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Storytelling with Thought Leadership | Adam Zuckerman, Mary J. Cronin, Michelle Mellon, and Christopher Brace

Peter Winick

Connecting storytelling to thought leadership. A compilation of advice for using storytelling for impactful thought leadership. Storytelling is one of the most powerful ways you can elevate your thought leadership. It can create an emotional connection, convey the need for change, or provide a vision of the future. In this episode, we collect advice from our experts on the various ways a thought leader can utilize the storytelling skill to elevate their content.

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Managing the Risks of Generative AI

Harvard Business Review

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become widely popular, but its adoption by businesses comes with a degree of ethical risk. Organizations must prioritize the responsible use of generative AI by ensuring it is accurate, safe, honest, empowering, and sustainable. Organizations need to be mindful of the ethical implications and take necessary steps to reduce risks.

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Former Spymaster Hakan Fidan Assumes Leadership Of Turkey's Foreign Ministry

Forbes Leadership

Hakan Fidan, the former head of the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT), has been appointed as the country's new foreign minister.

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AI & Automation: Real Tips From Real CEOs

Chief Executive

American factories and warehouses are undergoing an automation boom that was well on its way before the pandemic, was supercharged by the virus, spurred further by supply-chain debacles and generational labor shortages, and now is entering a new phase in which companies’ need to reshore industrial operations has become another driving force. Sure, the arrival of ChatGPT has created existential questions for everyone from lawyers to artists to financial planners.

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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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The Innovation Mindset | Jennifer Kenny

Peter Winick

Innovation in consulting and authoring. An interview with Jennifer Kenny about the concepts and process of writing her book The Innovation Mindset. Consultants often approach clients seeking to answer the question, “How can I help you?” What would happen if you instead asked, “What can you and I create together, to solve the problem?” Our guest today is Jennifer Kenny.

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AI Prompt Engineering Isn’t the Future

Harvard Business Review

Despite the buzz surrounding it, the prominence of prompt engineering may be fleeting. A more enduring and adaptable skill will keep enabling us to harness the potential of generative AI? It is called problem formulation — the ability to identify, analyze, and delineate problems.

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How to Foster a Culture of Innovation and Creativity in Your Team

Lolly Daskal

Innovation and creativity are important drivers of success for any business or organization. They allow teams to come up with new ideas. They also solve problems in creative ways, and stay ahead of the competition. Here are some steps you can take to foster a culture of innovation and creativity within your team: Encourage open-mindedness and divergent thinking: Encourage your team to think outside the box and consider multiple perspectives.

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Generation Why: How Boomers Can Lead and Learn from Millennials and Gen Z

Michael McKinney

M UCH has been written about how the Millennial and Z generations are different, their likes and dislikes, and idiosyncrasies. In Generation Why: How Boomers Can Lead and Learn from Millennials and Gen Z , McGill University professor Karl Moore asks why. He goes behind the observable behaviors and looks at the events that shaped their worldview to better understand why they are the way they are.

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Build a Strong Learning Culture on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

With the nature of work changing so rapidly, it’s no longer enough just to offer employees opportunities for upskilling and reskilling. Companies also need to help workers become “expert learners” — and a key way of doing that, the learning-and-development expert James McKenna writes, is to follow the principles of the Universal Design Framework for learning, or UDL.

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10 Ways To Support LGBTQ+ Colleagues During June’s Pride Month And Beyond

Forbes Leadership

A new poll shows a clear disconnect between LGBTQ+ worker presence and their coworkers’ knowledge of their existence. On the heels of President Biden's White House Executive Order to advance equality for LGBTQ+ individuals, there are ways businesses can support LGBTQ+ colleagues during Pride Month and beyond.

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Virtual Interview Tips for Landing a Remote Job

BetterUp

Jump to section Types of virtual interviews 6 virtual interview tips to help you get the job 3 common virtual interview questions Put your best (virtual) foot forward

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Why Rude Leadership is Destructive and How to Stop It

Lolly Daskal

Rude leadership can have a destructive impact on an organization. It creates a toxic work environment, lowers morale, and can lead to high turnover rates. One of the main reasons rude leadership is so harmful is that it creates a culture of fear and mistrust. When leaders are rude or disrespectful, it sends a message to their team that their feelings and opinions don’t matter.

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3 Strategies to Boost Sales and Marketing Productivity

Harvard Business Review

A study of B2B companies found that just one in 20 was able to consistently grow sales faster than sales and marketing expenses. As companies seek to cut costs in an uncertain economy, increasing this commercial productivity is a smart strategy. Research shows the three ways companies can do this are to refine the go-to-market model, turn every rep into an A player, and make sales and marketing support more efficient.

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Former Iraqi Refugee Forms Flip App Into Social Shopping Platform

Forbes Leadership

Iraqi-born Noor Aga came to the US to “flip” e-commerce into a social experience. Agha is the CEO and co-founder of the fast growing social shopping app, Flip.

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25 toxic personality traits to spot in yourself and others

BetterUp

Jump to section Toxic traits What are personality traits?

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How To Craft a Leave of Absence Policy (in 2023)

AIHR

A robust leave of absence policy is vital for your organization to run smoothly and adequately cater to employees’ need for time off work. A fair and consistent leave of absence policy can aid employees who require time off for medical, family, or personal reasons. On the other hand, it can also ensure that employees do not take advantage of leniency to miss work.

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Your Data Strategy Needs to Include Everyone

Harvard Business Review

An entirely new “management paradigm” for data is needed. As used here, a “management paradigm” embodies a common language, a holistic vision of the ways data should contribute, a clearly defined organizational structure showing how data integrates across the organization, along with clear roles and responsibilities for all involved. Eventually, it needs to incorporate corporate culture, relationships with universities and vendors, policy, and anything else that advances, or holds back the effec

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Companies Posting Wide Salary Ranges On Job Advertisements Are Making A Mockery Of Pay Transparency Laws

Forbes Leadership

Companies are gaming pay transparency laws intended to bolster pay equity in the workplace. According to research from Indeed’s Hiring Lab, “Salary ranges advertised on job postings are widening in tech hubs and areas with pay transparency requirements.

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Become Extraordinary: Guidelines for Reaching High

Leadership Freak

The stuff I read about setting goals is dangerous because it works. The thing you reach for shapes you. Big goals destroy us when we reach for the wrong thing.

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What are Microaffirmations? Inclusivity Through Small Gestures

AIHR

People do their best work in a positive and welcoming environment, which is why microaffirmations are so important. Microaffirmations are small gestures to indicate your respect for your peers on an everyday basis. When people receive microaffirmations in the office, they know they can trust their managers and coworkers. That trust drastically alters their output — employees who trust their company are 260% more motivated to work and are 50% less likely to look for another job, according to a re

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7 Ways to Make Employees Feel Respected, According to Research

Harvard Business Review

Treating everyone with respect is the foundation of good leadership. Employees who feel disrespected are more likely to also feel excluded or even inferior. The authors offer seven behaviors, based on their analysis of data collected from more than 4,500 employees, that lead to a demonstration and feeling of respect. These include valuing diversity, staying in touch with individuals’ issues and concerns, building trusted, resolving conflicts, balancing results with a concern for others, encourag

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In Dialogue: Sidus Space Founder And CEO And Navy Veteran Carol Craig On Breaking Glass Ceilings And The Future Of Space, Part 2

Forbes Leadership

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Sidus Space founder and CEO Carol Craig—who has broken multiple glass ceilings in two different historically male-dominated

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Many Great Leaders Make This Simple Mistake When Leading Others

Lolly Daskal

Many great leaders make the simple mistake of thinking that their role is to tell others what to do. While it is important for leaders to provide direction and guidance. It’s equally important for them to listen to and understand the perspectives of their team members. Here are four ways that a simple leadership mistake can cause those you lead to be distressed: It can lead to a lack of trust and respect: When leaders constantly tell their team members what to do, it can create a culture o

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How to Find the Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness

Leadership Freak

I screwed up my face Sunday morning. While trimming my beard, I took off the spacer to clean it and forgot to put it back. The bathroom mirror revealed irreparable damage.

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How to Tap the Full Potential of Telemedicine

Harvard Business Review

Telemedicine visits in the United States have fallen sharply since April 2020, but the end of the pandemic should not spell the end of telemedicine. It can play a valuable role in the delivery of health care. The key to tapping its potential is to bring many elements of the clinic to the patient. An array of new technologies and services is making that possible.

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16 Instances In Which It Is Appropriate For An Employee To Say ‘No’

Forbes Leadership

There are times when employees may find it necessary to say “no” to a manager or colleague, but determining when it’s appropriate to do so requires careful consideration.

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Two-Way Communication: 4 Tips and Examples to Get It Right

David Grossman

Leaders understand that one of the best signs of a successful organization is a highly engaged workforce. When employees are motivated by their work, they perform better than their less-committed counterparts and naturally boost the organization’s bottom line. Yet what’s often overlooked is a critical element to employee engagement – “two-way communication” in the workplace.

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Finding Self-Confidence When Intimidating Types Get to You

Thought Leaders LLC

When you’re feeling rattled by big wigs and VIPs, simple mindset and body language adjustments can help you step into power. Today’s guest post is by Selena Rezvani, author of Quick Confidence: Be Authentic, Create Connections and Make Bold Bets On Yourself (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Have you ever had one of those career moments where you felt like you’d made it?

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How Brands Can Sell to Environmentally Conscious Nonconsumers

Harvard Business Review

New research into how consumer attitudes about climate change affect their behavior and purchasing habits find that the largest segment is “Conscious Non-consumers” — that is, people who have changed their behavior to help the environment, but are not purchasing environmentally friendly products. For companies selling these products, reaching this segment of consumers can be a source of profits and impact.

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Is Adhering To The FCAs New Consumer Duty Impossible Without The Help Of Technology?

Forbes Leadership

Reportedly one of the biggest-ever shake-ups of consumer finance in the UK will take place on July 31st. Customers are ready. Are financial service firms?

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Low Goals: 7 Unexpected Advantages

Leadership Freak

Better to set a small goal and meet it than a grand goal and feel defeated. I set a low goal for riding my stationary bike, 85 minutes a week.

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How to Conduct a DEI Survey in the Workplace

15Five

Any good diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategy starts with employees. After all, they’re the people who work in your organization and will be impacted by your DEI efforts. So to gain insights that help your DEI work, it’s worthwhile to run a DEI survey to understand the current state of DEI in the workplace, gather employee sentiment, and make data-driven decisions about your DEI strategy.

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How New CEOs Establish Legitimacy

Harvard Business Review

CEOs are given the authority to lead by the rules of corporate governance. They gain additional influence and credibility by demonstrating competence. CEOs who achieve legitimacy have a higher level of trust and influence. This legitimacy will be gained by consistently demonstrating specific behaviors.

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20 Steps Agency Leaders Can Take To Improve Team-Client Communication

Forbes Leadership

Fostering clear, open lines of communication between your team and your agency’s clients is vital for delivering exceptional results and building long-term partnerships.

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How Your Communication Can Make or Break Your Company’s Strategy

Rhythm Systems Growth

A Grammarly Harris Poll released in 2022 suggested that US businesses lose $1.2 trillion annually due to poor communications. Yes, you read that right, $1.2 trillion per year. This same study points to nearly three out of four business leaders admitting their teams struggled to communicate effectively over the last year. Almost 82% of leaders and 59% of employees cite remote and hybrid models, the new normal, as concerns for the future.

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Talent Action Team Is Michigan’s Answer For Manufacturers’ Workforce Needs

Chief Executive

Manufacturing is heading back to the United States, and no other place is this more apparent than the industrial belt of the Upper Midwest, as American companies reshore production from abroad and the electric vehicle (EV) and advanced mobility revolution flourishes in the nation’s heartland. Michigan has responded to this shift with a unique initiative to help companies tap into its tremendous pool of engineering, software and overall technology talent — and to promote the creation of R&D a