Mon.Sep 26, 2011

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Faith, Football, and the Future

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development “Aw man… don’t call a time out. Coach, are you a moron?” This one sentence, shouted from the stands at my son’s football game last weekend froze me. I was suddenly ill at my core. We were down 22-0, but I couldn’t believe it. Were the fans actually attacking our coach during the game? Who [.] Faith, Football, and the Future.

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Leading: Sharing Accountability

Leading Blog

Uncertainty necessitates the need for finding more wisdom within our organizations. This can only be accomplished by creating a leadership mindset throughout the entire organization. It is shared accountability. Any leader that thinks that they can do it alone is indulging their own ego. James Champy and Nitin Nohria cautioned us not to assume that no one else on the premises can match our own ambition, competence, and vision.

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Business Proverbs and BS | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership. Branding. Life. Business Proverbs and BS. by John • September 26, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership • 3 Comments. When I searched online for content on business proverb lies and mistruths I was amazed by the digital library’s breadth and depth. The myths apply to business in general, as well as specific industries, start-ups and the new economy.

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The “Sweet 16? of Positive Work Environments

Leadership Freak

If people start worrying when you show up, you’re a downer. If people love to see you leave, you’re a loser. If your team hates receiving calls from you, you’re a lousy leader. People in positive work environments love to see the boss coming. They love seeing you because they’ll go further with you than [.].

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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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To Friend or Not To Friend – How to Manage Facebook with Your Team

Kevin Eikenberry

In our Bud to Boss Workshop, designed to help leaders successfully navigate the transition to leadership, we talk about the importance of relationships between leaders and their team members. Within the least year or so I have been frequently asked two related questions: “When we were peers I was friends with people on Facebook. Now [.].

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How to Quit Kicking the Can Down the Road

Next Level Blog

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria is one of the smartest people I don’t know. His GPS (Global Public Square) show on Sunday afternoon is an oasis of civil and intelligent discussion on world events in a desert of. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Help Each Other, Pay it Forward

Women on Business

Every businesswoman, woman business owner, self-employed woman, entrepreneur… however you would like to refer to your self; has something to offer and wisdom to share. Mentors are important; it is likely that if you think about it you have your own mentor, a friend or colleague, partner, that you go to for advice, to bounce ideas off of, which has helped you along the way.

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How to Quit Kicking the Can Down the Road

Next Level Blog

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria is one of the smartest people I don’t know. His GPS (Global Public Square) show on Sunday afternoon is an oasis of civil and intelligent discussion on world events in a desert of. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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When is Spinning the Message a Good Thing?

Marshall Goldsmith

Q: In our company we value integrity, yet leaders - especially in marketing - are taught to "spin" to make products and services sound good to clients. When is "spinning" a message a good thing? When it is wrong? A: Every company that sells products or services "spins" these in a positive way to clients. This is not immoral, illegal, or unethical. It is just good business.

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How to Expedite Innovation: Communication Loops & Red-Tape-Worms

Mike Cardus

If you are a manager you know that challenges can be overcome by solid people and systems. Below is from the Exponent Leadership Process – Created to make you the reason people continue great work and stay with your company. Does your organization have an excessive amount of steps needed to get approval or to even get work done. This is often referred to as “bureaucracy” and can quickly become abysmally restrictive and frustrating with feelings of; Innovative work thrusts are inhibited.

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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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Robots, Automation, and don’t forget Software, May Be Coming After Your Job (Yes, Yours!) – Read And Ponder The Insight Of Farhad Manjoo

First Friday Book Synopsis

The problem was not simply the loss of good jobs to workers in foreign nations but also automation… Remember bank tellers? Telephone operators? The fleets of airline workers behind counters who issued tickets? Service station attendants? These and millions of other jobs weren’t lost to globalization; they were lost to automation. American has lost at [.].

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No Toby’s Allowed – SLR Article

LDRLB

For the past few months, some of us at LeaderLab have been involved in a small side project: launching a new scholarly journal. Today the first issue of Strategic Leadership Review has been released. To celebrate, we’re featuring the first article from the journal, appropriately written by LeaderLab’s own Tim Vanderpyl. The video abstract, abstract and link are below: “No Toby’s Allowed” – Tim Vanderpyl.

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Is This Our Era: A Flurry Of Fluff Masking An Absence Of Substance? – (Insight From Richard Rumelt, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Are we living in the era of Fluff? — an era of Fluff in a time when Fluff simply won’t cut it? Of all the ideas in this terrific book, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt, (my selection for the October 7 First Friday Book Synopsis), this one seemed [.].

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Turn Off Email Notifications in Outlook - And Get Some Work Done

Six Disciplines

If you're like most of us, you're in Outlook all day. And few things are more distracting than seeing email notifications in the lower right corner of your screen - every time you get a new email. Get some real work done, and turn off those annoying email notifications. Here's how: In Outlook 2010. Click on the File tab to access the Backstage View.

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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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How To Play Beane Ball

First Friday Book Synopsis

I recently saw the film based on Michael Lewis’ bestselling book, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, and starring Brad Pitt as the general manager of the Oakland Athletics. It is not necessary to be a baseball fan and/or knowledgeable about analytics to appreciate both the book and the film, although that helps [.].

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Would You Sign This Declaration?

Steve Farber

A Declaration of Extreme Leadership. We, the undersigned, have devoted ourselves–personally and professionally–to changing the world, in some way, for the better. We strive to use what we have–passion, talent, desire, resources, imagination, time–to make a difference, to expand the rightness of things. We don’t consider ourselves to be naive or idealistic–although others certainly may.

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3 Steps to a Better Network

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. Having the right network is crucial to getting ahead in today’s organizations. But far too many people waste valuable time investing in fruitless connections. Here are three steps [.].

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Art’s Weekly Leadership Message-Hey Boss: Less Talking, More Listening

Management Excellence

It’s amazing what you hear if you exert a little self-control, clamp your jaw shut and focus on trying to understand what your employees and team members are trying to tell you. You learn about what’s working, what’s not, where you need to step up and offer help, where you need to step in and deliver feedback and so much more.

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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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Who gave more–the chicken or the pig?

CO2

Bacon and Eggs. The difference between Bacon and Eggs is that the Pig gave more than the Chicken. How much are your coworkers willing to give? How committed are they to their work, in other words? And what are you doing to engage, align and elevate the level of their commitment? Neither the pig nor the chicken willingly gave, so I realize the analogy between these farm animals and your coworkers is flawed.

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Communicating the Value of Your Community to Potential Members

Managing Communities

photo credit: dakotaduff Steve Magruder asked: “How [can you] motivate users to see the value of your board when many of them don’t seem to “get it?” I sometimes wonder if my site’s mission is lost on people, even though I have striven to make it as plain as day.” “… How can I get [.].

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What matters more, what you do or how you do it?

Chartered Management Institute

As an avid fan of complexity science and emergent principles of management I'm currently enjoying the book Complex Adaptive Leadership by Nick Obolensky. The book argues that leadership should not be something only exercised by nominated leaders. It is a complex dynamic process involving all those engaged in a particular enterprise.

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Can’t Live With ‘em (But Can’t Live Without ‘Em): How to Manage – and Motivate – Challenging Employees

Strategy Driven

If you’ve ever watched NBC’s The Office , you know that the show makes hilarious use of business-world stereotypes. Granted, the personalities, quirks, and antics of the employees of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company are taken to extremes, but we find them funny largely because they’re true. We know that guy – the one who cracks terrible joke after terrible joke, unaware that all he’s getting are eye rolls.

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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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Secret Staffer: The Mr Nice Guy routine buys you time

Chartered Management Institute

Workers remember managers’ past good turns even on their bad days. The Secret Staffer might be a sceptic, but he’s still a fool for a good burger.

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How to Double Your Productivity

Ron Edmondson

I’m reading Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success by Kerry Patterson, Al Switzler, Ron McMillan and Joseph Grenny. So far it’s an encouraging book. Much of it appears to me as common sense, but it’s always good to reinforce concepts you think you know. I’m hoping to test these theories with some change in my own life.

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Research Shows Strong Leaders Aren’t Controlled by Technology and Workloads

The Practical Leader

Work overload, 24/7 availability, stretched work weeks, and overflowing in-boxes are overwhelming most professionals and managers. But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can be the less stressed out exception. You can Lead , rather than Follow or Wallow. Linda Duxbury, a professor at the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University was recently interviewed in The Globe & Mail about her latest research findings.

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Mini Saga #118 – Confidence

Rajesh Setty

This mini saga was adapted by a story I read in the Introduction of “ the Element ” by Sir. Ken Robinson. Although the story is about a young girl, it has an important message for all of us adults. Mini Saga #118 – Confidence. Samantha was deeply focused on her drawing. The teacher had to call her name twice to get her attention – “What are you drawing Samantha?

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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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What myths do you believe in?

My Own Coach

'Here is an admission for you! I was one of those people that believed the myth that when we hear someone speaking, only 7% of our understanding comes from the words they use! Of course, in the cold light of day it now seems so obvious that this isn''t true. But when I first heard it, in the context of forming first impressions, it seemed to make absolute sense.

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CEOs Need a New Set of Beliefs

Harvard Business Review

In the past 25 years, CEOs of many major corporations have relied on a flawed set of beliefs to lead their organizations. This set has influenced them to place way too much emphasis on maximizing shareholder value and not enough on generating value for society. Today we are mired in the Great Recession, which was brought about by the near collapse of the financial system.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Here we go again… more government created uncertainty

Strategy Driven

As we enter this last week of September, America faces another looming government shutdown. The continuing resolution that currently funds the Federal government’s activities expires at 11:59 pm the evening of September 30 – the end of the last day of the government’s fiscal year. Republicans and Democrats have once again dug in to their partisan positions; creating an uncertainty regarding the operation of our government institutions, the funding of programs, and the paying of

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CEOs Must Model the Behavior for Creating Societal Value

Harvard Business Review

CEOs can use both signals and systems as powerful levers in tilting the focus of their company toward long-term societal value creation — which will take care of their shareholders perfectly well. Setting a Personal Example. Because people in organizations watch what their leader does and follow suit, the CEO wields a powerful lever: modeling desired behaviors.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.