Wed.Sep 25, 2024

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LinkedIn is sharing your data with AI — unless you tell it not to

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. LinkedIn has a new practice of sharing your personal data to train AI — unless you specifically opt out. That includes your profile, your posts, and your videos. Without announcing it, LinkedIn apparently added a new data privacy setting last week that covers this, and they turned it on for everyone.

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How to Learn from Your Mistakes and Make Better Decisions

Harvard Business Review

We all have scores of decisions to make every day, and we often want to move quickly, telling ourselves that speed equals efficiency. But true efficiency sometimes requires slowing down, being mindful, and especially looking back at the decisions we’ve made that didn’t go as we’d hoped. Too often we don’t want to spend time and mental energy revisiting the past, especially if it contains uncomfortable missteps.

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7 Destructive Leadership Myths That Will Ruin the Way You Lead

Lolly Daskal

The role of leadership has become increasingly complex and nuanced. However, amidst this complexity, certain persistent myths continue to shape the way many organizations approach leadership development and practice. These misguided beliefs can have a profoundly negative impact on an organization. They undermine an organization’s ability to thrive in today’s fast-paced, dynamic environment.

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5 Ways Leaders Sabotage Their Influence With Others

Leadership Freak

You can’t influence people who are protecting themselves from you. Ethical influence requires free response. You can’t pressure someone into being influenced. Everything you do that causes people to protect themselves corrodes influence. This post explains 5 ways leaders corrode their influence and 5 ways leaders enable responsiveness.

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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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my new employee ran a background check on me and asked me about what he found

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. I’m off today, so here’s an older post from the archives. This was originally published in 2019. A reader writes: I started a new position recently and was promoted quickly to a management position. Great, I have a long supervisory background, looking forward to helping in a wider capacity.

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10 Habits of a Peacemaker

Michael McKinney

L AW professor Steven Collis is no stranger to polarized arguments. He specializes in the First Amendment. But he has found a way to have constructive discussions without them devolving into shouting matches or accusations. In Habits of a Peacemaker , he provides practical habits and skills to talk about hard topics in a productive way. These habits are more than tactics.

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How To Motivate Yourself: 15 Ways To Hit Any Goal

BetterUp

It’s normal to wonder how to motivate yourself. See 15 evidence-based techniques for finding the motivation to achieve personal or professional goals.

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living in my boss’s spare bedroom, my employee lied about finishing high school, and more

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. I’m off this week. Here are some past letters that I’m making new again, rather than leaving them to wilt in the archives. 1. Should I temporarily live in my boss’s spare bedroom? I’m in a bit of a housing bind, and dealing with some pretty serious anxiety to boot. I mentioned my anxiety issues to my boss to explain any lapses she may be seeing in my performance at work, and mentioned that my apartment search in NYC was

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What It Really Takes to Be a Manager

Harvard Business Review

Management professor and author Ellen Van Oosten takes questions from listeners who are struggling to move into management and offers advice on how to make the transition.

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New Look and Feel, Same Help Scout

Help Scout Leadership

Introducing Inbox 2 — our new, more focused workspace that helps you delight more customers in less time. Read on to learn what's new with Inbox 2.

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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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Research: Competent Leaders Know The Limits of Their Expertise

Harvard Business Review

How to spot the difference between confidence and competence.

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Navigating Politics as a Senior Leader: Overcome Approval-Withholding Behaviors

Thought Leaders LLC

When you’re dealing with somebody who’s looking to slow you down, be proactive about understanding the concerns and addressing them in a public forum. Every organization suffers from some level of political intrigue. Whether it’s hoarding of resources, manipulative tactics, or passive aggressive behavior office politics distract your organization from getting things done.

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What Luxury Fashion Can Learn from the Wholesale Flower Market

Harvard Business Review

Retailers can use discounting to generate sales without damaging a brand’s reputation.

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From Reaction to Reflection: Taking Control of Your Emotional Well-Being

Chris LoCutro

Emotions are a fundamental part of our human experience, shaping our thoughts, behaviors, and interactions. However, without responsible management, they can sometimes lead us astray. Today, let’s explore how we can take responsible actions on our emotions to lead more balanced, fulfilling lives. Understanding Emotional Responsibility Emotional responsibility is about acknowledging our feelings, understanding their origins, and managing them in a healthy, constructive manner.

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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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Why We Redesigned Inbox

Help Scout Leadership

Help Scout redesigned its Inbox to improve usability, integrate new AI tools, and address the evolving needs of support teams while maintaining simplicity and flexibility.

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Healthcare Marketing: Getting Your Value Propositions Right

Chief Outsiders

As a healthcare marketing specialist , I know how challenging it can be to articulate your value to your target customers. I often see what people think are effective value propositions, but they're just sales-based marketing buzzwords that require a dictionary, an encyclopedia, or a concordance to understand. I recently spoke with Scott Alexander, CEO of Jairus Marketing , an innovative healthcare marketing firm that tactically helps healthcare companies build brand awareness, market demand, an

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From Reaction to Reflection: Taking Control of Your Emotional Well-Being

Chris LoCutro

Emotions are a fundamental part of our human experience, shaping our thoughts, behaviors, and interactions. However, without responsible management, they can sometimes lead us astray. Today, let’s explore how we can take responsible actions on our emotions to lead more balanced, fulfilling lives. Understanding Emotional Responsibility Emotional responsibility is about acknowledging our feelings, understanding their origins, and managing them in a healthy, constructive manner.

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How Startups Can Turn Failure into Success

Harvard Business Review

If you’re scaling a startup, this episode is for you.

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Behind The Curtain: How Todays Political Climate is Steering HR and DEI in 2025

Speaker: Hanh Nguyen

In today’s ever-changing world, HR professionals often find themselves juggling conflicting priorities - especially when external factors seem out of their control. As we traverse the unpredictable waters of the current political and economic landscape, we find ourselves at a crossroads. For HR leaders, understanding how these external forces shape our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts is crucial.

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Navigating Change Management: Transitioning to Inbox 2

Help Scout Leadership

This blog post provides a structured approach to change management using the ADKAR method, guiding teams through a smooth transition to Help Scout's Inbox 2, focusing on communication, hands-on training, and support to ensure successful adoption.