Wed.Feb 01, 2012

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2012

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February. Collaborate : The Art of We by Dan Sanker. Good Idea. Now What? How to Move Ideas to Execution by Charles T. Lee. The Power of Habit : Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg. Your Best Just Got Better : Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More by Jason W.

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20 Things to Stop Waiting For

Persuasive Powerhouse

Leaders everywhere are called “leaders” because they don’t wait for things to happen. If you want to be a leader, you must stop waiting for someone else to: Say what needs to be said when others aren’t. Yes, it’s risky, but who better than a leader to say it? Show empathy for those who aren’t empowered because it’s the right thing to do.

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Business Leader Future : A Sketch

Leading in Context

Leading in a Complex Global Context I did some research about global trends and challenges and how they will change the way we lead in the future. The answers I found explain why we sometimes feel that we're in a perpetual state of disequilibrium.

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Getting Corporate Leaders Coming to You

Leadership Freak

** Don’t worry about getting noticed by senior leadership; care but don’t worry. Mike Myatt said, “Great leaders don’t need to worry about influencing the C-Suite, the C-Suite will always come to them.” Stop trying: Organizations don’t need needy people. Doug Conant remarked, “Don’t try too hard to connect with senior leadership.” Doug illustrated his [.].

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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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Native Language – Use Common Phrases in Most Popular Languages

Modern Servant Leader

The world is shrinking. Across my career, I’ve worked on many multicultural and international teams. Today, I work directly with individuals who have a native language of English, Italian, Hindu, Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish or Vietnamese. Based on my experiences, I wrote tips for leading global teams. In that post I recommend using simple terms in the native language of the person you address.

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How To Inspire People.

Rich Gee Group

Tell them WHY you do it.

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Seven Types Of Student Leaders To Avoid

Tim Milburn

In just a few short weeks, we will begin the process of selecting and electing new student leaders. We have a variety of ways for students to get involved on our campus. But there are some students who want to do a little more. They don’t want to simply be involved, they want to be influential. They are already thinking about stepping in and stepping up for one of our student leadership positions.

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Call for Papers on SLR

LDRLB

As longtime readers know, several months ago we launched a partnership with the Strategic Leadership Review , an upstart scholarly journal with articles aimed at practitioners. (You might notice the similarities in website design. From time to time, we highlight SLR articles. Today, we’re looking for a few more. Take a minute to glance at the call for papers below.

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Getting Corporate Leaders Coming to You

Leadership Freak

** Don’t worry about getting noticed by senior leadership; care but don’t worry. Mike Myatt said, “Great leaders don’t need to worry about influencing the C-Suite, the C-Suite will always come to them.” Stop trying: Organizations don’t need needy people. Doug Conant remarked, “Don’t try too hard to connect with senior leadership.” Doug illustrated his [.].

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Feed It Forward

Marshall Goldsmith

I have observed more than 50,000 leaders from around the world as they participated in a fascinating experiential exercise, in which I ask participants to play two roles. In one role, they provide "Feed Forward ": They give another participant suggestions and as much as they can help with a specific issue. In the second role, they accept Feed Forward : They listen to suggestions from another participant and learn as much as they can.

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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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Innovation Soul Food? Irritation!

Mills Scofield

Seriously! You know when you have an idea for a new business, product, service or process and you tell someone and they pick it apart? They tell you all the reasons it won’t work. You get really really peeved and annoyed and say to yourself, “They just don’t ‘get it’ ”? Frustrating isn’t it? Last week, I was privileged to tag along with the Oberlin College Enterpreneurship Scholars on their trip to NYC visiting “Obie” alumni.

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Losing the War of Talent, a Telling Leading Indicator – The Challenge for RIM (BlackBerry)

First Friday Book Synopsis

As in ancient times, talent has become the coin of the realm. Companies that multiply their human talents will prosper. Companies that don’t will struggle. Talented People are scarce. Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, Beth Axelrod: The War for Talent ————— So, here’s the problem. People want to work with, and for, a winner.

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Tame Your Technology and Get More Sleep

The Practical Leader

Electronic tools are incredible. They can enhance communications, build relationships, and increase time effectiveness. Electronic tools can also replace true communication with information overload, damage relationships, and overwhelm our day. Electronic tools are vital and valuable, but they can also become vampires sucking our vital time and energy.

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Creating Demand: The Secrets of Truly Magnetic Offers

First Friday Book Synopsis

How do some companies generate runaway growth and extraordinary customer loyalty, even in a sluggish economy? Adrian Slywotzky, an Oliver Wyman senior partner and bestselling author, examines the unpredictable dynamics of demand creation in his latest book, Demand: Creating What People Love Before They Know They Want It. With engaging stories, Slywotzky pulls back the [.].

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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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Who is an Entrepreneur?

Rajesh Setty

It’s hard to “box” an entrepreneur as there are so many different kinds of them. However, there are several characteristics that will make it easy to spot one. I have picked 11 really good definitions of an entrepreneur. Here they are (in no particular order). #1 Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach. “An entrepreneur is someone who does not expect compensation until he has created value for someone else.”. #2 Jean-Baptist Say, French Economist. “Entrepreneur is someone who tak

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Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why technology should support your organization’s strategy…not the other way around This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review. Having read all of them when they [.].

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Love this #ted talk from Shawn Achor - Will help you be happier.

Management Craft

Check out this supercharged and amusing talk from Shawn Achor - it is excellent and has the potential to help us all live more fulfilling - and successful - lives. 12 minutes.

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Why You Should Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers: The Idea in Practice

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an article written by Matthew Dixon, Lara Ponomareff, and Anastasia Milgramm for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * The notion of going above and beyond customer needs [.].

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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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No One Asked My Opinion…But $100 Billion for What?

Management Excellence

As of this writing, the world is abuzz with the expected Facebook IPO. The number $100 billion is being floated and passed around (probably by those who stand to benefit from a big IPO), and whether real or wild speculation, that’s a number that gives one cause to pause. This is beginning to feel like Déjà vu all over again (thanks, Yogi Berra), much like that fascinating period in the late ‘90’s when stratospheric valuations were applied to firms that had no products, no earnings and sometimes

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Who is an Entrepreneur?

Rajesh Setty

It’s hard to “box” an entrepreneur as there are so many different kinds of them. However, there are several characteristics that will make it easy to spot one. I have picked 11 really interesting quotes about an entrepreneur. Here they are (in no particular order). #1 Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach. “An entrepreneur is someone who does not expect compensation until he has created value for someone else.”. #2 Jean-Baptist Say, French Economist. “Entrepreneur is someone wh

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Share the why as you share the what…

Ron Edmondson

When you are leading people…. When you are introducing change…. When you want people to follow…. When you want buy-in to the plans…. When you want to build or maintain momentum… When you are experiencing growth… When you are experiencing decline… Don’t bother with the what…. Unless you share the why…. People won’t hear the what as well unless they know the why….

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Top leaders have great communication skills

My Own Coach

'Top Leaders need to have great communication skills because their whole purpose is about getting results through others. As a leader, you will have gone past that stage in your career where you have had to role your sleeves up and complete the "doing". So now is the time to step back and look at the direction that your team or department needs to be moving towards.

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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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Should I Consider Full-Time Vocational Ministry?

Ron Edmondson

I get asked this question a lot… I spent more than twenty years in business before entering vocational ministry. Many hear that and turn to me for advice on the subject of transitioning into a full-time ministry position. I realize after I’ve answered the same question numerous times that it’s a common issue and worthy of sharing here.

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The Days of "Manager Knows Best" Are Ending

Harvard Business Review

To get a glimpse of what tomorrow's young global managers might be like as leaders, take a look at how today's young people think about communications. For one thing, they are devoted to connectivity. In a recent survey of more than 2,800 college students and young professionals in 14 countries, Cisco found that more than half said they could not live without the internet, and if forced to choose, two-thirds would opt to have an internet rather than a car.

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When Presenting, Remember to Pause

Harvard Business Review

After several high school and college courses, a few classes at Berlitz, and numerous trips to France and Italy, I have developed enough facility in their languages to get by in their restaurants, hotels, and shops, but not nearly enough to have full conversations. However, I have also developed a taste for French and Italian cinema, and so my Netflix queue is populated primarily by such films.

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Compensation and the Myth of the Corporate Superstar

Harvard Business Review

The public is up in arms about some of the big bonuses being paid to the CEOs of big bailed-out banks. The boss of Britain's RBS, one of the biggest casualties of the banking crash, has felt obliged to turn down a $1.5 million bonus in the face of mounting anger and the threat of legislation. It all used to be very different. Al Dunlap , the former Sunbeam CEO, and once handsomely rewarded corporate icon, was fond of reminding his investors that "the best bargain is an expensive CEO.

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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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Fiat's Smart U.S. Launch Strategy — Really

Harvard Business Review

The automotive press has been relentlessly critical of Chrysler CEO Sergio Marcchione — savior of Chrysler and Italy's auto industry — about Fiat's return to the United States. The company's initial foray, the Fiat 500 , sold only about 26,000 units in its first year, far short of Marcchione's 50,000 unit goal. Yet the carping misses the conundrum faced by companies planning market entry — for Fiat to get big in the U.S. market, it had to start tiny.

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Does It Matter Where Your Top Team Sits?

Harvard Business Review

Everywhere I go, executive suites are being reconfigured so that the entire top team can have their offices together. To fit everyone a single floor, companies are ripping out large private offices and dedicated conference rooms and building smaller, glass-walled offices, flexible conference rooms, self-service kitchens, and informal huddle spaces. Leaders naturally want their teams sitting close to them and to one another.

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Crowd-Sourced Labor: Will It Trump Permanent Employment?

Harvard Business Review

A few weeks ago, I wrote up some of the trends that I'm going to be watching in 2012. One was the interesting phenomena of access to assets replacing ownership of assets in more and more realms. Car-sharing services such as ZipCar , room-sharing services such as AirBnB , and project-based programming services from companies like odesk are upending a lot of our assumptions about what it takes to run a business.