Tue.Dec 20, 2011

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A Chance to Make a Difference for Dan Rockwell

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Light Your World If you have learned from Dan Rockwell If you have been encouraged by his words If you have been inspired by his wisdom If you’ve been challenged by his insights If you’ve been motivated by his coaching If you’ve received his generosity If you consider yourself a part of his community, his tribe, his online [.].

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5 Leadership Lessons: What if You Could Take Control of Your Life with One Decision?

Leading Blog

Great leaders know they cannot let others determine their moods and behaviors. The decision is ours. David Pollay wrote The Law of the Garbage Truck to remind us that “it is not our duty to absorb the frustrations, anxieties, and disappointments of other people. We were not put on earth to carry other people’s negative energy, nor were we created to burden others with ours.

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50 Best Blogs for Future Leaders

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Resources [link] We were honored to be listed (#30) along with 49 other blogs on Online Colleges’ 50 Best Blogs for Future Leaders List. There are some old friends on there along with several I’ve never see before. If you have some time over the holidays, check it out!

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3 Ways Remarkable Leaders Get Noticed

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest post by Joel A. Garfinkle. Being a good leader — or even a great leader — is just not enough if you want to keep moving up in your career. You must be so remarkable that no one can help but notice you. You must do great things — not once or twice, but continuously — in order to stand out, get noticed, and propel yourself to the top of your company.

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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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Peace and Goodwill

Persuasive Powerhouse

. For many of us, our biggest and most stressful holiday season is here. Despite all of the hype about Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Super Saturday, you may be able to keep the spirit of the holiday in your heart – year round. After all, what we cultivate and nurture inside is what others see on the outside. Cultivate Internal Peace. The peace you feel or don’t feel inside yourself is “catching” It is reflected to the people you lead whether you realize it or not.

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Your Culture Stinks and you May be to Blame

Modern Servant Leader

So you’re fed up with the culture of your organization. You’ve made this much clear. Whether talking to your trusted friends within the company or your spouse and friends outside the office, you routinely complain about: How nobody cares about the people. Backtabbing has become an art and. Nobody knows what it means to be excited about the products and services.

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Accelerating Your Goal Progress

Kevin Eikenberry

There are lots of reasons this is a great time of year. While no reason can top Christmas itself, I also like this time of year, because if even for just a few days, more people think like achievers. If even for a brief time, people are thinking about goal setting and how to achieve [.].

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Getting Foot-Draggers On Board

Leadership Freak

I received an email question, “Some people in our organization aren’t interested in personal development. What can we do?” Priority: Personal development is the top priority for everyone passionate to maximize their opportunities. It’s not selfish to develop yourself so that you can expand your service. Never be a martyr. Put the oxygen mask on yourself [.].

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Annual Management Improvement Carnival: Edition 2

QAspire

Here’s part-2 of the Management Improvement Carnival featuring the other two blogs that I love reading. The lot of people liked the first edition where I reviewed blogs of two masters – Seth Godin and Bob Sutton. Great Leadership by Dan McCarthy I (and blogosphere) knows Dan McCarthy as the host of “Carnival of Leadership [.

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Part 2 of 4 Authorities That Every Manager Must Have: Authority to deselect a subordinate after due process

Mike Cardus

Manager: a person in a role in which he or she is held accountable not only for their own personal effectiveness but also for the output of others; and is accountable for building and sustaining an effective team of subordinates capable of producing those outputs, and for exercising effective leadership. (Jaques 1998). If we are to hold a Manager Accountable for the output of their subordinates.

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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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Coach’s Challenge: What Is the Mother of Your Fears?

CO2

Executive Coaches help clients discover the gap between their expected and actual outcomes. The easiest way to bridge the outcome gap is by eliminating unproductive or counterproductive behaviors. These behaviors aren’t hard to identify because they’re usually wrapped around a particular fear. Once the fear, behaviors, and consequences are brought to light, clients are usually receptive to behavior modification.

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How to Put an End to Procrastination

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. To procrastinate may be human but it’s not very rewarding. If putting off tasks is hindering your performance or making you unhappy, try these three things: 1. Identify [.].

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Radio Show: Inside the Bubble: How to Create a Safe Space for Change

Change Starts Here

My guest today is Martin Fenwick, Principal Consultant and Director of TheChangeFactor in Auckland, New Zealand. On the show, Martin describes the concept of a change “bubble,” a way to create a safe space for change to occur in your organization. Tune in to hear when and why it is necessary to create a safe space for change, and learn how to create the four layers of a change bubble in your organization.

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Rules of the road: The quick guide to better networking

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an article written by Tom Searcy for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the website’s newsletters, please click here. Photo Credit: Image courtesy of Flickr user MyTudut * * * Here’s a secret: I [.].

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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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Caption Contest 2011.12

Chris Brady

Ok, here it is. The final caption contest of 2011! But first - we must announce the winner of the previous contest #2011.9. Congratulations to Leveque, with the following entry: This answers why. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Common, potentially valuable anomalies that most executives don’t recognize

First Friday Book Synopsis

I agree with Donald Sull that most executives either do not recognize or ignore anomalies and even when they’re pointed out, the same executives underestimate their potential importance. True, they are easy to miss. Sull suggests that “the human mind is hardwired to reinforce existing maps [documentation of what is already known], even in the [.].

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Christmas Flash Mob

Ron Edmondson

According to YouTube, Journey of Faith performed a Christmas “Flash Mob” at the South Bay Galleria in Redondo Beach on December 18, much to the delight of local shoppers. One of the best I’ve ever seen…don’t miss the ending. Ever been a part of a flash mob? Would you like to be? (Thanks to @MaxLucado for pointing me to this one.).

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Should you encourage individuals or teams?

Chartered Management Institute

We all want to get the best out of the people in our organisations and various methods of incentivizing good performance exist. But is it best to offer those incentives to individual employees or to teams? Will the individual incentives encourage employees to adopt selfish attitudes to work and not share knowledge and success with their colleagues for instance?

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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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Risk Management Best Practice 1 – Map Corporate Risks to Operational Processes

Strategy Driven

All enterprises face a unique set of risks that threatens long-term organizational success and viability. Like corporate level performance measures, it can be difficult to readily ‘see’ the day-to-day activities that initiate, amplify, or mitigate these risks. Mapping corporate risks to the line organization’s executable processes illuminates the risk related activities so they can be appropriately monitored and managed.

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Radically different in 2012

Rajesh Setty

Radically different is what most people would wish to be in the 2012. To be radically different is to be markedly different from the usual or customary. Who wouldn’t want something radically different (on the positive side, of course) in the new year? Almost everyone. Note that I did not say everyone as there are people who are doing extremely well and they may just be looking at maintaining the status quo so that they didn’t slip in the new year.

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A Leader’s View…

Ron Edmondson

(Art work courtesy of me.). One qualification to be an effective leader, especially at a senior level, is the ability to see beyond the organization’s current path. Effective leaders appear to have a unique perception ability… A leader’s view goes beyond what’s expected to sense and prepare for the unexpected… A leader looks outside the norm to attain untapped potential and seize opportunities… A leader observes what needs changing to stir enthusiasm and fuel

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Tick the box or do the job right?

Rapid BI

Tick box or customer service…? Often we have heard the phrase “tick the box” as a way of saying “well we have done enough to say we have done the task” – but have we really? Many of us know that some jobs do only need a “tick in the box”, but sometimes we miss [.].

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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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What if Darwin was Wrong? Guest blogger Brenda Marshall

Roundtable Talk

Interesting question…and guess what, apparently he was. “Survival of the fittest” is not pre-wired into our genes. According to several key researchers in Tom Shadyac’s movie I AM , it’s actually the opposite. Apparently it’s in our DNA to strive for cooperation, connect with others and be empathetic. Think about the last time you felt pure joy at work – when you felt a surge of contentment and connection with the people around you.

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Why the C-Suite Needs Women of Color

Harvard Business Review

When Avon Products Inc. announced that CEO Andrea Jung would step down next year, investors and corporate leadership gurus cheered. I get Wall Street's enthusiasm. Though Jung, a 53-year old Asian-American woman, dazzled early in her 10-year reign, Avon has struggled mightily under her leadership in recent years. Still, I cringe at Jung's looming departure.

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What if Darwin was Wrong? Guest blogger Brenda Marshall

Roundtable Talk

Interesting question…and guess what, apparently he was. “Survival of the fittest” is not pre-wired into our genes. According to several key researchers in Tom Shadyac’s movie I AM , it’s actually the opposite. Apparently it’s in our DNA to strive for cooperation, connect with others and be empathetic. Think about the last time you felt pure joy at work – when you felt a surge of contentment and connection with the people around you.

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Can a Consultant Become a Manager, or a President?

Harvard Business Review

Here in the United States, the presidential election cycle gives us the opportunity to publicly discuss the characteristics of good leaders. Running a country calls for a sophisticated array of leadership skills — from shaping strategy to building a team to managing day-to-day operations. Choosing a candidate therefore requires thoughtfulness about what experiences provide the best training for a good leader.

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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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Grassroots Leadership Evolving

Coaching Tip

In the December 18, 2011 edition of the New York Times , Thomas L. Friedman wrote about the great unraveling of traditional leadership across the globe: The main driver, I believe, is the merger of globalization and the Information Technology revolution. Both of them achieved a critical mass in the first decade of the 21st century that has resulted in the democratization — all at once — of so many things that neither weak states nor weak companies can stand up against.

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Lipitor and iPhone 4s: Setting the Stage for Industry Disruption

Harvard Business Review

The two biggest product stories of 2011 were arguably Lipitor and the iPhone 4S. Although the two stories could not appear to differ more, both offer business leaders strategic lessons that are intriguingly similar. The Lipitor story seems to be about a managed end: the highly anticipated demise (due to the expiration of its patent last Nov. 30) of a blockbuster prescription drug.

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How Expats Should Lead in China

Harvard Business Review

video platform video management video solutions video player. Lynn Paine , Harvard Business School professor, offers five rules for western managers operating in the Chinese market. For more, go to the article The China Rules.

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The Future of Retail Depends on Today's Policy Decisions

Harvard Business Review

This post is part of the HBR Forum, The Future of Retail. In order to assess the future of retail, we need to understand the sector's current impact on our entire economy, and the direction that Washington is taking the retail industry with policies that are being shaped today. Three months after we launched The National Retail Federation's (NRF's) "Retail Means Jobs" campaign, the importance of the retail industry to the nation's economy could not be clearer.

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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.