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From Refugee to PhD | Dr. Pradeepkumar Sacitharan

Peter Winick

Practical Advice for Thriving in Today’s Leadership Landscape A conversation with Dr. Pradeepkumar Sacitharan about resilience, setting historic goals, and how everything is a sales game. Welcome to another insightful episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership with your host, Peter Winick. Today, we are honored to have Dr. Pradeepkumar Sacitharan, the CEO of Donsfield, a distinguished global business and trade development firm dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations to expand a

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4 Reasons Why Managers Fail

Harvard Business Review

Gartner research has found that managers today are accountable for 51% more responsibilities than they can effectively manage — and they’re starting to buckle under the pressure: 54% are suffering from work-induced stress and fatigue, and 44% are struggling to provide personalized support to their direct reports. Ultimately, one in five managers said they would prefer not being people managers given a choice.

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10 Ways to Create the Best Hybrid Working Environment

Lolly Daskal

As organizations adapt to the changing dynamics of the modern workplace, the concept of hybrid work environments has gained significant traction. Combining the flexibility of remote work with the benefits of in-person collaboration, hybrid working arrangements offer a promising path forward. However, creating the best hybrid working environment requires careful consideration and deliberate actions.

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Research: How Ratings Systems Shape User Behavior in the Gig Economy

Harvard Business Review

Platform providers typically display ratings information to the user in two ways. Incremental rating systems, employed by platforms like TaskRabbit and Airbnb, offer a detailed view by listing and often providing insights into every individual review score. Averaged rating systems, used by platforms such as Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash, present an overall score that aggregates all individual ratings.

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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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What portion of your team works remotely?

Thought Leaders LLC

Our reader poll today asks: What portion of your team works remotely? We’re 100% remote 1 4.61% We’re 75-99% remote 13.78% We’re 50-74% remote 15.70% We’re 25-49% remote 16.25% We’re less than 25% remote 19.00% We’re 100% onsite 20.66% Staying connected. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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Imagination – Not Logic – Drives Leadership

Leadership Freak

Willy Wonka built a land of pure imagination and so do you. Decisions are shaped by imagination. Evan a logical list of pros and cons is based on imagined eventualities. Your view of the future explains how you live today. Leaders imagine the future.

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Leading Thoughts for April 11, 2024

Michael McKinney

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Chris Deaver and Ian Clawson on co-creating: “The dark truth of success is that if we make it all about ourselves, our own egos, our individual performance, it eventually breaks down. It won’t have staying power.

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someone who barely managed me put negative feedback in my annual review

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I just received my annual review. I’ve been passed between four managers over the past 12 months – one of whom was fired, one who was very hands-off for the majority of their time with me, one who worked with me for three months, and one who became my manager relatively recently.

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Humanizing the U.S.–China Relationship

Kellogg Insight

Escalating tensions between U.S. and Chinese governments make preserving in-person interactions between ordinary Chinese and Americans even more important.

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update: dealing with a problematic member of a board games group

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Remember the letter-writer who was dealing with a problematic member of a board games group ? The first update was here , and here’s the final installment. I am the letter writer who runs a board games group and used Alison’s excellent advice about communication to deal with a problematic member of the games group and the issues their behavior was causing.

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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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Seven Steps to Shorten Your Sales Cycle

Chief Outsiders

Learn how to accelerate revenue growth by shortening your sales cycle. Discover the seven steps to success and a real-life example of significant growth achieved through effective marketing strategies.

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knowledge swap! share your expertise with people here

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Are you good at something and willing to share that expertise with others here? We did this six years ago and it was a great success, so we’re doing it again. Here’s how it works: 1. In the comment section below, name something you’re really good at that you’d be willing to answer questions about.

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How Generative AI Can Help Investors Redefine the Competitive Deal Landscape - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM EY

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from EY.

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Transitioning from EOS to the Next Stage of Business Growth

Rhythm Systems Growth

As executive team members of growing mid-market firms, you constantly seek ways to streamline operations, enhance strategic planning, and foster sustainable growth. The Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) is likely a cornerstone in structuring your organization's processes, providing a framework to help clarify, simplify, and achieve your vision.

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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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Organizational Change Agility: The Top 6 Practices

LSA Global

A Guide to Boosting Organizational Change Agility: The Top 6 Best Practices Most leaders understand that organizational change is both a constant and a necessity. To thrive over time, organizations, and their people, must possess the organizational change agility to adapt swiftly to evolving market dynamics, technological advancements, and shifts in customer preferences.

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Decision Matrix: What It Is & How to Use Them

BetterUp

Jump to section What is a decision matrix?

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