Wed.Feb 08, 2012

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Lead With Purpose

Leading Blog

Without a clear sense of purpose, organizations become listless. John Baldoni says in Lead With Purpose that it falls to the leader to make certain that organizational purpose is understood and acted upon. Retired Army colonel, George Reed told Baldoni that the importance of this cannot be underestimated: I don’t think you can hit purpose enough as a senior leader.

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Employee Engagement By Tools and Techniques

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Employee engagement is the Holy Grail because when it improves so does the customer experience, productivity and revenue. Also when it moves up, costs, absenteeism, turnover, theft, accidents, and defects go down. In the search to drive up employee engagement there have been many alluring paths to explore. Over the years most organizations have jumped [.].

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3 Surprising Ways to Influence Your Employees

Persuasive Powerhouse

JOEL A. GARFINKLE is recognized as one of the top 50 coaches in the U.S., having worked with many of the world’s leading companies. He is the author of seven books, including Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level. View his books and FREE articles at his Executive Coaching Services website. You can also subscribe to his Executive Leadership newsletter and receive the FREE e-book, 40 Proven Strategies to Get Promoted Now!

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How to Survive a Meeting with the CEO

Great Leadership By Dan

Most employees NEVER get to have a meeting with the CEO of their company. So if you do, it’s a one-shot deal that you don’t want to screw up. After all, exposure is a double-edged sword, and many CEOs and senior executives have short attention spans but long memories. This post isn’t written for the seasoned executive or middle manager who has regular interactions with the CEO.

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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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Top 100 Thinkers in Management, Leadership and Business

Leading in Context

It is no surprise that there is not just one list of thinkers in management, leadership and business. There are many, and they vary in scope and topic.

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Tell Your Critics to Take a Hike

Leadership Freak

** Alternate title: “Critics: Thank’em or Spank’em” Receiving personal criticism stands apart from criticizing products, services, or organizations. My leadership was first criticized when I was in my early 20’s. It stunned me. I still remember the sting. People who say personal criticism doesn’t hurt, lie. If you enjoy it, you’re weird or sick.

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The Secret Sauce of Process Improvement

QAspire

A colleague from a different department recently asked me, “When does this process improvement stop?”. In my response, I explained that improvement is not a destination, but a journey. It is a way for business to tune and align the operations to ongoing changes in the business. “If that is the case, how do you sustain the improvement effort? What is the secret sauce of continuous improvement?

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Innocide!!!

Mills Scofield

Last month, my friend Whitney Johnson wrote a great post about entitlement being an innovation-killer. Please read it if you haven’t. I’m sure we all know examples of this in many aspects of our lives. In some corporate cultures, Innocide is brazen and in others incredibly polite and subtle. Perhaps the subtlest of all is Suinnocide – killing innovation within us.

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Tell Your Critics to Take a Hike

Leadership Freak

** Alternate title: “Critics: Thank’em or Spank’em” Receiving personal criticism stands apart from criticizing products, services, or organizations. My leadership was first criticized when I was in my early 20’s. It stunned me. I still remember the sting. People who say personal criticism doesn’t hurt, lie. If you enjoy it, you’re weird or sick.

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Hauling Ice

Chris Brady

In the early 1800s a boy named Frederic Tudor was on a trip to Havana, Cuba and had a thought. As he stood in the sweltering sun he wondered if people there would be interested in a cold drink. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Got A Minute?

Tim Milburn

We’re busy people. I get that. So I have one question for you… Got a minute? Most people do. Even if they don’t, they’ll often say, “I’ll get to it in a minute.” Everyone has a minute. With that in mind, I want to introduce a new video series I will be producing and posting on this site called: Got a minute?

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Book Review: Managing (Right) for the First Time

LDRLB

Usually, I reserve review space on this blog for books that are saturated with empirical evidence and still provide practical implications for everyday leadership. However, every once in awhile I’ll encounter a book that doesn’t claim any ties to research, but offers insights that line up with evidence. David C. Baker’s Managing (Right) for the First Time does just that.

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The Secret Success of the Status Quo

Change Starts Here

The status quo, the current way things are done in your organization, came about because it was successful. People in your organization learned how to conduct their jobs through trial and error. The things that worked were incorporated into how things are done, and the things that didn’t work were dropped. Over time, these became habits that are reinforced by daily interactions with other people in the organization.

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Lessons in Management Innovation from Main Street

Management Excellence

During the past few years, I’ve marveled at the start-ups and small to mid-sized businesses in my community who didn’t need an army of consultants or MBAs to teach them the very relevant and important lessons that Reeves and Deimler share in their recent Harvard Business Review article, "Adaptability-The New Competitive Advantage.".

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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 Know What Your Boss Expects of You

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. Even if you know your annual targets and goals, you may not always know everything your boss expects of you. Every manager has unspoken expectations. Here are [.].

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Why 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante Murdered 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten

Building Personal Strength

Bustamante - sheriff's photo You may have seen the news report about the sentencing of 18-year-old Alyssa Bustamante to life in prison (with the possibility of parole). Originally charged with first-degree murder, she later pleaded guilty to the lesser charge to avoid a trial and a harsher punishment. What did this teenager do to warrant a life sentence?

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“Hear the roar of our engines….”

First Friday Book Synopsis

Until last Sunday, I thought that the best commercial shown in conjunction with a Super Bowl was Apple’s with its “1984″ them. Leland Russell has praised Clint Eastwood’s two-minute commercial for Chrysler, “It’s Half-time in America,” and I agree with Russell. Here is what he has to say: * * * During Super Bowl 2012, [.].

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Book Review: Managing (Right) for the First Time

LDRLB

'Usually, I reserve review space on this blog for books that are saturated with empirical evidence and still provide practical implications for everyday leadership. However, every once in awhile I’ll encounter a book that doesn’t claim any ties to research, but offers insights that line up with evidence. David C. Baker’s Managing (Right) for the First Time does just that.

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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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Smartening Up: Boosting Emotional Intelligence

The Practical Leader

Like the debate on whether leaders are born or made, an early debate in the emerging Emotional Intelligence research was whether our EQ, like IQ, is fixed once we hit adulthood. The debate is over and the verdict is in: like building leadership or other forms of expertise, we can improve our EQ at any time in our lives. In one study at Case Western Reserve University, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) students were given Emotional Intelligence training (not a normal part of most very an

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Clock watching = stressed employees

Chartered Management Institute

There have been numerous studies in the past few years reporting the growing trend of managers not really switching off when they're away from work, be it using electronic devices to check in at home or failing to properly switch off whilst on holiday. The consequences of such activities are clear both in terms of stress and lost productivity. Similarly, in many discussions I have with people about social media, the issue of time and how it is spent is raised.

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Got A Minute?

Tim Milburn

We’re busy people. I get that. So I have one question for you… Got a minute? Most people do. Even if they don’t, they’ll often say, “I’ll get to it in a minute.” Everyone has a minute. With that in mind, I want to introduce a new video series I will be producing and posting on this site called: Got a minute?

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3 Ways To Remove The Pain From Preparing A Weekly Sermon

Ron Edmondson

This is a guest post by my friend Casey Graham. Casey is one of the most innovative church leaders I know. He is passionate about Kingdom building and helping those who desire to Kingdom build. I haven’t seen any project of Casey’s yet I can’t support. Here’s a word from Casey about a new project to help pastors: After talking to hundreds of preachers, we’ve found most preachers love preaching, but the grind of preparation can often become a pain.

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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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Today’s thoughts February 8, 2012

Rapid BI

Goodbye IT – hello products that work Goodbye IT – hello products that work With so many people fed-up of big software solutions that just are too clunky and don’t do easily what people want, the IT world is moving. With Apple dropping support & products for the film & media industry, they are now [.].

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Five Minute Challenge: Persecuted Church

Ron Edmondson

This week I’m at Moody Founder’s Week. It’s a Bible conference put on by Moody Bible Institute that I’ve come to for several years, especially since my son Nate is a student here. One of the underlying themes this year has the persecution of Christians around the world. I’ve read recently that Christians are under more persecution today than any time in church history.

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5 key strategies for networking

My Own Coach

'Networking - why do it? Are you doing it? Are you any good at it? Did you know that you can greatly enhance the performance of your team and your company through networking? One of the things about networking is that there can be a lot of mystique attached to it. There is the idea that networking is something you do in a strict business setting where you exchange business cards, etc.

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Don't Confuse Passion with Competence

Harvard Business Review

The most successful innovators are consistently portrayed as possessing a passion that borders on dogmatism. They work tirelessly to bend reality to achieve their vision, with Steve Jobs and his "reality distortion field" serving as the prototypical example. There's no doubt that passion is a critical component of innovation. After all, innovation is awfully hard work, with plenty of false starts.

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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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Putting Your Blog To Work For You

Women on Business

Guest post by Charity Cason (learn more about Charity at the end of this article). In this age of social media and blogging, it’s more important than ever to make sure that your blog is marketing your business effectively 24 hours a day. There are so many mistakes that new bloggers make which can be easily avoided from the outset. Let’s face it; business people are good at what they do, but they aren’t always good at marketing online.

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How GE Is Attracting, Developing, and Retaining Global Talent

Harvard Business Review

We recently convened a team of 21 millennials from various GE businesses and functions around the world for a special three-month assignment: identify ways to attract, develop, and retain talent in the future. We named the effort "Global New Directions," and we knew we'd picked the right people almost immediately when they told us that they didn't want to retain employees, they wanted to inspire them.

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Win on Service in a Tough Economy

Harvard Business Review

Great service is always a differentiator, even more so when people are hurting. The service companies that thrived coming out of the Great Depression — think Macy's and Disney — figured out how to take care of their customers in a climate of fear and uncertainty. The fog of recession may be starting to lift, but most households and businesses are still feeling vulnerable today.

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Managerial Intuition Is a Harmful Myth

Harvard Business Review

I've been learning a lot from Danny Kahneman's great book Thinking Fast and Slow. Kahneman is the world's leading expert on human judgment and decision-making and the only non-economist to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics (he's a psychologist by training), so his insights and conclusions should be taken seriously. In Thinking Fast and Slow he collects them and explains them to the non-specialist.

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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.