Sat.Sep 17, 2011 - Fri.Sep 23, 2011

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Leadership is NOT Dodgeball

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Leadership today seems to be all too often confused with playing a game of dodgeball. It’s as if many leaders show-up for work each day with a freshly applied coat of Teflon, ready to duck and dodge anything that comes their way. Let me be clear – I appreciate savvy and finesse as much as the next person, but not as a substitute for courage.

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5 Reasons Curious Leadership Will Strengthen Your Organization

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues 5 Reasons Curious Leadership Will Strengthen Your Organization: Exploring fills you with a sense of adventure, learning how things work and why they work that way makes your every cell in your body dance! In your explorations, you turn things over and look underneath them. You dig in the dirt and examine everything you find.

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The Four Hallmarks of Bad Strategy

Leading Blog

Strategy expert and author of Good Strategy, Bad Strategy , Richard Rumelt says that bad strategy “grows out of specific misconceptions and leadership dysfunctions.” In short it is goals and not action. “It assumes that goals are all you need. It puts forward strategic objectives that are incoherent and, sometimes, totally impracticable. It uses high-sounding words and phrases to hide these failings.

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United We Stand: The Best Path to Extraordinary

Terry Starbucker

I know you hear this all the time. In fact, its become one of the most overused cliches in the business world. “Hey, let’s all get on the same page&#. Right up there with “ think outside the box &# (oh gosh, my mentor used to hate that one… ). Leaders are always talking about alignment – that need to get everyone marching to the beat of the same drum (yet another cliche).

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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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Are You Too Knowledgeable?

Persuasive Powerhouse

When I begin working with a new client, one of the first things I do is to interview their stakeholders. This helps my client and me to learn more about their most effective behaviors as well as those that are potential areas for development. After doing many of these over the years, I’ve learned [.

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Importance of Leadership Development in “The Individual Age”

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Events Leadership Development Workplace Issues As the twentieth century came to a close, the industrial age ended as well. Where most employees once worked in large manufacturing firms that relied on rote tasks performed on large assembly lines – from autoworkers to assemblers in all fields, today’s workers are more likely to work in service related jobs that require diverse [.

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Being Busy Makes You Stupid

Next Level Blog

Being busy makes you stupid. And when I say, "you", I mean me. Heck, I'll just say it out loud. Being busy makes me stupid. I realized this in a conversation with my wife on Friday night. We were. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Don’t Be “That Guy” as a Manager

Great Leadership By Dan

I’m noticing a lot of references to “that guy” these days. Maybe because I work at a college campus? There’s no shortage of that guy references, including references to all kinds of things you shouldn’t do in bars, on college campuses, in dating, in social media , in fantasy football , and on and on. That guy is usually described as basically full on himself, socially clueless, arrogant, a jerk, completely lacking self-awareness, and gets drunk a lot.

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The Leadership Illusion

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Self Leadership Leadership is an illusion. There’s no such thing. I can see you’re reluctant to believe me. I’m sure you’ll be quick to tell me stories of kings and generals, princes and paupers. You’ll point to any number of politicians, preachers, and performers past and present, people in ‘positions’ of leadership or persons with potential [.

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5 Leadership Lessons: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy

Leading Blog

Richard Rumelt has written an insightful book on developing the ability to identify and develop good strategy. Good Strategy, Bad Strategy is obviously the result of decades of practice developing strategy and the many case studies and classroom interactions made it personal and very readable. We’ve all been there. The big conference room as the lights dim and the Power Point slides begin.

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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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5 Strategies To Free Your Team From Organizational Silos

Tanveer Naseer

A few weeks ago, one of my readers left a comment on my blog asking why are there so many silos present in today’s organizations. Since replying to my reader’s query, I thought this would be a good topic to address as a follow-up to my previous piece where I shared a number of actionable steps organizations can implement to garner greater success from their collective efforts.

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Living in Pursuit of the OS!M

Great Leadership By Dan

Here's a guest post by Steve Farber. Check out the contest at the end of the post for a chance to win a copy of Steve's latest book. When was the last time you modeled your behavior after something you saw on the X Games? Well, as leaders, we can all learn from these crazy athletes because they each experience what I like to call the OS!M. Imagine yourself on a street luge, lying flat on your back on a long wheeled sled, like a skateboard.

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Planting the Seeds for Leaders of Tomorrow

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development In a crowded room, a leader can scan the room and spot people who have the potential. They have a different way of seeing things that enables them to spot opportunity when other people just see chaos. In essence, they have the eye for spotting talented people. Patience is the leader’s greatest virtue.

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Why Are You on Twitter?

Leading Blog

For those looking to do more with Twitter than just using it to exchange information, Claire Diaz Ortiz, who leads social innovation, philanthropy, and causes at Twitter, has written Twitter for Good : Change the World, One Tweet at a Time to do just that. Claire says that Twitter is effective as a tool to coalesce your message, make a difference and create a movement.

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5 Ways to Improve DE&I in the Workplace

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical for an organization’s success. And companies that take bold action to help ensure an inclusive workplace will win every time. Discover how your company can create a culture that celebrates DE&I while achieving higher revenue and growth.

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Leading Ethically is the New Leading

Leading in Context

All of us who lead and develop leaders need to be tuned in to the "New Leading." To embrace the "New Leading," we need to realize that leadership and ethics are joined in important ways. Many leaders have traditionally thought of ethics and leadership as two different things. That fragmented way of thinking is part of why we've reached a point where there are so many examples of ethical violations in the news.

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Cleaning Baby Poop Helps Make Great Leaders

Modern Servant Leader

Yesterday, our youngest son (2 month old Gabriel) had a “blow out” You parents know what I mean and the rest can probably figure it out from the title. It was a mess. By the way, if you’re eating while you read this, you may want to come back later… Getting Your Hands Dirty. The Martin Luther King Family. While scrubbing the dirty onesie, I found myself contemplating a key business decision.

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The impact of unlearning on leadership

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Today’s post on the SmartBlog for Leadership is by Mike Myatt, writer, speaker and author, offering advice on the topics of leadership, strategy and innovation. “Leaders and their ability to change their mind demonstrates humility, confidence and maturity. It makes them approachable, and it makes them human.

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Hypocrisy Isn’t Going to Get You There

Leading Blog

If you’ve ever asked yourself, “What’s the matter with them? Why don’t they get it?” or said, “I feel like I am alone here,” maybe they are listening more to your actions than your words. Culture explains how things really work. Culture reflects practical values—values that will get you through the day regardless of what you say you believe. When it comes to preaching values, too many leaders are just talking heads.

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No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results

Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.

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Women Entrepreneurs: Tory Johnson; Fired Up Rather than Fired From

Women on Business

Were you ever fired from a job? Just the thought is chill-inducing. Fired, it means failure, finished, foolish, and a lot of words that are meant to be esteem-downers. That’s how it was for Tory Johnson when she was a twenty something and on the rise in corporate America. Within one hour she had fallen from grace and was out on the street. Fast forward to today.

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Three Words to Guarantee Conflict Escalation

The Recovering Engineer

I tend to notice how people respond to certain words. I guess that’s something of an “occupational hazard” for me. As I watch how people respond, I look for patterns. And I see a strong pattern developing around three words (and some variations) that almost certainly guarantee that a conflict will start or escalate if you use them carelessly.

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Support Environment – ReImagine Work

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Mary Schaefer (posts, web, Twitter) shared a post a couple of weeks ago titled How are you Creating your Own Environment of Support? It is a story of how her site and her writing received the benefit of some traffic and some encouragement from another Lead Change member, Don Shapiro. Not only is it a [.] Support Environment – ReImagine Work.

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Four Ways to Create Unflinching Boldness

Leadership Freak

Timid people achieve less than bold people. Boldness builds the future. Fear stalls progress and congeals the past. Fear is survival mode. Boldness is opportunity mode. 4 Ways to Build Boldness: Prepare people for future challenges with training. Provide mentors. Celebrate mistakes caused by boldness. Most importantly instill people with hope. Don’t press timid people [.].

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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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Women Entrepreneurs, Funding, and the Economy

Women on Business

Over the years more and more women are launching their own businesses and brands. The Women’s Business Development Center in Chicago recently had its 25th Anniversary Conference ( [link] ). They have said that there has been an enormous amount of growth in women-owned businesses, but there are still places that are lagging and in a way the same issue still persists… money.

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Learning from Great Leaders

Persuasive Powerhouse

They’re everywhere, yet we often don’t notice the great leaders because we’re hard wired to be critical. Where are the leadership role models? If you look with fresh eyes, you’ll observe that many leaders are there for you to model. When you don’t know which way to turn, when every decision you want to make seems wrong, when you [.

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Training Isn’t Dead – Mike Myatt

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Mike Myatt (posts, web, Twitter) presents a thought-provoking and comment-provoking discussion over on N2Growth Blog titled Training Isn’t Dead, But It Should Be. Mike points out 15 reasons why development is more advantageous that training for creating leaders. Take a minute and check out this great post and the great discussion it spurred.

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The Leadership Quality No One Ever Mentions

Leadership Freak

Yesterday, I led a seminar that began with a discussion of leaders the group admired and why. The conversation was worthwhile and predictable. Everyone admires leaders who possess passion, courage, insight, integrity, vision, and the list goes on. No one ever says: There’s an essential leadership quality that never makes the list. Great leaders need, [.].

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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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Four Keys to Managing Social Media Use at Work

Kevin Eikenberry

George tries not to let it bother him, but when he walks by Sarah’s desk, and sees her Facebook account open he wonders, “Why isn’t she doing her job?” Susan sees half of her team seemingly always on their cell phone —not talking on the phone, but sending text messages, and she wonders if all [.].

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Looking for the Perfect Job? Become an Entrepreneur

Women on Business

Guest post by Amy Abrams ( learn more about Amy at the end of this post). When I started my career almost twenty years ago, I wanted to find meaningful and creative work, make a good living and eventually have a family. Oh, and did I mention I wanted to travel, take time off when I wanted to and not have anyone tell me what to do? At the time, it sounded like a fantasy.

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Old Men and Kick Scooters

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Self Leadership [link] Jennifer Miller (posts, web, Twitter) gives us an interesting article on the value of experience titled Old Men Don’t Ride Kick Scooters. She talks about 9 things she’s learned from experience including many of my favorites, like #3 – The deal must be good for everyone or eventually it will sour. Check out the list [.

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How to Make Passion Convincing

Leadership Freak

Vision creates emotional passion. Passion, on the other hand, doesn’t create vision. Expressing emotional passion with those who don’t share your vision creates skeptics not followers. Emotional passion won’t get people on board: I just landed in Philadelphia Airport from Williamsport, PA. The commuter flight takes about fifty minutes. I watched the pilot walk through the [.].

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How to Write OKRs: 45 Effective Examples

Discover how to align everyday employee priorities with company goals. Many companies are embracing objectives and key results (OKRs) as the best practice for committing to goals and following through. Objectives are outcomes that reflect current company priorities. Each employee should write OKRs that roll up to larger company goals. Show employees how they contribute to the larger mission.