Mon.Feb 13, 2017

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The Shape of Great Problem Solving

Lead Change Blog

In January, one Sunday afternoon I was preparing to teach an IAP course at MIT. The topic: how to solve hard problems. Yet something was nagging me. How do you explain the different characteristics of great problem solvers? What does a Great Problem Solver have that others lack? The course was focused on the behaviours required to crush hard problems, loosely based on my forthcoming book.

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How To Regain Your Groove in the Job Market

Women on Business

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Q&A With Wally Bock: Become a Better Boss One Tip at a Time

Michael Lee Stallard

Wally Bock, a frequent contributor to ConnectionCulture.com and a leadership coach, recently published a new book titled Become a Better Boss One Tip at a Time. Wally’s practical, effective advice always resonates with readers and his book addresses common leadership challenges. Here’s what Wally had to say about his new book and favorite leadership tips: Q: Why do you use the term “boss?

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Two Questions that Crackdown on Excuse Making

Leadership Freak

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” Benjamin Franklin An excuse is the skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

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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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5 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Black History Month

Joseph Lalonde

Celebrating the contributions of African Americans in the United States of America Black History Month, or African-American History Month, is celebrated every February. During Black History Month, people remember the important people and events in the lives of African-Americans. Being that it is Black History Month, I wanted to take a look at a few African-Americans who have changed the course of history.

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Supercharge your team’s motivation

Lead on Purpose

The most successful companies have motivated leaders, and those leaders inspire motivation at all levels of the organization. Is it possible to create an environment where great work happens and everyone is motivated?

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12 Reasons Your Strengths Can Work Against You

ReImagine Work

Forbes, Feb. 10, 2017 : “When you became a leader, you might have been told to focus on what you’re good at in order to lead your team well. While it’s always smart to understand your strengths, they only tell one side of the story — and putting those blinders on might prevent you from doing the best job.” Read what members of Forbes Coaches Council say about how the idea of idea of always “playing to your strengths” is really a misconception, and what you

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Leading a Team may require Facing Pain

Coaching Tip

Courage is a mindset that requires grit and determination. Most organizations have a list of core values that are displayed on the wall and show up in a variety of company marketing materials, from coffee mugs to baseball caps. During orientation, many organizations train their new hires about their values and how to live them. And yet, on any number of occasions, you can see leaders acting in direct opposition of what they claim to be their values.

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Will You Take These Services up on Their Offers?

Strategy Driven

In order to stay ahead of the competition your business must utilise the best options offered to it. In this day and age, there are a whole host of companies and services at your disposal to make use of in order to make sure you’re getting the best assistance and the best value for money. Maybe it’s time you took a look at some of the services below and how they can help your business succeed , better their area and field, and how they too can better your wallet.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Crowdfunding Your Company

Steve Farber

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh was spot-on when he advised entrepreneurs to “chase the vision, not the money” because by doing so “the money will end up following you.” But as anyone who’s ever tried to finance their great idea knows, the money still needs some help leaping into your bank account so you can put it to work. The money that’s “following you” is coming from the “crowd” that loves your idea, and now you can help it along with an evol

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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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4 Theories of How a Leader Becomes Controlling

Ron Edmondson

One of the most dangerous forms of leadership, and one of the most frustrating, in my opinion, is the controlling leader. I’ve written about this issue previously, because I believe it is one of the leading reasons for stalled growth and low morale in an organizational or team setting. Under a controlling leader’s watch, leadership development is virtually non-existent.

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Myron Tribus Interview of Homer Sarasohn

Deming Institute

This video shows Myron Tribus interviewing Homer Sarasohn in 1988. This post is fairly tangential to the normal scope of this blog but I find it interesting. Largely it is about efforts to rebuild the Japanese economy after the devastation of World War II. Obviously W. Edwards Deming was involved in this effort and his work played a significant role in his life and the refinement of his ideas on management.

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A Better Way to Set Strategic Priorities

Harvard Business Review

Smart leaders understand that their job requires them to identify trade-offs, choosing what not to do as much as what to do. Grading the importance of various initiatives in an environment of finite resources is a primary test of leadership. To meet this challenge, leaders often turn to rank ordering their priorities; it is natural and easy to make a list.

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Corporate Entrepreneurship: Turn Irony into Opportunity

In the CEO Afterlife

(This post first appeared on the Ryerson University Alumni Blog) . Not too long ago, a business professor friend invited me to address a luncheon of university students enrolled in his class on entrepreneurship. I was honored to have been asked, but not sure I was the right person for the task. “Your students would be better served by a high-tech entrepreneur half my age,” I told him.

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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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Big Companies Don’t Pay as Well as They Used To

Harvard Business Review

For much of the 20th century, workers at big companies were paid better than workers at small ones. An employee of a company with more than 500 employees historically earned 30%–50% more than someone doing the same job at a firm with fewer than 25 employees, for instance.But the pay gap between large and small companies has narrowed in recent years, and that decline is one reason for rising inequality in America.

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A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning

Harvard Business Review

You’re working on a new venture and you know you’ve got to create a plan to execute it. So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. Right? Not so fast. That process might work for conventional or ongoing business lines, but new ventures, which are less predictable, require a different set of planning an

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Repealing Obamacare Would Be Bad News for the Gig Economy

Harvard Business Review

The gig economy is growing and here to stay, yet the future of one key labor policy that supports it is uncertain: The Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare. The ACA is critical to the continued growth of the gig economy because it separates the ability to obtain health insurance from the need to hold a traditional full-time job. It gives all independent workers — consultants, contractors, freelancers, part-time, and on-demand workers — a way to obtain health insura