Fri.Apr 19, 2024

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Stop Working For – Give Yourself To

Leadership Freak

Thoreau wrote, "The cost of a thing is the amount. of life which is required to be exchanged for it. When you give yourself "for" something you work for gratification. When you give yourself "to" something you lead with purpose. Two things leaders give themselves to.

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Look Again: How To Bring Back the Passion You Once Had

Michael McKinney

W E habituate everything. The more often we experience something, the less we respond to it. It’s the way we are built. What was once exciting—a relationship, a job, a song—becomes unremarkable after a time. Where we once saw the need for change, we now shrug off and move on. Our brain stops responding to things that don’t change. In Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There , Tali Sharot and Cass Sunstein ask what if you could, to some extent, dishabituate ?

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How to Help Your Employees Thrive in the Age of AI

Lolly Daskal

In today’s dynamic workplace, managing employees can be challenging as the capabilities of technology, especially AI, are constantly evolving, making the effects unpredictable. Employees have less time for peer learning, and AI-enabled digital tools continuously adapt on their own. As an executive leadership coach, it’s important to ensure that my clients address these challenges.

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Leaders, Do You Have a “Climate Capable” Mindset?

Kellogg Insight

“We are going to have to be as transformative as the Industrial Revolution, but we have thirty years to do it rather than 150.

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The Hidden Skills That Separate Good Leaders from Great Ones

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

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Social Capital in the Workplace: How HR Can Build Stronger Employee Connections 

AIHR

In a world increasingly shaped by technology, AI, and global shifts, strong interpersonal skills are more valuable than ever in business. For HR professionals, building social capital in the workplace isn’t just a nice-to-have; it’s essential for improving employee relationships, creating a strong culture, and boosting the company’s performance.

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How Associations Can Respond to Today’s Issues

Association Now Leadership

A new CEO survey finds a lot of anxiety bubbling under some surface optimism. Associations are well-positioned to assist. Despite an election year on top of economic and global-conflict stresses, leaders today say they’re feeling pretty good about things. According to KPMG’s 2023 CEO Outlook report , released last week, optimism is abundant. A strong majority of global CEOs (73 percent) say they’re “confident about the economy over the next three years.

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Rocks, Pebbles, and Sand Analogy

BetterUp

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weekend open thread – April 20-21, 2024

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. Here are the rules for the weekend posts. Book recommendation of the week: Victim , by Andrew Boryga. A man from a disadvantaged background finds success by embellishing his life story.

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How Leadership Training Benefits You & Your Organization

Get Lighthouse

“People leave managers, not companies.” You’ve probably heard that phrase over the years, and if you’ve managed for long, you’ve probably felt it. Whether you’ve quit a manager, or you lost someone on your team due to your actions or inaction, it hurts to lose good people. Becoming a leader is a major career change No matter what your individual contributor (IC) role was before, it’s a huge change to be in charge of leading, motivating, and keeping a team of people busy.

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Should You Quit Your “Meh” Job? Or Is It Salvageable?

Harvard Business Review

Bad days at work are inevitable, just as some degree of frustration and ennui is bound to be a part of almost any job. In this article, the author shares advice from two experts on what to do if you’re stuck in the gray area of deciding whether your job is merely mediocre (and could potentially improve) or downright soul-crushing (and might require a change).

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Future of HR: Navigating Transformation in the Digital Age

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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The 3-Stage Process That Makes Universities Prime Innovators

Harvard Business Review

While calls for cross-sector collaborations to tackle complex societal issues abound, in practice, only few succeed. Those that do often have a collaboration intermediary, which can bring together different actors, develop relationships among collaborators, and create an ecosystem to support ideas over time. With their strengths in knowledge creation and their role as community anchors, universities are ideally equipped to create and orchestrate support for the kind of innovation that the sustai