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How The Best Leaders Overcome Their Own Defense Mechanisms

Lolly Daskal

Defense mechanisms—the unconscious reactions that protect us from anxiety and internal conflict—are a part of being human. We all have them. And while they frequently do harm, in some situations they can actually be useful. What matters, in life and in leadership, is what we do about them. Failing to understand and deal with your defense mechanisms is especially harmful in leadership work, where relationships with others are critically important and you’re setting the standard for the workplace

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4 Questions to Ask at the End of the Week for Self-Reflection

Leadership Freak

One week flows unchanged into the next until you ask different questions. Good intentions fade. Old patterns hang on until you adopt a new approach.

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Experimentation with Platform and Content | Kevin Eikenberry

Peter Winick

Testing new platforms and content to keep pace with your audience. An interview with Kevin Eikenberry about adapting and growing with technology and the needs of your audience. While many things in. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How to Grow Your Company Without Your Constant Involvement

Michael Hyatt

While weak leaders blame their followers for a lack of alignment, strong leaders know that it is their responsibility to create it. Alignment doesn’t just happen. It is created. Here are three ways to make it happen with your team. The post How to Grow Your Company Without Your Constant Involvement appeared first on Full Focus.

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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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Don't Take the Bait

Ed Batista

A theme in my practice is helping clients deal with and learn from fraught situations in contentious relationships, and one of the most important lessons is: Don't take the bait. And what makes these interactions so fraught and contentious is the inevitable presence of bait--something that tempts us to engage but conceals a very tricky hook. Most bait is unintentional, arising merely because people are often sloppy and careless communicators: The irrelevant issue that sidetracks the conversation

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Why Self-Care isn’t a 4-Letter Word

Leadership Freak

I grew up in a world where you did your work without complaining. We didn’t think about self-care. It’s an unrealistic way to live. However, confusion about self-care is destructive.

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Leading Thoughts for July 7, 2022

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. Henry Kissinger on the need for leadership: “Any society, whatever its political system, is perpetually in transit between a past that forms its memory and a vision of the future that inspires its evolution.

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Very Cheap, Then Very Expensive (On Job Titles)

Ed Batista

Despite the fact that people do not acknowledge a preference for hierarchy, such a preference can be inferred from behavioral patterns. The strongest piece of evidence is simply the regularity with which this form of organization is produced. When scholars attempt to find an organization that is not characterized by hierarchy, they cannot. In sum, the production of hierarchy is a central and omnipresent component of organizing.

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How the Example of Billionaires Leads People Astray

Leadership Freak

Smart people fail when they wrongly follow the example of billionaires. Take Oprah Winfrey for example. The example of billionaires: Oprah Winfrey: Oprah didn’t find broadcasting. It found her.

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Metaverse Commerce: Understanding The New Virtual To Physical And Physical To Virtual Commerce Models

Forbes Leadership

The internet introduced new marketplaces for exchanges like social media apps and eCommerce. In the dawn of the Metaverse and the coming era of web3, commerce will evolve and with this evolution, new models will emerge. Enter the Virtual to Physical and Physical to Virtual Commerce Models.

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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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Does the Public Benefit from the Scientific Research It Funds?

Kellogg Insight

A new study quantifies how U.S. taxpayer-funded research is used in patents, media, and policy decisions.

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Good Leader vs. Bad Leader: 6 Key Leadership Scenarios

Get Lighthouse

What's the difference between a good leader vs. bad leader? What do good leaders do differently? It's an essential question every leader must ask themselves. We all face challenges and situations every day that test our patience, skills, and mindset. Unfortunately, there is no magical, drama-free team. What separates a good leader vs. bad leader is how they handle the challenges they face every day.

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HR Project Management: A Practical Guide

AIHR

With the labor market in an unpredictable state and technology rapidly changing the way businesses run, HR requires tools to help them hire, manage and retain employees—the success of an organization depends on it. HR project management is a smarter way of working that enables HR teams to carry out their tasks and plans in an organized, efficient manner.

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Disability Pride Month July

Forbes Leadership

The reason behind the month is a chance to share the joy and pride that disabled people can bring to their local and global communities.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

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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How to Rebuild a Damaged Reputation

Association Now Leadership

No matter the source of your reputational hit, it’s important to understand your options—and why you can only do so much about Google. Not everyone has a perfect professional track record. Maybe a failed initiative or a connection to a corrupt organization earlier in your career is holding you back, or perhaps a criminal record is proving hard to get past.

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When Political Discussions Get Heated, Is It Best to Just Stay Out of It?

Kellogg Insight

Keeping your head down when hot-button topics arise could come at a cost to your reputation.

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People Analytics Strategy: 9 Tips for Smooth Implementation

AIHR

Having a people analytics strategy enables your HR and/or people analytics teams to approach workforce issues in a proactive way and manage resources effectively. Let’s look at how to build a people analytics strategy with real business impact! Contents What is people analytics? Why you need a people analytics strategy How to start building a people analytics strategy.

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Why Russia Should Fear Being Declared A State Sponsor Of Terrorism

Forbes Leadership

If the United States declares Russia a state sponsor of terrorism, it could burden the Russian economy for decades.

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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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5 Must-Do’s For Finding And Interviewing Top Talent

Growth Institute

As the world sees the never-ending headlines about the talent shortage wreaking havoc for companies around the globe, business leaders are living the reality: Finding cream-of-the-crop employees seems to become more challenging a day.

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8 Tips for Avoiding Your Leadership Blindspots

Thought Leaders LLC

Today’s post is by Robert Bruce Shaw, author of Leadership Blindspots: How Successful Leaders Identify and Overcome the Weaknesses That Matter ( CLICK HERE to get your copy). Leaders are faced with two conflicting needs. The first is to act with a deep confidence in their abilities and the strategies they are implementing. This allows them to pursue audacious goals and persevere when faced with adversity.

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Strategies for Negotiation: Women in Leadership

UVA Darden

Strategies for Negotiation: Women in Leadership. burtonc. Wed, 07/06/2022 - 23:01. 6 July 2022. Strategy. Leadership & Management. Women in Business. Leveraging Difference. Aine Doris. Common wisdom has it that negotiating is a little like going into battle. Negotiation in business has traditionally been seen as akin to a tournament: a game of winners and losers, in which the victor emerges triumphant at the expense of the loser, who’s left out of options or power.

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The Improbable Achievement That Was the American Revolution

Michael McKinney

A MERICAN writer and pamphleteer Thomas Paine believed that it was common sense that an island could not rule a continent. “No event in American history which seemed so improbable at the time has seemed so inevitable in retrospect as the American Revolution,” writes Joseph Ellis in Founding Brothers. He adds: The creation of a separate American nation occurred suddenly rather than gradually, in revolutionary rather than evolutionary fashion, the decisive events that shaped the political ideas an

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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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The Fallout Continues: U.S. News Pulls Columbia University From Its 2022 Rankings

Forbes Leadership

U.S. News & World Report has unranked Columbia University from several rankings in the current 2022 edition of Best Colleges after the university failed to respond to multiple requests that it substantiate data it had previously submitted.

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HR Generalist Job Description: Everything You Need to Know

AIHR

An HR Generalist job description differs from company to company, depending on the seniority level, the organization size, and the HR operating model. However, some responsibilities, competencies, and qualifications of a Human Resources Generalist role are common across all companies and industries. In this article, we will discuss some HR generalist duties and skills along with a sample HR generalist job description to help you understand the role better.

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interns avoids all networking, reprimanded for watching TV on a lunch break, and more

Alison Green

This post, interns avoids all networking, reprimanded for watching TV on a lunch break, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Our intern avoids all social/networking opportunities. We have a summer intern, “Ralph,” split between two department sections so he can get a variety of experience.

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James Clear on Leadership Habits

Refresh

An expert on habits, decision making, and self-improvement, James Clear has been giving leadership advice since 2012. As a number one New York Times bestselling author, his book Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones has been published in more than 50 languages and has sold nearly 10 million copies. His weekly newsletter, The 3-2-1 Newsletter , has a readership of more than one million each Thursday.

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Miss One Change, Face Major Risk: The New Compliance Crisis In HR And How To Fix It

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

From rapidly changing state-level labor laws and evolving workplace protections to new compliance expectations around pay equity and hybrid policies, HR teams are navigating a constant wave of regulatory updates. It’s not just about reacting anymore; it’s about anticipating risk, aligning stakeholders, and taking a smarter, proactive stance. In this session, we’ll cut through the noise and help you focus on what matters.

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Where Does Capitalism Go Next?

Kellogg Insight

A conversation on “creative destruction,” growth, and designing a more equitable capitalist future.

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Mindset Matters: Disability Pride Month Is Here, Now What?

Forbes Leadership

Disability Pride Month has a significant impact on culture as we know it. This column explores through the lens of social psychology how corporate leaders can use this month to reframe disability as a language of business thinking that will benefit all.

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update: the CEO is obsessed with me and wants me to be his emotional support

Alison Green

This post, update: the CEO is obsessed with me and wants me to be his emotional support , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. Remember the letter-writer whose boss was obsessed with her and wanted her to be his emotional support ? Here’s the update. I’m the EA whose CEO was obsessed with me. I’ll start by saying that I have a new, much better job that I look forward to starting in about a week and I am currently exploring my options for filing a complaint or la

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Leader, Lead Thyself: How to Focus on Self to Better Lead Others

Refresh

The greatest leaders often start with little to show but a vision and a dream. Inspiring people to embrace their goals, join their ranks, and work alongside them is imperative for leaders. However, before someone can inspire others, they must first look inward to lead themselves. The practice of self-leadership has been a key component to every successful leader for generations.

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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.