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How AI Can Make Strategy More Human

Harvard Business Review

It’s opening up a new world of strategy innovation.

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Uncharted Waters: How to Navigate the Future of Leadership and Business

Lolly Daskal

Business always includes an element of unpredictability, and agility and flexibility are enduring requirements for successful leadership. But more than ever before we are operating in uncharted waters, and building long-term success in business and leadership means not just implementing new methods but creating a whole new mindset. When change comes this hard and fast, those of us who practice leadership need to move beyond working to complete the tasks before us and achieve the goals we’ve set.

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4 Things Harvard Business Review Got Wrong About People Analytics

AIHR

Recently, Harvard Business Review (HBR) published an article on people analytics titled “ Are People Analytics Dehumanizing Your Employees? “ In the article, the authors provide a bleak and one-dimensional view of people analytics that, if not seen in context, will damage the field and dilute the current and potential contribution that people analytics can make to HR.

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Keynote Speaking Live and Virtually | Waldo Waldman and Freddie Ravel

Peter Winick

Innovation and technology in keynote speaking. An interview with Waldo Waldman & Freddie Ravel that originally aired on November 3rd, 2021, as part of Leveraging Thought Leadership Live on. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Building Transparency into AI Projects

Harvard Business Review

As AI becomes ever more embedded in people’s lives, effective communication with stakeholders can define a product’s success — or failure.

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Where Is the U.S. Healthcare Industry Headed?

Kellogg Insight

New business models abound, private equity is expanding, and healthcare workers are hard to find.

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When Language Prevents Kids From Succeeding At Math

Forbes Leadership

Students who don’t read well or lack crucial vocabulary often face unnecessary obstacles—not just in reading but also in math.

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Dehumanization Is a Feature of Gig Work, Not a Bug

Harvard Business Review

The 40 million Americans who’ve rented out their services to platforms like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash may be canaries in the coal mine of the new world of work.

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Thought Leader in Startups | Jody Padar

Peter Winick

Elevating a start-up with a high-profile thought leader. An interview with Jody Padar about building her personal brand and using it to support a new company. How soon should a startup start thinking. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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From Servant Leadership to Shared Leadership

Mike Griffiths

This is part one in a series on leading agile teams from the Beyond Agile book. We will examine what leadership entails and how it applies to agile teams. Then discuss the transition from servant leadership to shared leadership.   EQ as a Foundation for Leadership. As we saw in the previous articles about Emotional Intelligence (EQ), leadership is built on top of EQ.

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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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Russia’s New Economic Policy: Famine, Looting And Stealing?

Forbes Leadership

Russia is unlikely to build a successful 21st century economy through famine, looting and stealing.

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Small Actions Make Great Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Takeaways from an analysis of more than 1,000 leadership moments.

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#SHRM22 – A Call for Mental Health Support

SHRM Organizational Development

1 in 4. If you were to have a one in four chance of winning the lottery, you would play. Those chances are a no-brainer. Those same odds represent the number of employees who feel hopeless today. That is a hard sentence to type. 25% of our employee population struggle with some sense of hopelessness. At the SHRM Annual Conference, these numbers were shared with the roughly 13,000 attendees.

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The Smoke Detector Principle (Why We Overreact)

Ed Batista

My clients occupy demanding professional roles that often involve navigating high-stakes situations under conditions of uncertainty, so it's no surprise that a theme in my practice is how to cope with the resulting stress. And the risks are real, with large amounts of money, career prospects, and entire companies on the line--and yet it's almost never the case that actual lives are on the line.

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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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Cybersecurity And Data Privacy: 7 Challenges For CFOs To Address

Forbes Leadership

Along with their C-suite peers, CFOs have treated cybersecurity and data privacy as top strategic priorities for several years. Regulators are embracing a similar approach and CFOs need to be ready. The CFO’s expertise is especially needed as organizations address 7 cybersecurity-related challenges.

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How to Move from Strategy to Execution

Harvard Business Review

Three steps to put your plan into action.

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Positioning Mistake No. 365 -- Treating Prospects Better Than Existing Customers

Chief Outsiders

From the world of “shocking but true”: There are real, actual companies out there that are turning away revenue. Literally, they have customers shaking fistfuls of dollars in their direction and walking in the opposite direction. Before you shake your head, thinking this is blasphemy, the stark reality is this: You, too, could be guilty of the same offense.

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People Experience: What HR Needs to Know

AIHR

Providing a good people experience to your workforce enables your organization to perform and serve your customers better. What exactly is people experience, how does it differ from employee experience, and how can you improve people experience at your organization? Let’s dig in. Contents What is people experience? Why is a good people experience important?

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Innovation Has A Role To Play In Improving Teacher Well-Being

Forbes Leadership

In addition to issues of retention, teacher stress has a direct impact on student achievement and classroom behavior challenges. It’s a crisis that we, as a society, can’t afford to ignore.

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Why Microsoft Measures Employee Thriving, Not Engagement

Harvard Business Review

And what other organizations can learn from their findings.

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Lead Incubation Has a New Shape: The Marketing Hourglass Has Supplanted the Sales Funnel

Chief Outsiders

You spend countless hours, and endless resources, to encourage your sales team to dump leads into the top of your sales funnel, with the hopes of squeezing them through the tiny orifice at the bottom. Once those precious few fall out the bottom and onto your client rolls, now what? With an overheated market, dogged competition, and an enlightened consumer that is more fickle than ever, how can you make sure all of that effort is worth it?

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The Strategic Planning Process

Thought Leaders LLC

Laying out your organization’s strategic plan can be overwhelming. Follow these steps to keep your strategic planning process simple and effective. . Strategic planning is an inherently simple process. There are some major tools and steps that you’re going to follow as you pull together your strategic plan. . First, you need to set direction and stay in a lane.

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How To Empower Your Workforce With Modern Fertility Benefits

Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski

In an era where a workforce spans multiple generations, HR managers and Total Rewards leaders face the unique challenge of designing benefits packages that cater to diverse employee needs. This session will delve into how comprehensive fertility benefits can bridge generational gaps, support employees’ health, and enhance workplace satisfaction. Join us for an insightful session that highlights the strategic importance of fertility benefits in today’s competitive job market.

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The Hammer That Breaks The Church State Wall Has Hit Public Education Once Again. What Parts Of Our School System Will It Bring Down?

Forbes Leadership

The notion that it is discrimination to deny religious schools a share of taxpayer dollars is the hammer that just keeps busting holes in the wall separating church and state.

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4 Types of Business Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Which is your organization facing?

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How to Repair a Broken CEO-Board Chair Relationship

Association Now Leadership

Distrust at the top can be surprisingly common at associations, and enduring, one researcher found. Fixing it requires both long- and short-term planning. When it comes to the relationship between an association CEO and the board chair, trust is critical. But what do you do when that trust is lacking? Dr. M. Louise Walters, founder and CEO of the consultancy the Leadership Center, recently completed her PhD thesis research on CEO-board chair relations at 501(c)(6) business leagues [PDF].

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How rigorous is your succession planning process and execution of it?

Thought Leaders LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How rigorous is your succession planning process and execution of it? Extremely — we know who’s going where next and execute the plan well 5.24%. Very — we know where most people are headed and generally execute the plan 20.95%. Somewhat — we know where key players are going but don’t always execute 33.50%.

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Behind The Curtain: How Todays Political Climate is Steering HR and DEI in 2025

Speaker: Hanh Nguyen

In today’s ever-changing world, HR professionals often find themselves juggling conflicting priorities - especially when external factors seem out of their control. As we traverse the unpredictable waters of the current political and economic landscape, we find ourselves at a crossroads. For HR leaders, understanding how these external forces shape our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts is crucial.

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College Sports’ ‘King Of NIL’ Is Racking Up Endorsement Deals At A Small HBCU

Forbes Leadership

Norfolk State’s Rayquan Smith has partnered with 69 brands, and pocketed a five-figure sum, in the 12 months since the NCAA began allowing athlete sponsorships.

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An Intersectional Approach to Inclusion at Work

Harvard Business Review

Centering your workplace design around your most marginalized employees will create a better experience for everyone.

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crop tops at work, arguing with a client, and more

Alison Green

This post, crop tops at work, arguing with a client, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. Wearing crop tops at work. Yesterday in a one-on-one meeting with my supervisor, the topic of dress code came up because of an apparent (and unknowing) violation on my part. No dress code had been shared at my hiring, and when I asked about one, I was told one still does not exist for the company.

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The ROI of Coaching: Building a Business Case for Leadership & Manager Coaching 

15Five

With the rapid technological and cultural changes our society has experienced over the last few decades, the old leadership styles leftover from the industrial age are no longer effective. The role of managers and business leaders today is moving away from one of control and authority towards more of a position of support and empathy. Though most organizations today are on board with this modern approach to management, not every person put into a leadership position has the skills or emotional i

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Engage, Empower, Excel: Transforming Performance in the New Era of Work

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

The world of work has fundamentally changed. The series of waves that the pandemic began have rippled through the Great Resignation, quiet quitting, the Great Regret, and other eloquent phrases that boil down to the same thing: people aren’t engaged at work or enabled to perform at their best. The truth is that engagement and enablement is more important than ever, but how we do it is the critical differentiator for many organizations.