Stop Developing Your Leadership – Leadership Freak

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Stop Developing Your Leadership “Developing your leadership” sounds grand. It’s useless. You can’t practice “leadership.” You can practice specific skills. Develop Skills, Not Leadership Suppose you’re an impatient listener. Don’t set a goal to “become a better listener.” Choose a specific behavior. For example: Ask one follow-up question before giving your opinion. Practice it in … Read more

Noise wants to help everyday people become paid content creators

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Marketing platform Noise aims to connect brands with content creators at a much lower cost than hiring traditional influencers or running standard ad campaigns.  That’s because many creators on the Noise platform are everyday people — anyone can download the app, regardless of follower count — and Noise presents them with campaigns they can join … Read more

Meta now lets AI agents handle the boring parts of WhatsApp Business setup

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Alongside news of its new AI-focused subscription plans, Meta announced on Tuesday that it will now allow AI agents of your choosing to set up and manage WhatsApp Business messaging, the service that allows companies to connect with customers through WhatsApp conversations. As Meta explains, this process was previously a bit more cumbersome, as it … Read more

Mastering Uncertainty | The Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog

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Mastering Uncertainty WE all face uncertainty. The question is: how can we keep performing when faced with the disorder of uncertainty? Life will not happen according to our expectations. Peak performance at all times is not realistic. Instead, success is about optimal performance. Rich Diviney states in Masters of Uncertainty that “True success in life … Read more

China-linked hackers backdoored executives' laptops via USB, exploiting a fix companies had but weren't using

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A Chinese state-linked hacking group compromised executive laptops at an agricultural industry conference on Hainan Island this spring — not through phishing or a network breach, but by breaking into hotel rooms and booting the machines from a USB stick while the executives were at dinner. CrowdStrike, which tracks the group as OVERCAST PANDA, disclosed … Read more

OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says

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OpenAI has bought smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging in a deal worth over $300 million, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The company, founded in 2019 and based in Los Altos, California, had previously raised about $30 million in funding from investors. Glass Imaging was founded by Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, … Read more

37 Proven Ways to Use AI in Marketing

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Generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Letaido have improved enormously over the past year. Parts of marketing that never seemed automatable now are, and you don’t have to be a software engineer or rocket scientist. This is a collection of 37 straightforward, useful ways to use AI in your marketing, organized by discipline, from … Read more

6 Ways to Make Adversity Useful

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6 Ways to Make Adversity Useful Adversity doesn’t create opportunity. Leaders do. Trouble can produce bitterness, blame, and paralysis. It takes leadership to transform difficulty into progress. How to Make Adversity Useful #1. Expand Perspective Don’t let difficulty be the whole story. Trouble is magnetic. distress moves to the center of life. Ask, “When have … Read more