Thu.Jan 12, 2012

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Fear Factor is a Game for Great Leaders

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Whether you’re male or female, big or small, young or old, it is almost guaranteed that you’re afraid of something. In fact, you probably wouldn’t admit to some of your fears and may not even be aware of others. Spiders, cockroaches, snakes, sharks, heights, the dark, small spaces, clowns, the boogeyman, ghosts – just a [.].

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6 Reasons You Should Hire a Website Designer to do your Website & Social Media

Women on Business

A common mistake that start-up entrepreneurs make with their online presence is trying to save money by doing it all themselves and not hiring a website designer. While this may save money in the short term, in the end you usually end up with a design that you don’t really love, and a site that doesn’t really make money for you and your business. One of the best investments you can make in your business it to hire a professional website designer to help you get your online presence off on the ri

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Five Reasons Performance Reviews Suck

Leadership Freak

** Every performance review I ever had was a colossal waste of time. The dust laying on yours indicates it’s not worth the paper it’s printed on. Performance reviews are like Santa Clause, they don’t really deliver. Yet, organizations are filled with true believers who persist in wasting time, demotivating employees, and creating more paperwork. [.].

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Hate Your Job? Start Your Own Business.

Rich Gee Group

It's easier than you think.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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How to Overcome Poor Presentation Skills

Coaching Tip

The higher you go up the corporate ladder, your technical skills become less important and your social skills become more important. Why is that? If your operational management was in a technical area, you now have the ability to delegate the data gathering and analyzing tasks to others while it is your responsibility to educate the leadership of the organization and industry why, what and how action must be taken based upon what the analysis reports.

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“Steve Jobs was the greatest advocate for the customer I have ever seen” – the insight of the year!

First Friday Book Synopsis

Last Friday at our First Friday Book Synopsis, I presented my synopsis of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson for the first time. I repeated it to another audience on Tuesday and, I suspect, will do so a number of more times in the weeks/months to come. I have found that a book synopsis is a [.].

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Escape Velocity

CO2

If you want to escape from the pull of earth’s gravity, you need to jettison away at 7 miles per second. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that the greater the gravitational pull, the greater speed you must go to escape. When you’re looking to change your life and escape an organization, you are subject to gravitational forces.

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Continuous Improvement Programs Offer Competitive Advantages On Key Financial Metrics

Six Disciplines

IndustryWeek recently reported on a survey it conducted with TBM Consulting about the impact of continuous-improvement programs on three financial metrics: anticipated revenue growth, operating income growth, and cash flow over the past year. “Across the board, companies with no continuous improvement programs performed worse across all three measures,” TBM Consulting researchers revealed here: More than 50% of respondents with no continuous improvement program said they expect reven

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What business can do to restart growth

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from still another outstanding article written by Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Charles Roxburgh, featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly (September 2011), published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, obtain information about the firm, access other resources, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * [.].

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Your Invitation to Re-Energize Education

Steve Farber

Imagine what could happen if every educator, business person, parent, and citizen who is passionate about transforming education (and that should be everyone ) stepped up to help each other do just that…that’s the process we’re going to begin on the evening of February 2, on the USS Midway in San Diego. If you’ll be in the area, please join us.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Joe’s Journal: On Tyranny and the Organization (Part 2)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is the latest post by Joseph A. Maciariello featured in the Joe’s Journal series at the Drucker Exchange (Dx) sponsored by the Drucker Institute. The Dx is a platform for bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership. It is produced by the Drucker Institute, a think tank and action tank based at Claremont [.].

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Leaders: Tips For How To Reach Your Goals

Eric Jacobson

Social psychologist, Heidi Grant Halvorson, wrote Succeed to help you understand how goals work, what tends to go wrong, and what you can do to reach your goals or to help others reach theirs. Because many of us may soon start struggling to fulfill our New Year's Resolutions (goals), Halvorson's book, packed with the findings from her own research, along with the most useful tips from academic journals and handbooks, is a timely read.

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Capturing New Markets: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Capturing New Markets: How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others Don’t Stephen Wunker McGraw-Hill (2011) How to locate, penetrate, and dominate in new markets or in new customer segments Opinions are divided (sometimes sharply divided) about where and how to generate new revenue sources when competing in a global economy such as the current one, and [.].

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You Have the Right to Defend Your Stream

Managing Communities

photo credit: Gord Bell If you are like me, you have many different social streams of information that you pay attention to. These streams usually contain information from people that you have subscribed to in some way, whether you call it friending, following or something else. When we interact via platforms that have some sort [.].

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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“Steve Jobs was the greatest advocate for the customer I have ever seen” – the insight of the year!

First Friday Book Synopsis

Last Friday at our First Friday Book Synopsis, I presented my synopsis of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson for the first time. I repeated it to another audience on Tuesday and, I suspect, will do so a number of more times in the weeks/months to come. I have found that a book synopsis is a [.].

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Why I Hate Religion, but Love Jesus

Ron Edmondson

You’ve probably seen this on Facebook, but just in case you haven’t… Related posts: 25 Things to Hate About Facebook…Introduce Web 3.0. Book Giveaway: Hell Is Real, but I Hate to Admit It. I Hate Job Titles.

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Joe’s Journal: On Tyranny and the Organization (Part 2)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is the latest post by Joseph A. Maciariello featured in the Joe’s Journal series at the Drucker Exchange (Dx) sponsored by the Drucker Institute. The Dx is a platform for bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership. It is produced by the Drucker Institute, a think tank and action tank based at Claremont [.].

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Recommended Resource – How to Win Friends & Influence People

Strategy Driven

How To Win Friends and Influence People. by Dale Carnegie. About the Reference. How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is the timeless classic that reveals how leaders can engage and motivate individuals to become teams; joining together to achieve a common purpose and produce more than the sum of their singular efforts. This book unveils: The six ways to make people like you.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Capturing New Markets: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Capturing New Markets: How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others Don’t Stephen Wunker McGraw-Hill (2011) How to locate, penetrate, and dominate in new markets or in new customer segments Opinions are divided (sometimes sharply divided) about where and how to generate new revenue sources when competing in a global economy such as the current one, and [.].

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With Every Decision a Leader Makes…

Ron Edmondson

With every decision a leader makes … Some will agree. Some will disagree. Some won’t understand. Some won’t care. While I think it’s important to keep that in mind, while I believe completely in accountability in leadership, even after the decision is made, ultimately the leader’s greatest attention should be: Making the right decision for the organization regardless of other people’s opinion.

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What business can do to restart growth

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from still another outstanding article written by Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Charles Roxburgh, featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly (September 2011), published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, obtain information about the firm, access other resources, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * [.].

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New posts on #ecademy

Rapid BI

Ecademy member makes worlds top 100 tweeters list on Leadership Ecademy member makes worlds top 100 tweeters list on Leadership Well what do you know Today I received a tweet from Evan Carmichael, saying I have been included on his top 100 tweeters on leadership. Now if you don’t know Evan, he runs a well [.].

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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Battling Entitlement, the Innovation-Killer

Harvard Business Review

Entitlement : (n.) the belief that one is deserving of, or entitled to certain privileges. Twenty minutes into my daughter's tennis lesson, trying to be efficient, I began to pick up the loose balls on the court. Her instructor stopped me. "Parents," he said, "can mollycoddle their kids, but when they're with me, they clean up their own mess.". Entitlement is pervasive in American culture.

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RapidBI in top 100 Tweeters on Leadership

Rapid BI

A great list of people to follow on twitter who tweet about leadership. Proud to have been included.

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Maximize Your Job Search Efforts

Harvard Business Review

Massive outreach to a strong professional network is the best way to find new job opportunities. It's also a good way to test your personal strategy. You'll talk with tens — maybe hundreds — of people. It sounds easy. Once you have the contacts, one big blast should do the trick, right? No way. Unmanaged outreach is the path to missed opportunities.

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Lemonjello’s Leads by Example with Zero Waste Sustainability Policy

Modern Servant Leader

It is a common occurrence now: coffee shop patrons holding their trash in hand, searching in vain for a garbage can. However, there are no trash cans for patrons. Lemonjello’s pursues a zero waste policy. To do so, they’ve removed public trash cans and asked customers to place any trash in the dish bin. Employees then sort recycling and compost materials.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Why "Break Technologies" Will Change Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Business is dynamic. Regardless of how well-positioned you are, how thoughtfully you've planned for the future, or how well you satisfy customers, your strategic plan will not always be on target. For the sake of this article, we can assume that much to be a fact of life. So if we can't perfectly predict the future from where we stand, we need to be able to quickly recognize when our plans need to change.

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Three secrets to effective emails

Rajesh Setty

What is an effective email? One that achieves its purpose. For example, if you wanted the recipient to take some action and after reading that email, the recipient takes that action, then we might classify that email as effective. In the same way, you wanted the recipient to take some action but after reading that email, the recipient DOES NOT take that action, we might classify that email as not-so-effective email.

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The Right Mindset for Success

Harvard Business Review

An interview with Carol Dweck , professor at Stanford University and author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Download this podcast.

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Three secrets to effective emails

Rajesh Setty

What is an effective email? One that achieves its purpose. For example, if you wanted the recipient to take some action and after reading that email, the recipient takes that action, then we might classify that email as effective. In the same way, you wanted the recipient to take some action but after reading that email, the recipient DOES NOT take that action, we might classify that email as not-so-effective email.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.