Thu.Jun 27, 2024

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Why Are Companies That Lose Money Still So Successful?

Harvard Business Review

In a well-functioning capital market, profits should be the sole criterion for firm survival; that is, firms reporting losses should disappear. Of late, however, loss-making firms are highly sought after by investors — often more than some profitable firms. Unicorns, or startups with valuations exceeding a billion dollars, are examples of such loss-making firms.

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Interview Notes: 9 Reasons To Take & Best Practices To Follow (+Free Templates)

AIHR

Interview notes are essential to the recruitment process — they help recruiters and hiring managers accurately recall details of candidate interviews. Recording interview notes can also help mitigate biases and support fair decision-making during the hiring process. As an HR professional, you can also use interview notes to benchmark best practices based on successful hires.

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How Smaller Companies Can Join the Circular Economy

Harvard Business Review

Even smaller and medium-size enterprises can become more sustainable by finding other companies that need their waste. Pursuing those opportunities — and becoming part of the circular economy — entails four steps: take stock of your materials flow, seek collaboration opportunities, leverage digital marketplaces, and treat going circular as a major change program.

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I don’t see the point of taking time off, explaining a black eye on Zoom calls, and more

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. I don’t see the point of taking PTO I work a customer-service-heavy role, and my manager has been wonderful about encouraging us to take PTO if we’re feeling burnt out. Except … I don’t see the point. Yes, I’m burnt out from work, but taking time off work doesn’t magically make all my issues go away: I still have to cope with a special needs dog, I can’t “do anything” because

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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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AI Success Depends on Tackling “Process Debt”

Harvard Business Review

Typically, organizations in the midst of transformation efforts spend significant time and resources trying to correct massive amounts of “technical debt” — the price of years of short-term decisions and prioritizations that result in an overly complex technological infrastructure. But equally challenging is managing organizations’ often undiscussed “process debt” — the build-up of often antiquated, functionally isolated, and customer-disconnected ways of doing work.

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I think my new job’s salary offer is a mistake

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I work for a toxic organization, and I’ve been looking for opportunities elsewhere. A job opened up in my home city that would be a lateral move for me so I applied and was offered the job. Hooray! However, the salary included in the offer email was WAY more than I was expecting — not in a good way — in a suspicious way.

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let’s hear your weird summer intern stories

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Over the years, we’ve heard about an an intern who gave another intern a tattoo in the office conference room; an intern who set up a cot for himself in a large open work space, complete with pillow shams; an intern who was blown away by an electric stapler ; an intern who desperately wanted to work from a patio , and many more.

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HSL: An Intuitive Way to Represent Color in CSS

Help Scout Leadership

When writing CSS, the most common formats we use for expressing a color are either a hex code or an RGB value. But are they the best way? Learn to see color as an artist with HSL.

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Treat Your Team Members Like Individuals

Thought Leaders LLC

Treating your people like individuals makes them feel seen and improves their performance. Learn how to develop a maxim for treating your team members as individuals. No one wants to be treated like a faceless cog in the machine. We all want to be known as individuals. We want to feel like our wants and needs are important, especially to our leaders.

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Do Your Direct Reports Have Leadership Potential? 14 Signs They Do

Lolly Daskal

Identifying leadership potential within your team is a crucial aspect of effective management and succession planning. According to a study by the Corporate Executive Board, organizations with strong leadership development practices outperform their competitors by up to 13 times in financial performance. Recognizing future leaders early allows for targeted development, ensuring a robust pipeline for your organization’s leadership succession.

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Cultivating Engagement: Strategies and Actionable Plans for Success

Speaker: Alberta Johnson

Once upon a time, in the bustling world of corporate landscapes, HR professionals like you were the unsung heroes. Your mission: to unlock the secrets of employee engagement and transform workplaces into thriving communities. 🦸 🏢 Join us in our upcoming webinar to uncover why engagement is the magic ingredient for organizational success.

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Beyond Accountability: 5 Ways to Confront Lack of Follow Through

Leadership Freak

The expression "holding people accountable" smells like roadkill in July. Some leaders think holding people accountable is getting them to do things they don't want to do. But what can you do when people don't follow through? 5 ways to get beyond holding people accountable.

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Online Synchronous Training vs In-Person Training for Managers

Niagara Institute

When it comes to leadership development for mid-level managers, choosing the right delivery method for training can make all the difference. In today's fast-paced world, organizations are increasingly turning to online, synchronous training as a viable alternative to traditional in-person sessions. This shift raises important questions: What are the benefits and drawbacks of each approach?

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Are You Interested in My Work or in the Market for My Services?

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 wanted to share with you today, and that’s this: far too many authors, thought leaders, keynote speakers, etc., get stuck in these long-term sales cycles or what, at first blush, might appear to be sales cycles.

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update: is this HR process for accommodations as bananas as it feels?

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Remember the letter-writer who encountered an utterly bananas HR process for accommodations after requesting one WFH day a week? Here’s the update. As a recap: my firm rolled out an update to our hybrid work policy that allowed for up to two WFH days per week, but the requirement to work three days in office had to be met first, and could not be prorated for shorter weeks.

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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!