by Dee Ann Turner Mallory started the Zoom call with her coach talking about how frustrated she was to be assigned as an on-boarding mentor to a brand new team member. It sounded like an
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Leadership Development Advice from an Expert
What is the greatest return on a leader’s time? After leaders have invested in their own leadership growth, what is the best way to accomplish their vision and grow their organizations? Develop leaders! The more
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Personal Transformation Is at Your Fingertips
Book Review by Kristen Cudd Most of us view our personality as the “real and authentic” version of ourselves. We believe that personality is something that we are born with and it cannot be changed.
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Common Ingredients of Crisis Situations – Victim Management is Paramount
by James E. Lukaszewski, America’s Crisis Guru®, ABC, APR, Fellow PRSA, BEPS Emeritus Victims are the most important ingredients of crisis. There are new versions of crisis definitions proposed each year, but after more than
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Identify the Right Talent 90% of the Time
Congratulations go out to author, Chaka Booker! His book, Mastering the Hire: 12 Strategies to Improve Your Odds of Finding the Best Hire was Soundview’s most-downloaded book summary during the month of September 2020. Our
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Today’s Urgent Need to Manage Emotional Health with Connection
by Michael Stallard Tapping into the energizing and protective power of human connection is an urgent matter today—for you and for your organization. Stress and loneliness were already high in the U.S. and the COVID-19
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Lift Your Leadership to New Heights
In 1984, Doug Conant was fired without warning and with barely an explanation. He felt hopeless and stuck, but surprisingly, this defeating turn of events turned out to be the best thing that ever happened
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Onboarding New Hires Is the Key to Retention
by Lori Kleiman Employees often state that they start looking for a new position the first week on the job. Why? Because they arrive at a new organization filled with hope and excitement and end
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Foster a Culture of Integrity at Work
Book Review by Kristen Cudd When opening a meeting for a group of fifty new hires, general counsel of Airbnb, Robert Chestnut, always asks the same seemingly simple question: “Show of hands—who in this group
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The Blindspots We Can Avoid… And the Cost if We Don’t
by Tom Rieger We Simplify. We Unify. We Justify. And Then We Fail. And after we fail, we look back and ask ourselves why we didn’t see it coming. There are spectacular examples of this, including US Steel,
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Learn How to Change Anything
Everyone has something they want to change. Marketers want to change their customers’ minds, and leaders want to change organizations. Startups want to change industries, and nonprofits want to change the world. But change is
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The 25 Best Sales Books of All Time
In case you don’t know, Soundview identifies, selects, and summarizes the best business books that are published every year. And, since we’ve been doing this for the past 41 years, we’ve seen A LOT of
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Share Ideas Clearly, Powerfully and Memorably
Projects often fail not because of the vision but the articulation of that vision. In Communicate with Mastery, authors JD Schramm and Kara Levy show how to get the results you desire as a leader
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