Sun.Sep 04, 2011

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Is Your Message Relevant?

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. When was the last time you bothered to read, watch, or listen to a message that wasn’t relevant to your needs? Great leaders understand the power, influence, and leverage created by relevant messaging. Put simply, relevant messages are engaging because they connect – they add value. Great (relevant) messages usually contain one or more of the following aspects: they are timely, informative, actionable, revealing, ground-breaking, insp

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September 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Check out the list of great posts and resources over at Dan McCarthy’s Great Leadership blog. Thirty authors make up the Leadership Back To School Sale that Dan shares. So head over and check out the great leadership content. September 2011 Leadership Development Carnival.

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The September 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the September, 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale! Yes, it's back to school shopping time, and this month's Carnival gives leaders and aspiring leaders a shopping cart full of leadership development supplies. All are deeply discounted (free) and offer incredible value to the discriminating leadership shopper. So stock up, and enjoy your reading!

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Five Strategies that Create Your Future

Leadership Freak

If you feel stuck you are. You want to be unstuck but wanting doesn’t change anything. Wanting without acting makes matters worse. Frustration drains you. Frustration and blame are twins. Where there is blame there is frustration – where there is frustration there is blame. Blame and frustration deepen ruts. Getting unstuck: Taking responsibility ends [.].

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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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Enrique Salem (Symantec) in “The Corner Office”

First Friday Book Synopsis

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of This interview with Enrique Salem, president and C.E.O. of Symantec, the computer security company. He says Shakespeare’s observation that “our [.].

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People Who Steal Things - Random Thoughts

Building Personal Strength

Recently someone came in the night and dug up a huge landscaping plant at the entrance to our community. What am I supposed to do, put a good light on it? Give the thief the benefit of the doubt? Think that maybe he was needy and had a good use for it? What I thought was, "If they would do that, what else would they do?" A new home is being constructed on the property next to ours.

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Calling a halt to mindless change - 13 years on, have we learnt the lesson yet?

Chartered Management Institute

John Macdonald, author, speaker and management guru, recently died. Part of his legacy is a book, "Calling a Halt to Mindless Change: a plea for common sense management". In this short article, I ask whether, 13 years later, we have learnt the lesson or are we still embarking on change for change's sake? Related Content: Decision Making and Overcoming Indecisiveness How your values drive your success Leadership – what’s the problem?

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To Serve One Another…

Ron Edmondson

You don’t need a position… You don’t need a title… You don’t need permission… You just need to see a need you can meet… And meet it… Related posts: Operation Serve Sign Ups This Sunday. Operation Serve 2009 Video. My Advice When Pursuing a God-given Dream.

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Why Great Leaders Don’t Have To Read Emily Post To Know That Manners Matter

Terry Starbucker

“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.&#. “Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.&#. “Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.&#.

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America’s Gonna Do It Again…

Ron Edmondson

I grew up and live in the South. There was, and still is for some, a lot of pride in our state and region. When I was younger there was even a song…and kind of an attitude…that “the South’s gonna do it again…&#. Frankly, I liked the tune, but I never was on the South doing it again bandwagon. (I never knew what we were going to do again.).

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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