Mon.Jan 14, 2013

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The Biggest Recruiting Mistake

Let's Grow Leaders

The recruiting process for my first job was intense. The sales pitch began with shiny brochures and a promise that once I “graduated” from this “elite” and “intense” management training program, I could move to any aspect of the company. ”It was a great start for HR, training, or frontline leadership.” From there the [.

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Three R’s in the New Era of Responsibility

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Community Involvement Self Leadership It is time for a new era of responsibility, in life, in leadership, in hope for human kind. There will be three aspects of responsibility in this new era: Respect for the power we each have at our fingertips. Influence, a voice, tools to build with, position, and access can all be used to destroy. [.].

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Why We Find it Hard to Change Our Behavior

Leading Blog

We know every behavior begins with a thought. So if we want to have lasting change, the beginning point has to be our thinking. Behavioral change is only surface change if we don’t first change the thinking behind those behaviors. And it won’t stick. It will keep coming out in so many ways we won’t be able to keep up with it because we haven’t changed the thinking behind it.

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The Great Leadership Learning Matrix

Great Leadership By Dan

“Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.”. - Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle. I just created this learning and development model based on 20-plus years of training, coaching, and mentoring others.

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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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Booth Babes – The Dirty Side of Trade Shows

Women on Business

If you’re an attractive, young woman in business who has worked in sales or marketing (and sometimes, even if you haven’t worked in those departments), you’ve probably been sent to a trade show (or marketing event) to “man the booth” for the primary reason to attract male attendees to the booth. Sadly, the concept of “booth babes” has been around for a very long time and is used in every industry regardless of how relevant or irrelevant female sexuality

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What People Want: 8 Things Money Can't Buy - by Nathan Magnuson

Nathan Magnuson

Home About Coaching Contact Guest Posts Archives. Thoughts for the Everyday Leader. by Nathan Magnuson. Home / Influence / What People Want: 8 Things Money Can’t Buy. What People Want: 8 Things Money Can’t Buy. January 14, 2013. — 7 Comments. You may remember the Mastercard commercials that ran on television several years ago. Each one depicted a family having a wonderful (and expensive) excursion together.

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Finding Your Leadership Style

Kevin Eikenberry

Here is some very good news for you. There is no perfect leadership style, which means there is more than one way to lead effectively. Why is this good news? Because it means you, yes you, can become a highly effective leader. Read that again and let it sink in. Whatever your past experience, whatever [.].

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4 Breakthrough Leadership Strategies for 2013

LDRLB

The New Year brings about resolutions to redefine the status quo. It’s usually an individual endeavor focused on fitness, friendships, or finances. When it comes to business, great things can also happen when we apply the catalytic energy of the New Year to our teams and organizations. 2013 represents a great opportunity to leapfrog our mental models and innovate our way to breakthroughs for ourselves, our teams, our organizations and, of course, our customers.

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What makes high performance teams?

Mike Cardus

High Performance Teams come from systems-that-drive performance from the individuals on the team. To be effective on an ongoing basis, teams need to be integrated within the existing structure of an organization. Team exist because an individual is accountable for work that requires the coordinated effort of a group of people. Whether you are teaming , project focused , developing corps ( people with specialized skills sets brought together short term, with clear accountability and authority, to

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Your Communication Tip of the Day from Abraham Lincoln – Be Precise

First Friday Book Synopsis

I recently presented my synopsis of the wonderful book Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural by Ronald C. White Jr. This was for the Urban Engagement Book Club, sponsored by CitySquare – a group of folks focused on issues revolving around social justice. This is a really good book! Mr. White argues that this speech was [.].

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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 Problem with Over-preparing

Your Voice of Encouragement

Some people I know jump right in with both feet when they’re presented with an opportunity. They say YES and don’t worry about how they’re going to do it. They’ll figure it out later. I admire that approach, and I've done the same thing myself at times. When I started my first company in 1982, I didn't know anything about running a business. I came from the field of education, and I had no classes or experiences that taught me how to market and sell.

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How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes: Lessons in Mindfulness and Creativity from the Great Detective

First Friday Book Synopsis

The website Brain Pickings is the brain child of Maria Popova, an “interestingness hunter-gatherer and curious mind at large,” who also writes for Wired UK and The Atlantic, among others, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow. She has gotten occasional help from a handful of guest contributors. Here is a brief excerpt from [.].

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Blind spots, slippery slopes, and meltdowns

Anese Cavanaugh

Last August I decided to put myself through my program. A lot had evolved in the model over the last 18 months and I was feeling the urge for an intentional reboot. I called it my own personal “7 week leadership experiment” After all, if I fully engaged in my stuff, and walked my talk, what could I create? I knew 2013 would be a big year for this work given some of the things I’d put in motion, and I wanted to go in fully aware and congruent.My business, life, relationships, an

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“I Was a Paid Internet Shill” Happens and Veteran Community Managers Know It

Managing Communities

Please Update Your ManagingCommunities.com RSS Feed Subscription This feed has moved to: [link] I apologize for the trouble. For more details, please read my post on the matter. Thank you.

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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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Heisenberg and you

Deep Imprints

Heisenberg’s Principle tells us that just the act of observing something will change it. This principle has to do with atoms. You can know the location or the velocity, but not both. I’ve been thinking how this principle applies to personal development. What if the act of self observation could make a big difference in our.

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Every Business Is (Or Should Be) a Social Business

Mills Scofield

Latest in HBR on Business Models in Social & "Regular" Ventures.

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A Sobering Leadership Principle

Ron Edmondson

Your private life. Your public life. They are inseparable. You can try to manage two identities. It won’t work. It might for a time. But not for long. You’ll be discovered. Your personal junk will impact your professional world. Eventually. Better to protect your public life by improving your private life. And better to do it now. Related posts: The Delivery Truck Principle of Leadership.

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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on…Becoming an Extraordinary Coach

The Practical Leader

We’re back from an invigorating week at Zenger Folkman’s international partner conference in the mountains of Utah. A highlight of the week was our certification to deliver ZF’s unique and powerful skill development system The Extraordinary Coach. Here are a few gems from The Extraordinary Coach: How the Best Leaders Help Others Grow. “A leader who is an adept coach can greatly enhance the organization’s success; one who dabbles and doesn’t take the process se

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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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Sitting Is the Smoking of Our Generation

Harvard Business Review

I find myself, probably like many of you, spending way too much time in front of my computer. When I do face-to-face meetings, my colleagues and I typically met around some conference table, sometimes at an airport lounge (nothing like getting the most out of a long layover), and quite often at coffee shops (hello Starbucks!). But that means that the most common denominator across all these locations wasn't the desk, or, the keyboard, or even the coffee.

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Don't Hire the Perfect Candidate

Harvard Business Review

Companies often throw good money after bad when looking for the perfect candidate for an open position. Due to the lingering effects of the recession and the perception of a glut of talent, hiring managers are still picky about their hires and many jobs remain unfilled. Who can blame them? The cost of hiring the wrong person is extremely high, especially when you factor in many of the hidden costs.

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Aaron Swartz's "Crime" and the Business of Breaking the Law

Harvard Business Review

It would have been almost impossible to miss the outpouring of grief that accompanied the news over the weekend that Aaron Swartz had committed suicide. If you didn't know him, Swartz was the founder of Infogami, (later Reddit), one of the creators of the RSS specification (at the age of 14, no less), was deeply involved in the creative commons, and started up the digital activist group Demand Progress (among his other achievements).

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"Conscious Capitalism" Is Not an Oxymoron

Harvard Business Review

There is a growing network of people — including the leaders of companies such as the Container Store, Starbucks, Trader Joe's, Patagonia and Whole Foods Market (of which one of us is the co-CEO) — building their companies based on the idea that business is about more than making a profit. It's about higher purpose. We are a part of this group, and host a set of conferences each year to share the guiding principles and best business practices that we have come to call " conscious cap

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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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Every Business Is (Or Should Be) a Social Business

Harvard Business Review

I believe the distinction between social and non-social business is a false dichotomy. And yet, it's one we continually want to make. We talk about "social businesses" — those that are mission-led and focused on creating positive social change — and "non-social businesses" — those that focus on revenue and profit. Social entrepreneurs launching ventures may ask themselves if their business models need to be different.

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Morning Advantage: Is Unilever's CEO Really Smarter than P&G's?

Harvard Business Review

Confused as to why P&G has suddenly been deemed a dog by pundits and analysts, while Unilever held up as a poster child, Forbes blogger Steve Denning called up Roger Martin , Dean of the Rotman School of Management. Martin, whose most recent book, Fixing the Game , excoriates financial industry analysts for holding CEOs to unreasonable expectations, pulls no punches here.

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