Get your read on this weekend with these top five stories from CLOmedia.com for the week of Aug. 11.
1. How to Win Friends and Influence Leaders: Development programs can only take flight if the rest of leadership is on board. Learn how to convince resistant leadership to adopt new initiatives using these tips, writes Andrew Fayad.
2. How Top-Ranked Companies Develop Leaders: The most profitable companies know the CEO plays a critical role in whether leadership development affects the business, writes Howard Stevens.
3. Four Ways We Sabotage Innovation Daily: What inventive employees? Make sure your organization's culture promotes creativity, writes Alan G. Robinson and Dean M. Schoreder.
4. How to Nurture an Entrepreneurial Culture: The ability to generate, vet and bring new ideas to fruition may be one of the saving graces for companies looking to grow and thrive in the current economy. Matt Reilly and Yaarit Silverstone have the story.
5. Risky Business: Millennials at Work: There are specific characteristics that make millennials the most at-risk generaton in today's workplace. These characteristics create special considerations for selecting and deploying online training and technology to properly accimilate them. Ask A Gen Y blogger and CLO editor Ladan Nikravan has more.
On Another Note …
In an era of 24/7 connectivity — as well as the expectation for bosses and co-workers that you will be accessable at all times as a result — it's become harder and harder to unplug and get away, even when on vacation. Fast Company, based on interviews with experts, gives us some strategies to make fully unplugging more of a real possibility. Among the suggestions: unplug to a level that's feasible given your job, set boundaries and communicate expectations to your boss and peers.
Read more here.
Also, how selling who you are — not what you do — is the fastest way to career success, via Business Insider. Read here.
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