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Leading, Learning and Building A Legacy

Lead Change Blog

My first corporate experience came at about fifteen years into my professional life. I made the decision to toss my resume in the air to see where it might land. The company I found myself attracted to was a $5B global high tech company with a very conservative culture. I quickly learned that this company [.].

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Thought-full Thursday: Freedom

Persuasive Powerhouse

Every Thursday, we provide you with a thoughtful way to coach yourself – something all leaders need to do. So take five and enjoy the inspirational quotes and reflect on the questions that follow. Your comments and answers to the questions are most welcome! “Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.&# ~Moshe Dayan [.

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Paradox of Innovation & Intellectual Property

Mills Scofield

Yesterday was the 3rd Open Innovation Summit at BW's Center for Innovation & Growth: Practical Challenges of Global Open Innovation featuring P&G. Too much happened for one post so I'm going to do one on each panelist's story and discussion, starting with Kelly McDow, Associate General Counsel for P&G's Connect+Develop. Kelly started out as a chemist, giving her a unique non-traditional-lawyer perspective of invention and innovation. [.].

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S-Curve Trend of Team Development

Mike Cardus

S-Curve of Team Development from michael cardus on Vimeo. At each stage team development can be optimized for ideal functionality. Stage 1: Focus on relationships and induction to the team. Understanding why the individuals are here; why now; and how their talents are needed for this team project. Examining functionality of team:task:individual. Stage 2: Focus on optimization of trust and known accountabilities of the team members.

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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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The Productivity Mind-Set: Identify With Your Goals

Jason Womack

If you are looking to make changes and improve the way you work, you’ll need to experience it mentally first. Amend your perceptions, which include your beliefs and your self-talk, and you’ll notice a change occurs. 1. Start by identifying one area of your life (career, family, learning, finances, etc.) that you want to enhance. Pick one that has some “juice” for you, one that you know if you changed, your life would be a little bit better.

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Lifelong Learning – One Life-Long String of Refresher Courses

First Friday Book Synopsis

“The only job security is found in your own ability to keep learning!” Peter Drucker “Through learning, we re-create ourselves.” Peter Senge ———– We all know the challenge – to keep learning. But, in most cases, learning is not learning something new, but instead, remembering what we knew, but forgot — or remembering what we [.].

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Oprah Winfrey - Her Wisdom in Ten Quotes

Building Personal Strength

She's the most popular afternoon talk show host of all time. Her endorsement instantly transforms any new book into a No. 1 best-seller. She publishes a top-ranked magazine. She's made billions through related businesses, and now she's going to the next level: she's creating her own cable channel. And yet, in spite of everything she's accomplished, like Henry Ford a century ago, she flies under the radar in the wisdom department.

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Resources for the Beginning Servant Leader

Modern Servant Leader

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The Missing Market for Failure

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Joshua Gans for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * We are told that some large fraction (possibly 80 percent) of [.].

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Understanding the Fed

Coaching Tip

We all know that the Fed created $1.4 trillion new dollars in 2008. It has told the world that it will inflate to save the monetary system. So that is the news that most people hear. But the Fed’s dramatic money creation in 2008 only seems to force inflation because people focus on only one side of the Fed’s action. Even though the Fed created a lot of new money, it did not affect the total amount of money-plus-credit one bit.

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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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Voice of Experience: Sonia Thimmiah (Accenture)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Sonia Thimmiah (Director UKI Sustainability Practice, Accenture) 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 [.].

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How is Your Organization Coordinating Your Social Media?

CO2

Many organizations are finding it difficult to coordinate social media enterprise wide, Radian6 has introduced a listening post and interaction product that may change the game for your organization!

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3 Ways to Manage Your Weaknesses

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. Despite what you may be tempted to say in job interviews, you have weaknesses. In real life, it’s important to acknowledge the things you aren’t good at. Once [.].

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Emotions And Relationships - Do You Have the Strength And Skill to Manage Them?

Building Personal Strength

Healthy, mutually fulfilling relationships can be difficult to manage. We're imperfect. We make mistakes. We're emotional as well as rational beings. Actions have consequences. The consequences are remembered. Sometimes, for reasons no one understands at the time, interactions among friends, family or coworkers can quickly flash to the boiling point.

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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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Revolution from the Edge

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Hagel III, part of the Edge Perspectives with John Hagel series, one that offers an on-going “exploration of emerging innovations on a broad array of edges that are rising up to challenge the core.&# To read the compolete article and check out other resources, please [.].

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Facebook Brand Interaction Study: What do You Know about Social Media?

CO2

This is a video on Facebook’s Brand Interaction Study. If you want to understand what is happening in social media and how it can have an impact on your organization.

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The 10th Anniversary of WindowsLaunchpad.com and The Meaning of Community

Managing Communities

You haven’t heard of WindowsLaunchpad.com, have you? No, not the site that is on that domain name now. The Microsoft Windows enthusiast site that existed on it back in the early to mid-2000s. You’ll have to forgive me, as I don’t know when it launched. I just know that it recently turned 10. I wasn’t [.].

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Surveying Strategy: The Configuration School

LDRLB

'This post is the final in a series about the various schools and models of making organizational strategy. Strategy is a fluid process. The configuration school is the jeet kune do of strategy: the way of no way. Proponents of this school don’t promote any new ideas about how to formulate or implement strategy, instead they investigate the other nine schools of strategy and determine what elements should be included and when.

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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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Do you want to be lucky?

CO2

Lefty Gomez, who pitched for the Yankees in the 1930s, said, “It’s better to be lucky than good.” Rather than spend time disputing the value of being lucky vs. good, I recommend using your strengths make luck happen. Try these three steps: . 1) Decide what you want to be lucky about; 2) Determine what actions you can take to increase your chances of success; 3) Repeatedly take these actions.

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Surveying Strategy: The Configuration School

LDRLB

This post is the final in a series about the various schools and models of making organizational strategy. It is excerpted from The Portable Guide to Leading Organizations , available now from LeaderLab Press. Strategy is a fluid process. The configuration school is the jeet kune do of strategy: the way of no way. Proponents of this school don’t promote any new ideas about how to formulate or implement strategy, instead they investigate the other nine schools of strategy and determine what eleme

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Are You Asking or Telling Your Customers?

CO2

When you think of your business are you acting as the smartest person in the room or are you asking your customers what they need. Watch this video to get some insight into the difference.

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Find The Truth In The Middle

Eric Jacobson

If you're a parent of two children you already know that when the two are fighting and child #1 tells you what happened, you then ask child #2 what happened, and most often the truth is somewhere in the middle of what the two children have told you. Surprisingly, many managers, even when they are parents, don't use this parenting "discovery" skill in the workplace.

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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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President Obama at National Day of Prayer

Ron Edmondson

Sadly, I didn’t see this in the news, but I did see it on Ed Stetzer ‘s blog and thought is was worth sharing here as well. I’ve asked before about the role of believers in politics. My personal opinion is that Christians need to be influencers in our culture…at every level. Therefore, I think this type speech is important for us to hear.

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Friday Fun: What kind of networker are you?

Chartered Management Institute

Are you a Cat or a Limpet? See what animal characteristics you have when networking.

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If You Only Follow The Rules…

Ron Edmondson

Just a quick reminder… If you only follow the rules others set for you… If you only do what others call “safe&# … If you never risk everything… If you never step out of the norm… There’s a chance… Someone could drown… Sometimes you have to step away from the established rules and traditions of men in order to do something no one has ever done… You have to go where no one else has gone… You have to refuse to play it safe… You

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M&A Without Buying the Company

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic purchase of an operating entity on an accretive basis. However restricting your view of acquisitions to operating companies is like playing a football game with only one play in your playbook.

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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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Friday Discussion: Easter Talk

Ron Edmondson

Easter is upon us…seems to make for an appropriate Friday discussion topic. Let’s talk Easter: Share with me your answers to any or all of these questions: What were your Easter tradition growing up? Is the holiday of Easter becoming more important or less important in our culture? Why? Besides Jesus…who do you most wish you could see this Easter?

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Five Steps to Building Your Network

Harvard Business Review

One morning in the 1980s, I went to the office as usual and was told that my job was being eliminated. I packed up my personal effects and left the building by lunchtime. I was, of course, in shock. For 10 years, my whole world had consisted of my work with this company and my young, growing family. Now half of that world had disappeared. I was angry and bitter and I felt remarkably alone.

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The New Edge in Knowledge: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The New Edge in Knowledge: How Knowledge Management s Changing the Way We Do Business Carla O’Dell and Cindy Hubert John Wiley & Sons (2011) Finally, in a single volume, just about all you need to know about results-driven knowledge management According to Carla O’Dell and Cindy Hubert, “this book tells you how leading organizations [.].

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Cities Are the Answer. What was the question?

Harvard Business Review

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. If you care about energy efficiency, the welfare of our senior citizens, equitable transportation services, jobs, or combating climate change, cities are the answer.

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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.