Mon.Dec 19, 2011

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Creative People Must Be Stopped

Leading Blog

Mostly people say they want big, new, creative ideas. But when you come up with one, they seem to go out of their way to kill it. They act like creative people must be stopped. Wouldn’t it be nice to know where the opposition is going to come from before you ever present it? In Creative People Must Be Stopped , David Owens suggests that it will come from at least one of six different areas: Individual —your idea may not be that good Group —your group criticizes it out of existence Organizational

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How to Achieve Better Gender Balance through Succession Planning and Development

Great Leadership By Dan

According to research from the book Why Woman Mean Business , women now represent a majority of the talent pool, a majority of the market, and better gender balance in leadership yields better corporate performance. The data is compelling: • TALENT : Women represent 60% of university graduates in Europe and North America. • MARKET : Women make 80% of consumer goods purchasing decisions in the US. • BETTER BOTTOM LINE : - Companies with more women in leadership have a 35% higher return on equity.

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Women and Responsibility

Women on Business

Times, they are a changing, always. However, changing times seem to happen in the blink of an eye. I do believe we women leaders need to stop and take a deep look at what we are doing and the profound consequences of our actions. In days of yore, we were to be kept “barefoot and pregnant” and now we have “freedom of choice”. The big question is, what are we choosing and why?

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“It’s Better to Give than Receive” and Other Lies

Leadership Freak

I’ve asked some friends to bring their insights to the Leadership Freak community. Please give a warm welcome to today’s guest writer, Jesse Lyn Stoner. ** How many times have you heard, “It’s better to give than receive?” It’s so ingrained in our culture, we don’t even question it. If you are in a leadership role, [.].

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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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You Can’t Lead Through Text Messages

Next Level Blog

Last Thursday night, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel discussion on leadership at a celebratory dinner for Eagle Scouts past and present. The panelists were all accomplished people and had a lot of interesting reflections and insights to share. One comment from the dinner that I’ve kept thinking about came from retired Rear Admiral John Butler who’s now an executive with Lockheed Martin.

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Top Leadership Tweeters

Kevin Eikenberry

People ask me often about my use of twitter in part, I suppose because I wrote the book LeadershipTweet. I’ve been on Twitter for a long time, and while Becky Robinson (@beckyrbnsn), our Social Marketing Director, provides direction, advice, and assists me with my tweets, I make time to read the best of the best [.].

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How Reviewing This Year Will Improve Your Results Next Year

Kevin Eikenberry

The “year in review” is a staple for the media this time of the year. Time Magazine will name its Person of the Year, Billboard will rank the top songs in every category, and every newspaper will list the top stories of the year. I’ve even recently read stories about the top Twitter trends, and [.].

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Overthinking ushers in a host of adverse consequences

Tony Mayo

Overthinking ushers in a host of adverse consequences: It sustains or worsens sadness, fosters negatively biased thinking, impairs a person’s ability to solve problems, saps motivation, and interferes with concentration and initiative. Moreover, although people have a strong sense that they are gaining insight into themselves and their problems during their ruminations, this is rarely [.].

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You Have to Make Them Love Their Jobs

Marshall Goldsmith

As corporations' expectations for their professionals have increased, professionals' expectations for their leaders have also increased. Peter Drucker often talked about the importance of effectively leading knowledge workers - professionals who know more about what they are doing than their boss does. In leading today's knowledge workers, it is important to invert the pyramid and look at leadership vis-a-vis the wants and needs of the professional - as opposed to the skills of the leader.

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A Perfectly Evil Organization

LDRLB

The newest issue of Strategic Leadership Review is out and features three more strong articles promoting evidence-based leadership. One article in particular, Stacey Campbell’s “ A Perfectly Evil Organization “, does so in a rather comical fashion. In the tradition of C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters , this article is written with a reverse perspective to heighten faulty organizational designs that can have a negative impact on employees.

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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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What Companies Should Look for in a Business Coach

Six Disciplines

The business coaching industry, which is getting more exposure these days, is still filled with contradictions. Coaches themselves disagree over why they’re hired, what they do, and how to measure success. Here’s what you should know. A while ago, the Harvard Business Review conducted a survey of 140 leading coaches in order to find out more about the business coaching industry.

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In Planning Why Does the By-When Matter?

Mike Cardus

Planning requires the boundaries of Goals ‘what-by-when’. The ‘what’ being what is going to be done for example. Organizational Culture. A conceptual context , that is broad and made of a series of steps and processes. Thematic Goal. The What-by-when. Re-work our employee appraisal system (what) for test usage and adjustment in the last quarter of 2012.

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How Six Disciplines Can Change Your Organization in 2012

Six Disciplines

Often times, we're asked " What exactly IS Six Disciplines?". It's a business-building methodology that integrates the best practices of strategic planning, quality management, integrated learning, business process automation, people performance management, and measure-driven improvement. It's a complete strategy execution coaching program that focuses on strategy, planning, measurement, execution, learning, and leadership development.

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Season of Giving - Gift of Work

Mills Scofield

Tis the giving season. My kids always ask what I want they can ‘wrap’ instead of ‘do’, like empty the dishwasher, fold laundry, not argue, etc. They don’t view chores, ‘work’ as a gift. But, I sure do! Work has a lot to do with Christmas and Chanukah. Our work creates gifts and capital for gifts. It’s not just ‘stuff’ Work creates products, services, capital…and relationships – with colleagues, employees, bosses, peers, ser

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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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The Value Of Implementing A Performance Excellence Program

Six Disciplines

Six Disciplines is a performance excellence program, and our clients's results speak to its value. The value of Six Disciplines has been proven many times over, by similar quality, business excellence, and performance excellence programs like Baldrige, EFQM, and TQM. The value of implementing a performance excellence program like Six Disciplines is hard to ignore: A study by the European Foundation for Quality Management of 120 award-winning companies, including 24 from the U.S., compared their

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3 Questions to Make Next Year Your Best Year

Your Voice of Encouragement

As we approach January 1, you’ll hear a lot about the importance of making New Year’s resolutions. But most goals that people set at the beginning of the year - such as getting physically fit, getting out of debt or making more money - do not become reality. There are many reasons for this, such as a lack of sufficient motivation, inadequate commitment, or an unwillingness to experience discomfort.

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Baldrige Performance Excellence and Using Six Disciplines

Six Disciplines

Each year, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence is presented to a small handful of organizations who have proven themselves worthy by being consistently superior on seven criteria for overall performance excellence. The seven criteria include: Leadership. Strategic Planning. Customer and Market Focus. Measurement, Analysis and Knowledge Management.

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Steve Jobs: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster (2011) Think differently about Think Different In my opinion, this is among the most important business biographies ever written. Given the number of other reviews that have already appeared, there really isn’t much left for me to say that has not already been said. However, I thought it [.].

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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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4 Steps to Finding the Love

Steve Farber

Yes, you want your customers to love doing business with you, and you want your colleagues and employees to love working with you, but the most important element in the practice of cultivating Love is, ironically, the one we talk the least about and give virtually no attention to: your own personal connection to the work you do everyday. Why is that so important?

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Margaret Heffernan : An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Margaret Heffernan is an entrepreneur, Chief Executive and author. She was born in Texas, raised in Holland and educated at Cambridge University. She worked in BBC Radio and television for 13 years. She was one of the producers of Out of the Doll’s House, the prize-winning documentary series about the history of women in the [.].

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Fireside Chats with God by Norma Luciano

Deep Imprints

Today, we have a guest book reviewer, my friend Angela Graham. Fireside Chats with God, by Norma Luciano, was written by a Jewish woman who became a Christian, a perspective that fascinates me and never fails to inform my faith. I loved the autobiographical beginning which tells the story of a tough young girl struggling with her identity, faith, and self-preservation.

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Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Paul Leinwand is a Partner at Booz & Company based in the firm’s Chicago office. He advises organizations on the topic of strategy, growth, and capability building, with a focus on the consumer product and retail sectors. He also serves as chair of the firm’s Knowledge and Marketing Advisory Council. Paul has coauthored a number [.].

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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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Expressing Appreciation for Your Moderators Around the Holidays

Managing Communities

photo credit: Guru Sno Studios The holidays represent a great opportunity to express appreciation for your community’s moderators and staff members. My moderators are volunteers who help because they have enjoyed the community and want to help maintain and give back to the thing that they have benefited from. There may be some other benefits, [.].

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Network Beyond Your Bubble

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. It’s no surprise that we instinctively seek out those who share our interests. But by doing so we limit the range of situations and people we’re exposed to. [.].

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A Leadership Christmas Carol-Bah Humbug to These Leaders

Management Excellence

Given the state of things in our world, perhaps for just one season, Dickens’ ghosts can shift their attention away from Scrooge and focus on a few of those truly deserving characters hiding in positions of leadership inside our organizations and governmental institutions.

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What if God doesn’t deliver?

Deep Imprints

In the liturgical church, the four Sundays before Christmas are called Advent. This Advent season, “waiting for God to show up” is our theme. It occurs to me that sometimes our problem is that we don’t expect God to show up. Yet, far more often, when we expect God to show up, He doesn’t show up in the way we expected. The Jews at Jesus’ time were expecting God to show up.

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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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Giving the Gift of Encouragement and Support

The Practical Leader

‘Tis the season of gifts and giving. The warmth and good cheer of the Holiday Season is often the reminder we need of how giving and helping others can really help us too. George Burton Adams, an early 20 th century American educator and historian once observed, “Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that we never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.” When our daughter Vanessa was 20 years old, I came hom

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Some Things I’ve Learned about God Appointments

Ron Edmondson

It was the busiest day of my week. I was prepping for Sunday, had a packed calendar of meetings, and had over-committed my time for the week. I knew I needed to find time to exercise (I’ve wrote about that principle HERE ), so I slipped into the gym when I thought it would be least crowded. That hour visit turned into a two hour experience. I exercised very little, but I was able to invest in a young man who needed some life direction.

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Average Is Over. What's Your Extra?

Harvard Business Review

I approach a book by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman with a mixture of wariness and anticipation. Wariness because Friedman's books tend to go on for many pages longer than they need to, and many of those pages contain his trademark blend of Davos Man self-congratulation and cheesy metaphors. Yet I still have a sense of anticipation because in every one of Friedman's books there are a handful of insights that are so clear, so sharp, so flat-out right that they frame how you look at the

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One Easy Way to Be Happier

Michael Lee Stallard

Click here to view the embedded video. Americans are connection deprived. A quarter of Americans live alone and the number of Americans who haven’t had a conversation with a best friend over the previous six months has tripled since 1985 to nearly 25 percent of the U.S. population. This also likely means Americans are running low on oxytocin, a molecule that is associated with empathy, trust, morality and connection.

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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.