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The 4 Brain Superpowers You Need to Be a Successful Leader, According to Neuroscience

Kevin Chin wants his executives to limber up their brains. Chin’s investment company, Arowana, based in Melbourne Australia, is expanding into London, Los Angeles, and Asia, and “it is imperative to have a senior leadership team that is mentally agile and resilient,” says Chin. Last year, the entrepreneur began working with Tara Swart, a neuroscientist, MIT […]

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The 1 Question You Must Ask Before You Fire Someone

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I’ve had many managers report to me across my career as a leader and CEO. And over the years, many of those managers have come to me at different times to express a keen desire to fire one of their own direct reports. And every time that happened, I always reacted in the exact same

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If your Business Isn’t Doing These 5 Things, Then Your Leadership Training is a Waste of Money

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Throughout my career, I must have attended at least a dozen leadership programs whose goal was to help foster leadership skills growth within the organization. Now while many of these were fun, and I did learn a bit about myself, I wouldn’t say that the companies got anywhere near a decent recent return on their

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One Piece of Advice From Mark Zuckerberg That Will Determine Your Success (or Failure) in 2018

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Mark Zuckerberg is many things. An entrepreneur. A philanthropist. A visionary. He’s also undeniably quotable. A remark he made in 2011–when he hadn’t yet cracked the 30-years-old mark–particularly stands out as inspirational fodder for anyone determined to succeed. While speaking extemporaneously at Stanford University, he was brutally honest about what it takes to make it if you’re

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Help! I Don’t Want to Do Toastmasters With My Boss!

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Editor’s note: Inc.com columnist Alison Green answers questions about workplace and management issues — everything from how to deal with a micromanaging boss to how to talk to someone on your team about body odor. Here’s a roundup of answers to five questions from readers. 1. I don’t want to do Toastmasters with my boss!

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5 Tips To Creating A Company Environment In Which Women Thrive

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With the growth of the #MeToo and the #TimesUp movements, I think these are timely reminders of just how far we still have to go in creating businesses and environments where not only women feel safe, but also where they can thrive. Throughout my career, this has been a hot topic, there have always been initiatives

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Is Your Company’s Culture Stale?

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“I’m so grateful I have nothing left to give to my family and friends after work,” said nobody ever. Yet, we have an epidemic of exhausted, unwell, overwhelmed employees doing their best to avoid burnout. While stress plays an important role in fueling performance, distress rips apart human performance. It “takes out” highly competent people,

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The Thing That Many People Get Wrong About Giving Praise

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I have a crazy story for you. Crazy but true. So, I had a leadership position at this company years ago, and I often used to give out praise to motivate the employees. Well, one day, my HR Director told me to stop. He actually said, “You’re recognizing too many people. They don’t need to be praised for

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Best-Selling Author Adam Grant: The Most Highly-Functional Companies Have These 3 Traits

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How do the best companies create a workplace worth going to? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant is now partnering with TED to do WorkLife, a new podcast launching on February 28. In an exclusive interview, the best-selling Originals author reveals his scariest work story, the three secrets to an amazing workplace, and the one word all the great

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Uber’s CEO Just Taught a Major Lesson in Emotional Intelligence. Here It Is in 1 Sentence

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Over the past year, technology companies Uber and Waymo (the self-driving business spun out of Google) have been engaged in a battle of wills, culminating in a high-profile court case that commenced last week. Waymo has accused Uber of stealing trade secrets related to its self-driving technology. But on Friday, just four days after the

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