Tue.Nov 22, 2011

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A Lesson in Leadership Manners

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development One of my most memorable lessons in leadership and its attendant responsibility came via the improbable pairing of a wise high school teacher and a spiky-haired toy. The guy who sat behind me in Mrs. Crawford’s English Lit class liked me. A lot. This was a total mystery to me because I did [.] A Lesson in Leadership Manners.

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6 Concepts for Creating What People Love Before They Know They Want It

Leading Blog

Demand is created in the gaps between what we really want and the goods and services we settle for. “Demand creators figure out how to solve the big and little hassles we all face—and they make our days easier, more convenient, more productive, and simply more fun,” writes Adrian Slywotzky in Demand. Slywotzky has identified six insights and behaviors of demand creators: Make it Magnetic.

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How To Use Your Leadership to Inspire Greatness

Tanveer Naseer

One of the responsibilities that comes with leadership is not only to communicate the vision or purpose behind your employees’ shared efforts, but to ensure that your team stays motivated and on track to achieving their goals. Under normal circumstances, this can prove challenging to sustain over the long term as employees grapple with various obstacles that stand in their path.

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Leaders Should Be Competent – But Not Too Competent

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from David C. Baker. Does a manager/leader need to be really good at what they manage? I would say for some professions, like sales, they do. What do you think? After interviewing more than 10,000 employees at 600+ companies, you start noticing patterns in effective leaders. Recognizing these patterns is a crucial step for first-time (and long-time) managers, as I’ve written about in Managing (Right) for the First Time.

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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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How to Maximize Your Work With A Coach

Persuasive Powerhouse

As we are starting a new season of coaching high potentials in a client organization, I was excited to hear a few of them ask “What can I do to get the most out of this executive coaching experience?” It’s a great question, and one that tells me why this group of high potential [.

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Success Requires It.

Kevin Eikenberry

and it is in short supply. It’s concentration, and, no, I’m not talking about the popular game show that aired from 1958-91. Concentration isn’t really in short supply; the supply is large, if you choose to capture it (and successful people do). Most however, - text while driving - answer emails while [.].

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Women and Remote Working

Women on Business

There is currently a shift in the global work place with the rise in remote workers around the world. Due to the use of the internet, you can hire employees from across the world and have them work while you are sleeping. With this change and the rising number of women choosing to work remotely from home offices or other places, there are many things to consider.

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Power of Customer Reviews Online and Why You Need Them

Modern Servant Leader

Before Online Reviews. In the old days, selling your product or service consisted of developing the item, selecting a market and screaming your message as loud and often as you could. Whether your message traveled on TV, Print or Radio, the model was consistent – a one-way message. There was no real discussion or sharing of that information or individual experiences among consumers.

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The Dark Side of Leadership

LDRLB

As long-time LeaderLab readers know, in September we became a part of a project to launch Strategic Leadership Review , a practitioner focused scholarly journal.Today, we’re featuring an article from the first issue to SLR – “The Dark Side of Leadership: Catastrophic Failure” by Michael Petty. The article covers what leaders can do when their organization is faced with Black Swans, unexpected surprises or catastrophic failures.

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Maybe We’re Too Enamored with the New – What Can We Learn from the Old, the Enduring?

First Friday Book Synopsis

This is the text I wrote for an announcement e-mail for the next Urban Engagement Book Club, which meets on December 1, here in Dallas (at the Highland Park Methodist Church, next door to SMU). I decided to share it here. —————- We are enamored with the new. We want the new, new thing. We [.].

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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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The Wise Aunt Talks to Her Niece about Death

Building Personal Strength

Maria visited Trisha, her teenaged niece, whose friend had died in a tragic car accident. She found her sleeping on a towel in her backyard. Here is a segment of that conversation. “I’m terribly sorry about your friend. I’m afraid I don’t remember his name.” Tears formed in Trisha’s eyes. “Mac. His name was Mac.” She wiped her eyes and then said, “Actually, his name was Coker McCoy.

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Sorry, Strivers: Talent Matters

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an article written by David Z. Hambrick and Elizabeth J. Meinz that was featured in the The New York Times (November 19, 2011). I urge you to click on the links to che vk oyt the sources to which the arricle refers. Also, I highky recommend a recently published book, The Rare Find: [.].

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Is paying people to work wrong?

Chartered Management Institute

Stephen explains how assuming people work for money leads to lazy management and/or excessive pay. The problems of the UK and, to some extent, European economies are a result of the divorce between reward and work. He stresses the importance of making the work the reward. Only then will we turn around the long slide in lost competitiveness and be able to pay for the society we want.

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Internal Branding, External Branding and Our Multicultural Strategy

Management Craft

Check out this thought provoking blog post from John Hawkins called The Business Case and Key Success Factors for a Holistic Multicultural Strategy (BTW, John is the new owner of my consulting firm, MPI Consulting ). John makes some great points about how we could and should think about building multicultural companies for a multicultural customer base (that is growing more diverse).

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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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Practices for Professionals – Sign Everything

Strategy Driven

Some find it very uncomfortable to “blow their own horn.” They shy away from the public spotlight and, instead, derive their own sense of accomplishment through simply being acknowledged for a job well done. Others, work for individuals whose personal insecurity drives them to take credit for that which is well done and overtly assign blame when things go wrong.

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7 Things Which Help Me Focus

Ron Edmondson

I’m fairly productive as a person, but the truth is, I get distracted easily and have a hard time staying focussed at times. There are a few things that help me focus. I’ve listed a few here. Here are 7 things that help me focus: Rest – It could be a 10 minute walk or a nap, but taking a break from what I’m doing helps me better focus when I return to the work.

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Metrics that Matter for 2012 (one page PDF)

Rajesh Setty

Note : I created this checklist a couple of years ago and it has served me well. No changes on the checklist except the dates. Please feel free to download, modify, re-use or share. We are obsessed about measuring everything. We want to know the number o connections, number of followers, number of pageviews, number of minutes someone spends on our website, number of clickthroughs, number of times the shopping cart was abandoned, number of repeat visitors, number of new visitors. and the list go

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Check the price you are paying

Rapid BI

Shopping around - does it make business sense? We do it for private purchases – but for our business purchases? Is it about saving a dollar here, a buck there - or is there more to it than that? We explore one example.

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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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One Way God Builds Patience These Days…

Ron Edmondson

S L O W. I N T E R N E T. Related posts: Developing Patience in Church Leadership. God’s Patience With Me. If Patience is a Fruit…Where’s mine?

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Restore Yourself to Your Factory Default Settings

Harvard Business Review

My wireless connection to the internet had suddenly stopped working. At first I was frustrated — I had been in the middle of browsing some books on Amazon. But I quickly took it as a blessing. I had an article to write and the Amazon browsing was a distraction. I resisted the temptation to distract myself further by trying to fix it and got to work.

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D–Quick Choice: DiSC Team Building Activity

Mike Cardus

DiSC Team Building & Leadership simulations and activities can add application and understanding to your existing programs. There are many variations from conversational models to highly active models. Contact Mike … to discuss how to increase the learning and utilization of your DiSC training program. Below is one example of a DiSC Team Development activity other development options; Using DiSC to create a shared language of team performance.

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The No Whining Rule for Managers

Harvard Business Review

One of my senior clients used to keep a "no whining" sign in her office. It seemed odd to have the sign so prominently displayed at a senior executive level. After all, the managers that walked into that office were not children , but mature adults with collective responsibility for thousands of employees. Why would they whine instead of just solving problems?

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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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For Your Team's Success, Remember the How

Harvard Business Review

You've been named head of a task force charged with determining how to respond to an emerging technological shift in your company's competitive landscape. At the end of roughly six months, you will have to answer for the joint efforts of fifteen people from across the organization whose work may determine the future success of your firm. Task force members gather from across the globe for three days of intensive meetings.

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The Super Committee's Two Failures

Harvard Business Review

The so-called "super committee" — the special team of twelve U.S. Congressmen charged with cutting the deficit — has failed to deliver. To many, their failure was the entirely too predictable outcome of a polarized government incapable of collaborating effectively. But I see two of their mistakes repeated again and again by managers in the private sector.

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Black Friday 2011: Advantage Retailers

Harvard Business Review

Last year on Black Friday, I dropped by a local Staples store in Watertown, Massachusetts, to pick up a few office supplies. Surprised at the 40% off sale on many items, I ended up leaving with a lot of office supplies and wondering, "Gee, did Staples really have to offer such a drastic discount on products that I would have purchased in the future anyway?

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