Wed.Dec 07, 2011

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True North Groups

Leading Blog

You can’t do it alone. We often try to, imagining that we can see and know the things we need to know without the discerning eye of a outside point of view. Bill George and Doug Baker remind us in True North Groups that, “We need people around us to whom we can look for support and advice, who can help us develop as human beings. We need them to help us become better leaders in our work, our communities, and our families.

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Who Are The Process Whisperers, And Why Should We Be Listening To Them?

Terry Starbucker

Back in 2005, when I was SVP of Operations for a cable television company (Bresnan Communications), I started hearing whispers… They were telling me things about the business that needed our attention. Things that weren’t working. And things that were working beautifully. They were also telling me about the people that provided our customer service.

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When a Psychopath Inhabits the C-Suite

Michael Lee Stallard

This post is a continuance of my prior post on evil in organizational cultures. The “dark triad” — psychopaths, narcissists and machiavellians — represents a small part of the population. What unties this group of destructive personalities is that they lack empathy for other human beings and care only about themselves. Some end up in correctional institutions while others end up in leadership positions where they create dog-eat-dog cultures or cultures that are indifferen

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Start-ups, Franchises, Venture Capitalists Oh My!

Women on Business

How to Get the Government to Promote Your Start-up. Recently there has been buzz around New York City Mayor Michael Blumberg giving support to a local start-up Zaarly. So how did Zaarly land a prominent leader to support their start-up? Eric Koester, Zaarly’s co-founder and chief marketing officer, provides great tips to any new start-ups in the early stages.

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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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Thinking Ethically: 5 Sources

Leading in Context

How Will People Learn to Think Ethically if We Don't Teach Them? While we place a heavy emphasis on corporate education and childhood education as a nation, we don't often see "learning to think ethically" on the classroom agenda or the corporate training schedule. How can people be expected to navigate the complexities of life and work responsibly without learning how to think ethically?

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My Great Failure, Part 1: Overconfidence & a Humility Lesson

Modern Servant Leader

The Scenario: Overconfident. I was hired to deliver a new back office software suite. Prior to my arrival, the project had struggled to get off the ground, so expectations were high. They placed a lot of hope in me and perceived me as the “hero” outside hire. What was worse, I knew and believed the hype (insert foreshadow music here). After meeting with our customers, I compiled a business requirements document (to tell programmers what the software must do).

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Leadership Development Carnival, Part Three

Kevin Eikenberry

Welcome to Part Three of the Leadership Development Carnival. If you missed Part Two, read it here. If you missed Part One, read it here. I am loving the opportunity to slow down and savor these posts. I hope you are, too. I am going to start out today with another first-timer to the carnival. [.].

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The Office Holiday Party? It’s Work!

Women on Business

Post by Jane K. Stimmler , contributing Women on Business writer. It’s the time of holiday cheer – and you likely have a party (or two or three) on your calendar. Enjoy! That is, unless it’s your office party or a client event. In that case, the smart move would be to consider it work. There’s always a fine line between work and personal life, and no place is that more evident than at office parties.

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How do YOU store power for tomorrow's use?

Jason Womack

I attended a lecture by Gregg Maryniak at Singularity University. He encouraged me to "re-think" energy buildup, storage and use. So, imagine my surprise when I learned about THIS! (I know, in some ways, I sometimes arrive late to the game. But, I'm here nonetheless!) When I see this diagram, I consider our own human performance, the energy that we "drain" during the day, and then what we can do at the end of the day, at night, and during sleep, to store it up again.

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10 Team Dynamics That All Great Teams Share

Mike Cardus

10 Team Dynamics That Get Results. View more presentations from michael cardus. I have written , given speeches and shared a video of this before and I feel like sharing just the slide deck without the video. Plus adding the tenth Team Dynamic. Team dynamics defined as the motivating and driving forces that propel a team toward its goal and mission. 1.

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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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High-Trust Teams

Coaching Tip

Trust is central to human existence. Like all social animals, human beings have an instinctive need to cooperate and rely on each other to satisfy their most basic emotional, psychological, and material needs. Without trust, we are not only less happy as individuals but also less productive in groups. Research has linked the virtues and benefits of trust to economic prosperity, societal stability, and even human survival.

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How Games Can Drive Work Engagement

LDRLB

We’re hardwired to enjoy games – they’re addictive, skill-building, and satisfying. So the question is: How can we integrate game concepts into our work lives to help us push ideas forward? In this talk, given at The 99% Conference (not the 99% currently occupy Wall Street), Aaron Dignan explains how to leverage the addictive nature of games to increase engagement and achievement at work.

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Responsibility Is Not A Gift

Tim Milburn

If you don’t have much time to read this post, remember this: The first question isn’t “do you want to be a leader?” The first question is “do you want to be responsible?” Responsibility is a choice. If you’re going to serve others in a leadership role, you will have the choice to accept it or to take it. .

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The Enemy of Engagement: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Enemy of Engagement: Put an End to Workplace Frustration – and Get the Most from Your Employees Mark Royal and Tom Agnew AMACOM (2012) How to “take effective action to promote high levels of employee enablement and unleash the full potential of your people” Extensive research in recent years by highly reputable firms such [.].

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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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Responsibility Is Not A Gift

Tim Milburn

If you don’t have much time to read this post, remember this: The first question isn’t “do you want to be a leader?” The first question is “do you want to be responsible?” Responsibility is a choice. If you’re going to serve others in a leadership role, you will have the choice to accept it or to take it. .

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Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review. Having read all [.].

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How Games Can Drive Work Engagement

LDRLB

'We’re hardwired to enjoy games – they’re addictive, skill-building, and satisfying. So the question is: How can we integrate game concepts into our work lives to help us push ideas forward? In this talk, given at The 99% Conference (not the 99% currently occupy Wall Street), Aaron Dignan explains how to leverage the addictive nature of games to increase engagement and achievement at work.

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The Enemy of Engagement: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Enemy of Engagement: Put an End to Workplace Frustration – and Get the Most from Your Employees Mark Royal and Tom Agnew AMACOM (2012) How to “take effective action to promote high levels of employee enablement and unleash the full potential of your people” Extensive research in recent years by highly reputable firms such [.].

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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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The Tentacles of Our Ways – Why Change is So Hard

Management Craft

Someone asked me the question, "why is change so hard?" I thought I would share my response with you. Your thoughts? We might like to think that change initiatives will go smoothly if we have and implement a good and detailed plan. The plan is critical, for sure, but is rarely the driver for success because change involves more than going from A to B.

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Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review. Having read all [.].

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What’s Your Me/We Ratio?

The Practical Leader

Fellow professional speaker and good friend, Donald Cooper, makes this excellent point in his December newsletter: “In many conversations with business owners and their teams I’ve been amazed and distressed at how many business owners use ‘I’ and ‘my’ when they should be using “we” and “our” They constantly say, ‘I did this and I did that.’ and refer to ‘My factory, or my store and my customers’ and they do this

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5 Questions to Help Pick Your Battles

Ron Edmondson

Someone emailed me recently about a conflict they are having with someone. It is not a clearly defined Biblical issue. Both parties feel they are right. Neither is willing to budge on their position due to personal experience and conviction. Both parties are believers but not related by blood or by marriage. They have no mandated relationship, such as work or marriage.

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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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The Business Case for Being Authentic

Rajesh Setty

Dr. Harry Frankfurt has written a wonderful book on Truth which is apt titled “ On Truth.” Frankfurt makes a compelling case for truth – not on moral grounds but using pure business logic. His argument in simple terms is that there is a huge cost to lying and that is to remember all the details of the lie. The moment they forget the details of their lies and slip, they are exposed and that will cost them even more.

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Top 10 Leadership Books for Pastors

Ron Edmondson

I get asked a lot by young pastors what leadership books I recommend. It seems they didn’t learn leadership in seminary. Pastors get into the administration of a church and quickly discover they need help learning to lead. It should be noted that I don’t do “favorites” normally. I learn from everything, so I seldom have a list like this compiled.

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Distinguish Yourself #216 – Understand the power of stereotypes

Rajesh Setty

A few days ago, I was in Austin for a business trip. I took a cab from the airport to the Driskill hotel in downtown Austin. It was a cold night anti must have rained the previous day. There was some traffic back to the city so it was a longer ride than normal. The taxi driver Oscar was very friendly and we started a conversation that went in so many directions.

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Replace Meaningless Words with Meaningful Ones

Harvard Business Review

In response to a prior blog post about meaningless words, commenter Brett wrote , "It would be interesting to see those words and phrases that do inspire confidence and trust. That would be a great follow up." Here you go, Brett (and Aggressive Reader, who seconded Brett's suggestion). This discussion of meaningful words is primarily about replacements for weak, meaningless ones, while the prior discussion was about the complete elimination of condescending, insulting or self-deprecating ones.

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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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Employees Who Identify with the Company Boost Financial Performance

Harvard Business Review

This post is part of the HBR Forum, The Future of Retail. Executives spend a lot of time worrying about their companies' products and prices, but they don't spend nearly enough time worrying about corporate character. Why would they? A lot of them don't believe companies even have a character, and others don't see what difference it could possibly make.

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How Many Customers Did You Lose Today?

Harvard Business Review

My theme this month appears to be tone deafness among business designers. Cue Bank of America ! But genuinely, one of the most vexing dilemmas for senior executives is being plugged in to what is actually going on in the front lines of their business. It's all too easy to miss critically important customer experience information when one is engaging in the day-to-day grind that constitutes an executive's job.

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China's Hard-Work Culture: Today an Advantage, Tomorrow a Weakness

Harvard Business Review

As China loses the labor advantage that has propelled its economy for the past three decades, will the country's entrepreneurs be able to compete in world markets? I wonder. With wage inflation already eroding China's ability to compete on labor costs, I don't see much evidence that Chinese entrepreneurs are capable of generating profits through core competencies , as companies in mature economies do.

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Choice Helps High-End Products, Hurts Low-End Products

Harvard Business Review

This post is part of the HBR Forum, The Future of Retail. If you want your customers to care about product quality, give them a choice. That's the finding from our recent research, forthcoming in the Journal of Marketing Research , which reveals a surprising fact about retail assortments: Consumers who are offered a richer array of relevant choices in a given product category grow engaged and interested in quality and are prepared to stretch their budget accordingly.

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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.