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3 Reasons Team Building is Vital for Employee Engagement

Lead Change Blog

From the greatest NBA season ever played by the ‘95-’96 Chicago Bulls (72-10 with a Championship) to the international dominance of the Spanish soccer team from 2007-2012, there’s one common thread…. It’s easier to align these types of goals with company objectives and get immediate feedback on the impact an employee has on your company.

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5 Pitfalls of Marketing Waterfalls

Strategy Driven

As data-driven marketers are taking full advantage of collecting, organizing, and analyzing demand management, many are adopting the classic marketing waterfall model from leading experts such as Sirius Decisions. One size fits all’ marketing waterfalls are too rigid. One marketing waterfall view has become a catchall.

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Best Leadership Books of 2013

Leading Blog

The Business of Belief : How the World''s Best Marketers, Designers, Salespeople, Coaches, Fundraisers, Educators, Entrepreneurs and Other Leaders Get Us to Believe by Tom Asacker In The Business of Belief , Tom Asacker describes the job of leadership from the perspective of beliefs—yours and theirs. We cannot pursue comfort as an objective.

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How Employee Feedback May Have Prevented Deadly Meningitis Outbreak

Great Leadership By Dan

While it is the only location implicated in the widespread contamination in 2012, ex-employees of Ameridose, a drug-manufacturing organization that has some of the same owners of the NECC, have come forward with some shocking claims.

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Executive Presence: What’s Your “Talk Track”?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Elizabeth Freedman (originally published 12/6/2012 on the Bates Communication blog). Maybe he could have said, “Unfortunately, we didn’t get the deal” or “They decided to go with another vendor” and state why, objectively. It’s crucial for leaders to be balanced, objective, and real about what’s happening.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

A 2012 Custom Insight survey revealed that 49% of workers cited problems with their direct supervisor as their reason for disengagement. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. Qualitative evidence suggests the program achieved the agreed objectives. It’s business as usual. Business moves along.

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Future Leadership

Marshall Goldsmith

If the leadership development process is to be an effective piece of the change process, it must be aligned with all strategic objectives. Only by aligning their efforts will new leaders meet business challenges and global marketing constraints. Focus on core issues. . Focus on human resources development and business experience.