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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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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
7min
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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Is There Anything Left to be Said About Leadership?
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Yes, we know. There are thousands of books on leadership released every year. How to be a better leader, how to train better leaders, how to lead leaders with more leadership. etc. So it begs the question – is there anything left to be said about leadership? The three books we’re featuring in this newsletter […]
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Let’s Get Emotional: Work, Leadership, & Emotional Intelligence
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The days of cheering on the emotionless entrepreneur, ruthlessly cutting out all feelings so that they can be more effective at meeting their bottom line, are long gone. But is it possible that we still don’t have a complete grasp on the role that emotions should play in the workplace? Maybe the way we think […]
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Love It or Hate It, Selling Matters
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Ask anyone in business what they think of sales, and you’re likely to receive a strong reaction. For some, selling is the life blood of a successful business, a thrilling adventure into the mind of customers as you seek to outmaneuver the competition and conquer your market. For others, sales may as well be a […]
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Want to Make A Transformation? Start with Changing a Mind
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When it comes to setting our life and career goals, it’s often our tendency to focus on the “easily measured thing.” We identify metrics, KPIs, and timelines that we feel will help make our goals a reality. But what if the ultimate barriers to achieving our goals aren’t outside, but within us? What if by […]
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Women in Business: Not Just a Classification, but a Movement
7min
Four out of every ten businesses started every day are started by women. This number has risen dramatically in recent years, and is expected to reach roughly five in ten before long. And yet, female entrepreneurs still face tremendous obstacles in turning their visions into realities. Fortunately, there are more and more insightful, educated, and […]
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Hybrid Work: What It Means, Why We Need It, and How We’re Doing It Wrong
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A year ago, hybrid work environments – where employees split work time between in-person offices and remote setups – were reserved for forward-thinking startups, certain lucky employees, and unique companies with employees scattered around the world. Now, hybrid work environments are the norm. But are we doing them right? Has simply switching from demanding employees […]
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Want to Accomplish More? Start by Doing Less
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We all want to achieve more. We want to meet our goals, we want to impress our bosses and peers. We want to check more items off our checklists in less time. Meanwhile, there are thousands upon thousands of books promising to tell us exactly how to do it. But in this issue, we’re focusing […]
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Diversity in the Workplace: From Feel-Good Buzzword to Daily Action
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Are you an inclusive leader? In this issue, we’ll touch on three excellent books released this year, The Inclusive Leader’s Playbook: The Work of the Inclusive Leader, Corporations Compassion Culture: Leading Your Business toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Did That Just Happen?!: Beyond “Diversity” – Creating Sustainable and Inclusive Organizations, that all hone in […]
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