention.
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EdTech 10: Leadership Lessons
Wow, what an election season! It made many of us consider the attributes of leadership we admire most.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Why Leaders Shouldn't Always Seek Consensus
Consensus decision-making is often touted as a panacea for what ails a business by increasing employee participation and engagement. But, like most things in business and in life, too much of a good thing can actually do more harm than good.
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Monday, November 14, 2016
10 Communication Habits of Extraordinary Leaders
Successful companies result from more than a good idea at the right time. If you look behind the best companies in the world, you'll see a great leader. This is why investors commonly say they invest in the founder more than the idea itself.
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7 Bad Habits That Will Severely Jeopardize Your Career in Business
Are you a career-minded business professional waiting impatiently for that appointment to a leadership position, so you can begin demonstrating your real leadership ability?
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21 Ways to Be a Better Leader
It doesn't matter if you are running a business, managing a team, or teaching a class--leadership skills are important. Some people seem to be born knowing what to do to inspire and lead people, but for most of us it doesn't come that naturally.
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Why America’s Veterans Make the Best Entrepreneurs
The men and women who serve our country are some of the most trusted individuals in American society. Notably, 73% of citizens have confidence in the military, the highest rated institution in the U.S., according to this Gallup poll. The military serves our country with honor and distinction.
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Sunday, November 13, 2016
5 Great Reasons Why You Should Get an Executive Coach
Executive coaching was not something I ever saw myself either signing up for, as I was always of the impression that only poor performers or under performers needed coaching and I never saw myself in that category.
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Saturday, November 12, 2016
3 Ways to Create Visions that People will Fight For
I remember a conversation I once had with a leader of a health system about her vision for the future of health care for her system. She made a comment I will never forget. She said, "The only difference between a vision and a hallucination is the number of people that see it.
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3 Important Leadership Lessons You Can Learn From One Very Weird Election
If you stayed up to watch the results of yesterday's presidential election, it's a night you'll likely remember for a long time. Everyone--perhaps even Donald Trump himself--started the evening expecting Hillary Clinton to win the election. And everyone was wrong.
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Want to Succeed as a Leader? Talent And Skills Alone Won't Do It (but This Will)
People are hired for strengths in areas where they are talented, experienced, and gifted, so goes conventional wisdom.
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Leadership lessons: Your teachers are everywhere
If you want to become a better leader, you can start right where you are. You don’t need to get permission from your organization. You don’t need to go away to a two-day certification program, and you don’t need to study the eight-week course online.
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8 Essential Leadership Traits You Need to Thrive in Today's Uncertain Economy
There's a lot of insecurity in the working world these days. Artificial intelligence and automation are threatening to replace humans in fields that once seemed secure. Mass lay-offs continue at some of the world's most iconic companies.
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Friday, November 11, 2016
5 Questions (and "Answers") to Increase Your Leadership Confidence Now
I was working with a brilliant business leader last week on her leadership impact with her team. She's smart, huge heart, highly talented, and wicked quick (I'm heading to Boston right now as I type -- excuse me while I get my "Boston" geared up).
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Yes, Donald Trump Won. Here’s How to Talk About It at Work
So, now we know. “This is Brexit squared,” wrote Time Inc.’s Chief Content Officer Alan Murray in his CEO Daily newsletter. “Angry American voters rose up and walloped the establishment, handing the U.S.
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Thursday, November 10, 2016
How to Talk Money in a Job Interview
Talking salary with a hiring manager during your job search can feel awkward. It seems like there's never a right time or place to broach the subject.
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5 Signs You're CEO Material
Are CEOs born or made? According to entrepreneur-turned-top-venture-capitalist Ben Horowitz, most of the tricky skills needed to excel are only drummed into leaders through years of experience.
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One of California's Largest Employers Is Banning Soda, and Hopes Other Businesses Will Too
Three cities in California and one in Colorado are voting on whether to tax sugary drinks on Tuesday, but one of the Golden State's largest employers couldn't wait for election results to come in.
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