How reading can "upgrade" your leadership skills | Presenting to the C-suite? Understand execs' passions | How small employers are tackling worker shortages
How reading can "upgrade" your leadership skills Intentionally making time to read can give leaders more insight and wisdom and let them take in new perspectives and ideas, Joe Terrell writes. Terrell compares books to upgrades for our brains' operating systems and notes that reading increases empathy. Full Story: Carey Nieuwhof (9/26)
What it takes to drive real change Qualities that make a leader a true changemaker -- attributes such as "character, hustle, heart, passion, and persistence" -- are learned traits, writes Alex Budak, faculty member at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. Full Story: Inc. (tiered subscription model) (9/25)
Knowing that your ideas are worth sharing with top executives and mapping out their "passion archetypes" to understand what they care about will make your next C-suite presentation a success, writes Alaina Love, CEO of Purpose Linked Consulting. Love outlines the different archetypes and what to keep in mind when presenting to them. Full Story: SmartBrief/Leadership (9/26)
The Landscape
How small employers are tackling worker shortages Almost 60% of small businesses are struggling to fully operate due to shortages in workers, per Vistage Worldwide, and some are getting creative to handle the situation. Keith McDonald Plumbing owner Lindsay Goodson developed a camera system to supervise junior plumbers via livestreams, while others are raising wages, creating training schools or eliminating college degree requirements. Full Story: The Wall Street Journal (9/26)
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Complaining isn't a positive outlet for frustration Complaining might make us feel better in the moment, but it can lead to rumination and obsessive thinking, harm relationships, and reduce ambition, writes licensed clinical social worker Sean Grover. When complaining has become a habit, Grover advises looking inward to understand the frustration and consider what actions could address the issue. Full Story: Psychology Today (9/23)
The Water Cooler
These modern pictures resemble the Renaissance The photos on the r/AccidentalRenaissance subreddit all look like they could come from any time between the 14th and 19th centuries, but they're all modern pictures with a decidedly Renaissance or Baroque feel. Some of the images depict a baptism in the country of Georgia, an image of a dog contemplating a plate of roast beef and an underwater shot of the US Men's Olympic Water Polo Team. Full Story: My Modern Metropolis (9/23)
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