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Summer Space Reading List: Templar Incorporated by ULA’s Tory Bruno

Forbes Leadership

Favorite quote from this book: If you want to trounce the other guy, winning every time—you must enter the competition unevenly matched. You have to create an advantage that they can never overcome. You must exploit a weakness that they can never correct.

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Is Data Scientist Still the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century?

Harvard Business Review

Ten years after the authors made this claim, they take a fresh look at the job.

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Business Owners On Cusp Of Great Post-Pandemic Economic Boon

Forbes Leadership

“Historians, business leaders, and our own experience would suggest that we’re entering into an era like the Great Renaissance,” says marketing expert Drew McLellan. “The question is: what part will we play?".

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Leading With Gratitude

Eric Jacobson

Now is a perfect time to read the leadership book, Leading With Gratitude , by authors Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton. Published in 2020, the book provides managers and executives with easy ways to add more gratitude to the everyday work environment to help bolster moral, efficiency, and profitability. Gostick and Elton also share eight simple ways managers can show employees they are valued.

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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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With Millicent, Stella Dyer Aims To Financially Empower The Disenfranchised

Forbes Leadership

Stella Dyer is the cofounder and CEO of Millicent, a blockchain technology-based finance company funded in part by the British government. Dyer's aim is to empower people who struggle to access financial resources, making monetary transactions cheap and fast.

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In the Arena: A History of American Presidential Hopefuls

Kevin Eikenberry

There have been 46 Presidents of the United States – which means when each of those candidates won, there was a loser. Some who lost, later won. 35 others got close, but never were called “Mr. President.” In the Arena: A History of American Presidential Hopefuls by Peter Shea profiles 34 American leaders who captured […]. The post In the Arena: A History of American Presidential Hopefuls appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Don't Take the Bait

Ed Batista

A theme in my practice is helping clients deal with and learn from fraught situations in contentious relationships, and one of the most important lessons is: Don't take the bait. And what makes these interactions so fraught and contentious is the inevitable presence of bait--something that tempts us to engage but conceals a very tricky hook. Most bait is unintentional, arising merely because people are often sloppy and careless communicators: The irrelevant issue that sidetracks the conversation

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4 Strategies To Bypass The Inner Critic’s Negative Story About Your Job Performance

Forbes Leadership

The tool of "story editing" enables you to sidestep your Inner Critic and adapt a perspective to scale career obstacles.

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How To Move Teams From Isolated To All In

Eric Jacobson

Earlier this year brought a new book that provides workplace leaders an urgently needed methodology for helping companies to reduce worker loneliness, and it delivers a blueprint for building strong, high-performing workplace teams. The book is, Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated To All In , by Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen. “72% of workers suffer from loneliness.

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Meetings: ‘The Key Is In Not Spending Time, But In Investing It’. – Stephen R. Covey.

Forbes Leadership

In 2019, I wrote a piece for Dialogue Review reflecting on the changes that were implemented by Japanese tool manufacturers Disco Corp in a bid to improve the productivity and overall effectiveness of its workforce.

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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.