How to avoid common leadership mistakes Avoid leadership blunders by setting goals, defining what progress looks like, questioning your assumptions and bringing the best parts of your home-self to work with you, writes Dan Rockwell. "The bigger the gap between your home-self and your work-self, the more drudgery you experience," Rockwell writes. Full Story: Leadership Freak (9/8)
Are you a perfectionist? Here's what to do about it Perfectionism can have several adverse consequences, potentially making it more difficult to achieve work-life balance and find satisfaction. Here is a look at different kinds of perfectionism and how to address the problem by identifying the proper goals and recognizing that failure can be a part of creativity. Full Story: Harvard Business Review (tiered subscription model) (9/7)
Making the Connection
3 ways to improve employee development conversations Development conversations with employees can be more effective if they are part of "the fabric of daily life" and not one-off occasions, writes Julie Winkle Giulioni. Giulioni offers three strategies to draw out areas that team members want to develop, encourage their growth and create a sense of ownership and motivation. Full Story: SmartBrief/Leadership (9/8)
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Have you had burnout during the pandemic?
Yes, chronic burnout
25.48%
Yes, periods of burnout
54.71%
No
19.81%
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Unemployment in the US might have to rise as far as 7.5%, twice its current level, to curb inflation, according to research by a team that included two economists who work for the International Monetary Fund. That scenario would cause six million Americans to lose their jobs. Full Story: Reuters (9/7)
Revolut joins trend for withdrawing graduate job offers Online financial services provider Revolut is among the latest high-growth company that has found it necessary to withdraw employment offers it had already made to college graduates. Revolut is aiming to soften the impact by providing the affected applicants with one month in wages and a range of support services to help them find new jobs. Full Story: eFinancialCareers (9/9)
A man who was picking pine nuts with the aid of a hydrogen balloon floated more than 185 miles away from his location in China after his balloon became untethered. Rescuers were able to call the man, identified only by his surname, Hu, on his cellphone the morning after the balloon went astray and gave him instructions to guide him back to the ground. Hu, who floated from northeastern China to an area near the Russian border during the unintended excursion, got stuck in a tree on his descent. "I almost gave up," says Hu. "Thanks to the rescuers. Otherwise, I wouldn't be alive." Full Story: Global News (Canada) (9/8)
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