Thu.Jul 21, 2011

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How We As Leaders Give Our Leadership Power Away

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Best of Blogs Series Leadership Development Self Leadership Have you ever watched a football game on TV? Of course you have. Ever seen a really bad play that clearly did not go the way the Head Coach or the team had planned? All the time. What happens next? In the span of, I don’t know, maybe 30 seconds the entire competitive landscape is [.

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Why You Want Women on Your Team

Women on Business

Post by Jane K. Stimmler , contributing Women on Business writer. Making a case for more female participation on Boards of Directors, executive groups, strategic committees, project task forces or, well, just about any group, just got a little easier. A recent research study described in June’s Harvard Business Review submits that having a group comprised of more women will ultimately lead to greater success.

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Employee Performance Management - Low Hanging Fruit In Every Company

Sales Wolf Blog

Most organizations can do more with less if they hire the best Talent possible, create performance awareness, and hold employee team members accountable for day-to-day activities and results.

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Solving Employee Performance Problems

CEO Blog

Staff is the largest expense for most companies. Maximizing return from staff expense is a highly complex problem. People by nature are complex. I read a book by Anne Bruce, Brenda Hampel and Erika Lamont called " Solving Employee Performance Problems - How to Spot Problems Early, Take Appropriate Action and Bring Out the Best In Everyone ". I tend to prefer books with more positive titles (although bringing out the best is positive).

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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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Thought-full Thursday: Intimately Knowing Others

Persuasive Powerhouse

Every Thursday, we provide you with a thoughtful way to coach yourself – something all leaders need to do. So take five and enjoy the inspirational quotes and reflect on the questions that follow. Your comments, thoughts, and responses to the questions are most welcome! “We’re obsessed with superficial intimacy. We know a [.

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Organizational Charts

LDRLB

From Bonkers World via Peter Klein at Organizations and Markets. LeaderLab is partnering with organizational scholars to gather research on the importance of building ethical climates. If you have 10 minutes, please help our research by taking a brief survey. Click Here to Help Our Research.

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Putting Your Cash to Work in Real Estate

Coaching Tip

Dallas attorney Joey Messina has a side business some might find surprising: He uses his own money to make mortgage loans to people who banks likely would avoid. Across the U.S., some mom-and-pop investors are yanking money from retirement accounts and safe but stingy savings to take on the risk of becoming "hard-money" mortgage lenders. In the past two years, Mr.

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Voice of Experience: Denise M. Grant (Shearman & Sterling)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Denise M. Grant (Partner, Project Development & Finance Group, Shearman & Sterling) written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. “Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, [.].

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Are you putting to-do list items on your schedule?

CO2

Most leaders have to-do lists; some are written, some are mental. Many leaders prioritize items on these lists–by importance, time sensitivity, difficulty or ease, nature of the task. Not too many leaders put each item from their to-do lists onto their calendar, however. As a result, the to-do list items rarely get done on time, if at all. Try putting to-do list items on your schedule.

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Adam Bryant: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Adam Bryant is the deputy national editor of The New York Times, and works with reporters in many of the Times‘ domestic bureaus. He also conducts interviews with CEOs and other leaders for Corner Office, a weekly feature in the Sunday Business section and on nytimes.com that he started in March 2009. He is the author of [.].

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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 Last Shuttle Mission Is Safely Home! - Now Some Recommendations

Building Personal Strength

On July 8, 2011, when the space shuttle Atlantis launched safely for the last time, I reflected on "What next?" and complained about the impracticality of manned space exploration. I said: "I'd like NASA to refocus on priorities that are killing us here on Earth right now, not this crazy romantic garbage about travel to the stars, funded by - YOU GUESSED IT - you and me.

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Why We Make Mistakes: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average Joseph T. Hallinan Broadway Books/The Doubleday Publishing Group (2009) And why we often make mistakes when trying to understand mistakes Frankly, until reading this book, I assumed that I understood why people [.].

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How you can avoid short-sighted vision

Chartered Management Institute

Vision is one of the attributes most sought after in a leader. After all, if you don't have a clear picture of where you want to go, it's very difficult to take anyone else with you on the journey. Of course it's not just enough to have a vision, it has to be the right vision, it has to be a vision with long-term aims and objectives.

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3 Ways to Convince a Skeptic

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. Swaying an executive to accept an idea is tough, especially if she’s a skeptic. To overcome her cynicism, you need to adjust your style. Here are three ways [.].

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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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SitePoint Podcast Hosts Online Community Management Roundtable

Managing Communities

I am one of the co-hosts on the SitePoint Podcast, a weekly podcast from SitePoint, one of the largest web development communities in the world. Recently, I led a community management roundtable that spanned two episodes and featured Matthew Haughey, creator of MetaFilter; Sarah Hawk, Community Manager for SitePoint and Venessa Paech, Lead Community Manager [.].

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The Most Amazing #Management Articles?

Management Craft

I am working on identifying the most important/useful/provocative management thinking for a project. Drop me a comment or email with the articles or books or posts that have most impacted your practices or beliefs about management (in a good way). These do not need to have the word "management" in the title - sometimes it's an article about honey bee colonies that teach us about project teams.

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Here comes the Bribe.

Chartered Management Institute

Despite government reassurances regarding the long-delayed Bribery Act, managers still should think twice about how they manage gifts and hospitality to and from their clients, says Alison Blackhurst.

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The Votes Have Been Counted-July Leadership Challenge

Management Excellence

Although the case lives on and discussion is always “in-session,” the voting for the July Leadership Development Round Table Challenge is now closed. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership, was the leading vote earner, in a closely contested and well debated case. Congratulations to Dan!

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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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Book Review: You can’t lead with your feet on the desk

Chartered Management Institute

You can’t lead with your feet on the desk shows how to connect with, and manage, in any culture in such a way that builds trust based on shared values to develop greater commitment. Review by Professor Bruce Lloyd, London South Bank University FCMI.

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Have Space Ship Will Travel-In Celebration and In Memoriam

Management Excellence

The last Space Shuttle of this era has returned and the program is officially grounded for good. There are a remarkable number of leadership and management lessons as well as a fierce debate about importance and economics that all swirl around the space program. Just for today, let's put those aside and remember and wonder and give thanks to those who served and to remember those who perished.

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Developing a Discipleship Culture

Ron Edmondson

Last year at Catalyst Conference , I attended a breakout with 3DM , a ministry which helps pastors and churches think about the importance and future of discipleship. I had participated in a pilot coaching program Catalyst was conducting and this breakout talked about some of that experience. The one thing which impacted me most was a slide that was shown.

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Organizational Charts

LDRLB

'From Bonkers World via Peter Klein at Organizations and Markets.

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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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Personal Recognition Versus Private Correspondence

Ron Edmondson

In my LAST POST , I introduced the concept of a discipling culture being high invitation and high challenge. I believe this is the example Jesus set for us. (Read the previous post for further explanation.) In John 8, for example, Jesus said to the woman caught in adultery, “He who is without sin cast the first stone&# and “Neither do I condemn you.&# That’s high invitation.

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Getting Networking Right

Harvard Business Review

Featured Guest: Rob Cross, associate professor at the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce and coauthor of the HBR article A Smarter Way to Network. Download this podcast.

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Netflix Fails the Empathy Test

Harvard Business Review

For years now, Netflix has been among the Web's most loved companies, scoring tops (or, this past year, second ) in customer satisfaction for online retail. Netflix deserves this respect because it delivers a complex service that, 99 times out of 100, just works. DVDs arrive remarkably quickly. Streaming is synchronized across your many devices. And, prices match or beat competitive options.

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Three Ways to Succeed by Breaking Convention

Harvard Business Review

Looking up from Bossypants , NBC comedy writer Tina Fey's new book , I see a sand flea on a dried out clump of seaweed. Farther on, toward a lifeguard shack, seven or eight sunbathers have books on their towels or laps. It's beach reading season on Cape Cod, an interlude when genres like romance and crime thriller sell best. What genre is Bossypants?

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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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What to Make of the Eurozone Proposal

Harvard Business Review

Britain's Daily Telegraph released a draft of a statement about the Greek bailout that the leaders of the Eurozone are finalizing during today's summit. It proposes to refinance existing Greek debt to the public sector with longer-dated debt at lower interest rates and throw more public money at the Greeks. That will perhaps buy time for Greece. You could even argue that there's a bit of a haircut going on since longer-dated, lower-interest bonds are presumably worth less than shorter-dated bond

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Four (More) Reasons Why It's Time to Shop for the Best and Brightest

Harvard Business Review

Why isn't talent on your shopping list now that your company is flush with cash? With more than a trillion dollars on the collective balance sheet, U.S. companies are poised to spend again. It's great that they're starting to spend on everything from M&A to new store openings. It's too bad they're not using it to snap up top talent. Sure, quite a few companies are putting out their "help wanted" signs again, but it's mostly to replace workers they'd laid off.

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The Price of (Not) Speaking Truth to Power

Harvard Business Review

"Are you familiar with the term willful blindness?" This was the question that floored the Murdochs at Tuesday's parliamentary select committee hearing because it cut right through the narrative News International executives have been spinning to counter the hacking scandal that has engulfed the media group in recent weeks. Innocent ignorance has been NI's defense from the start.

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Shareholder Capitalism Is Dead

Harvard Business Review

The verdict is in, and it serves as a convenient end point for the era of shareholder capitalism: Say-on-pay has been a dud. Fewer than 100 corporations, about 1.5%, lost these mandatory but nonbinding votes on executive pay practices. Most got well over 90% in favor. Say-on-pay may have led some to modify their practices before the votes, but it's clear that executive worries of investor interference have not played out.

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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.