Fri.Oct 13, 2023

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Ideas and Thought Leadership Tell Me More

Peter Winick

Good thought leadership quickly provokes your audience — to think! Can you make that happen in less than 60-90 seconds? People aren’t waiting for you to unpack your idea. You need to quickly earn that right — and you do that by provoking thought. Can you provoke thought for your idea in 60 seconds or less? Transcript: Hi, Bill Sherman from Thought Leadership Leverage, and today, I want to ask a simple question.

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When Confidence Helps Project Managers — and When It Gets Them into Trouble

Harvard Business Review

There’s a popular fallacy that encourages big-project managers to forge ahead as quickly as they can, on the basis that the payoffs will likely be bigger than they imagine. A careful empirical analysis of more than 2,000 big-project outcomes by the authors of this article, experts in project management and behavioral science, suggests that this is not the case — a Just-Do-It strategy ends badly 80% of the time.

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The Complete Guide to Dealing with Toxic Positivity in the Workplace

Get Lighthouse

Do you ever feel like you can't be honest at work? Like you have to put on a smile and pretend everything is fine, even when it's not? Or, do you find only positive comments are welcome, even at the expense of important news and issues? If any of those are true for you, your workplace may have a toxic positivity problem. Toxic positivity is when being upbeat is valued above all else.

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Navigating Generative AI as an Older Worker

Harvard Business Review

Generative AI has revolutionized the professional landscape. McKinsey’s recent findings suggest that by 2030, 30% of tasks across the U.S. economy might be automated, up from 21% before generative AI. But what does this mean for those senior professionals who have dedicated decades to developing skills in a specific field? A study from the impact of AI on the future of workforces in the European Union and U.S. explains that older workers are most exposed to AI, because AI performs tasks that bel

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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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5 Steps to a Complete Meeting Overhaul

Kellogg Insight

Sick of PowerPoints and rehashing the past? Here’s how to make meetings future-focused and engaging.

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Is Your Team Overworking But Underperforming?

Harvard Business Review

Hard work comes in two equally important forms: effort to perform and effort to improve. But too often, we only focus on the first part and become trapped in lengthy to-do lists. The author calls this the “performance zone.” When we switch our lens to include efforts to improve, entering what he calls the “learning zone,” we can get things done in ways that make us more effective.

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Making Your Products Accessible to Underserved Markets

Harvard Business Review

When a certain problem gets overt focus, others tend to get overlooked. Case-in-point: the Bottom of the Pyramid theory, created by Indian-American researcher and author CK Prahalad. Prahalad argued that the world’s poorest people constituted the “bottom of the pyramid” (BoP) and presented a massive opportunity for the world’s wealthiest companies. He posited that this segment was an untapped market opportunity and that companies, by developing products and services accessible to them, could cre

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How To Change Careers: 12 Steps for Switching Careers

BetterUp

Are you planning a job switch? Learn how to change careers and navigate the sometimes challenging transition between your old role and your new one.

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Drink and Forget

Leadership Freak

A stream gurgles alongside the road to success. When thirsty travelers drink, they transform into barbarians. More.

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The Unlocked Leader

Michael McKinney

T OO MANY LEADERS have not made the journey from their head to their heart. It is not uncommon to assume that to be effective, leaders must be superhero leaders. That is, they must be infallible, unflappable, and fearless. Hortense Le Gentil writes to dispel that notion in The Unlocked Leader and become what she terms human leaders. Hiding behind their superhero leader façade, they’re not sure how they can connect differently with people at work.

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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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How to Stay Positive in Life and Work: 15 Tips & Techniques

BetterUp

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How To Develop a Generative AI (ChatGPT) Policy + Free Template

AIHR

Given the rapid and often ad hoc adoption of ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms, it’s time for organizations to establish a generative AI policy. While OpenAI’s ChatGPT and similar large language models are quickly finding their way into enterprise workflows, organizations have concerns about generative AI presenting incorrect conclusions, as well as data privacy and security.

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