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The Link Between Thought Leadership and Entrepreneurs | Mary Cronin

Peter Winick

Founders over 50 are building better companies. An interview with Mary Cronin about the similarities between thought leadership and entrepreneurship. What is the relationship between thought leadership and entrepreneurship? Both are forward-thinking problem solvers who know that passion and vision can take you far! To dig deeper into the ways these two paths intersect , we sit down with Mary Cronin, a research professor at Boston College.

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One on One Meeting Questions Great Managers Ask Their Teams

Get Lighthouse

One on one meetings are a cornerstone to an effective manager <-> team member relationship, from small startups to giant companies. What you talk about, and the one on one meeting questions you ask, make all the difference in the performance of your team. It's why Andy Grove , the legendary founder of Intel and author of High Output Management , said this about one on ones: Over the past several years, I've spoken to thousands of managers.

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Why The Fed Needs To Crush The Economy And Job Market To Save Them

Forbes Leadership

The Federal Reserve Bank, the entity controlling the United States’ money supply, has to make the economy worse before it can get better. Fed chair Jerome Powell openly admits that the economy needs to be cooled down to fight inflation.

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Returning to Work as a Boomerang Employee

Refresh

The Great Resignation drove millions of workers to leave their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic but now, some workers are returning to the companies they left garnering the nickname “boomerang employees.” Employees returning to the jobs they quit or were let go from isn’t a new concept, but the trend is gaining traction. If you want to return to your old workplace, here are a few things to consider before accepting a boomerang offer.

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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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Stop Undervaluing Exceptional Women

Harvard Business Review

Researchers found that companies assume talented men will job hop to further their careers, while talented women will stay loyal.

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How More Reserved Employees Can Make Their Voices Heard

Forbes Leadership

Just because some employees are more reserved and listen respectfully to the thoughts and opinions of others doesn’t mean they don’t have their own thoughtful, often invaluable, insights and ideas to share.

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Cionic Unveils Bionic Clothing To Assist Patients With Walking Difficulties

Forbes Leadership

Cionic’s cutting-edge Neural Sleeve represents a first-of-its kind attempt to create bionic clothing to enhance the mobility of individuals with walking difficulties resulting from neurological illness or injury.

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Supporting LGBTQ+ Workers’ Mental Health

Harvard Business Review

A new report finds LGBTQ+ employees are more likely to face mental health challenges at work — but are also positioned to champion better policies for everyone.

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5 Simple Ways To Make Your Business More Welcoming To Disabled Customers

Forbes Leadership

If businesses want to benefit from doing the right thing, they must look beyond mere compliance … Here are five ways any business can start to create or improve on its accessibility, and offer a more welcoming environment for disabled customers.

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Psychographics: How To Use Brain-Level Insights to Improve Marketing

Chief Outsiders

As a marketer in the digital age, I am fortunate to have many tools at my disposal that make my job easier. Unfortunately, however, I still have no way to read minds (and that would be quite creepy, anyway) – but one could see how individual “brain-level” insights could have a stunningly positive impact on campaigns, revenues, and overall success. That’s because the Holy Grail for marketers is to understand not just the “who” is likely to buy, but the “why” behind the purchase.

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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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Avoiding Inequitable Remote Work Consequences For Diverse Employees

Forbes Leadership

Increases from 6.3% to 6.7% Latino and 3.9% to 4.9% Black Facebook employees between 2020 and 2022 are not sizeable enough to confirm that work location flexibility is a significant, sustainable solution to the tech industry’s longstanding diversity problem.

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How Financial Services Companies Can Navigate the Expected Economic Downturn

Chief Outsiders

Fears of a recession are widespread as we enter the second half of 2022. Even the whispers of economic depression have started their ascent into the mainstream. This month, J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told reporters that he still believes a storm of uncertain magnitude is coming for the economy. The risks, he said, "are nearer than they were before.

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The Company Transforming Seeweed Into Yarn And Other Upcyclers

Forbes Leadership

Plus, one company raised $125 million to bring kids into the metaverse and another is 3D printing for injured Ukrainians; this week in the land of young achievers.

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it’s your Friday good news

Alison Green

This post, it’s your Friday good news , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s your Friday good news! 1. “Sometimes bad news turns out to be good news. A few years ago I applied for my ‘dream job’: more pay, exactly in the specialism I want to work in, and in a city I’d like to live in. But I went into the interview overconfident and underprepared, didn’t answer their questions well, and didn’t get the job.

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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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15 Schedule-Syncing Tips To Meet Everyone’s Needs (Including Yours)

Forbes Leadership

To ensure a meaningful, fulfilling and productive experience in each of these areas—with clients, partners, shareholders, stakeholders, friends, family and loved ones (including oneself)—professionals need to master the art of syncing schedules.

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7 Rules for Persuasive Dissent

Harvard Business Review

A research-backed guide to challenging groupthink.

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New Apple TV+ Series ‘Best Foot Forward’ Tries Putting Its Best Foot Forward In More Ways Than One

Forbes Leadership

The show’s premise is based on the life of Josh Sundquist, a former Paralympian skier-turned-comedian who lost his left leg to cancer when he was 9 years old.

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Social Capital vs. Cultural Capital: Understand Their Role in the Workplace

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is social capital and what does it mean at work? What is the concept of cultural capital? The bottom line.

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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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In Dialogue: Diva Founder And CEO Carinne Chambers-Saini On Entrepreneurship And Fighting For Women’s Rights

Forbes Leadership

And now, with the overturning of Roe v. Wade and still-roiling arguments about access to reproductive care, we need more than ever to demystify our dear Aunt Flo. To that end, I sat down with Carinne Chambers-Saiani, Founder and CEO of Diva.

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What Is the Accountability Ladder? (+How Leaders Can Use It)

Niagara Institute

Every leader wants employees to take responsibility for their words, actions, and results - whether good or bad - yet 25% report that they feel this level of accountability is absent on their team. If you feel the same and could use extra support holding your employees accountable , then you need to know about the accountability ladder. In this article, we’ll review what it is exactly and how you can use it in your day-to-day life as a leader.

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16 Keys To Building A Summer Internship To Attract Full-Time Talent

Forbes Leadership

Done right, a summer internship program is a win-win, as interns get to learn about the company’s culture, operations and industry before they go on the job hunt, and the company can develop promising potential employees.

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Putting New Hires on Probation: Pros and Cons

Zenefits

In many cases, employment numbers seem to be rebounding, which means you may be bringing more new hires on board than you have in the last few years. When you consider the changes in the employment landscape, you might wonder if you should institute a new hire probationary period as part of your hiring process. There are typically 2 types of probation periods related to employment: A trial period to determine if an individual is a good fit for the position and the company.

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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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Black On The Block And Stefon Diggs Partner To Create A Unique Marketplace For Black-Owned Businesses

Forbes Leadership

Buffalo Bills wide receiver Stefon Diggs joined Washington D.C.’s first ever “Black on the Block” in an event aimed at uplifting Black-owned businesses.

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The Definitive List of City and State Leave Laws

Zenefits

Providing workers with time off from work to care for themselves and family members during times of illness was a high priority for many of the state legislatures before the advent of the coronavirus. This urgency for leave laws was sharpened by the global pandemic. Currently, only about one-fifth of the states offer paid family and medical leave. Less than half of the states provide paid sick leave.

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The Little Known Advantage of Introverts in Business

Forbes Leadership

It’s one of the most common fallacies in business: extroversion equates to rapid success and leadership, while introversion means inherent limitations to opportunity. Reality couldn’t be further from the truth. Read more.

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Types of Stressors: Where’s Your Stress From?

BetterUp

Jump to section. What are stressors? 7 types of stressors. 5 types of stressors in the workplace. 4 types of good stressorsz. What is the importance of knowing the different types of stressors? Moving forward: How can a coach help you to manage stress?

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Mindset Matters: Disability Pride And Revolutionizing The Function Of Employee Resource Groups

Forbes Leadership

This column explores the value of Disability Pride as it extends to redefining Employee Resource Groups. The Disability ERG is about as much about building corporate culture as it is about accentuating identity.

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How SaaS Companies Can Survive Economic Winter

Chief Outsiders

Even as macroeconomic headwinds begin to buffet the worldwide economy, there’s no better time than now to be a SaaS marketer. But there is a better way to be one. A SaaS marketer must be part marketer, product manager, and engineer and understand their markets 100%. And CEOs need to be able to discern someone who is capable of that position.

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How To Engineer Virality For Your Startup

Forbes Leadership

Growth-hacking is arguably the most important subfield of marketing for a modern tech startup. Learn how you can use it's principles to intentionally build virality into your products.

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Why Manufacturers Need Socrates for Growth in H2 2022

Chief Outsiders

The last two years have been unprecedented turmoil for society and the U.S. economy. Supply chain issues, labor shortages, and changes in customer behavior plagued the manufacturing sector. Moreover, most CEOs ask themselves what changes they need to make with interest rate increases and potential economic “whiplash” events that could create significant ripples in the broader economy.

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Five Emotional Intelligence Insights For Leading People Older Than You At Work

Forbes Leadership

With some members of this younger workforce finding themselves in roles where they have to lead people older than themselves, emotional intelligence can help these younger people successfully navigate the waters.

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Top HR Tips for Small Businesses

Zenefits

Is your organization one of the over 31 million small businesses in the United States? Small and medium-sized organizations face challenges running a smooth HR operation and staying compliant with limited time and resources. The typical HR professional working for a smaller business must wear many hats as they complete a multitude of tasks throughout the day.