Fri.Oct 28, 2011

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WEadership Practice #5: Add Unique Value

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Community Involvement Leadership Development This post is the fifth in a series that began here summarizing the findings of a one-year study of workforce leadership. Through that process, we 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. __ What business are you in?

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No Fear of Failure

Leading Blog

Gary Burnison, CEO of Korn/Ferry International, shares one-on-one conversations with a dozen successful leaders in No Fear of Failure. He found a common theme in these conversations: they each “exhibited tremendous courage around the possibility, and even the inevitability at times, of failure. In the face of uncertainty, they draw on an inner strength that allows them to strive for what is possible rather than become paralyzed by the risk of failure.

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Letting Go of Your Need to be Right

Persuasive Powerhouse

As a leader, you are often rewarded for having all the right answers. You may fight hard for your position on a subject. However, as I’ve watched leaders put an effort into letting go of their own need to be right when it made sense to do so, I’ve also watched some things happen [.

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Leaders vs. Managers

Great Leadership By Dan

Here's the 2nd in a series of guest posts by Professor Jim Clawson , one of our Executive Development Program instructors for a custom program we offer on Leading Change. I introduced Jim to Great Leadership readers a few weeks ago with a post called "A Four-wheel-drive Diamond in the Rough Leadership Model". In this second installment, Jim offers his take on the difference between managers and leaders.

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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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Control Your Feelings – Don’t Express Them

Leadership Freak

Image source Emotions are responses to information; believe wrong information and you’ll experience wrong feelings. For example, you think someone neglected their responsibilities causing deliverables to fall through the cracks. Based on that, you feel concerned, frustrated, or even angry. Don’t trust those feelings. Don’t express those feelings. Push those feelings aside.

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Are You a Visionary?

Kevin Eikenberry

Typically in these weekly “powerquotes” posts I feature a quotation from a famous, or at least known person. Today that isn’t the case. I don’t know Dan Ivey, though I found his LinkedIn profile just now. His quote came from a Fast Company email in my quotation archives from 2004. I’m pleased to share it [.].

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Nuggets of Wisdom from Leadership Caffeine

Next Level Blog

My leadership blogging friend Art Petty has a new book out called Leadership Caffeine. It’s a series of essays organized by common challenges and opportunities leaders face. The caffeine metaphor. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Thought-full Thursday: Clinging

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! By letting it go it all gets done. [.

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Business Lesson from T.O.

Women on Business

There’s no denying that Terrell Owens is a great wide receiver, he’s got the speed and the skill so why isn’t he in high demand? He recently staged a televised workout to gain attention, but it seemed to do just the opposite gaining attention from only a arena football team. So what can T.O. teach your company? Talent is not enough. The lesson here is don’t let your greatness get lost in your message.

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Something Ventured

CEO Blog

Random tidbits: There is starting to be a chill in the air but the beans continue to yield well. The growing season in Long Island is at least a month longer than Guelph. I did not interview for Brainlogic that ended up on Collaborative Innovation. I have been sore from added weight lifting. Good sore and self inflicted in any event so tough to complain.

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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: Describe the Exception, there is always an exception.

Mike Cardus

Working on a team and Managing a team has challenges. People by nature wish to catastrophize everything. YOU have to coach people to find the exception the solutions. Because Problems DON’T create solutions. Solutions CREATE Solutions. To move your team and management to create solutions Contact Mike , it is the solution you need. Coaching teams and leaders I hear many stories of poor communication , planning, inter-personal conflicts, spite and revenge, incompetent management , in fighting, out

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Jack Canfield's Simple Trick to Become More Optimistic

Building Personal Strength

Jack Canfield It may take some work to become a truly optimistic person, especially in challenging times. But in this brief video Jack Canfield describes a simple technique that will get you behaving like an optimist so you can start enjoying the rewards that come with seeing opportunities. Here's to your success! Post by Dennis E. Coates, Ph.D., Copyright 2011.

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I’m the Leader, It’s Not by Job to Make You Happy

Ron Edmondson

I encounter people who think it’s someone else’s job, perhaps my job as a leader, to make them happy. You may have also seen this same expectation of a spouse, a friend, or a parent. Some people expect other people to make them happy. In fact, to me, that doesn’t even seem fair to the person wanting happiness. I may define happiness different than they do.

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Fast Friday with Winston Churchill (and a tribute to my Dad)

Roundtable Talk

Last Saturday, my father passed away after a short, but vigorous, battle with cancer. My dad was a larger than life guy and, what was comforting for my Mum and brothers after his death, was the outpouring of memories we received from his former pupils, rugby lads , friends and lawn bowling buddies. One of my dad’s favourite quotes is attributed to Winston Churchill: “You make a living by what you get.

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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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Ten Innovation Myths

Harvard Business Review

Over the past year I've shifted my presentation materials so they include mostly pictures and 96 point font. That's good for audiences (at least, I think it is), but bad when I get the kind of request that landed in my in-box last week. "I'm doing an innovation update at one of our meetings and I'm hoping you can assist me with some conversation starters," a senior leader said to one of our clients.

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Leadership Lessons

Women on Business

Guest Post by Jenna Grafton (learn more about Jenna at the end of this post). I was recently asked to speak at a session for new leaders within our organization. As I pondered what to share, I decided to share the leadership lessons I have learned along the way. So let’s start all the way back at the beginning. After I graduated high school, and went to a Target Stores Job Fair.

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America: Excelling at Mediocrity

Harvard Business Review

Recently, I've been around the world and then back to the US of A. And what strikes me is how fast many parts of the globe are forging ahead — and how decrepit coming home can feel in comparison ( JFK airport , I'm looking at you ). It's got me wondering: what is America still the best at? Consider this thought experiment. If you were really, really, really rich — say, not just part of the routinely opulent 1%, but a card-carrying member of the eye-poppingly decadent.01% — what

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Closeout for 10.28.11

LDRLB

Every friday we review the posts from LeaderLab contributors that has appeared on this blog and elsewhere online. Here. Even great leaders need help managing people. This infographic discusses When to Hire an HR Manager. We reviewed The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan. John Richard Bell outlined The Essence of Strategy. In this month’s short, David Burkus asked if experience really was the best teacher.

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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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Corporations Must Become Socially Conscious Citizens

Harvard Business Review

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. I recently heard that the only group held in lower regard than corporate executives in the United States is Congress. Wow! Think about that. What a terrible blow to business. And yet, I'd argue that it's our own fault. By serving narrow self-interests, we — the business people of this country — basically facilitated this mistrust.

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The Great Firewall of America

Harvard Business Review

The Senate's PROTECT IP Bill, designed to stop piracy, now has a matching bill in the House: E-PARASITE. It would have been tough to top PROTECT IP, but they've managed to do it. It contains provisions that will chill innovation. It contains provisions that will tinker with the fundamental fabric of the internet. It gives private corporations the power to censor.

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End the Patent Wars

Harvard Business Review

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the nation's top patent court, recently reached a decision that will have breathtaking ramifications: scientific research methods per se can be patented for a field of research. This decision promises to accelerate the flood of patent litigation, which shows that the recent America Invents Act does not go far enough to fix the patent system.

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Down with Knee-Jerk Downsizing

Harvard Business Review

Recently, the Wall Street Journal had a startling headline: "Lean Companies Ready to Cut." Its opening sentence: "Despite another quarter of robust corporate profits, an ominous impulse is stirring at many big companies — restructuring.". Spooked by prospects of sluggish revenue growth in 2012, some large companies, already quite lean, are making plans to slash jobs.

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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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CEOs and Boards Need a Pact on How the Firm Will be Run

Harvard Business Review

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. The story is a familiar one: A company's quarterly earnings fall significantly short of the investment community's expectations, and the CEO announces a restructuring, including a cut in R&D, to lower costs, regardless of the negative impact on the firm's long-term prospects.

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China's Stubbornly High Food Prices

Harvard Business Review

For Beijing, tackling China's high inflation rate — 6.1% in September 2011, down slightly from the three-year peak of 6.5% in July 2011 — appears likely to remain a priority. The People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, has already hiked interest rates five times in 2011 and increased reserve requirement ratios nine times, but those measures have barely made a dent on the problem.

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