Tue.Jul 12, 2011

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Learn From Your Heroes, but Believe in Yourself

Leading Blog

It is natural to want to be like the people we look up to. We want to recreate the success they have enjoyed in our own lives. So we try to imitate them. It seems like the shortest distance between two points. Of course, we are trying to copy a result. What we often fail to see is the work it took to get them to the place where they could do what they do.

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PwC Chairman: Need to Connect with Millennials

Michael Lee Stallard

Dennis Nally, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Chairman, recognized the need to connect with Millennials, in a Wall Street Journal interview entitled “ PwC Chairman Aims to Keep Millennials Happy.&# In the interview Nally states: “Connecting with your employees so they understand you can deliver the career they want is key…they want less-hierarchical structures, they want more flexibility, they want to work as hard but they want to define how they do their work.

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The Importance of Focus

Kevin Eikenberry

As leaders we often have many competing issues, challenges, and tasks. Guess what? That is life. To be an effective leader we must continue to be focused. We must provide a consistent vision of the future we are leading people towards. That is leadership. Of course we can have new ideas. But the new must [.].

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Resume' Bias and Selecting Top Talent

Sales Wolf Blog

The resume' is not the first place to begin when considering the potential of the candidate. The best place to begin is with a valid pre-employment personality assessment.

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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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Yearly Performance Reviews SUCK! Managers Can Change That.

Mike Cardus

“I hate doing these yearly performance evaluations”. “What is it you hate so much?”. “They are no-where near accurate and often times I feel forced to use recent information to determine employee performance.”. “What would be better?” His eyes starred at the ceiling and I could tell the thought was there. “More information that I could use”. “How can you get that information?

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The End Of Wall Street

CEO Blog

I read a great book abstract at Getabstract on The End of Wall Street. Although it seems obvious - selling houses to people with no credit, no assets, no jobs was a recipe for disaster. I wonder if the American dream of home ownership for all and the government encouragement by mortgage deductability is sustainable. + There is an interesting blog post emailed to me by a friend on Michael Hyatt's Blog on using batching for time management.

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Henry Chesbrough: A second interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Chesbrough is Adjunct Professor, Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and Executive Director of its Center for Open Innovation. His landmark book Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (2003) articulated a new paradigm for industrial research and development. His more recent book, Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape (2006), carries the open approach a step further, arguing that business [.].

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Transformational Leadership Course

LDRLB

I’m a fan of Michael Roberto’s work as a scholar and blogger. Being a fan, I have to give an obligatory post to Dr. Roberto’s new course called “ Transformational Leadership: How Leaders Change Teams, Companies and Organizations &# recorded and distributed by The Great Courses. Dr. Roberto covers a variety of relevant research and models that inform the practice of leadership, including a great overview of leadership theories and insight into how to make change stick.

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Would you rather be perfect or perfectly happy?

CO2

A perfectionist rejects: failure, painful emotions, success, and reality. According to Tal Ben-Shahar in his new book The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life , “perfectionists reject everything that deviates from their flawless, faultless ideal vision and as a result suffer whenever they don’t meet their own unrealistic standard…&#.

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Seven Tactics for Instigating Change

Change Starts Here

Before anyone is going to support and implement change in your organization, they must see the need for change. That is, they must feel some kind of pain or frustration from the way they currently do things. Sometimes that takes a good look in the mirror to see things the way they really are. Other times, they must realize that the grass could be greener if they made the effort to change.

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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 perils of bad strategy

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article, written by Richard Rumelt and featured by The McKinsey Quarterly online. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * Bad strategy abounds, says UCLA management professor Richard Rumelt. Senior executives who can spot it stand a much better chance of creating good strategies. Horatio [.].

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The Four Regions of the Thinking Brain Made Simple - Part Three

Building Personal Strength

What's going on up there? If you have a good handle on what kind of work your brain is doing, it makes it easier to use the right kind of thinking at the right time. In my last post I pointed out that there are actually two different back-brain perceptual areas - the left-back and right-back , and both of them handle different kinds of concrete, "specific, concrete" thinking - what things are.

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What Do You Have a “Knack” For?

Your Voice of Encouragement

My husband Lee and I were traveling north on Interstate 85, returning home from a visit to his mother, who’s lived in a nursing home for seven years. These trips give us time to talk, away from the hectic pace of our typical work week. We had just passed a truck pulling a boat with a large outboard motor on the back. My thoughts drifted back 25 years to the boat Lee’s parents used to own.

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How to Become a Great Finisher

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Heidi Grant Halvorson for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * The road to hell may or may not be [.].

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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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Transformational Leadership Course

LDRLB

'I’m a fan of Michael Roberto’s work as a scholar and blogger. Being a fan, I have to give an obligatory post to Dr. Roberto’s new course called “ Transformational Leadership: How Leaders Change Teams, Companies and Organizations ” recorded and distributed by The Great Courses. Dr. Roberto covers a variety of relevant research and models that inform the practice of leadership, including a great overview of leadership theories and insight into how to make change stic

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59% of the UK Workforce is disengaged

Chartered Management Institute

New research by Mercer reveals an increasing level of employee disengagement that should be of concern to employers. The data is based on Mercer’s “What’s Working TM” research amongst 2,400 UK workers in over 1,000 private sector organisations – part of a global survey of nearly 30,000 employees in 17 countries.

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"Neither management authority nor logic are compelling enough to create commitment." @stanslap #hci2011engage

Management Craft

I am in Chicago for the HCI engagement and retention conference. I am looking forward to surgery tomorrow, so this will likely be my last post for a little while. I thought I would keep is short but deep and Stan Slap's this morning provided good fuel. You can check out his book, Burn My Heart In Conference Room B here. I love this quote from his talk: "You will never really work for your company until it really works for you.

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Are you confident in your strategy?

Chartered Management Institute

As a manager you want to feel confident in the direction your organisation is going in. You want to believe that the strategy you're following is the right one, both for your organisation and your personal career. Sadly, a new study by Booz suggests that less than half of managers have any kind of faith in the strategy their organisation is following.

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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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Introducing: Professional Development Sprints

Management Excellence

Note from Art: today's post is promotional in nature. Back to our regularly scheduled programming soon! Professional Development Sprints: Practical, powerful coaching guidance and skills development plus a series of activities to apply immediately in the workplace, delivered on-line in 4 modules of 15 minutes or less. Review the programs as often as you desire during the 30-day subscription period, and use the suggestions in the downloadable Action Guide to keep on improving beyond the program.

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Don't sweat the small stuff

Chartered Management Institute

One of the headlines today had Nick Clegg’s wife Miriam revealing how the Deputy Prime Minister ‘kills himself’ to fit the school run around his Cabinet responsibilities.

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Human Performance Management Best Practice 1b – Verbalized Self Checking

Strategy Driven

Even the most well-intentioned and dedicated humans are fallible. Therefore, the challenge becomes one of minimizing human error. The text above is only a small portion of this article. Become a StrategyDriven Premium Member to gain access to the entire article and the over 100 other StrategyDriven members-only articles, whitepapers, models, and tools and templates.

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Guidance on Facebook misconduct

Chartered Management Institute

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has this week issued advice on use of social networking sites for the UK’s 660,000 registered nurses and midwives.

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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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5 Questions to Help Know What to do with a Mentor

Ron Edmondson

This week I’m trying to stir some conversation about mentoring. There appears to be growing interest in the subject. Most recognize they have some need for mentoring in their life. I’ll share my survey on mentoring with you soon. If you haven’t yet, go HERE and take the survey. It takes less than 5 minutes. I posted HERE about the 5 types of mentors I’ve experienced.

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Free trip to Vienna – essay competition (but you must be under 35)

Chartered Management Institute

A few months ago, Peter Starbuck one of our CMI Subject Matter Experts ( [link] ). You are not watching this post, click to start watching.

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Mini Saga #114 – Approach

Rajesh Setty

Most of our judgments about people are based on partial information. Mini Saga #113 – Approach. Carter had built a business empire but he had critics. Most complained that Carter was sacrificing his legacy in his quest for wealth. By his 50th birthday, Carter had amassed 10 billion dollars. He announced that he will give away 90% of his wealth to charity.

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The 5th Type of Mentor

Ron Edmondson

I’m updating a post. Yesterday I posted 4 types of mentors. Read it HERE (updated of course). I can’t believe I missed one…or that no one else caught my obvious error. I grew up without a close relationship with my father. I missed the investment a father makes in the life of his son. As a result, I’ve tried my best to invest in my sons, but I guess because it wasn’t a great part of my story I missed it.

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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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Ten Principles to Live by in Fiercely Complex Times

Harvard Business Review

If you're like most people I work with in companies, the demands come at you from every angle, all day long, and you have to make difficult decisions without much time to think about them. What enduring principles can you rely on to make choices that reflect openness, integrity and authenticity? Here are ten that work for me: 1. Always challenge certainty, especially your own.

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The 5th Type of Mentor

Ron Edmondson

I’m updating a post. Yesterday I posted 4 types of mentors. Read it HERE (updated of course). I can’t believe I missed one…or that no one else caught my obvious error. I grew up without a close relationship with my father. I missed the investment a father makes in the life of his son. As a result, I’ve tried my best to invest in my sons, but I guess because it wasn’t a great part of my story I missed it.

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3 Steps To Transform Passion Into A Fulfilling Sense of Purpose

Tanveer Naseer

Last week, I wrote about why it’s important that bosses take time off from work to go on vacation. It certainly was a timely piece and I’m grateful to see the enthusiastic response it garnered here in the blog comments section, on the various social networks, as well as being picked up as one of the top stories in last Friday’s SmartBrief on Leadership newsletter.

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5 Questions to Help Know What to do with a Mentor

Ron Edmondson

This week I’m trying to stir some conversation about mentoring. There appears to be growing interest in the subject. Most recognize they have some need for mentoring in their life. I’ll share my survey on mentoring with you soon. If you haven’t yet, go HERE and take the survey. It takes less than 5 minutes. I posted HERE about the 5 types of mentors I’ve experienced.

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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.