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3 Ways to Shrink a Bighead

Leadership Freak

“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” Ann Landers 7 reasons humility is a brilliant idea: You’re not as smart as you think. Make room for ignorance.

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Management 3.0 & SAFe®: A Powerful Mojito

Management30 Agile and Lean Principles

Recently we held a Meetup at Adaptworks to show a powerful mix between Management 3.0 and SAFe®. In my opinion, it was one of the most interesting Meetups that I had the opportunity to attend. The post Management 3.0 & SAFe®: A Powerful Mojito appeared first on Management 3.0.

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This Is The Most Important Skill Parents Should Teach Their Kids

Nir Eyal

The post This Is The Most Important Skill Parents Should Teach Their Kids appeared first on Nir and Far.

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David Osborne | Making Employee Health & Wellness A Leadership Focus

Tanveer Nasser

One key to succeeding at leadership is creating a workplace environment that empowers employees to commit their best efforts. To that end, shouldn't leaders also be looking at measures to improve employee health and wellness to help attract and retain employees? That's the focus of my conversation with Virgin Pulse CEO David Osborne in this latest episode of my podcast, “Leadership Biz Cafe”.

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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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The Surprising Discovery of my Waving Experiment

Leadership Freak

I’m doing a waving experiment while I walk and have made a surprising discovery. We live in the country. Sometimes I don’t see any cars. But during “rush hour,” I wave several times.

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Boosting Employee Engagement Through Career Conversations

15Five

Want to increase employee engagement? It’s time to look at the career conversations you’re having with your employees. Traditionally, career discussions have been tagged onto the annual performance review process, meaning they occur far too infrequently and with an already painful process. As more companies realize continuous growth and development conversations are a priority for employees, companies are shifting the way they handle reviews altogether.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 20th, 2019

High Scalability

Wake up! It's HighScalability time: What could be simpler? ( duckbillgroup ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd love your support on Patreon. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. And who doesn't these days? On Amazon it has 54 mostly 5 star reviews (125 on Goodreads ). They'll learn a lot and likely add you to their will.

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How Identity is Influence

Leadership Freak

The extent and limit of influence is identity. Identity is impact. You can’t inspire confidence when you’re timid and doubtful. Become what you expect. Do you expect optimism? Become optimistic.

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HFS Top-10 Source to Pay Service Providers Report | Accenture

Accenture: OrgDev

HfS report calls out Accenture as the leading provider for S2P

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Building Trust on Remote Teams

Kevin Eikenberry

Trust is valuable for a team to be successful. And it is hard enough to build when people see each other and work together every day. It is perhaps even more valuable when those people work remotely. More valuable, but even harder to create and maintain. Therefore, building trust is something worth working on. Unfortunately, […]. The post Building Trust on Remote Teams appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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Agile HR

Agile42

In today's business world, organizations are changing at a tremendous pace due to technological improvements. While this change continues, human resources units need to transform their mission and focus to innovation, cooperation and speed, and even to be a leader for this transformation. Are you familiar with issues below? Endless work lists Ever-changing business unit requests Focus problems Never ending projects Lack of ownership, (It's not my job) Lingering negotiations Lack of commitment Fa

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How to Respond to a Pestering Nagging Boss

Leadership Freak

I always hated people checking up on me. I felt insulted. I thought: Leave me alone. Get off my back. Mind your own business. Don’t you trust me?

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Stop Battling for Talent and Start Asking Questions That Matter

BetterUp

Growing up, my family dinner conversations were very different than my peers. While most kids picked at their food, while their parents probed them with questions about what happened that day at school, my parents were serving mashed potatoes with a side of deep conversation – about self esteem and emotional awareness, of course. If I brought up a seemingly mundane story from the playground while asking to pass the green beans, my parents would dissect it and ask questions to make me think

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How Being a Leader is Like a Pair of Shoes – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Believe it or not, two viewers issued me the same challenge this week – asking me to compare leadership to SHOES! Check out the video below to see if I can rise to the challenge this week… Tweet it out: Strive to be a leader people love as much as their favorite pair of shoes. […]. The post How Being a Leader is Like a Pair of Shoes – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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Modern Methods of Performance Appraisal to Boost Performance

Vantage Circle

Employee performance appraisal is critical for any organization. It helps the management to track employee performance, which is directly linked to organizational growth. It helps in boosting employees’ motivation, productivity , and commitment to the organization. What is Performance Appraisal? Performance appraisal is an annual process that involves setting clear, quantifiable goals and objectives and assessing individual performance.

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Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part III: Patroni

High Scalability

In our previous blog posts, we discussed the capabilities and functioning of PostgreSQL Automatic Failover (PAF) by Cluster Labs and Replication Manager (repmgr) by 2ndQuadrant. In the final post of this series, we will review the last solution, Patroni by Zalando, and compare all three at the end so you can determine which high availability framework is best for your PostgreSQL hosting deployment.

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Readily Welcome Input

Eric Jacobsen Blog

If you are a manager or leader, you likely know more than your employees or team members about many things within your business or organization. And, you often have many of the answers. But, you don't know it all. So, readily admit when you meet with your employees/team that you do not know all the answers. Invite others into conversations. Ask for their input.

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Why Asking for Advice Is More Effective Than Asking for Feedback

Harvard Business Review

According to results from four experiments.

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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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15 Fun Activities At Work that your Employees Will Love

Vantage Circle

Look around the room. Do your employees look miserable and desperately need a break? Then it looks like the perfect time for organizing some fun activities at work! We all know how important it is for employees to be motivated at work. So it's vital that we invest in activities that uplift the mood of your employees. Happy employees are the key to good employee branding.

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Sponsored Post: Educative, PA File Sight, Etleap, PerfOps, InMemory.Net, Triplebyte, Stream, Scalyr

High Scalability

Who's Hiring? Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here. Need excellent people? Advertise your job here! Cool Products and Services. Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet.

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How To Recruit Your Dream Team

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Hiring Greatness is the book by David E. Perry and Mark J. Haluska , who combined have closed more than 1,800 hiring search projects. In their book, the authors share their guide for how to attract, recruit and retain star executives. They advise that it is far more important that a leadership candidate possess specific intangible core attributes, than just decades of industry experience.

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6 Ways to Set Boundaries Around Email

Harvard Business Review

You don’t have to be OOO to set an OOO message.

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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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How To Be A Modern Day Legacy Builder

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Legacy in the Making is the fascinating book where authors Mark Miller and Lucas Conley provide readers a toolkit for how to be a modern day legacy builder for your company/brand. The tool kit provides the roadmap for leaders who can harness the power of long-term thinking in a short-term world; the skill needed to create a modern day legacy. The fascinating part of the book is the stories from the authors’ exclusive interviews with modern legacy thinkers who are transforming business as we know

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Best Career Advice For An Effective Corporate Culture

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Fortunately, most of my career I’ve worked in effective corporate cultures. If I put together the best of each, here is what made those environments effective: • Leaders led by example on a consistent basis and were willing to roll up their sleeves, particularly during tight deadlines or challenging times. • Employees clearly understood how what they did made a difference and how their contributions made the organization either more profitable or more effective. • The workforce included a blend

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Required Reading For Nonprofit Leaders

Eric Jacobsen Blog

If you lead a nonprofit organization, the one hour it will take you to read Peter F. Drucker's book called, The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization , will be well worth it. This book may fundamentally change the way you work and lead your organization. Perhaps one of most challenging questions Drucker asks the reader is: " Do we produce results that are sufficiently outstanding for us to justify putting our resources in this area ?

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Learn To Take Risks

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Inspirational leadership wisdom came awhile back from Bahram Akradi, the CEO of Life Time Fitness. From that health club's monthly fitness magazine, Experience Life , Akradi says: Once we get comfortable in our habitual patterns, we may fail to notice when they have outworn their useful purpose, or when new alternatives might serve us better. Once you've encountered a second way of seeing things, you're more likely to entertain the possibility of a third and fourth way, too.

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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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Yes, Employers Do Value Liberal Arts Degrees

Harvard Business Review

They’re looking for people with critical thinking skills.

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What to Do When You’re Losing Your Audience During a Presentation

Harvard Business Review

Four tips for when the phones come out.

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How the Value of Educational Credentials Is and Isn’t Changing

Harvard Business Review

Degrees still matter, but online programs are playing a complementary role.

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The Benefits of Bringing Your Whole Identity to Work

Harvard Business Review

What makes you unique can help you get ahead.

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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.