Leadership Freak

JANUARY 29, 2025

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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Tanveer Nasser

JANUARY 29, 2025

How are some organizations able to consistently outperform their competitors? While their on-going successes might involve cutting-edge technologies or innovative processes, theres something else that fuels their peak performance the power of organizational traditions. In this edition of my Leadership Espresso Shot series, I share a personal story about.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2025

A new study found that this quality can ignite leadership ambitions throughout a company.

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Refresh

JANUARY 29, 2025

Express Employment ProfessionalsAmerica EmployedandCanada Employedseries explore the state of employment in North America, including everything from hiring expectations… The post Job Seekers Embrace Career MobilityEmployment Insights from Express first appeared on The Express Blog.

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Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC

Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2025

Matching employees’ skills with specific projects, rather than confining them to fixed roles, can help unleash people’s talents. But companies need to deal with three tensions to make it work.

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Alison Green

JANUARY 29, 2025

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Its five answers to five questions. Here we go 1. Offering a job to multiple people and giving it to the first one who accepts Decades ago, in the early 2000s, my friend was offered an assistant professor position at a university. She was told that the same job was being offered to several other candidates too, and that only the first person to accept the offer would be hired.

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Alison Green

JANUARY 29, 2025

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. When the topic of performance evaluations comes up, you’ll typically hear people say, “Nothing in a performance evaluation should ever be a surprise.” Its right in theory, but its not that simple. At Inc. today, I wrote about why it can be more complicated than that, and what that means for managers (and employees).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2025

A conversation with Harvard Medical School’s Carol Kauffman on navigating high-stakes challenges effectively.

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Vantage Circle

JANUARY 29, 2025

I can clearly recall the day our department changed for the better. As a long-time employee, I have experienced my share of ups and downs in the company. However, this particular day was different. During one of our monthly town hall meetings, where we were asked for updates, our new manager asked us to share our genuine thoughts and concerns about recent changes.

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Alison Green

JANUARY 29, 2025

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: This is not a current issue, but it’s something that has been eating at me for a long time. I’m trying to figure out if I unwittingly helped someone embezzle money. I believe the statute of limitations has passed for this (potential) crime in the state that it took place in.

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Speaker: Jeremy York

Join us for a thought-provoking exploration of the rapidly evolving HR landscape as we examine how technological innovation, regulatory changes, talent strategies, and evolving diversity approaches are reshaping the profession. This webinar will provide HR professionals with practical insights on leveraging AI and emerging technologies while maintaining compliance in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

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Thought Leaders LLC

JANUARY 29, 2025

There are four major areas you need to assess when judging your team members’ results. Beyond how you’re spending your leadership capital,you need to assess the resultsyour team members deliver.There are four major areas you need to assess. Assess the quantity of their resultscompared to what’s expected.Also look at the quality of their final work,again versus what you expect.Consider how timely the work they deliver isversus expected deadlines.

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Chris LoCutro

JANUARY 29, 2025

Fear is one of the most powerful obstacles we face as leaders, team members, and individuals. Whether its fear of failure, rejection, or loss, fear often stems from believing lies about ourselves, others, or our circumstances. In business and leadership, fear stifles creativity, freezes decision-making, and undermines productivity. This post explores practical steps leaders can take to create a culture free from fear, enabling teams to thrive and grow.

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AIHR

JANUARY 29, 2025

Several organizations, including Meta, Amazon, Apple, and Walmart , announced they will sunset some Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) initiatives. Foll owing the U.S. Supreme Courts ruling on affirmative action , these decisions signal a significant shift in corporate sentiment towards DEIB. At the same time, accusations against the Los Angeles Fire Departmen t Chief, alleging that DEIB-focused hiring compromised operational readiness during the catastrophic fires in early 2025,

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LSA Global

JANUARY 29, 2025

Redwood Shores, CA LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a Customized Sales Training program focused on consultative solution selling to meet aggressive growth targets by adopting new mindsets and developing new sales skills. 100% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 104% Knowledge Gain 93.3% Net Promoter

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2025

In selecting the most creative people or ideas to hire or implement, many organizations use multi-step processes that winnow the initial pool to a group of finalists and then select the best of the best from the finalists. Research conducted in which the authors were involved found that such an approach may be a waste of time and resources and that the experts trying to pick the winners from the finalists agonize and cant really determine the clearly superior choices.

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Alison Green

JANUARY 29, 2025

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. I am being inundated with letters from federal employees and others affected by the new administrations changes in the last week which have included ending investigations and enforcement related to discrimination in the workplace (*see note below); illegally firing 17 inspectors general ; laying off employees working on accessibility, equity, and diversity; freezing or cancelling funding for scientific research ; halting all

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