Tue.Jan 03, 2012

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The 3 Step Triple Threat: Become an excellent communicator to be a better leader

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Part 2: The 3 Step Triple Threat & How Leaders Achieve Goals (Read Part 1: What do frogs have to do with leadership?) Are you an emerging leader or newly promoted leader looking for a goal-setting strategy to make lasting, positive changes in soft skills? Here’s your solution. Part 2 of the 4 part series. [.].

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Power Corrupts Sooner than You Think

Leading Blog

In a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887, Lord Acton observed that “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” British Prime Minister William Pitt also observed, “Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.” Power is a tricky thing and we rely on it more than we should.

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4 New Year’s Resolutions To Help Your Organization Succeed This Year

Tanveer Naseer

With the holiday celebrations now at an end, many of us are returning to our usual daily grind refreshed, rejuvenated and ready to dive into the tasks awaiting our attention. The start of a new year is also a time when many of us make resolutions of what we’d like to accomplish over the next 365 days, and possibly beyond. Granted, it’s only natural that we’d be motivated right now to create these lists of goals, as the start of a new year often inspires that feeling of a new st

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Three Questions to Guide Your Year

Next Level Blog

I was away for a few weeks over the holidays. It was a nice break and it’s good to be back. One of the good things about being back is reconnecting with friends I haven’t seen in awhile. One of those is a friend from yoga. We gave each other a hug hello at class the other night and she said, “Well, here we are.” My response was, “Yeah, 2012, it’s the only year we’ve got.

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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 Leverage the Benefits of Confusion

Leadership Freak

Progress requires clarity. Confusion paralyzes. Great leaders create clarity; poor leaders confuse. Worse yet, confused people pull back. Paralyzing confusion is bad but confusion has benefits. Confusion precedes breakthrough. Pushing confusion away pushes progress away. Confusion drives everyone to seek clarity. Confusion opens us to outside influences and input.

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Rethinking Learning at Work

Kevin Eikenberry

Many people reading these words either took piano lessons or paid for their children to take them. I don’t think it would be much of a stretch to say that everyone reading these words knows someone who has taken piano lessons. If they can play piano at all, how many lessons did they take? In [.].

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End-of-the-Year Tax Tips for Last Minute Savings

Women on Business

Guest Post by Perry Sheraw (learn more about Perry at the end of this post). Many of the business owners we work with say they’re ready to get 2011 behind them. January 2012 beckons as business objectives glisten with potential revitalization and realignment. The drudgery of doom and gloom financial news has worn us all down and we welcome a little holiday frivolity, frugal as it may need to be this year.

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Standardization is the first step to innovation

Mike Cardus

For progress to be measured and accurately judged amongst teams and managerial-leaders. A standard that is known, shared, agreed-upon and teachable must be established. Contact Mike and we will create this standard and develop metrics, coaching and feedback to make you teams and leaders better. Resulting in increased profit, effectiveness plus people who love the work they do.

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The Learning Illusion – a Challenge for 2012

First Friday Book Synopsis

I think we need to make 2012 a year of learning – but, it won’t be easy. I believe in life-long learning. I am a big fan of every effort to keep learning. Our monthly First Friday Book Synopsis is designed to whet the appetite of such life-long learners. I like to read, I like [.].

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A Free Handbook for the New Year

Steve Farber

The Daily Handbook for Extreme Leaders (adapted from The Radical Leap Re-Energized ) is a practical, inspiring, and essential guide to being a leader of substance and significance. This powerful little book isn’t just a guide, it’s a very personal methodology and practice to help you stoke your success, amp your life, and change the world–all at the same time.

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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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Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Poitential Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran Jossey-Bass (2011) How and why to cope with a leadership evaluation and development crisis to produce more effective leaders As Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis suggest in Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, leaders [.].

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The urgency detector

Change Starts Here

Over the weekend, we returned home from a week-long holiday vacation to the occasional high-pitched, short chirp of the smoke detector that signaled that the battery was getting low. It was late – almost midnight. The kids were exhausted and needed to get to bed. For some reason, the batteries in smoke detectors are not easy to access or change.

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The Capitalist Philosophers A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business–Their Lives, Times, and Ideas Andrea Gabor Times Business (2000) A brilliant discussion of thirteen “geniuses of modern business” While preparing questions for another interview, I recently re-read this book (published in 2000) in which Andrea Gabor focuses on Frederick Winslow Taylor, Mary Parker Follett, Chester Barnard, Fritz [.].

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Leadership Caffeine: For Better Results, Quit Telling and Start Letting Go

Management Excellence

The odd quirk that seems to bedevil so many who occupy roles of responsibility for others is their overwhelming urge to tell other people what to do. While a certain amount of “telling” is OK, particularly during crises and anything involving safety or security, for the most part, your communication efforts should focus on listening and asking. Starting this year, shift the focus to you and your role and your daily habits, and for everyone’s sake, quit telling people how to do their jobs.

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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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4 Steps to Delivering Helpful Feedback

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. Feedback is problematic. Managers often dislike giving it and direct reports rarely get enough to change their behaviors. But feedback, both positive and negative, is an important [.].

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Meaning: The "wolf" of control in trendy sheep's clothing? #leadership

Management Craft

I am doing some digging around about meaning and here is a thought to chew on this new week and year. What if leaders should NOT and CANNOT make work meaningful for others? What if this idea reinforces control, extrinsics, and thereby serves to wreck not build our feelings that our work has meaning? What if whether our work has meaning comes from deep within each individual and as a result of how we each define our experiences?

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It's time to fill your diary if you're looking for a new job

Chartered Management Institute

Dr Graham Wilson, organisational psychotherapist and leadership confidant, leverages understanding of psychodynamics, politics, and behaviour - supports senior executive job searches. Related Content: My business book of the week - Understanding the small business sector - by David Storey Time at Work Candidates are lying throughout recruitment Ten ways to survive redundancy Football vs Life.

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What Defines Leadership!

Ron Edmondson

Leadership is defined more by what you lead through than what you lead around. One thing I’ve observed with many pastors and ministry leaders is that they allow their God-given vision to be controlled by the negative voices of others. They may know where God wants them to lead the people He has entrusted to their care, but as soon as negativity or push back comes, instead of plowing through by faith, they retreat, they settle, or they compromise.

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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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Happy New Year!

Chartered Management Institute

As many of us return to work on what is aptly titled 'the most depressing day of the year’, we may feel entitled to feel a little grumpy according to Moodscope.com. Now, we start to count the cost, monetary and health wise, of over indulging throughout the holiday season.

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Our blog posts on ecademy

Rapid BI

Social media software – driving adoption across the business Your thoughts? Mike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog: The Evolution of the Social Business – Expert Predictions What are your thoughts? Mike Morrison RapidBI.com Blog: Are you making outgoing calls? I have just had a sales call from a company using “freeindex” for harvesting data.

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What are your reflections on the past year?

My Own Coach

'Before the new year gets into full swing, it''s a good time to take a look back over 2011. Taking stock of what happened and just how far you''ve travelled will provide a solid foundation for achieving your goals in the next twelve months. We''ve been reflecting on the most popular articles from the past year''s MOC the Week and have listed them below just in case you missed them first time round: Leadership Quality #5 - Leaders Empower Do we really know what leadership is?

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The Roundtable Recap 2011 in review

Roundtable Talk

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for our Roundtable Talk blog. Thanks to everyone who’s been reading, subscribing and commenting. It’s been a great year and we’re looking forward to more leadership ideas, strategies and train wrecks to explore with you in 2012! Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people.

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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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A Disciplined Approach to Evaluating Ideas

Harvard Business Review

"Make sure you ask the right questions at the right time." That's one memorable piece of advice from a leader at a global innovation powerhouse. Unfortunately, it is a piece of advice that is heeded too infrequently inside large companies. At many companies, the idea evaluation process revolves around detailed Excel spreadsheets, comprehensive PowerPoint documents, and an orchestrated sequence of pre-meetings leading up to a decision meeting.

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The Roundtable Recap 2011 in review

Roundtable Talk

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for our Roundtable Talk blog. Thanks to everyone who’s been reading, subscribing and commenting. It’s been a great year and we’re looking forward to more leadership ideas, strategies and train wrecks to explore with you in 2012! Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people.

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Develop Productivity Rituals

Harvard Business Review

video platform video management video solutions video player. Tony Schwartz , president and CEO of The Energy Project, lists the top four habits that help him get more work done. For more, go to his HBR blog.

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Risk Management Best Practice 2 – Integrated Risk Assurance Oversight Matrix

Strategy Driven

Maintaining compliance in today’s highly regulated, rule-driven marketplace requires diligent oversight of the organization’s core processes by the company’s staff. This oversight takes many forms from internal audits, self-assessments, management observations, and quality checkpoints embedded within the processes themselves. These points of oversight, however, may individually fall short from providing fully effective compliance risk assurance.

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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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Innovation the Culturematic Way

Harvard Business Review

It takes an act of imagination and intellectual mobility to stand in a hotel room and say, "You know, this could be a showroom.". That's what happened at the St. Regis hotel in New York City when someone decided to give one of the rooms the Dior treatment. This is how many Culturematics start. Someone says, "You know." or "What if." and in that moment we reimagine something.