Thu.Dec 29, 2011

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Have you shared your vision with your team?

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Change Management Leadership Development I was a new middle manager on my first trip across the country to the Corporate Office and was seated in the Executive Boardroom for a meeting. As we were preparing to take a short break, the CEO leaned across the table and asked me, “Chery, have you shared your vision with your team?” I [.].

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Get Ahead & Have Fun At The Same Time.

Rich Gee Group

During a coaching session with one of my incredible clients, I constructed a term they needed to produce to ensure success at their task. I called it ENERGETIC ENTHUSIASM. They have a marketplace-imposed deadline — they only have 30 days to get their task complete. So they have to get off their butt and get it done.

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Leadership Is Getting To The Smiley Face (A Conversation With Carol Roth)

Terry Starbucker

In September, at SOBCon NW in Portland, I sat down for an interview about Leadership with small biz guru and NY Times bestselling author Carol Roth. In the interview, Carol asked me: 1) What is Leadership? 2) How do you get everyone on the same page? 3) How do you tie individual values to a common business purpose? 4) What’s the role of simplicity in communicating a consistent message?

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3 Steps to Go PRO with Your Business Website and Make more Money

Women on Business

Your business website and the rest of your online presence can be a great tool to help you market your business and get more sales. In fact, that is its PURPOSE. Your online presence is simply a platform to share your big message, attract new clients and bring more sales to your business. If your website isn’t bringing you fabulous new clients and making you money, then it’s not doing its job.

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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 John Maxwell Navigates Leadership

Leadership Freak

I sent a note to John Maxwell. This is part 2 of his reply. What do you do to navigate the changes your leadership journey brings to you? First, I think everyone navigates according to their pain file. When you don’t succeed at something, then it should prompt you to want to grow. For example, one [.].

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It’s Not As Bad As You Think.

Rich Gee Group

I think it could not be more exciting than to live today.

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How John Maxwell Navigates Leadership

Leadership Freak

I sent a note to John Maxwell. This is part 2 of his reply. What do you do to navigate the changes your leadership journey brings to you? First, I think everyone navigates according to their pain file. When you don’t succeed at something, then it should prompt you to want to grow. For example, one [.].

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A Successful, Happy Life - It Takes More Than You Think

Building Personal Strength

A successful, happy life. I guess everybody knows it takes more than than money and beauty. Just ask Bernie Madoff and Kim Kardashian. And guess what.It also takes a lot more than a good education and business know-how. I try to stress this point with parents. Yes, kids need a good education. They need basic language and math skills and they need to understand how the world works.

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The Power of Presence: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others Kristi Hedges AMACOM (2012) How and why powerful intentional presence can be a “personal game changer” As I began to read this book, I was reminded of one of my favorite songs in the musical and film, Chicago, sung by Amos Hart (played [.].

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ManagingCommunities.com’s Most Read Community Management Articles of 2011

Managing Communities

photo credit: Glyn Lowe Photos Since this will be my last post of 2011, here at ManagingCommunities.com, I decided that we would take a look back at the 10 most read articles that were published here in the last 12 months. It’s always fun when something that I write resonates so well that people pass [.].

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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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Harvard Business Review on Increasing Customer Loyalty: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Harvard Business Review on Increasing Customer Loyalty Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to create customers who are profitable This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review. Having read all of them when they were published individually, I can personally attest [.].

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Best of Management Excellence: An Effective Leader’s Resolutions are Calendar Blind

Management Excellence

I’m as guilty as the next person of finding the impending resetting of the calendar a cathartic cleansing, where the failures of the past year are suddenly washed away and replaced by the empty and unknown space filled with promise and time stretching out in front of us. There is something remarkably powerful and alluring about the chance to start-over, right wrongs and vow to do things right the next time around.

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How to “Relax the Axe”

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here’s an excerpt from a recent article from the Drucker Exchange (the Dx), an online resource that hosts an ongoing conversation about bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership. It is produced by the Drucker Institute, a think tank and action tank based at Claremont Graduate University that was established to advance and build [.].

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Recommended Resource – Finance Without Fear

Strategy Driven

Finance Without Fear : A Guide to Creating and Managing a Profitable Business by William S. Hettinger and John Dolan-Heitlinger About the Reference Finance Without Fear : A Guide to Creating and Managing a Profitable Business by William S. Hettinger and John Dolan-Heitlinger unveals the mysteries of financial statements in this easy-to-understand, example filled book.

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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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10 Questions to Evaluate Your Personal Progress

Ron Edmondson

This week every year, I review my personal progress for the year. Would you like to play along? Here are some examples of questions I ask myself: What did I do that worked well? What did I attempt that didn’t work? Did I meet my goals? What could I do better with a little tweaking? What should I stop doing so I can do other things? Where is my time most being wasted?

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5 Reasons Why Talent Leave our Businesses

Rapid BI

5 Reasons Why Talent Leave- Retaining talented people is an important role of both line management and human resources. There are without doubt 100s of excuses people give when leaving a company, especially in "exit interviews".

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#3 – 2011: 7 Warning Signs you May be a Controlling Leader

Ron Edmondson

This is the third most popular blog post written in 2011: 7 Warning Signs You May Be a Controlling Leader. I’m seeing and hearing more about controlling leadership lately. I regularly talk to young leaders through my blog and many of them feel they are working for one. The odd thing, however, is that many controlling leaders never really know they are one.

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Today’s Links on ecademy

Rapid BI

Top 10 most important topics to business people The site BusinessZone earlier this month published their most popular articles of the year: These are: 1. “I am not an SME, you patronising *!” (16,679 views) Big businesses and governments are totally, hopelessly clueless about small businesses, says Robert Craven. 2. James Caan quits Dragons’ Den [.].

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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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#2 – 2011: 5 Characteristics of True Friendship

Ron Edmondson

I’m counting down the top posts, which were written in 2011. Surprisingly, my top posts are usually from year’s past, thanks to Google search, but these were actually written this year. (You can read my all-time top posts on my “About” page HERE.). Here is the second most popular post of 2011: True friendship is rare. If you ever get in a bind, have a major failure, or somehow lose your way, you realize how rare true friendship is these days.

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Today’s Links on ecademy

Rapid BI

Are you volunteering this NYE? {EAV:d2a58f2b4840a500} As the end of the year approaches, usually I would be preparing for some voluntary work over this time – but for the first time in 10 years I will be at home with the family. Are you at home, out partying or volunteering this NYE? Mike Morrison RapidBI.com [.].

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Rejection may just be a stop sign – Jai Ho story

Rajesh Setty

We talked about stop signs very recently. A rejection even from someone who is accomplished can dampen anyone’s spirits. However, the reasons for rejections can be many. If what you have created is valuable and awesome, the reason for rejection is generally, the fit. What you brought to the table may just not be right for the project at hand.

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Craft an Attention-Grabbing Message

Harvard Business Review

You can feel the tension in the compressed smiles, quick nods and pointed questions at the annual Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare conference. Schedules are packed as the high-stakes finance crowd gathers to hear 20-minute rapid-fire talks by CEOs of start-ups and public companies who seek funding or favorable stock analysts' reports. Presenters speak fast, using complex medical and financial terms.

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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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Find a Job with Massive, Structured Networking

Harvard Business Review

Whether you're searching for your first job, considering a career change, or seeking opportunities while unemployed, finding a job can be one of the toughest challenges you ever face. How should you conduct a job search? You start with a personal value proposition (PVP), as I've discussed in a previous blog post. Your PVP is the target position and why you're right for that position.

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Lessons from the GoDaddy Customer Revolt

Harvard Business Review

GoDaddy (a web hosting company) announced its support of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in late October 2011. The news of GoDaddy's pro-SOPA stance appeared on Reddit on December 22, 2011, and then went viral. Within a few days, customers had moved over 72,000 domains off of GoDaddy's domain hosting service in protest and declared December 29, 2011 "Move Your Domain Away From GoDaddy Day.

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HBR's Best Videos, Infographics, Podcasts, and Slideshows of 2011

Harvard Business Review

As you take some time to reflect, relax, and renew before the year to come, we offer you our most popular multimedia content from the year that was: podcasts, videos, slideshows, and infographics that we hope help you chart a successful course in 2012. First off, our most popular podcast this year was Justin Fox's interview with Bob Pozen, " Productivity Secrets of a Very Busy Man.

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Breaking the Work/Family Deadlock

Harvard Business Review

An interview with Stephanie Coontz , professor of history at The Evergreen State College and author of A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s. Download this podcast.

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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.