Tue.Sep 13, 2011

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Where do you get your energy?

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership If you are a character-based leader you will strive to be the best you can be. You will be leading with integrity, and courage and regard to others. You will be after a noble cause or at the very least a noble way to reach your objectives. You will feel committed and responsible for the [.] Where do you get your energy?

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Ownership Thinking

Leading Blog

Ownership Thinking is about developing leaders at all levels. “Fundamentally,” writes author Brad Hams, “Ownership Thinking is about moving employees away from the ‘me’ way of thinking and towards concerns of the business and its financial performance.” This is leadership thinking in a business setting. When people understand the business, their role in it, and are informed of what is going on and take responsibility for the outcomes, then they become better stewards of the company’s resources a

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Leadership Biz Cafe Podcast #2 – Interview with Teresa Amabile & Steven Kramer

Tanveer Naseer

For the second episode of my podcast series, “Leadership Biz Cafe”, I’m pleased to welcome Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer. Teresa is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration and a Director of Research at Harvard Business School. Steven is a developmental psychologist whose writings have appeared in such illustrious publications as the Harvard Business Review and The New York Times.

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10 Tests to Know it’s Time to Take Charge

Leadership Freak

One dimensional leaders fit into one dimensional organizations. Do one dimensional organizations actually exist? Complexity and diversity call for more than one leadership style. You may be a coaching-style leader but coaching doesn’t always work. I enjoy a hands-off approach both as a leader and a follower. But hands-off isn’t always best; some situations call leaders [.].

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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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Structuring Creativity

LDRLB

We all want talent in our organizations don’t we? Just having inordinate amounts of talent and diversity does not guarantee innovation in any way. Leaders must find ways to harness and funnel the creative dissonance into something productive. Many leaders seem to recruit people just like themselves, because it is much simpler to manage like-minded people.

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Ratan Tata gets candid on the recently published book Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value

First Friday Book Synopsis

Thanks to Bloomberg UTV, here is a rare opportunity to share what Ratan Naval Tata has to say about Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value, recently published by Harvard Business Review Press. In this book on leadership, five Harvard veterans (Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren) [.].

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Adrian J. Slywotsky, Part Two: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Adrian J. Slywotzky is a consultant and author of several books on economic theory and management. He graduated from Harvard College and holds a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has worked as a consultant since 1979 and is currently a partner at Oliver Wyman. His published books include Value Migration: How to Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competition (1995), The Profit Zone: How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow’s Profits with Dav

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7 Ways to Tell it May Be a God Thing

Ron Edmondson

And without faith it is impossible to please God… Hebrews 11:6. We live by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7. For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon you. 2 Chronicles 20:12. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 1 Corinthians 1:27.

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How to Break the High Achiever Cycle

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. If you’re a high-achiever, it can be difficult to grow professionally. You have a successful image to preserve, so instead of embracing risk, you may lock yourself into [.].

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Structuring Creativity

LDRLB

'We all want talent in our organizations don’t we? Just having inordinate amounts of talent and diversity does not guarantee innovation in any way. Leaders must find ways to harness and funnel the creative dissonance into something productive. Many leaders seem to recruit people just like themselves, because it is much simpler to manage like-minded people.

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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 Two-Second Advantage: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future–Just Enough Vivek Ranadivé and Kevin Maney Crown Business (2011) The power of prediction-based talent: Intuition on “the other side of complexity” At least a century ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes observed, “I don’t care a fig for simplicity on this side of complexity but I would [.].

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Which book will become 'CMI Management Book of the Year' 2012

Chartered Management Institute

Last year saw the launch of the competition with Henry Mintzberg author of Managing winning the coveted title CMI Management Book of the Year and cheque for £5,000.

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Corporate Cultures – Individual Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment

Strategy Driven

The Individual Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment is one of two anchor points on the Culture-based Work Performance Model. Subsequently, organizations aligned with this culture set represent the highest level of engagement and creativity while incurring the greatest degree of risk in work consistency and efficiency. The following characteristics, benefits, risks, and risk mitigators are representative of the Individual Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment.

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Memo to HR: Why performances reviews suck

Roundtable Talk

There’s probably one HR process that sends a shiver down most managers backs: the performance review. According to a recent survey in the Globe and Mail , 53% of respondents felt performance reviews were a total waste of time. 20% felt they were a necessary evil and only 27% felt they were helpful. What’s really fun to read are the comments made on the poll.

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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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Are You Training Yourself to Fail?

Harvard Business Review

"Did you get done what you wanted to get done today?" Eleanor, my wife, asked me. "Not really," I said. She laughed. "Didn't you write the book on getting done what you want to get done?". Some people are naturally pre-disposed to being highly productive. They start their days with a clear and reasonable intention of what they plan to do, and then they work diligently throughout the day, sticking to their plans, focused on accomplishing their most important priorities, until the day ends and the

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How Women Can Flourish in the Workplace

Harvard Business Review

When I asked last week if women were dissatisfied enough to force change in the corporate world , my post triggered off a global debate. Many participants, thankfully, focused on what we can do to increase the number of women leaders and managers in business rather than diagnosing the causes, which are all too well known. I'd like to return to the conversation by reiterating my fundamental belief that the corporate world has largely failed women , an argument that I've made earlier here and in o

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Don't Confuse a Scorecard with a Scoreboard

Harvard Business Review

I've always been a big believer in using results as the differentiator between success and failure. You either achieve your goals or you don't. Energy, creativity, and activity are all good things — but they don't create value unless results are achieved. Most organizations take the same stance. They put a great deal of emphasis on reporting and celebrating quarterly and yearly results — with the assumption that there is a huge upside to being perceived as a winning company.

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When Debt Gets in the Way of Growth

Harvard Business Review

This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line. Debt is good for growth, but only up to a point. Thanks to a simple and powerful article from three economists at the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, we now know at what point a good thing becomes too much. Debt is good for growth because it allows people and companies to transfer money over time.

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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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True North Groups: A Conversation With Bill George

Harvard Business Review

Bill George is best-known as the former CEO of Medtronic, where the company's market cap grew from $1.1 billion to $60 billion during his tenure. Upon his retirement in 2002, Bill invented a new life and purpose (by making little bets, I might add shamelessly) to write and to teach. His books, Authentic Leadership and True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership (which I collaborated with Bill on) have become leadership classics, all while Bill has created and taught thousands of Harvard Busin

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The Skill that Matters Most

Harvard Business Review

Self control is the ability to say no, in the face of temptation, and to take sustained action, despite the difficulty of a given challenge. At its heart, self-control requires the ability to delay gratification. More commonly, it's called discipline, or will. Without self-control, we can't accomplish almost anything of enduring value. And we rarely pay much attention to it.

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