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Breaking the Stigma: Mental Health in the Professional World | Stephen J. Dietrich

Peter Winick

The Fear Factor in Thought Leadership Can vulnerability drive business success? Corporate attorney Stephen Dietrich shares how tackling fear and anxiety transformed his personal life and skyrocketed his professional growth. In this episode, he and Peter Winick explore the power of emotional openness to build trust, deepen relationships, and achieve exceptional outcomes.

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Think This, Not That

Michael McKinney

O UR mindset can either work for us or against us. A mind full of false narrativesfalse beliefswill keep us from growing into our potential. Unchallenged, these negative beliefs will become the soundtrack we live by and keep us from moving in the direction of our best selves and change the outcome of our lives. Josh Axe identifies in Think This, Not That twelve mental barriers that obstruct personal growth and hinder success.

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When Being a “Bad Leader” Is Good

Leadership Freak

You could be a bad leader for doing the right thing! Servant leadership doesnt win popularity contests in authoritarian environments. Showing up as a humble leader in a dysfunctional culture makes you the problem. Here are seven ways to be a "bad leader" in a good way.

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Asking Better Open-Ended Questions: A Leader's Guide

David Grossman

In the fast-paced world of work we all live in now, one of the most understandable and common mistakes all employees make is simply not asking the right kinds of questions.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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boss says it’s unacceptable not to meet all deadlines, no matter how unreasonable

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I started a job eight months ago that I was very excited about. I was looking to get out of a highly stressful position and got this offer (same pay, somewhat worse benefits but growth potential) and what I thought would be a solid work-life balance. The first day, my boss mentioned how we typically end at 4:30.

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Free Employee Scheduling Software: The Top 10 in 2025!

Vantage Circle

Introduction Finding reliable free employee scheduling software can feel like a challenge. Don't you agree many tools fall short with limited features like shift swaps, time-off tracking, or payroll integration? Moreover, outdated designs and user caps only add to the frustration. But there’s good news—the ideal solution does exist.

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Leveraging Transferable Skills for a Career Change

Help Scout Leadership

There is always something that made a person great in Job A that could help make them great in Job B. Its just a matter of connecting the dots.

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A CEO’s Guide to Marketing Performance | Metrics Matter

Chief Outsiders

Part 2 of A CEO's Guide to Marketing Performance Metrics matter now more than ever. As a six-time CMO over a 16-year career, Ive tracked dozens (actually hundreds) of metrics and found that many measures are ultimately meaningless or only matter to marketers.

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Retention is an Asset

Thought Leaders LLC

Today’s post is by Anil Singhal, author of “The 5% Rule of Leadership: Using Lean Decision-Making to Drive Trust, Ownership, and Team Productivity.” We live in an age of corporate layoffs. Whenever companies encounter a setback, the inevitable go-to move is to cut overhead. A challenging stock market, a significant customer loss, the retirement of an aging product line?

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609 | The Secret to Leading a Winning Team? It’s All About KRAs

Chris LoCutro

Welcome to the show, folks! Today were diving into a topic thats vital for every leader out thereKey Result Areas (KRAs). If youve ever struggled with aligning your team, creating clarity in roles, or preventing leadership headaches, this episode is for you. KRAs arent just a tool to manage performancetheyre a foundational part of running a successful business.

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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Do your goals have the appropriate constraints attached to them?

Peter Winick

Transcript Hi there, it’s Peter Winick. I’m the founder and CEO at Thought Leadership Leverage, and here’s the idea that I’d like to share with you today, and that’s this: In the world of business, particularly in the world of thought leadership, keynote speakers, experts, advisors, etc., there’s a lot of energy focused on setting goals and achieving goals.

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Your All-In-One Culture Audit Guide: What Is It & How to Conduct an Audit

AIHR

Conducting a culture audit can bring significant financial benefits to your organization. Did you know that companies with strong workplace cultures can achieve up to four times higher revenue growth than those with weaker ones? On the flip side, disengaged employees can cost your company around 18% of their annual salary. They contribute less and cost more due to lower productivity, higher absenteeism, and increased turnover.

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How to Face the Problem of Happiness

Leadership Freak

The problem with happiness is sadness demands attention. When youre unhappy you know it. You tell your friends. You complain at work. You barely notice when youre happy. No one phones a friend to say, You got a minute. Im happy and I want to talk it over with you.

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The 5 Ws and H Guide to Communicating Virtually Anything

David Grossman

Learn how to use 5 Ws and H to capture important perspective, share all-important content, and make it relevant for your audience when communicating virtually anything.

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The Diversity Reckoning: Can HR Survive Without New Perspectives?

Speaker: Jeremy York

2024 has tested every organization, and 2025 promises no less - the warning signs are everywhere. If you’re relying on superficial approaches to diversity, you might find yourself scrambling to catch up. Thought diversity - the fuel for new ideas, fresh perspectives, and disruptive innovation - is more than a buzzword. It's a survival strategy. And if you’re not building it into your workplace culture right now , you’re heading for trouble.

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update: I don’t want to babysit my brother in my office

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Remember the letter-writer whose mother was pressuring her to babysit their brother in their office after school? Heres the update — and some more advice from me. Thank you for answering my letter! It was too late to reply to the comments after work, but I’ll address some of them here: For those asking if I still live with my mother: I moved out when I was 18 and live in my own apartment with roommates.

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Scoring Big with Systems Thinking

AlignOrg

For me, growing up immersed in sports has always been a rollercoaster of emotionsmoments of elation and despair that mirror the highs and lows felt by countless others. Our favorite teams have a remarkable ability to stir deep emotions. We engage in daily conversations about how our teams could improve, emphasizing their problems and providing our perspective on how they could achieve better results.

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Strategic Believability: A Research-Backed Guide

LSA Global

The Importance of Strategic Believability: Is Your Strategy Believable Enough? An effective business strategy should help to create a competitive advantage. We know from organizational alignment research that strategy accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing organizations. However, crafting a corporate strategy is only half the battle; ensuring it resonates as believable and achievable to your key stakeholders is where many organizations falter.

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The Impact of Great Support on Revenue

Help Scout Leadership

Looking to boost your company's revenue? Then it's time to focus on increasing customer retention and doubling down on great customer experiences.

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Recognition Powers High-Performance — If You Do it Right

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg

Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.

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Tech Stacks: Transforming Your Business in the Digital Age

Chief Outsiders

In today's hyper-connected business world, technology isn't just a toolit's the difference between thriving and merely surviving. The digital landscape has transformed how companies approach sales and marketing, making a strategic technology stack more critical than ever.

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The Benefits Of When Everyone Leads

Eric Jacobsen Blog

When Everyone Leads , by Ed OMalley and Julia Fabris McBride , presents a revolutionary approach to leadership; not based on position or authority, but an activity that anybody can undertake by learning to spot opportunities for improvement and taking the initiative to engage others. It can be unfamiliar and uncomfortable, but in a culture where everyone leads, organizations start to make progress on their most difficult problems, explain the authors.

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Navigating M&A Integration in the Evolving Utilities Sector

Kotter Inc.

As of 2024, the value of announced deals in the industry exceeded $150 billion, nearly double the value through the same period in 2023. M&A is expected to further accelerate in Q1 2025 after the Fed'.

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AI, Leadership, and the Future: What We Know (and What We Don’t) | Nada Sanders

Peter Winick

The New Rules of Thought Leadership in an AI-Driven Future AI is changing everythingbut no one really knows what the future holds. The best leaders wont be the ones making bold, absolute claims; theyll be the ones embracing uncertainty, adapting quickly, and using AI as a tool rather than a crutch. This episode explores why humility, critical thinking, and human expertise are the keys to leading in a rapidly evolving world.

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The Upskilling Advantage: Transforming Your Workforce For Future Growth

Speaker: Brian Richardson

With a staggering 92% of CEOs prioritizing skill development, and 84% struggling with transformation, mastering upskilling is now more critical than ever. Drawing on extensive research and collaboration with hundreds of leading organizations, discover key hurdles and innovative best practices in workforce upskilling. You'll walk away with a deep understanding of how to build a culture of continuous learning, expert insights into assessing the current skills of your employees, and a strategic too

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For Girls, Early Exposure to Entrepreneurship Can Be a Game-Changer

Kellogg Insight

Being surrounded by entrepreneurs at a critical age can shape girls educational and career trajectories.

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Habits Unlock Your Day

Leadership Freak

Habits shape your future. You care about habits because you care for yourself. Life disintegrates without routines. Devise morning rituals that enable you to flourish. You cant prevent black-hole-thinking; you can redirect your thoughts. You do good for yourself when develop routines that serve your future self.

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OKRS and Performance Culture: A Conversation with Ben Lamorte of OKRs.com

SME Strategy

OKRS and Performance Culture: A Conversation with Ben Lamorte of OKRs.

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my employee is in obvious pain, but won’t get medical treatment

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: One of my employees, Pam,” has been having pains that I wont specify for the sake of anonymity. Her condition is degenerative but can be managed quite successfully through physical therapy and occasional steroid injections. I happily made several doctor-recommended accommodations and alterations to Pam’s workspace, at the expense of the company, to make the eight hours a day she spends here more ma

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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Rebecca Ellis, PhD, Demonstrates Excellence in Organizational Development

AlignOrg

Originally published by Marquis Who’s Who , Jan. 28, 2025 Rebecca Ellis, PhD, has been included in Marquis Who’s Who. As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

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Where to Get My Latest Thinking

Mark Sandborn

2025 is here, and one of my themes is consolidation. I may occasionally continue to add to the 1000+ articles here, but if you want to stay in touch and get access to my latest thinking and writing, go to [link] The post Where to Get My Latest Thinking appeared first on Mark Sanborn Keynote Leadership Speaker.

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Streamlining Spring MVC with Per-Module Connection Pools

Help Scout Leadership

At Help Scout, we invest a lot of time to ensure our applications make the best out of their databases. Click through to learn more about how we use a per-module datasource approach to help break down complexity.

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A Different Perspective on Marginal Cost Pricing

Chief Outsiders

I pulled up behind a Prius at a red light. A sticker on its left rear bumper, in type too small to read unless you were within a car length or two, said: Sorry for driving so close in front of you. A different point of view on the tailgaters that clearly bug that vehicle owner!

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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.