Wed.Aug 10, 2011

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My Interview With Yoda, Social Media Guru and Jedi Warrior

Terry Starbucker

Somewhere, in a galaxy far, far away, I had a rare chance to chat with Yoda, who, it can now be revealed, has been one of my favorite Social Media mentors. It’s a little known fact that in addition to his important duties as a Jedi Master, Yoda has been behind the scenes training many of us in the ways of Social Media. It’s a treat to be able to share with you just a little of his wisdom here.

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Leadership is Black and White

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. I was skimming through headlines on my RSS feed this past weekend when a particular title caught my eye – it simply read: “ Situational Ethics.&# Have we really devolved to this level of thinking? Situational Ethics – Really? If ever there was an oxymoron this is it. While this phrase seems to be getting play in some circles, my opinion is that it’s nothing more than the latest politically correct sound-bite which attempts

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A Simple High Performance Model

Great Leadership By Dan

I just made this up. Comments? PLEASE steal it, adapt it, (there's no copyright), use it to assess talent, and stop tolerating crappy behavior in exchange for results.

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Beginning the Practice of Personal Change

Persuasive Powerhouse

I love the way that some Eastern religions and ancient arts speak of developing a new habit as “practice” Whether it’s learning to meditate, stay calm in a crazy world or to be present in the moment, these are something we practice, rather than “do” I imagine this is because we never reach perfection and a practice allows us to make mistakes and forgive them.

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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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Vitality: Collisions Between Stability & Instability

Leadership Freak

Image source I’m grappling with how much change is too much. It feels like I’m surrounded by people that love stability and predictability – things low on my list of priorities. Collisions: The collision between change agents and stabilizers is inevitable, dynamic, potentially dangerous, and theoretically useful. Stabilizers apart from change agents are dangerous.

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Ethics Codes: Describing Expected Ethical Behavior

Leading in Context

Ethics Codes are Recommended You don't have to be a big business to stray (intentionally or unintentiaonally) into unethical business behavior. That's why ethics codes are recommended for any size business these days.

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4 Steps to Gathering Information for Manager Effectiveness

Mike Cardus

As a Manager of Managers how do you gather information about their effectiveness in a way that is accurate? In an earlier post “ 7 Ways Managers Can Evaluate Effectiveness of Other Managers ” We explored 7 key processes and systems that all managers must do. In this post we will explore sources to gather information about manager subordinate effectiveness.

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Temporal Orientations: Time Matters in Planning

LDRLB

“Planning advocates provide little assistance to the administrator in meeting these challenges. Vague statements about planned change, elaborate schematic drawings of the planning function, diverse planning models, and five-year plans that are in fact “shelf-documents” created for evaluation agencies or for year-end reports offer minimal assistance to top-level managers as they respond to internal and external governance systems”.

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Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters Richard Rumelt Crown Business (2011) How and why a good strategy “acknowledges the challenges being faced and provides an approach to overcome them” As the title of this review correctly indicates, Richard Rumelt is convinced (and I agree) that a good strategy can provides both a [.].

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Are you making yourself recommendable?

CO2

A quest for the best gelato. One of my best friends told me that I had to go to this one particular gelateria–that it was “the best&# in Italy! She said it was just two doors down on the street to the right of the Duomo in Florence. When she described this to me in Minneapolis, it sounded straight forward. Standing in front of the massive Duomo and facing a cobweb of interconnecting streets, I wasn’t sure that I would be able to find it, but I was determined to try.

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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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The culture of engagement: 13 core elements

First Friday Book Synopsis

Over the years, I have probably read and then reviewed about 65-70 books in which their authors discuss one or more aspects of organizational culture. A few address employee engagement. Hopefully, a high percentage of those who share a workplace — at all levels and in all areas of operation — are positively and productively [.].

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Temporal Orientations: Time Matters in Planning

LDRLB

'“Planning advocates provide little assistance to the administrator in meeting these challenges. Vague statements about planned change, elaborate schematic drawings of the planning function, diverse planning models, and five-year plans that are in fact “shelf-documents” created for evaluation agencies or for year-end reports offer minimal assistance to top-level managers as they respond to internal and external governance systems”.

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How to Convince Others to Embrace Risk

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. The recession caused people to focus on what they had to lose, rather than what they had to gain. But without some risk-taking, there is no innovation [.].

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Leadership Caffeine Podcast-Kevin Oakes on Integrated Talent Management

Management Excellence

I had the great fortune recently to connect with Kevin Oakes, CEO of The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4CP) on his new book as co-editor with Pat Galagan, The Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management. In this episode, Kevin offers insights for all of us on the promise and challenges of Integrated Talent Management. I had the great fortune recently to connect with Kevin Oakes, CEO of The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4CP) on his new book as co-editor with Pat Galagan, The

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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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5 Ways to Deal with Your Past

Ron Edmondson

I’m a huge proponent of moving forward. I’ve never been a fan of remaining in the past. That could be because I’ve had some past I’d rather not remember… It could be because I am very forward-thinking… Either way, I’d prefer to reconcile the past, make the most of it, and get on with my life. Bottom line, however, is that there are really a few choices when it comes to dealing with the past.

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Do You Practice TRX's 'P' In Its FACEUP Values At Your Company?

Eric Jacobson

At TRX in San Francisco, about 10 percent of employees' performance evaluations cover how they live the company's values, expressed by the acronym FACEUP. The P is for physical and TRX takes that seriously. As recently reported in Inc. magazine, at the start of each year, supervisors ask their reports to set personal athletic objectives. The goals can be dunk a basketball or do 10 perfect pushups or run a 5K.

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The TKO Interview: Five Ways to Fire Before You Hire… and Find the Right Person for the Job

Strategy Driven

Hasty hiring brings eventual firing. These wise words should be the mantra for every organization hiring from today’s overcrowded job market. Especially if your company’s current hiring process consists of putting out a job posting, sifting through résumés, and hiring the first person who doesn’t throw up a major red flag during an interview, it’s time to consider a renewed approach.

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LIFE on a Motorcycle

Chris Brady

Below is another small excerpt from a rough draft of my "Italy book" (still as yet untitled): I had one more day left with the motorcycle and took an extended ride to savor the last moments with my. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Avoid These Traps and LOL for Peak Performance

The Practical Leader

I recently came across this bit of wisdom from an unknown author, “ Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold — but so does a hard-boiled egg.&# Way too many managers confuse intentions, plans, and declarations with actions. Managers must LOL — lead out loud — if they are going to bring about culture change and shift behavior for higher levels of customer service, quality, safety, productivity, or innovation.

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The Great Splintering

Harvard Business Review

I grew up a global orphan, and I call London my home today. The simple reason I chose to live there was this: first and foremost, I'd never met a city that let a mutt like me be myself. And yet, over the last several years or so, gradually, almost imperceptibly at first, the tenor of my city has changed. The convulsions of violence that have wracked London and other British cities seem to have exploded overnight, but I'd bet those of us living here know: that fuse has been long burning.

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12 Quotes from Great Poets - They Had Something to Say

Building Personal Strength

Once upon a time, people went to bookstores, bought books of poetry, and read them. A book of poetry could become a best-seller. People would sit and talk about new works from the major poets. Those days are over. Emily Dickinson, circa 1848. Poetry was killed by the liberal, anything-goes revolution of the 1960s. After a while, it became politically incorrect to declare what was good poetry and what was bad.

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Two Rules for Unleashing Your Company's Innovation Energy

Harvard Business Review

The other day one of my colleagues had an interesting idea. He observed how we basically have two ways of engaging with clients. One is to form a consulting team that works with a client for several months. That hands-on guidance is valuable but too expensive for some companies. The other approach is a workshop where we train a group of people over one to three days.

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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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Four Steps to Fixing Your Bad Data

Harvard Business Review

At this point, most everyone has heard that S&P downgraded U.S. government debt on Friday. An important piece of the story involves the $2.1 trillion error in debt that S&P provided in its original rationale. As one might expect, officials are using the error and S&P's earlier failure to properly rate bundled mortgage products to argue that the downgrade is incorrect.

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Great Leaders Wear Big Hats

Harvard Business Review

Do you remember the old American Western movies where the sheriff with the big white hat rode onto the scene to bring law and order to the frontier town? Having grown up with these movies, the image of the heroic leader with the big hat still sticks in my mind. But today we don't see many big hats around anymore — and it's not just because 21st Century leaders dress differently.