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How To Get More Prospects To Read Your Writing

Henry DeVries

The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If you don’t want your writing to be dead on arrival, pay heed. Here are techniques to use for your articles, blog posts, and emails.

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What do Volcanoes (and Tsunamis) Have to do With Behavior Change?

Actionable

My 5 year old son is obsessed with volcanoes. Almost every night at bedtime we are reading books about volcano facts. It’s an exciting journey for him, and I really admire the focus that he brings to bedtime story time. As it turns out, reading books about volcanoes leads to books about earthquakes, which, in […] The post What do Volcanoes (and Tsunamis) Have to do With Behavior Change?

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The Leadership Ropes Course: The Trust Fall

Makarios Consulting

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master! Chances are good that you have done a Trust Fall at some point in your life, either on a ropes course or in another team-building activity.

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The importance of not doing

Asamby Consulting

Why minimalism? The productivity myth We live our personal and professional lives in an increasingly efficient and productive world. More than at any other point in human history we have access to food, goods and knowledge in almost unlimited quantities. It has become normal to see our ability to produce increasing year over year. While this means access to basic services for millions (billions) of people and the general improvement of life standards for most of the population.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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The Leadership Ropes Course: The Trust Fall

Makarios Consulting

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master! Chances are good that you have done a Trust Fall at some point in your life, either on a ropes course or in another team-building activity.

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How to publish a book

Consulthon

I have written a book on Behaviour and culture change and this is 90% complete. Can anyone advise the manner in which I can get this published without signing away all intellectual property rights.

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Empathy Rules

Harvard Business

Four practices to help us bridge divisions and restore a sense of community.

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Our new project

Seth Godin Blog

It’s something I’ve been working on as a full-time volunteer for the last five months. And it’s something that three hundred people are building together. But I say “our” because it’s bigger than me or the three hundred of us or even the people who are reading this blog. Like it or not, this is the project of the rest of our days.

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Does Your Company Need a Chief ESG Officer?

Harvard Business

Three questions to ask before appointing one.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Forget the Target, What’s the Range?

Alan Weiss

We tend to think of success or “victory” as a bullseye. We think there’s only chance of succeeding, some royal road. In sports, one team or one person wins a game, but over the course of a season, you don’t have to win every game to be the champion. In business, there is usually a range of successful outcomes—a “feasible set” if you will—that constitutes success.

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How to Interrupt Someone’s Workday — Without Annoying Them

Harvard Business

Six research-backed strategies.

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