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May 3, 2022
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Getting Ahead
New leaders should take the first month to meet people and learn, the second month to start planning and select priorities, and the final 40 days to evaluate subordinates while enacting customer-specific strategies, writes Profit Isle Chairman Jonathan Byrnes. "Most importantly, through this process you will be tacitly communicating to your organization that you are a thorough, grounded, visionary manager who will lead the organization to achieve far-reaching goals," Byrnes writes.
Full Story: StrategicCFO360 (4/29) 
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As the lines between work and personal life continue to blur, more attention is being paid to the impact corporate behavior can have on employees. This article looks at the varying levels of moral stressors being places on employees and what experts say workers can do to reconcile compromising situations.
Full Story: Harvard Business Review (tiered subscription model) (4/29) 
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Broadcaster Rich Eisen on crafting a personal brand
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Longtime sportscaster and host Rich Eisen shares lessons about building his personal brand by being genuine, as well as why he's not afraid of failure. "Doors slam in your face no matter how many years you're in the business," Eisen says.
Full Story: Inc. (tiered subscription model) (4/28) 
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The Landscape
Research by Yuval Engel, an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, discovered that startup founders have very different approaches to naming their companies. Novice founders try hard to describe exactly what their companies do, or "cognitive naming," while more experienced entrepreneurs come up with names that have an emotional appeal, or "emotive naming."
Full Story: The Wall Street Journal (5/1) 
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Fidelity Investments is preparing to launch what it calls a "flexibility first" work arrangement, describing it as "an approach that will combine remote work with purposeful time onsite helping to balance associates' work and life needs." The company also plans to enhance training opportunities in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology and add new worker benefits such as parental leave, while continuing to boost workforce numbers with 12,000 new hires by September.
Full Story: Financial Advisor IQ (4/29) 
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MakeMyMove.com's list of the best companies for job applicants seeking complete remote work is dominated by tech firms such as Hubstaff, Swiftly, Doist and Ghost. "I absolutely think we're going to see more workers transition from in-person and hybrid jobs to remote in the coming months," Evan Hock, president of MakeMyMove.com.
Full Story: CNBC (4/29) 
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The Water Cooler
Beer consumption in the US is mapped
The folks over at The Beer Institute put together this thirst-inducing map of beer consumption in the US. The data includes how much beer each state consumed, how many breweries are in each state and each state's favorite beer. New Hampshire and Montana are the wettest states while Maryland and the District of Columbia are the driest spots. And you can talk all you want about microbrews, but it looks like Bud is still the King of Beers in most US states.
Full Story: Visual Capitalist (4/29) 
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