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TED Talks for Managers: 7 Lessons You Can Apply

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Whether it's great blogs or books, the written word is a powerful way to convey the lessons and insights crucial to leadership. 1) "What makes us feel good about our work?" 1) "What makes us feel good about our work?" So what do you do instead? 3) "Why we do what we do" by Tony Robbins. by Dan Ariely.

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Lighthouse Leadership Weekly #50: High Agency, the Best Book to Plan Your year, and more.

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What a start to the year. To get this sent to your inbox every week, along with our latest long form essays on this blog, you can sign up here. They expect people around them to ask for permission before doing anything, and usually pick apart anyone's plan that doesn't look like exactly what they believe should be done.

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How To Handle Toxic Employees?

Vantage Circle

The Procrastinator - The one who always says, "I will do it tomorrow." Before firing, the manager should go to the individual and understand the root cause of his or her behavior. You should talk out all the details and explain how that behavior causes difficulties for others in the workplace.

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Perseverance and Persistence – #MTtalk Roundup

Mind Tools Strategy

I couldn’t leave him alone even for a few minutes because I never knew what he would get up to. More than once I just sat on the stairs and cried, and asked Kaiser, and myself, what I had gotten into. What made it so difficult? In times when you felt like giving up, what helped you to persevere? Feeling Overwhelmed.

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My Work-From-Home Mistakes

Mike Griffiths

Hey look, an old digital camera…I wonder, what is on the memory card? I am confident my procrastination, short attention span, and penchant for anything but work were as bad as it gets. I was so frustrated at my lack of focus and inability to get work done that I treated researching the cause and solution as a project.

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Being a Good New Manager Is Not Magic

LSA Global

Good managers have the courage to do what’s right even when the right decision causes discomfort. Managers don’t have the luxury of procrastination. Do what you need to do when it’s time to do it. Don’t give in to the easy or more popular decision just to avoid controversy. When It’s Appropriate. When It’s Time.

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How to write more

Andrew Chen

So then my workflow is to open up this note with a bunch of bullets, each one a headline for a post, and then decide what to pick from Let yourself write small You should allow yourself to write things that are both big and small. leads to procrastination and restricts experimenting with styles 3. It helps a lot.