Fri.Oct 07, 2011

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WEadership Practice #2: Build Diverse Networks

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development This post is the second in a series that began here summarizing the findings of a one-year study of workforce leadership. Through that process, we have identified six practices next-generation leaders use to be effective; a new model of leadership we call WEadership, in a nod to its collaborative nature. “We can now keep what [.

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Work-Life Balance?

Leading Blog

The term work-life balance is fatally flawed says Matthew Kelly in Off Balance. Meant to deal with the pressures surrounding both personal and professional life, the term has unwittingly created a false dichotomy. You can’t separate the two. In fact, says Kelly, “the term itself diminishes our ability to make the case that work can be a richly rewarding part of a person’s life and should in many ways be personal.

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How to Involve Participants in a Leadership Training Program

Great Leadership By Dan

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand”. -- Confucius. Even the most brilliant, credible, and talented instructors with the most dazzling PowerPoint slides won’t guarantee participants in a leadership training program are actually going to learn anything. In order for all that good content to actually sink in, people need to have a chance to do something with it.

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Making Someone Else Smarter

Kevin Eikenberry

In Tim Sander’s blog he closed his post yesterday with a quote from Stanley Marcus Jr, long time chairman of the retailer Neiman-Marcus. “You will never get dumber by making someone else smarter.” - Stanley Marcus, Jr. Questions to Ponder Do I agree with Marcus? What learning can I share with others? How [.].

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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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Passion is Your Problem

Leadership Freak

Your passion to make a difference makes you do too much. Sincerity is a curse when it turns you into a leaf blown around by the latest possibility for positive impact. Unfocused passion frustrates and dilutes you and your potential. Doing less enables more. The fewer things you do the better you can be at [.].

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Better Execution With ‘No-Follow Up’ Culture

QAspire

The primary focus of lean organizations/teams is to “eliminate waste”. In an increasingly complex work environment where execution is distributed between teams and geographies, one of the biggest wastes I have seen is “following-up on things”. A typical manager’s task list will feature about 30% (or even more) tasks which are simply following up (read [.

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So you Think You are an Extraodinary Leader

CEO Blog

This is a Guest Post by Joe Folkman So You Think You’re an Extraordinary Leader? How good are leaders at predicting their own overall leadership effectiveness? Are they more or less accurate than other raters? At Zenger Folkman, we calculated the overall rating for 27,000 leaders. We then determined how effective a leader’s manager, peers, direct reports, others, and the leader themselves were at predicting the leader’s overall effectiveness.

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What We Should and Shouldn’t Learn from the Life of Steve Jobs

Next Level Blog

Even though it was sadly expected, the news of Steve Jobs' passing this week hit me like a punch in the gut. Clearly, I was not alone. The outpouring of tributes and remembrances tell us something. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Thought-full Thursday: Changing Ourselves

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! The stuff of our lives doesn’t change. It is [.

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Embrace All of Your Selves

Tony Mayo

It Comes Down to This When you are visited by your personal demons – your fears, anxieties, doubts and wounds – can you sit down and have tea with them? Can you turn your attention toward the demons and explore what you can learn about yourself? For many reasons, we often can’t. [.].

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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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Photo Inquiry Friday: How Far Can You Plan Into the Future?

Mike Cardus

All goals are time driven – whether we announce the time-frame or not ALL GOALS ARE TIME DRIVEN. As a Manager setting goals “What-by-When” is how you add value to those who work with you. As an employee completing goals “What-by-When” and setting goals for ourselves are what adds value to those who work with us. Determining your own & others time-span to complete a goal will make your work more fulfilling and innovative.

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My Personal Coach

Coaching Tip

The concept of a coach is slippery. Coaches are not teachers, but they teach. They’re not your boss—in professional tennis, golf, and skating, the athlete hires and fires the coach—but they can be bossy. They don’t even have to be good at the sport. The famous Olympic gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi couldn’t do a split if his life depended on it. Mainly, they observe, they judge, and they guide.

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Steve Jobs: A Creative Life

Chris Brady

My business partner and co-author Orrin Woodward and I, along with the other founders of LIFE, are embarking on a business journey in which we seek to follow correct principles, emulate successful. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Where is Amadeo Giannini when we need him most?

First Friday Book Synopsis

In 1904, Amadeo Giannini founded the Bank of Italy in San Francisco to provide personal as well as professional services to those such as recent immigrants who had been denied service from other banks. When the 1906 earthquake struck, Giannini removed all deposits from the bank building and away from the fires. Because San Francisco’s [.].

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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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Closeout for 10.7.11

LDRLB

This month’s LeaderLab podcast featured Mike Figliuolo discussing how to distill your leadership down to One Piece of Paper. Guest blogger Bob Lieberman outlined how to display Innovative Leadership in the Wild. We reviewed Peter Bregman’s new book 18 Minutes. Lastly, we’ll say it again: Thanks Steve.

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Are you a bi-polar leader?

Chartered Management Institute

A positive outlook on life is often believed to be a good thing, both personally and professionally. However, new research from Stanford University suggests that those with strong expectations of life tend to react worse to setbacks than those with more grounded expectations.

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Fast Friday with Steve Jobs, entrepreneur, visionary, maverick

Roundtable Talk

Over the past week, I’ve been reading numerous online tributes and posts about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and his legacy. I’ve also found myself in several meetings this week, where the focus of our discussions has invariably turned to topic of continually crafting your job to play to your strengths. It’s a concept that lots of people want to buy into, and yet it seems to challenge most of us as to how we can make it happen.

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Steve Jobs Wasn't (Just) a Leader

Harvard Business Review

Steve Job's passing may be one of those events that our memory swallows whole. Those that punctuate our life stories and we remember from within, as personal experiences. Where we were when we heard the news, what we were doing, with whom. Whether it was an iPhone or iPad we first learned it on. Steve's death, in that respect, did not just happen to him.

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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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Building the Foundation: How to Practice Mindful Parenting

Building Personal Strength

My work in the area of parenting teens has led me to a sad truth: many parents of teens don't consciously parent them. They simply share life together under the same roof, taking each day as it comes. Of course a parent-teen relationship can be so much more than this. Helping a teen prepare for adult life begins with being mindful about that responsibility.

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Steve Jobs and Management by Meaning

Harvard Business Review

Steve Jobs has always been considered an anomaly in management; his leadership style was something to admire or to criticize, but definitely not to replicate. He did not fit into the frameworks of business textbooks: there was orthodox management, and then there was Steve Jobs. The reason why institutional management theories have always looked at his style as an exception is that he was navigating a territory that is often obscure to management: the creation of meaning, both for customers and e

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The Big Picture of Business – Setting, Meeting, and Benefiting from Goals

Strategy Driven

Businesses should review their Strategic Plan annually. New year projections are the best time to benchmark progress and adjust sights for the coming term. Additionally, corporate executives must have personal goals written, in conjunction with a professional business coach or mentor. Goals require measurable objectives, with realistic dates and percentages for successful accomplishment.

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On Dr. Ralph Steinman and Steve Jobs

Harvard Business Review

A visionary who influenced the lives of countless millions across the world has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He is Dr. Ralph Steinman, a biologist who on Monday, three days after his death, won the Nobel prize in medicine. Steinman's discovered what he called dendritic cells, which unlocked the puzzle of how the body reacts to infection.

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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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Notes: Catalyst Atlanta… #Cat11 – Mark Driscoll

Ron Edmondson

Mark Driscoll spoke on fear in the opening session of Catalyst Atlanta. He began by stating: Every leader is afraid of something. Fear in the mind causes stress on the body. Your body will start to manifest that stress. Some suffer with depression, can’t sleep, eat or drink too much, they get stomach problems or headaches. Or some just start reading lots of books on the rapture thinking “God, aren’t we done yet?

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The Two Faces of American Capitalism

Harvard Business Review

"Steve Jobs Put a Ding in the Universe". "Obama: Wall Street Protests Show Frustration". When I logged on to CNN.com yesterday, these were the top two headlines. As I flipped through the television news channels, these two stories were touted side by side. As I digested these two stories — America's heartbreak upon learning of Steve Jobs's death and the protests of Wall Street that are sweeping the country — I could not help but be struck by the irony they represent.

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On Entrepreneurship, Steve Jobs, and Unashamedly Loving Your Work

Harvard Business Review

The world lost a great inventor and entrepreneur when it lost Steve Jobs. He left a legacy of simple, elegant designs that demystified technology. For me, as a fellow entrepreneur, Steve Jobs left a legacy even more valuable than his design ideals: he set an example for how to run your business to make the most of the time you're given. He lived and acted with a sense of urgency and an abundance of passion.

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The CEO's Priority Should Be the Corporation's Survival

Harvard Business Review

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. When leaders of corporations make decisions, they are necessarily, if only implicitly, expressing preferences about tradeoffs. For example, a decision to invest in growth, which might be better for longer-term shareholders, can often come at the expense of a higher dividend, which might suit short-term investors; a choice to pay higher wages and make employees happy and allow for price reductions, the benefits of

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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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Apple's Unlikely Saviors: Gil Amelio and Jean-Louis Gassee

Harvard Business Review

My Steve Jobs story: I met Jobs when he came by the New York offices of the Wall Street Journal and made perhaps as grand an entrance as anyone can make in a small setting. He was there in, I believe, 1991 to have lunch with the mucketymucks at the WSJ to try to sell the paper on some favorable coverage of his struggling education-workstation startup, Next.

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Anger as a Binding Force, in Chambers of Commerce and Elsewhere

Harvard Business Review

Managers draw on a wide range of human motivations. But anger is not usually included in the textbooks: angry workers are not usually reliable employees, and workers don't usually like angry managers. However, for early chambers of commerce anger was a binding motive force. Anger made business leaders set up chambers and devote the considerable time needed to make them effective.

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The Worst Question a Salesperson Can Ask

Harvard Business Review

This post, the second in a four-part series, is also part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line. "What's keeping you up at night?". This one question is probably asked by more sales people in a given day than any other. But while it seems innocuous — maybe even the right thing to ask a customer — it's a question that simultaneously prevents sales while also destroying customer loyalty.