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The Future of the Lifelong Learning Market: 10 Critical Insights - Tagoras
As we continue on into 2014, the pace of change remains brisk. Whether online or off, there are new opportunities and challenges to be found everywhere, and in many ways, what happens over the course...
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How To Be A Better Leader By Rewiring Your Brain - Inc.com
How To Be A Better Leader By Rewiring Your Brain Inc.com Controlling the way your brain responds to emotions isn't as complicated as it sounds. A psychologist explains the steps that will change your...
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The 5 Traits Of A Company's 'Top Talent'
Stand out from the crowd with these traits.Tom Hood's insight:Great article and I agree with the Top 5 Traits: 1) Adaptable2) Collaborative3) Adept Problem Solver4) Humility5) Leadership How about...
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What Thomas L. Friedman Didn’t Report About Getting Hired by Google
Last month, New York Times op-ed columnist, Thomas L. Friedman, wrote a column entitled, “How to Get a Job at Google.” He did not report that this is how to get a job anywhere.His op-ed focused on...
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Desperately Seeking Innovation - Leading From The Edge
Recently, I had a very interesting day of consulting with a client who is in the midst of a massive go-to-market transformation project. At the onset of our day, he laid out brilliant logic as to why...
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Selling Your Ideas Up: How to Overcome Objections and Get Your Ideas Approved
In an era of budget, time, and labor constraints, is it possible to sell your ideas and concepts (which often require money, time, and labor to implement) to the CEO, CFO, Board of Directors, orTom...
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Forward This to your CEO
You need to learn more, and you need to learn faster. Your organization's health depends on it. You need to see how things are changing BEFORE the change is beaten to death in the main stream...
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Blog Application
Did you know that "strategic thinking" ranked as one of the Top 5 Skills needed by CPAs in the future? Research conducted by the AICPA in 2011 (The CPA Horizons 2025 Project) identified the Top 5...
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Blog Application
We are well into our PIU (Professional Issues Updates) / Townhall sessions and the polling shows a consistent theme across all of our segments about what CPAs are identifying as the biggest challenges...
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Cost of Finance Teams Spiking: Report
Companies have spent years reducing the average finance team’s budget to nearly 1% of revenue, but that figure is suddenly spiking.Tom Hood's insight:What's the ROI of your finance / accounting teams?...
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Are You a Strategic Thinker? Test yourself. | Harvard Business Publishing
"Thinking strategically is not just the responsibility of upper management or an organization's CEO. It's everyone's responsibility. Do you have the characteristics of a strategic thinker? Test...
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If I Were 22: However 'Big' You're Thinking Right Now, It's Probably Too Small
This post is part of a series in which Influencers share lessons from their youth. Read all the stories here.Graduation is the prime time to think about your future—about the things you want toTom...
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For-Purpose People and Organizations Will Change the World
We attend conferences so we can deepen our knowledge and relationships. Hopefully we’ll also get recharged and inspired too but that doesn’t always happen. I was fortunate enough to come away from...
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Highly resilient people know how to bend to inevitable failures and tragedies...
Here are seven habits of people who know how to confront adversity and move on with their lives stronger than before: 1. They have a strong sense of purpose. Resilient people make a habit of being...
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Why Finding Meaning At Work Is More Important Than Feeling Happy
Get off the monotonous treadmill of your job, and seek a different running path of meaning on your journey toward career satisfaction.Tom Hood's insight:Why meaning matters (at work). With 70% of the...
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Teach the Key Ingredients for Leadership Success
Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, a world expert on hiring, did a study of C-level leaders who were fired. The conclusion: they were hired for their intelligence and business expertise, but fired for weakness...
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ADAPT OR DIE - Ivey Business Journal
Dinosaurs are an apt and widely used metaphor today. After all, if a firm can't or won't adapt, it's straight to the dustbin of business oblivion. A businessTom Hood's insight:Insightful piece on...
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6 simple steps for Building your Team's Skills
Use this framework to jump-start learning and developmentSee it on Scoop.it, via Leadership & Learning
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Sense-making and sharing
Personal knowledge mastery is about much more than watching relevant feeds on RSS, networked learning, or keeping up with new developments in your field. Meaning-making, or what Harold Jarche...
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Why Human Capital must fuel Digital Transformation
With every innovation spurt comes a fresh call for Human Capital Management to stand up and secure its place at the strategic table. The emerging concept around Digital Transformation is no...
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Talent is Everything, and Talent Can Be Developed
Ideas from Carol Dweck, Hayao Miyazaki and Ira Glass help us figure out how to grow our talent.See it on Scoop.it, via Leadership & Learning
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We are all in sales now - here is some help
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that only 1 out of nine people are in official "sales" jobs, but something is happening with the other eight of us in today's workforce. We are all in...
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The Evolution Of The Employee
This concept and the visual was taken from my new book which came out today called, The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization. One of the...
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5 Considerations for Getting Your Initiatives Approved by the Board
In today’s business environment, boards are naturally inclined toward risk assessment and caution. This occurs simultaneously and without the slightest hint of irony that business growth is also...
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Business transformation considered essential, but the enterprise struggles
According to a new report released by Oracle and Forbes, "Making the Change: Planning, Executing and Measuring a Successful Business Transformation," emerging players on the global platform now place...
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Are you ready to be a social age leader?
Industrial Age leadership was good, or at least efficient. It enabled us to get the most out of every worker; expectations were set; consequences for not meeting minimums were clear. People did what...
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What people wished their leaders knew
During my years as a consultant, I have often had people say to me, “I wish my leader knew …” to which I would encourage the individual to speak up and raise an issue of real concern so things might...
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6 simple steps for Building your Team's Skills
“Use this framework to jump-start learning and development”See it on Scoop.it, via Leadership & Learning
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8 Ways a Leader Energizes Their Team
How To Energize your Team?Tom Hood's insight:We like to say, "A leader's job is to set context, connect to the purpose and provide hope and inspiration." This article captures that spirit well....
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Building capabilities for performance | McKinsey & Company
The capabilities that companies need most have evolved, but methods of building those skills have not. Our survey finds that the most effective companies focus on sustaining skills and linking learning...
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