Fri.Nov 04, 2022

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John C. Maxwell on Vision

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Born in Garden City, MI, John C. Maxwell is one of the most celebrated experts on leadership. Pastoring churches in Florida, California, Ohio, and Indiana throughout his career, Maxwell has authored dozens of books, selling more than 20 million copies and publishing in more than 50 languages. As a New York Times Best Selling author, his books like The 360 Leader , The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader , and Developing the Leaders Around You have inspired millions of leaders and professional

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How Tobii Dynavox Tech Helped One Woman Keep Her Voice After ALS Took It Away

Forbes Leadership

Brown said it’s “amazing” that she could write an entire book only using her eyes, while a non-verbal autistic person can use a tablet like an iPad to communicate with others in innovative ways.

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6 Ways to Show Appreciation for Veteran Employees and Contractors

Zenefits

Veterans Day arrives every year on November 11. That day is set aside to honor those people who proudly served our country. Veterans Day is just 1 day out of 365 calendar days. While it’s set aside to honor veterans, that doesn’t mean it is the only day we can celebrate those brave individuals. To increase job satisfaction among those who have faithfully served in even the hardest of times, it’s essential to honor them every day, not just the day that is set aside on the calendar to celebrate.

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Four Ways Leaders Can Sustain Strategic Success

Chief Executive

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high, and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” — Michelangelo. Success at last! You identified a threat or opportunity, led your dream team to confirm your insights and intuitions about the future, brought in a critical team of focused experts to shape the dream into a viable project, and then pitched it until approved by your board and financial backers.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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WOMAN Corp, The First and Only ‘Woman’ In America With Rights The Government Will Protect

Forbes Leadership

Ahead of this year’s midterm elections where the future of women’s rights will be on the ballot, the ERA Coalition announces the launch of the fully incorporated WOMAN Corp, the FIRST and ONLY ‘woman’ in America with rights the government will fight to protect.

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12 Power Questions that Set a Positive Tone for Meetings

Leadership Freak

A negative tone treats people like tools and results like gods. Positive energy fuels performance. Skillful leaders set a positive tone. Negative energy feels like swamp-walking.

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The inside story of how Figma made FigJam—and changed how we brainstorm forever

Asana

When Figma CEO Dylan Field gave his keynote at Config , the company’s annual design conference in April 2021, he took the opportunity to restate a core value. More than a year after Covid-19 sent millions into physical isolation, Field’s message carried new gravity: “Nothing great is made alone.” During his 22-minute presentation , he revealed that nine-year-old Figma was debuting a new product called FigJam.

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Support Of Human Rights In Iran Is A Global Obligation - Now!

Forbes Leadership

The Islamic Republic of Iran authorities are openly and indiscriminately killing its own citizens - men, women, and children for the simple act of protesting for their freedom from oppression and tyranny. It's time for every global citizen to stand up for human rights in Iran. And the time is now.

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10 Questions Superbosses Ask Themselves

Eric Jacobson

Here are ten questions (or bundles of questions) you should ask yourself to ensure you are thinking and acting like a superboss. These are from Sydney Finkelstein 's book, Superbosses. Do you have a specific vision for your work that energizes you, and that you use to energize and inspire your team? How often do people leave your team to accept a bigger offer elsewhere?

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15 Lessons Agency Pros Learned From Interesting Client Challenges

Forbes Leadership

When a client makes a unique or unusual request of their agency marketing partner, there are important lessons to be learned—whether or not the agency chooses to take it on.

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Change Management 101: A Practical 3 Part Guide

Implementing new tools or business processes in your organization? Lemon Learning put together a practical 3 part guide to prevent the pitfalls of change management. Drive a successful change management project from diagnosis through to measurement.

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it’s your Friday good news

Alison Green

This post, it’s your Friday good news , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s your Friday good news! 1. “I’ve been a religious reader of your blog since I finished my PhD and stumbled into the ‘real’ world more than a decade ago. Without your advice I’m not sure I would have: 1) applied for a UK Civil Service job that had 3000 applicants for 5 available posts, 2) made it past assorted screenings and assessments and interviews (at both of which I received a lot o

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14 Tips For Agencies Planning End-Of-Year PTO Amid Continuing Client Work

Forbes Leadership

To ensure everyone working on client projects can take a well-deserved break when they need to without causing delays or introducing other issues, each agency develops its own process for end-of-year vacation planning.

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weekend open thread – November 5-6, 2022

Alison Green

This post, weekend open thread – November 5-6, 2022 , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. Here are the rules for the weekend posts. Book recommendation of the week: These Precious Days: Essays , by Ann Patchett.

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CAULIPOWER’s Gail Becker Has Set Out To Fix Frozen Meals With Healthy One-Pan Wonders

Forbes Leadership

CAULIPOWER launches new frozen meals made in Italy with premium quality ingredients including Cauliflower Gnocchi with Savory Pesto, to Spinach Gnocchi with Tuscan-Style Marinara, and Cauliflower Penne Pomodoro.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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How Bullying Manifests at Work — and How to Stop It

Harvard Business Review

It’s a systemic problem that requires systemic solutions.

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The Human Side Of Innovation: Key Traits Of True Innovators And Innovative Organizations

Forbes Leadership

Today, innovation is a more urgent need than it was 20 or so years ago because products and brands that don’t fulfill people’s desires are likely to fail. Now, companies must change gears and build a holistic culture of innovation in-house, integrated in their genetic code.

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How Fossil Fuel Divestment Falls Short

Harvard Business Review

Selling these assets allows someone else to operate them — exactly the opposite of what’s intended.

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What You Can Learn From How Elon Musk Is Derailing Inclusion Efforts At Twitter

Forbes Leadership

Elon Musk is implementing massive people changes at Twitter. These changes have impacted the culture and DEI efforts. Here are 3 challenges for Twitter and 3 inclusion opportunities organizations can learn from.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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To Sustain DEI Momentum, Companies Must Invest in 3 Areas

Harvard Business Review

Findings from an analysis of 48 companies across 16 industries.

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Four Universities Have Launched $500 Million Capital Campaigns In October

Forbes Leadership

In a period of just one month, four universities have revealed plans to launch $500 million comprehensive capital campaigns. It’s another indication that despite some strong economic headwinds, universities - both pubic and private - are continuing to pursue ever-more ambitious fundraising goals.

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Top 15 Professional Goals and Ways to Achieve Them

BetterUp

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How Getting Data Ethics Right Improves Business Outcomes

Forbes Leadership

Every industry recognizes the potential data analysis has to improve business performance. However, with this powerful tool comes a responsibility for each organization to not only use data to their advantage but to also use it in a way that is ethical for all parties involved.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

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Charismatic Leadership 101: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Differences

Niagara Institute

When you need to convince people, overcome resistance, or inspire action, there’s one leadership style that stands out among the rest: charismatic leadership. Charismatic leaders are charming, influential, dynamic, confident, and persuasive. They make their employees, leaders, coworkers, and customers feel like the goal at hand is achievable, even if they face an upwards battle.

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Riddhiman Das Creates TrippleBlind To Solve Data Privacy Challenge

Forbes Leadership

Rhiddhiman Das, co-founder and CEO who along with co-founder Greg Storm founded the Kansas City, Missouri-based Trippleblind in 2019, believes his company’s software created the most complete and scalable solution for privacy enhancing computation.

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Will SMBs Thrive or Fail in this Inflation-Threatened Holiday Season? Here’s What Reports Show

Zenefits

It’s November. And your business is probably already gearing up for the holidays. If you have reservations about how well promotions and sales will do during this holiday’s inflation-threatened season, you have every reason to feel uncertain. The holiday season — usually retailers’ most profitable time of the year — could be financially troublesome for businesses in 2022.

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Need Resources Or Inspiration To Hit The Polls This Month? Influencers Can Help

Forbes Leadership

Organizations are commissioning your favorite influencer to herd young voters to the poles. Plus, a deeper dive into three Under 30 listers.

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Does Your Employee Development Program Touch All the Bases?

Zenefits

Does your company have an employee development program? This type of program focuses on the progress of the individual over time, while an employee training program is designed to teach employees specific skills in a set amount of time. A company can create an employee development program as a stand-alone effort or as part of a larger training and development initiative.

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How The Best Employees Influence Without Authority To Get Things Done

Forbes Leadership

Have you ever wondered why some people have more influence than others? It is because they invest more in relationships with others. Those with the most influence almost always have the strongest relationships.

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How a Career Lattice Can Help Employees Grow

Zenefits

Today’s workplaces?differ from those of years past. Why? One reason is the concept of the career lattice — it’s catching on. Beyond even the ever-more-common ability to work from home, team members are fueling their?career growth? in ways that are much different than those that had come before. Instead of choosing to move only into roles that are promotions, many team members these days move laterally, across departments.?

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Winter Is Coming, Here’s How To Weather A Recession

Forbes Leadership

There’s little doubt that tough times may lie ahead, however there is much optimism to be found in the fact that many small and medium sized businesses have been around for generations.

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Ukraine War Provides Leadership Lessons From The Battlefront

Chief Executive

If Ukraine ultimately defeats or stalemates Russia’s invasion, it will be because the nation’s leadership has successfully applied some lessons that are common to good leadership in most every situation—including corporate captainship. Dan Rice has been a special advisor to General Valeriy Zaluzhny, commander in chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, and the former U.S.

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Introverted Leaders Have Some Surprising Advantages

Forbes Leadership

One of the most cliched leadership attributes is that of the extroverted, eloquent, take-charge executive. Yet, while the extroverted executive is a pillar of business lore, the reality is that, sometimes, introverted executives deliver better performance.

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