Fri.Jan 18, 2013

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Why Isn’t This Incentive Program Working?

Let's Grow Leaders

Incentive programs continue to be one of the most debated topics in management. Sometimes incentive programs work well. Sometimes they do not. Leadership can make a difference. Have you ever experienced any of these scenarios? You’ve implemented a new incentive program and results go down? You roll-out a new contest and no one seems [.] The post Why Isn’t This Incentive Program Working?

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The ‘Annual Performance Appraisal’ Needs a New Name

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Career Development Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Value Creation Workplace Issues A surprising number of organizations still deliver once-a-year performance appraisals without providing much interim feedback. Have you considered the dangers of this approach?

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Big Thinking for Small Business

Women on Business

If you want to get noticed in a noisy world, your message needs to be better, not louder. And, it needs to be delivered with polish and panache. Your budget may have limitations, but your imagination doesn’t, so just because you own a small business doesn’t mean you’re off the hook for big thinking. Or, big execution. Need a tangible? Your website.

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Top 50 leadership blogs – we’re in!

Persuasive Powerhouse

. We’re honored that this blog has been named one of the top leadership blogs over at Ready to Manage. Although we’ve been on other lists in the past, the cool thing is that Dr. Jon Warner specifically targeted leadership blogs and used Alexa rank as a way to defend their order – we’re #28. Thank you, dear readers, for your support.

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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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Business by Perception

Women on Business

This week has been a blur of promotions for the Lance Armstrong interview and I’ve begun to wonder, how do you protect the image of your company when your company is you? There is an old adage that says ‘you are the company you keep’, but in this increasingly global marketplace how realistic is that? Is it reasonable to assume we can manage all of our partnerships and alliances to create a consistent image?

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Today is.

Kevin Eikenberry

You were ahead of some people when you woke up this morning, because some people didn’t. That old quasi-joke is certainly true. You are alive today – and there is no question about that. The question is. how will you use this day? Dale Carnegie gives us some suggestions in the quotation [.].

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Organizational Design and Social Networks

LDRLB

Hierarchies rely on job titles to command the attention of others. Social networks thrive on the social ingenuity and influence of the individual people in the network. Intuitive 21st Century organizational designs will allow this inevitable influence to happen and reward those who thrive on it, not punish them. In many organizations, bypassing structures to sell an idea to someone higher up is taboo, and may get the person fired.

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The Question-able Habits of Successful Leaders

CO2

Habits of successful leaders can be punctuated with a question mark! “Excellence is not an act but a habit that we repeatedly do.” – Aristotle. In conducting over 100 interviews of highly successful leaders in multiple disciplines, I learned that exceptional leaders know what questions to ask and when to ask them. For these leaders, asking questions is a habit that they repeatedly do.

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Achieving Sustainable Growth

Coaching Tip

The "New Normal" defines the business environment where individual companies must shape their own paths to growth. Within this environment of hypercompetion, complexity and uncertainty, companies need to rethink and expand their methods and tools to achieve sustainable business growth.

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How to lead energized and effective leadership team meetings

Anese Cavanaugh

I was working with a couple of clients this week helping them think through a big meeting next month for their team. The usual suspects showed up: What outcomes do we want? Why are we having it? Do we really need to have it? How can it be as meaningful as possible? How much time do we have? What might come up that we need to be prepared to work with?

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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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Never Coast – (Troy Aikman, Sally Field, Anne Hathaway – Never Coasting, The Very Opposites of One-Hit Wonders)

First Friday Book Synopsis

As the girl who started out as the Princess of Genovia, I can’t tell you how encouraging it was to know that the Flying Nun grew up to be Norma Rae. (Anne Hathaway’s comment/tribute to Sally Field during her Golden Globes Acceptance) (watch the video of her acceptance here). ————— Here are three really important [.].

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Reflecting Upon the Team Building and Leadership Experience

Mike Cardus

Sitting in a hotel lobby in Baltimore Maryland in month two of a three month partner program with Project Ascent , coaching and facilitating a team building and leadership process for managers and supervisors at McCormick Spice …. I took some time to reflect upon the day. Framing my reflection question: How could I have improved the participant application of the content to their work better today?

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A Change in Perspective

Six Disciplines

“To achieve a revolution in their execution, business leaders need to reframe their thinking from cutting logs to building ships. In other words, quit thinking only about solving the current problem, but, instead, think about how to build an organization that’s good at solving problems in general- building the capability that’s certain to help overcome an uncertain future.

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Here’s the January 2013 N Y Times Hardcover Business Books Best Sellers List

First Friday Book Synopsis

The New York Times has come out with its first Best Sellers List for 2013 for Hardcover Business Books. At the top of the list is Tap Dancing to Work, “A collection of updated Fortune magazine articles on Warren Buffett, published between 1966 and 2012.” A few “long-timers” are on the list: The Power of [.].

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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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Commute recommendation for you to share with staff

Chartered Management Institute

I wanted to share my thoughts about commuting, which you could pass onto any of your staff that have to get to work this way. Personally I take the train to work, something which is a big change from the stroll I was used to making to my lectures at university.

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Three Temptations That Destroy Good Leaders

Ron Edmondson

This is a guest post by J. Warner Wallace. Wallace examines these three motives in more detail in his new book, Cold Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels. I’m a cold-case homicide detective. In the many years that I’ve been doing this job, I’ve come to recognize that every murder is driven by one of three sinister motives.

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The Flawed Art of Lance Armstrong's Confession

Harvard Business Review

After more than a decade of vehement denials , Lance Armstrong finally came clean last night in an interview with Oprah Winfrey about his use of performance enhancing drugs. Early reviews leaned negative: Forbes said "Lance Armstrong admitted a lot of wrongdoing during his 90-minute interview with Oprah Winfrey tonight, but he did almost nothing to win back the sympathy of the world.

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Making 2013 a great working year

Chartered Management Institute

Want to make 2013 a great working year? You may not need any ideas about making the most of the year to come in your career. If you’re anything like me, you’ll constantly be coming up with possible improvements! Related Content: Happy with your A-level results? Want to get your career life to a high-flying start at university? Decision Making and Overcoming Indecisiveness Revised Checklist on Marketing Yourself 'Paid internship' proposed by Liberal Democrats Job market 'showing si

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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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Make Your Next Innovation Jam Work

Harvard Business Review

Jamming has become a popular way to unearth innovations — bringing together people of many different backgrounds to creatively brainstorm around a company's competitive challenges, expressed as "problem statements." Yet although the process is widely hyped, many companies struggle to make them work. If your company is one, you may be interested in our experience at the European Center for Strategic Innovation.

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Scaling Up Without Losing Your Edge

Harvard Business Review

Forty years ago, British economist E.F. Schumacher, one of the fathers of the Green movement, declared that "small is beautiful" and called for "a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful." The retort from mainstream economists was swift and scathing: "Small is stupid." Without economies of scale, they argued, developing societies would never develop the efficiencies needed to modernize.

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It's Not Too Late to Stave Off Disruption

Harvard Business Review

When should incumbents be afraid — very afraid? At the moment that a disruptive innovation crosses into the mainstream market and establishes itself as a viable competitor, the third stage in a disruptive innovation's life cycle. You might think a response at this late phase would be too late — but there are still ways incumbent firms can preserve their advantage.

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Morning Advantage: Welcome to the New Videogame Gold Rush

Harvard Business Review

“For the last decade, three companies (Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft) have ruled the gaming console business with an iron fist. But that’s all about to end,” writes Andrew Groen at Wired. One reason for the change, of course, is the rise of mobile technology. Think of all those hours you’ve logged playing Angry Birds or Words with Friends. Many gamers are moving away from consoles — Xbox, Wii, Playstation — and toward mobile games because (1) they’re cheap (2) they’re interactive and

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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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You're Rude Because Your Boss Is Rude

Harvard Business Review

What drives employees to be rude? Over 60% blame their bad behavior on being overloaded at work. They say they have no time to be nice. Mental overload and stress short-circuit our capacity to be fully attentive about anything — even those with whom we work. As one person who responded to our last post wrote: The company. had so many people rude to each other, not because of their congenital lack of civility, but because of the stress at work and rigid company culture.

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