Mon.Aug 22, 2011

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What I Learned on a Coast Guard Cutter

Next Level Blog

For the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity each Fall to talk leadership with the newly promoted admirals of the U.S. Coast Guard and their Senior Executive Service counterparts from the. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Today’s Quote

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development "Leaders help people see that what they are doing is bigger than themselves and bigger, even than the business." Kouzes & Pozner ~ Today’s Quote.

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Learning is More Than a Spectator Sport

Persuasive Powerhouse

Years of attending training programs where I sat in a chair and listened to PowerPoint presentations had made me weary of such events. After the training was finished, I’d head back to the office and the material I was given in the program would sit on my desk for a week or two as I got involved in the day to day craziness. I might tell the staff about what I’d learned but eventually, the books would go up on the shelf and gather dust.

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Leaders Enlarge Purpose

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Leaders help people see that what they are doing is bigger than themselves and bigger, even than the business. ~ Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner Leaders Enlarge Purpose.

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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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Seven Ways The Best Leaders Set an Example By Going First

Kevin Eikenberry

To lead someone or something means, literally, to be in front, so that others can see and follow in that direction. Stated another way, if you think you are leading, but no one is following, you are just taking a walk. In yet other words, leaders are leaders because of what they do, not because [.].

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I’ll Pay You To Go Away- Leadership Lessons From Jersey Shore

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership What does Leadership have to do with Reality TV? A LOT… From “Survivor&# to “The Apprentice&# , these shows are impacting our leadership culture. This genre of television leads the networks as having one of the most loyal of all fan bases, and I must admit I have my own favorites. I’ve always been a fan [.

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The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

Hello everyone! Hope your having a good start to your week thus far. Last week I came across so many great blog posts, and it was not easy selecting just five of my favorites. Enjoy the five I chose to share with you and feel free to comment. Paul Castain, Sales Playbook: 3 Ways To A Better "But" - No, I did not misspell the word "but," and this is not a post about shaping up your rear end.

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Say it Quick! 99-Word Stories About Leadership, Learning, and Life by Brian Remer

Kevin Eikenberry

This week’s Resource Recommendation is Say it Quick! 99-Word Stories About Leadership, Learning, and Life by Brian Remer Sometimes I get to tell you about a book that you might never otherwise learn about (it isn’t currently available on Amazon, but is available here.) I know sometimes I recommend future bestselling books by famous authors. [.].

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Become a More Effective Leader by Asking One Tough Question

Marshall Goldsmith

What prevents us from making the changes we know will make us more effective leaders? Great question. I may be the only executive educator who actually measures whether the participants in my leadership development courses actually do what I teach--and then measures if they are seen as becoming more effective leaders. At the end of my sessions, I ask leaders (who have received 360-degree feedback) to follow up with their co-workers and ask for ongoing ideas about how they can continue to become

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The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

Hello everyone! Hope your having a good start to your week thus far. Last week I came across so many great blog posts, and it was not easy selecting just five of my favorites. Enjoy the five I chose to share with you and feel free to comment. Paul Castain, Sales Playbook: 3 Ways To A Better "But" - No, I did not misspell the word "but," and this is not a post about shaping up your rear end.

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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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Millennial Leaders

LDRLB

I’ve been thinking lately about how Millennials will change leadership in the next decade or so. The reality is, we don’t really know how they will lead. The oldest Millennial is about 30 now, and most haven’t been given significant leadership opportunities yet (I don’t count crewchief at a fast food restaurant as significant). But how will they lead?

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MacKay is Correct about Benefits to Reading

First Friday Book Synopsis

I read with interest a recent entry in the Lessons in Leadership series, authored by columnist and best-selling author Harvey MacKay, entitled “Benefits to Reading Good Books are Many.&# You can find the complete article in the Saturday, August 20, 2011 edition of the Orange Country Register (p. B-3), and I have reproduced a good part [.].

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Millennial Leaders

LDRLB

'I’ve been thinking lately about how Millennials will change leadership in the next decade or so. The reality is, we don’t really know how they will lead. The oldest Millennial is about 30 now, and most haven’t been given significant leadership opportunities yet (I don’t count crewchief at a fast food restaurant as significant).

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Baldacci Shifts Gears in New Best-Seller

First Friday Book Synopsis

You likely know David Baldacci as the best-selling author of thriller novels. As quickly as he releases a new one, it rises up the charts rapidly, often landing at the # 1 position on the New York Times bestseller list. This is true of his books such as Absolute Power, Stone Cold, First Family, True [.].

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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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Leadership Caffeine: Fun at the Cousin’s Reunion with Luck, Hope and Hard Work

Management Excellence

Luck, while nice when she smiles on you, is a fickle and elusive relative. She rarely shows up at family events and when she does, it’s all about her. She raises expectations of ridiculous things to insane levels, and then disappears after disappointing, without a word. Hope, is much more accessible than Luck, but in some regards, she is even more frustrating to deal with.

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Wrongfully Convicted; Wrongfully Imprisoned – Tested (a special book, and session, this week in Dallas)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I have just finished reading each and every word of the book Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held Onto Hope by Peyton Budd in collaboration with Dorothy Budd — Photographs by Deborah Luster. (Published by Brown Books Publishing Group in Dallas). I say it this way to make a point – though I thoroughly [.].

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Shane's Teen Journey Story, Part One - Adversity Prepares Him for Puberty

Building Personal Strength

For some time now I've been interviewing people about their teenage experiences. I write about their accounts in a form I call "teen journey stories." The stories reveal the impact of their teen years on the rest of their lives. Every story is different. I change their names and other superficial details to protect their identities. In this post I feature Part One of Shane's story.

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Are You Ready for a Black Swan? Stress-Testing the Enterprise with Disrupter Analysis

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from another article written by Matthew Le Merle and featured online by Booz & Company. As he explains in the article, Black Swans—unanticipated, catastrophic events—are impossible to predict on an individual basis, but they regularly occur. Too often, the boards and leaders of large companies are unaware of the risks involved [.].

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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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Get involved: The Impact of Management & Leadership Development Survey

Chartered Management Institute

CMI, in partnership with Penna, are currently undertaking the biggest research project of 2011/12 looking at the impact of management and leadership development (MLD).

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Free to Choose: Does Our Culture of Individualism Harm Working Moms?

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from a profile of journalist Lisa Belkin written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. “Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.” To read the [.].

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Are you speaking of your organization in the past, present, or future tense?

CO2

On a recent trip to Italy, I visited the Coliseum, the Parthenon, and the statues collected by the Medici family. While there’s plenty of important and successful businesses and entrepreneurs in Italy, most of us, when we speak of Italy’s greatness, speak in the past tense. And Italy spends a great deal of money to promote a history that has long passed.

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Steve Brill’s Report Card on School Reform

First Friday Book Synopsis

Sara Mosle’s vigorous review of Steven Brill‘s book, Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools, appears in The New York Times‘ Book Review section (August 21, 2011). From my perspective, she offers an uncommonly balanced examination of Brill’s core assertions, most of which are based on his belief that the worst of the [.].

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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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How to Handle Banned Members Who Say Bad Things About You

Managing Communities

photo credit: anemoneprojectors (no internet at the moment) ren asked: “What [do you] do when you ban someone for defamation (not of you) and impersonation and they use social networks to bad mouth your forum and organization?&# I’ve banned a lot of people. The vast majority of them were simple spammers or the like. But, [.].

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Book Review: “Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage” by Scott Keller and Colin Price

The Practical Leader

This is an outstanding book that should become a classic for its extensive research on leadership and organization effectiveness. It’s based on “ surveys on the drivers of organizational performance and health from more than 600,000 respondents from 500 organizations across the globe, surveys on the experience of transformational change from more than 6,800 CEOs and senior executives, reviews of more than 900 books and articles from academic journals, one-on-one interviews… the culmi

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The Happiness Advantage: Paradise Lost and Found

Strategy Driven

Excerpt from The Happiness Advantage … Around the time that Harvard was founded, John Milton wrote in Paradise Lost, “The Mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”. Three hundred years later, I observed this principle come to life. Many of my students saw Harvard as a privilege, but others quickly lost sight of that reality and focused only on the workload, the competition, the stress.

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A Week with Zig Ziglar: Part 1

Ron Edmondson

Zig Ziglar! The man! John Maxwell pays tribute to Zig Ziglar in his book “ Everyone Communicates, Few Connect.” He heard Zig at a seminar say, “You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”” Maxwell realized in that moment what was missing in his communication skills. It was that encouragement, which set Maxwell on a path to be a great communicator and connector of people.

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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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Disrupt Yourself

Harvard Business Review

"Are you sure you aren't making a mistake?". I had just announced to one of my dearest friends that I planned to walk away from Wall Street and my seven-figure salary. "Yes, I'm sure." But was I? Years earlier, I had moved to New York City with a degree in music and a husband who was beginning a Ph.D. program. My first job, and the best job I could get, had been as a secretary at a brokerage house.

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Notes from Our All-Day Staff Retreat

Ron Edmondson

We have an all day or couple day staff retreat a few times each year at Grace Community Church. These retreats always focus on the future…where we are going. We have made huge changes in our church as a result of these times. In our last all-day retreat, our main purpose was to write some guiding principles of what it means to accomplish our vision, which is “Grace Community Church exists to lead people to become growing followers of Jesus.&# We did a few things before we got to that

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Relationship Trouble? Try Another Perspective

Leading Blog

Periods of crisis and testing are helpful for what they bring to our attention. When things are going well it is all too easy to ignore the hard issues we would be better served by addressing. Times of testing show who we really are. Diana Smith identifies one such issue in The Elephant in the Room : relationships. “No longer,” Smith writes, “can we count on slow markets or sloppy competition to make up for the inefficiencies poor relationships create.

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Why HP's Departure from the PC Business Was Inevitable

Harvard Business Review

HP's announcement that it is considering spinning off its PC business surprised a lot of people given that it's the largest seller in the industry. But it was an inevitable consequence of the value chain strategy that the company pursued in a highly constrained innovation space — one in which the hardware platform is defined by Intel and the software experience is defined by Microsoft.

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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.