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If You Want to Honor Women’s Equality Day, Start by Re-evaluating the Performance Feedback You Give Women at Work

Consider the following three ways we can start mitigating our bias when it comes to how we evaluate women's performance.

By Mita Mallick

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Our Brains Are Hardwired to Resist Change — Here’s How to Leverage Neuroscience to Embrace It Instead

By Summit Ghimire

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3 Key Strategies to Ground Yourself When You Start Questioning Your ‘Why’

By Nancy Solari

Building a Business

How to Develop the Best Leadership Mindset to Execute Your Strategy

By Andrea Olson

Human Resources

Returning to Work After a Long Career Break? Remember These 5 Truths to Bounce Back With Confidence.

Many of us have taken time away from work over the last four years. There are reasons to be anxious about returning, but there are even more reasons to be excited and confident. Here are five of them.

By Amy M Chambers

Human Resources

It’s Time to Break Out of Your Comfort Zone — How to Move Into Bigger Boxes and Navigate Bigger Careers

A bigger box presents the choice: stay within the safe, smaller space or become familiar with larger spaces and grow.

By Cheri Beranek

Building a Business

Here’s The Crucial Lesson I Learned When Choosing a New CEO for My Business

As a founder, transitioning your business's operational processes to someone else is crucial. When it was the right time for me to step back, here's how I chose the right successor.

By Serge Baidin

Human Resources

Growing Up, She Was Bullied For Embracing Her Indian Heritage. Now Celebrities Like Mindy Kaling Wear Her Indian-American Fashion Brand — and She’s Aiming for Retail Stores Next.

Megha Rao is disrupting the fashion industry with her Indian-American-inspired fashion brand, holiCHIC. She's learned a lot of lessons in her journey from corporate America to entrepreneur, but here are three she wants other aspiring business owners to learn from her.

By Mita Mallick

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These 4 Daily Choices Helped Me Pave My Own Path to the C-Suite by Age 36

"Just work hard" used to be all it took to get to the top. Today's business landscape often values much more than this. Being innovative, agile and proactive are the skills that win the game today. Here's how you can use them to differentiate yourself.

By Amy M Chambers

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5 Ways Strong Leaders Navigate Uncertainty with Agility and Empathy

Thanks to myriad geopolitical events, today's business landscape is fraught with uncertainty and one crisis after the next, rendering traditional strategic planning ineffective.

By Martin Rust

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Charlamagne Tha God on Why Small Talk Sucks and Living Authentically: Insights from His New Book

Learn why Charlamagne Tha God believes in living your truth and avoiding small talk.

By Terry Rice

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Your Thought Leadership Strategy Is Probably Not Enough to Make an Impact. Here’s What It’s Likely Missing.

A well-defined thought leadership strategy takes more than authenticity.

By Megan Thudium

Business Plan

3 Leadership Qualities That Helped Keep My Business Resilient To Crises

Mindful leadership transformed my startup during a crisis. Here are three key qualities that helped: recognizing and changing destructive patterns, separating ego from self, and embracing a generative drive to lead with purpose and resilience.

By Bogdan Nesvit

Human Resources

4 Multitasking Myths That Are Destroying Your Company’s Focus

In today's world, your focus is a precious commodity – guard it fiercely.

By Artis Rozentals

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Your Definition of Leadership Is Outdated — Here’s How to Be a Better Leader in the Modern Workplace

In my nearly thirty years as a leader, I've focused on setting a clear vision and empowering my team to achieve our goals. We prioritize establishing shared objectives while allowing for flexibility when needed.

By Greg Davis

Entrepreneurs

My Employees Taught Me These 5 Lessons on Productivity

Entrepreneurs should focus on understanding and catering to individual work patterns and needs rather than enforcing one-size-fits-all productivity methods.

By Artis Rozentals

Buying a Franchise

Real Leadership Isn’t About Titles — These Are The Keys to Unleashing Your Inner Leader

Many employees think they need to have a formal title to take the lead on a project and don't believe they possess what it takes to be tapped for that management spot. Here's how to change that.

By Ray Titus

Marketing

Patagonia and Oatly Just Used This Clever Tactic for Better Brand Visibility — Here’s How You Can Replicate It

Even small and medium-sized companies can effectively leverage the same PR strategy that big brands use to earn significant media coverage and audience engagement, despite limited resources.

By Alexander Storozhuk

Building a Business

5 Insights I Learned While Growing My Business from a Startup to a 500-person Company

Scaling a startup from 10 people to 5 hundred is thrilling, but navigating the growth can be tricky. Here are 5 hard-won insights to help you transform your startup into a structured business with a clear roadmap and the right team behind you.

By Sergii Malomuzh

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Do You Diminish Your Employees? How to Be a Multiplier and Elevate the People Around You

Great leaders empower their teams by being multipliers, fostering a culture of respect, trust and innovation.

By Jason Zickerman

Human Resources

Why Business Owners Should Mix Strategy with Hands-On Involvement

Conventional wisdom says to work on the business, not in the business. That sounds like good advice, but is there more to it? Yes, and finding the balance is key to entrepreneurial success.

By Cynthia Kay

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Is Your Thought Leadership Strategy Failing? This Might Be the Reason Why — Plus 3 Ways to Turn It Around

What we all understood thought leadership to be is no longer.

By Brook Zimmatore

Human Resources

We’re Still Far From an Equal Workplace for Marginalized Communities. Employers Need to Follow These Steps for a Path to a More Equitable Future.

For Black, brown and other people from marginalized groups in the workplace, there continue to be stark inequalities that hinder our success.

By Leigh Higginbotham Butler

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How to Turn Blind Spots From Your Enemy Into Your Most Important Asset

Everyone has blind spots — but ignoring them won't make them disappear. Instead, try identifying them and learning to work with them.

By Aytekin Tank

Human Resources

Don’t Let These 3 Common Obstacles Get in Your Way — Here’s How to Turn Them Into Building Blocks for Success

We all have limitations we bring to the table — but these three business challenges are ones almost everyone is bound to face. Here's how you can ensure you have the right tools in your tool belt to overcome those challenges with ease.

By Nancy Solari

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Some Gen Z Employees Lack Enthusiasm About Work For Good Reason. Here’s Why — Plus 3 Ways to Start Motivating Them.

Many leaders are still viewing the workplace like a photographer with only one lens, but younger generations grew up with an entirely different worldview.

By Cheri Beranek

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How To Be An Empathetic Leader (Without Getting Walked All Over)

These three principles were vital in helping me scale my business to 8-figures in three years.

By Adam Kroener

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Authenticity Is the Latest Business Buzzword — But Don’t Fall Into Its Trap. You Need to Balance It With This.

While I see the value in leading with authenticity, my experiences as a CEO lead me to believe there is more to the story. Does being yourself guarantee success in a constantly changing market?

By Sabeer Nelli

Entrepreneurs

Burnout Threatens Employee Well-Being and Productivity — Here’s How to Stop It From Infiltrating Your Workplace

Keep your employees engaged and motivated by implementing these fire safety-inspired strategies to combat burnout.

By Bradley Hook

Building a Business

I Started My Business with $1,000 — It’s Now Worth Billions and Serves Over 163 Million People. These 7 Principles Were My Secrets to Success.

How seven simple principles can you help you build the business of your dreams.

By Richard Chaifetz