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Finding the Truth in the Topic | Mark Miller

Peter Winick

Creating thought leadership that has universal appeal on important topics. An interview with Mark Miller about the process used to write and market his ideas. When you start a new thought leadership project, what’s the first question you ask? Do you look at who the project is for? What does it mean to your organization? What the ROI could be? Today’s guest asks the question, “What is universally true about this topic?

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Your Data Strategy Needs to Include Everyone

Harvard Business Review

An entirely new “management paradigm” for data is needed. As used here, a “management paradigm” embodies a common language, a holistic vision of the ways data should contribute, a clearly defined organizational structure showing how data integrates across the organization, along with clear roles and responsibilities for all involved. Eventually, it needs to incorporate corporate culture, relationships with universities and vendors, policy, and anything else that advances, or holds back the effec

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Successful Teams Have Great Leaders Who Do These 4 Things

Lolly Daskal

The success of an organization is often dependent on the strength and cohesion of its teams. Great teams are made up of individuals who work well together, share common goals, and are committed to achieving success. They are led by an effective leader who understands the importance of fostering a positive and inclusive culture, and who knows how to get the best out of their team members.

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Former Spymaster Hakan Fidan Assumes Leadership Of Turkey's Foreign Ministry

Forbes Leadership

Hakan Fidan, the former head of the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT), has been appointed as the country's new foreign minister.

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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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Storytelling with Thought Leadership | Adam Zuckerman, Mary J. Cronin, Michelle Mellon, and Christopher Brace

Peter Winick

Connecting storytelling to thought leadership. A compilation of advice for using storytelling for impactful thought leadership. Storytelling is one of the most powerful ways you can elevate your thought leadership. It can create an emotional connection, convey the need for change, or provide a vision of the future. In this episode, we collect advice from our experts on the various ways a thought leader can utilize the storytelling skill to elevate their content.

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To Build a Top Performing Team, Ask for 85% Effort

Harvard Business Review

An outdated way of thinking about peak performance is: “maximum effort = maximum results.” But research shows that it doesn’t actually work that way in reality. Here’s what actually works: The 85% rule, which counterintuitively suggests that to reach maximum output, you need to refrain from giving maximum effort. Operating at 100% effort all of the time will result in burnout and ultimately less-optimal results.

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Artificial Intelligence Is Getting Regulated

Forbes Leadership

Like any new innovation or product, there is an accompanying concern over how the use of artificial intelligence may affect people. There have been calls for regulation in response to privacy, copyright infringement, disrupting existing businesses, discrimination and other matters.

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The Innovation Mindset | Jennifer Kenny

Peter Winick

Innovation in consulting and authoring. An interview with Jennifer Kenny about the concepts and process of writing her book The Innovation Mindset. Consultants often approach clients seeking to answer the question, “How can I help you?” What would happen if you instead asked, “What can you and I create together, to solve the problem?” Our guest today is Jennifer Kenny.

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Managing the Risks of Generative AI

Harvard Business Review

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become widely popular, but its adoption by businesses comes with a degree of ethical risk. Organizations must prioritize the responsible use of generative AI by ensuring it is accurate, safe, honest, empowering, and sustainable. Organizations need to be mindful of the ethical implications and take necessary steps to reduce risks.

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How to Foster a Culture of Innovation and Creativity in Your Team

Lolly Daskal

Innovation and creativity are important drivers of success for any business or organization. They allow teams to come up with new ideas. They also solve problems in creative ways, and stay ahead of the competition. Here are some steps you can take to foster a culture of innovation and creativity within your team: Encourage open-mindedness and divergent thinking: Encourage your team to think outside the box and consider multiple perspectives.

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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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This Overlooked Form Of Career Discrimination Creates Mental Health Problems, Study Shows

Forbes Leadership

Addressing all forms of career discrimination from race, gender, age, to sexual orientation is essential. A new study identifies one type of overlooked bias that leads to increased stress and lower productivity.

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Do you have diverse offerings and a diverse client base?

Peter Winick

Transcript Hi there, it’s Peter Winick. I’m the founder and CEO at Thought Leadership Leverage, and here’s the thought that I’d like to share with you today, and it’s this: in my work with lots of different authors, speakers, academics, thought leaders, and consultants from around the world, I noticed that there’s often a lack of diversity.

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What Will Working with AI Really Require?

Harvard Business Review

To foster a symbiotic relationship between humans and AI, organizations must find the appropriate balance between investing in human skills and technological capabilities, and think strategically about how they attract and retain talent. To do this effectively, they need to think about where and how this technology will be used to assist people in their work — where people and machines will collaborate — and where either people or AI have skills that give them a clear advantage.

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How the Best Leaders Navigate Office Politics Effectively

Lolly Daskal

Office politics can be a fact of life in any organization, and it can be especially challenging for leaders who are trying to navigate complex interpersonal dynamics and conflicting agendas. However, the best leaders are able to navigate office politics effectively, and use it to their advantage to drive success for their team and the organization as a whole.

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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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Finding Self-Confidence When Intimidating Types Get to You

Thought Leaders LLC

When you’re feeling rattled by big wigs and VIPs, simple mindset and body language adjustments can help you step into power. Today’s guest post is by Selena Rezvani, author of Quick Confidence: Be Authentic, Create Connections and Make Bold Bets On Yourself (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Have you ever had one of those career moments where you felt like you’d made it?

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10 Signs It's Time To Leave A Toxic Workplace

Forbes Leadership

If you dread going to work every day, you might be stuck in a toxic workplace. Here are 10 signs that it's time to move on.

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AI Prompt Engineering Isn’t the Future

Harvard Business Review

Despite the buzz surrounding it, the prominence of prompt engineering may be fleeting. A more enduring and adaptable skill will keep enabling us to harness the potential of generative AI? It is called problem formulation — the ability to identify, analyze, and delineate problems.

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Many Great Leaders Make This Simple Mistake When Leading Others

Lolly Daskal

Many great leaders make the simple mistake of thinking that their role is to tell others what to do. While it is important for leaders to provide direction and guidance. It’s equally important for them to listen to and understand the perspectives of their team members. Here are four ways that a simple leadership mistake can cause those you lead to be distressed: It can lead to a lack of trust and respect: When leaders constantly tell their team members what to do, it can create a culture o

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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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How to Conduct a DEI Survey in the Workplace

15Five

Any good diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategy starts with employees. After all, they’re the people who work in your organization and will be impacted by your DEI efforts. So to gain insights that help your DEI work, it’s worthwhile to run a DEI survey to understand the current state of DEI in the workplace, gather employee sentiment, and make data-driven decisions about your DEI strategy.

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The Leader’s Toolkit For Developing Empathy And Compassion

Chief Executive

Apart from the general survival value of empathy and compassion, these two traits combine to increase a leader’s influence dramatically. Empathy paired with compassion is the glue that binds leaders and their people together in positive, productive relationships. Some experts think of empathy and compassion as part of the same human capacity. Others may use the terms “empathetic” and “compassionate” interchangeably.

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3 Strategies to Boost Sales and Marketing Productivity

Harvard Business Review

A study of B2B companies found that just one in 20 was able to consistently grow sales faster than sales and marketing expenses. As companies seek to cut costs in an uncertain economy, increasing this commercial productivity is a smart strategy. Research shows the three ways companies can do this are to refine the go-to-market model, turn every rep into an A player, and make sales and marketing support more efficient.

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Unleashing the Power of Atomic Habits with Rhythm Systems

Rhythm Systems Growth

We all have goals, but achieving them can be daunting. It is common knowledge that most goals fail because of a lack of consistency and accountability. Establishing a habit-forming rhythm of work with a structured cadence process can fix this problem early in the process of creating atomic habits. By integrating technology with an approach toward strategic goal planning, organizations can establish a way to set and achieve their long-term goals.

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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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New eBook: Best Interview Questions to Ask Job Candidates

Refresh

Creating a successful and productive team starts with finding great employees who fit your organizational culture. And while you may receive hundreds of job applications from interested parties, narrowing down the talent pool to hire the right candidate goes beyond what hiring managers can surmise by reading cover letters and resumes, especially when studies show 85% of applicants lie on their resumes.

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When and How to Resign from a Management Position

Get Lighthouse

"I'm a mid-level leader at my company and really unhappy. How do you know when to quit your job, when so many others depend on you?" Quitting as a manager is always difficult, and it's not an easy decision. However, it's one of the many questions we've heard before. In the process of growing Lighthouse and writing this blog, we have talked to a lot of leaders.

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7 Ways to Make Employees Feel Respected, According to Research

Harvard Business Review

Treating everyone with respect is the foundation of good leadership. Employees who feel disrespected are more likely to also feel excluded or even inferior. The authors offer seven behaviors, based on their analysis of data collected from more than 4,500 employees, that lead to a demonstration and feeling of respect. These include valuing diversity, staying in touch with individuals’ issues and concerns, building trusted, resolving conflicts, balancing results with a concern for others, encourag

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How good are you at taking all your vacation time each year?

Thought Leaders LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How good are you at taking all your vacation time each year? Great! I never let a vacation day go to waste 35.79% Okay. I take most of my vacation days but a few go unused 24.42% Not good. I usually have a lot of unused vacation at the end of the year 31.77% Poor. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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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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AI & Automation: Real Tips From Real CEOs

Chief Executive

American factories and warehouses are undergoing an automation boom that was well on its way before the pandemic, was supercharged by the virus, spurred further by supply-chain debacles and generational labor shortages, and now is entering a new phase in which companies’ need to reshore industrial operations has become another driving force. Sure, the arrival of ChatGPT has created existential questions for everyone from lawyers to artists to financial planners.

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Does Your Direct Report Have Leadership Potential? 14 Signs They Do

Niagara Institute

Being an effective leader requires going beyond meeting deadlines and achieving goals. The best leaders understand they play a critical role in identifying and nurturing the next generation of leaders by developing and coaching them to be ready to take on increased responsibilities.

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Build a Strong Learning Culture on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

With the nature of work changing so rapidly, it’s no longer enough just to offer employees opportunities for upskilling and reskilling. Companies also need to help workers become “expert learners” — and a key way of doing that, the learning-and-development expert James McKenna writes, is to follow the principles of the Universal Design Framework for learning, or UDL.

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In Dialogue: Sidus Space Founder And CEO And Navy Veteran Carol Craig On Breaking Glass Ceilings And The Future Of Space, Part 2

Forbes Leadership

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Sidus Space founder and CEO Carol Craig—who has broken multiple glass ceilings in two different historically male-dominated

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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.