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The Art of Persuasion Storytelling
7min
There’s a stigma wrapped around selling that it has to feel tricky with lies, deceit, or ill intent. In this month’s Edge, we take a look at three titles that dissect the art of selling with stories, while keeping ethics intact. In It Goes Without Selling, author Dr. Eyal Matan explains how to tap into […]
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Conversation: The Human Connection
7min
We are human beings, and the one thing that’s absolutely necessary for us to thrive is the connection with others. In this month’s Edge, we dive into three titles all written by Patrick King. The first is Improve Your People Skills, where King encourages his readers to foster connections with people. The second being Better […]
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Uncertainty Is Inevitable. How Can We Navigate Through It?
7min
Uncertainty is a fundamental aspect of our lives, whether we like it or not. The future is always uncertain, and we never know what lies ahead. However, how we deal with uncertainty is what sets us apart from others. It can be daunting but can also be an opportunity for growth and development. In a […]
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Leadership Over Yourself, Leadership Over Your Health
7min
At a time when we are all juggling multiple responsibilities and facing constant pressure in our professional and personal lives, it can be easy to neglect our own wellbeing. But taking care of our physical and mental health is essential not only for our personal happiness, but also for our success in our careers and […]
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Public Speaking is Public Being
7min
What does improving your public speaking really mean? Does it mean you’ll make more sales? Convince people to see things your way? Those are just effects. The purpose of mastering public speaking is much broader— it’s about taking control of your own voice and making what you think and feel on the inside clearer and […]
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Productivity for a Better Life, Not Just a Better Career
7min
We all understand what productivity is. It’s doing more, accomplishing more, and getting more out of our allotted time in a given day. Productivity is the way we turn ideas or goals into finished products. But that all describes what productivity is, not what productivity is for. That’s where we often miss the point. Productivity […]
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Why We Need Managers – And How to Be the Kind of Manager We Need
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Everybody loves leaders. We read all the leadership books, listen to all the leadership podcasts, and soak up all the knowledge and wisdom we can about what makes a leader truly great. But managers? Those we have fallen a bit out of love with. The much-maligned manager is actually an essential role that’s not done […]
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Mastering Digital Marketing (Without the Marketing Degree)
7min
Nowadays, digital marketing is less of an industry and more of an entire universe. As the tools we use to market ourselves online have become more powerful and widespread, choosing betweenthem has also become more complicated. Where do you start? How do you know that someone knows what they’re talking about when they claim to […]
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Teams, Trust, and Talking About Culture
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Organizational culture is a hot topic, but sometimes we need to start on a smaller scale. After all, though we’re all part of organizations both big and small, the team is the unit we interact with the most on a daily basis. So how can we make sure our teams are connecting, engaging with each […]
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Overcoming Burnout: It’s About Much More than the Bottom Line
7min
Burnout. The word alone likely evokes negative feelings in anyone who reads it, because the fact is we’ve probably all experienced it. We sit down at our desk or enter our workplace and simply feel lifeless, like we’ve been running a marathon and simply can’t go another step. Or maybe we’re going through the motions, […]
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Find the Best. Attract the Best. Make The Best Better.
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Maybe you’ve noticed— there’s a major talent crisis going on. Talented people are leaving their companies, and companies everywhere are competing with dozens of others to bring talented people into the fold. Identifying talented people is one thing. But identifying them, convincing them that your organization is the place to be, then setting them up […]
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Culture Is A Verb: Going Beyond Values to Ensure Organizations Can Thrive
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Workplace culture is often something we talk about at the organizational level. We read about organizations who have made culture central to their identity, and as a result have become icons we all look up to and strive to emulate. But is it possible that in our efforts to make culture central to our organizations, […]
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