Sat.Jan 28, 2012

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Many Ways to Connect

Michael Lee Stallard

This last week I was in Boston for several meetings and to teach a seminar for the Institute for Management Studies (IMS). I always teach that there are hundreds of ways to connect with others and the challenge facing leaders is to get to know the people they lead and identify ways to connect with them given who they are and the context of their work together.

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11 Unbelievable Group Project Horror Stories

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Few of us ever really look forward to or genuinely enjoy group work. It seems like there are always communication issues, or a group member who just doesn’t want to do the work, or who even completely disappears. Team work is just a fact of life, but you can count yourself lucky if you’ve never [.].

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Guest Post: 7 Key Elements To Building A High Performance Team and Organization

Lead on Purpose

By John C. Stevens. Managers and executives, who are trying to improve the performance of their teams, are actively helping to improve the overall performance of their organization. Wondering what you can do to boost your team’s engagement and output? Keep in mind these key elements of performance management: Image Source: Guillermo Camargo. § Leadership.

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Learning from Joe Paterno’s Leadership Failure

Leadership Freak

Image source: John McDonnell / Washington Post Coach Joe Paterno was laid to rest this week. He’s clearly loved. 10,000 tickets were reserved for his memorial service in seven minutes. His accomplishments on behalf of Penn State, college football, and his football players are indisputable. Two failures: Paterno’s failures are delay and lack of follow through. [.].

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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 Lean Startup: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Eric Ries Crown Business (2011) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker I selected this observation by Drucker (1963) because it continues to suggest caution when deciding [.].

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Learning from Joe Paterno’s Leadership Failure

Leadership Freak

Image source: John McDonnell / Washington Post Coach Joe Paterno was laid to rest this week. He’s clearly loved. 10,000 tickets were reserved for his memorial service in seven minutes. His accomplishments on behalf of Penn State, college football, and his football players are indisputable. Two failures: Paterno’s failures are delay and lack of follow through. [.].

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The Blazing Miracle of Sunlight on My Sklin

Building Personal Strength

2011 photo by Blaine We live in the Texas Hill Country, and as we descended out of the hills on our way to the gym one winter morning, I noticed our sun - an astounding blazing star - coming into view above the eastern horizon. I know what the sun is. It is one of over 200 billion stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. Relative to these other stars, our sun is considered a "medium-sized" star, which means it's diameter is over 100 times that of Earth.

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Andrea Kates: Part One of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Andrea Kates (akates@BusinessGenome.com) is the founder of the Business Genome® project and author of the visionary bestselling business innovation book, Find Your Next (McGraw-Hill, November 2011). As a business strategist, facilitator, and speaker, Andrea has led more than 250 business innovation initiatives for global corporations, entrepreneurs, and organizations including Royal Dutch Shell (Asia-Pacific), Audi, Allstate, [.].

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360 Survey On the Wall…I Hardly See Myself at All

You're Not the Boss of Me

I’m not a big fan of surveys. That includes, ( dare I say it?), the 360 degree performance assessment type survey. I know, they are meant to be a useful tool but to me, no matter how carefully put together they are, the result is rather like a distorted mirror in the Fun House, not very clear and not particularly accurate. On the face of it, 360-degree assessments present as simple processes; something like the one Bob here is undertaking. ( The clip is 62 seconds ).

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Can I Preach On It if I Haven’t Mastered It?

Ron Edmondson

I received this email recently. It’s a question I’ve been asked before, so I decided to share my answer here. Dear Pastor Ron, Can I, as a pastor, preach about a subject that I know I’m struggling with or know that I’m weak in that area? Blessings, Pastor Bob. (Name changed for anonymity.). Here is my reply: Dear Pastor Bob, In my opinion, yes.

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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