Leadership Freak

JULY 6, 2018

Dear Dan, How do we help people who work for, or are recovering from working for, a control freak?

Leadership Development 215

Leadership Development Manager 215

Organizational Development Solutions

JULY 12, 2018

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” —Peter Drucker. In the previous posts in this series, we have discussed how to assess organizations in terms of where they came from, where they are going, and where they are now. If you are interested in a tool for conducting this type of assessment, please click here.

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Organizational Change Employee Engagement Implementation Accounts 130

AIHR

JULY 16, 2018

Measuring employee engagement the right way is something companies often struggle with. This article answers the questions whether you want to measure it yourself or work with a survey provider. In addition, we dive into the two most common employee engagement scales and discuss their characteristics. After reading this article, you will measure employee engagement the right way.

Employee Engagement 111

Employee Engagement ROI Scaling Retention 111

Andrew Chen

JULY 10, 2018

The current generation of marketplace startups has been incredibly successful. Airbnb, Lime, Uber, Lyft, Instacart, etc. I’ve been doing a broad survey of the best writing on this topic and wanted to share my list of 20 best links I’ve seen. Marketplaces at Andreessen Horowitz. We look at a lot of marketplace startups at Andreessen Horowitz @a16z – and we fund a lot of them!

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Metrics eCommerce Retention SaaS 110

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

Nir Eyal

JULY 23, 2018

Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Patricio O’Gorman, technology consultant and professor at Universidad de Palermo. If you have kids, you’ve likely heard about Fortnite. The wildly popular online battle game has amassed over 125 million players and hosts more than 3 million concurrent players. The game “has brought in more revenue in a […]. The post Here’s How Fortnite ‘Hooked’ Millions appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Revenue 104

15Five

JULY 10, 2018

Type “leadership” into the search bar on Amazon and prepare to sift through more than 70,000 titles. And that’s just books! Countless more articles, theses, and treatises on the topic have been written by savants from Cicero to Machiavelli to Lincoln. Needless to say, there’s a lot to say. Okay, now search for “leadership development.” Way to go, you’ve winnowed it down to only 20,000 books (or so).

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Leadership Development Change Management Manager Software 91

Vantage Circle

JULY 20, 2018

Creating a highly engaged workplace begins with having an effective employee retention strategy. Employee retention is the organization’s goal to keep talented and skilled employees. For a lower employee retention, you need to nurture and engage your talent to stop them from leaving. Did you know, two out of three workers are planning to quit their jobs this year?

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Retention Compensation Insurance Benefits 75

AIHR

JULY 9, 2018

When hearing about People Analytics, we usually think of how the use of analytics can have a positive impact on the company and its HR department. In other words, how can the employers use data to gain new insights on people topics and affect their organization? But what if the employees could also use and benefit from the insights and outcomes of People Analytics practices?

Benefits 85

Benefits Recruitment Diversity Energy 85

Andrew Chen

JULY 23, 2018

How DAU/MAU got popular. DAU/MAU has been a popular metric because of Facebook, which popularized the metric. As a result, as they began to talk about it, other consumer apps came to often be judged by the same KPIs. I first encountered DAU/MAU as a ratio during the Facebook Platform days, when it was used to evaluate apps on their platform. This metric was always impressive for Facebook because it’s always been high.

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Metrics SaaS Travel Retention 106

Nir Eyal

JULY 31, 2018

Many parents are concerned with their child’s seemingly obsessive video game play. Fortnite, the most recent gaming phenomenon, has taken the world by storm and has parents asking whether the shooter game is okay for kids. The short answer is yes, Fortnite is generally fine. Furthermore, parents can breathe easier knowing that research suggests gaming […].

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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.

Diversity

15Five

JULY 19, 2018

Managers are at the heart of your organization, vigilantly pumping the lifeblood of inspiration and support throughout the teams they lead. And just like the body, if your heartbeat isn’t strong, the rest of your company will lag and ultimately fail. CEOs, the brain of the organization, must design healthy workplaces and empower managers to bring out the best in their people.

Employee Engagement 90

Employee Engagement Onboarding Performance Management Manager 90

Leadership Freak

JULY 10, 2018

Few leaders do anything about gossip vampires. Gossip is a tool for personal advantage, self-justification, and helpless complaint. If relationships produce results, gossip is expensive. Gossip vampires: Suck the life out of relationships.

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Leadership Development 203

High Scalability

JULY 25, 2018

Google has released a new book: The Site Reliability Workbook — Practical Ways to Implement SRE. It's the second book in their SRE series. How is it different than the previous Site Reliability Engineering book? David Rensin, a SRE at Google, says : It's a whole new book. It's designed to sit next to the original on the bookshelf and for folks to bounce between them -- moving between principle and practice.

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Engineering Implementation Metrics Compliance 74

AIHR

JULY 4, 2018

We recently published a new report investigating people data in the HR profession. People analytics: driving business performance with people data explored if & how HR professionals are using people data to understand people risk. Whilst it might not be a term we often use, “people risk” is actually something many HR professionals are all too aware of.

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Risk Management Manager 70

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.

Diversity

Andrew Chen

JULY 2, 2018

When a +10% isn’t really a +10%. OK, this is an infuriating startup experience: You ship an experiment that’s +10% in your conversion funnel. Then your revenue/installs/whatever goes up by +10% right? Wrong :(. Turns out usually it goes up a little bit, or maybe not at all. Why is that? Let’s call this the “ Conservation of Intent.” The difference between high- and low-intent users.

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A/B Testing eCommerce SaaS Revenue 100

Nir Eyal

JULY 31, 2018

Many parents are concerned with their child’s seemingly obsessive video game play. Fortnite, the most recent gaming phenomenon, has taken the world by storm and has parents asking whether the shooter game is okay for kids. The short answer is yes, Fortnite is generally fine. Furthermore, parents can breathe easier knowing that research suggests gaming […] The post Kids’ Video Game Obsession Isn’t Really About Video Games.

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15Five

JULY 31, 2018

Part One of my interview with Tony Vigorito focused on the social dynamics of organizational culture. One theme that emerged (and one that might ideally prevent a toxic work culture from forming) is the concept of community in the workplace. Vigorito discussed the increasingly common strategy to build a corporate culture patterned after community, as in a family, and he highlighted the inherent risk of employees perceiving that communal culture as insincere: “People are not stupid.

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Manager Software Government Scaling 75

Leadership Freak

JULY 16, 2018

It’s frustrating to expect people to be like you when they are like them. Understanding and accepting people is leadership’s missed opportunity.

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Leadership Development 189

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

Benefits

Vantage Circle

JULY 16, 2018

The term Corporate gift or Corporate gifting has been in existence for a long time. Corporate Gifts are generally valuable items offered by the employer to their employees without any obligation as a token of appreciation or goodwill. Most large firms and organizations have policies for giving business gifts to its employees. So why do we need another list of ideas for corporate gifts in 2019 if it’s already done and dusted?

Travel 68

Travel Employee Engagement Diversity Banking 68

AIHR

JULY 11, 2018

One of the biggest challenges and critiques about employee engagement and satisfaction surveys is that the results can be overwhelming in volume but low on insight. In larger organizations in particular, developing a single survey which caters for all of flavors of what people do can lead to a somewhat convoluted and unstructured set of questions. And when the results are reported back to the business with no effective synthesis or summary, it makes it challenging for managers to know what to do

Employee Engagement 69

Employee Engagement Scaling Manager 69

Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 30, 2018

For some, delegation is like cod liver oil – it might lead to a good outcome, but it is so distasteful, they don’t try it. Others see delegation as the solution to all their time management problems – give the work to someone else, and all will be right with the world. Neither is the […]. The post Three Keys to Successful Delegation appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Manager 60

High Scalability

JULY 2, 2018

The Westworld season finale made an interesting claim: humans are so simple and predictable they can be encoded by a 10,247-line algorithm. Small enough to fit in the pages of a thin virtual book. Perhaps my brain was already driven into a meta- fugal state by a torturous, Escher-like, time shifting plot line , but I did observe myself thinking— that could be true.

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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.

Diversity

15Five

JULY 26, 2018

Did you know that the United States is the only developed nation that offers zero federally mandated paid parental leave? Forget for a moment that this is a critical time for both parents to bond with their child, paid parental leave is also in the best interests of your company. I just had a baby, and trust me when I tell you that there is no way new parents can perform at anywhere near their peak when they wake up every three hours to feed an infant the night before.

Benefits 72

Benefits Employee Engagement Travel Software 72

Leadership Freak

JULY 22, 2018

The leadership journey has six distinct chapters #1. Chapter one: Believe YOU have something to offer. Why try – if you don’t believe you matter? Everything begins with belief.

Leadership Development 189

Leadership Development 189

Vantage Circle

JULY 16, 2018

The term Corporate gift or Corporate gifting has been in existence for a long time. Corporate Gifts are generally valuable items offered by the employer to their employees without any obligation as a token of appreciation or goodwill. Most large firms and organizations have policies for giving business gifts to its employees. So why do we need another list of ideas for corporate gifts in 2018 if it’s already done and dusted?

Travel 58

Travel Diversity Banking Employee Engagement 58

AIHR

JULY 25, 2018

Most organizations have come to appreciate the contributions that people analytics (PA) makes to corporate performance—at least in the HR realm. What is not so apparent is how PA can drive results in many areas of the enterprise. This article points out strategies and avenues for extending PA relevance throughout the larger organization. Enterprises rarely look to HR for answers to critical line-of-business concerns.

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Sales Sales Software Diversity 66

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.

Retention

Nir Eyal

JULY 23, 2018

Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Patricio O’Gorman, technology consultant and professor at Universidad de Palermo. If you have kids, you’ve likely heard about Fortnite. The wildly popular online battle game has amassed over 125 million players and hosts more than 3 million concurrent players. The game “has brought in more revenue in a […] The post Here’s How Fortnite ‘Hooked’ Millions appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Revenue 55

Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 2, 2018

Advice for having more meaningful conversations with your team, or anyone else I your life. The post Getting Beyond Small Talk appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Agile42

JULY 11, 2018

Second half of the year is going to be very exciting, as we are starting to offer advanced classes for ScrumMasters and other practitioners who want to take the next step in learning, scaling, and dealing with resistance, in order to become true experts. Our book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Agile Coaching is a good starting point to explore our approach to coaching and facilitating teams.

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Scaling Engineering Implementation 54

Leadership Freak

JULY 12, 2018

Every teacher learns before they teach. Every teacher learns while they teach.

Leadership Development 189

Leadership Development 189

Speaker: Brian Richardson

With a staggering 92% of CEOs prioritizing skill development, and 84% struggling with transformation, mastering upskilling is now more critical than ever. Drawing on extensive research and collaboration with hundreds of leading organizations, discover key hurdles and innovative best practices in workforce upskilling. You'll walk away with a deep understanding of how to build a culture of continuous learning, expert insights into assessing the current skills of your employees, and a strategic too