Tue.Dec 27, 2011

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What Has 2011 Taught You About Business and Leadership?

Tanveer Naseer

As this is the last week of the year, many of us are understandably looking back at the past 12 months and discussing what we consider to be the significant events of 2011. In most cases, such discussions tend to focus on the numerous challenges and upheavals we’ve either watched from afar or witnessed first-hand. From natural disasters to political uprisings, there’s no question this year has placed our collective humanity within the frame of adversity and unimagined change.

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Jess Webb Joins the WomenOnBusiness.com Team

Women on Business

Please join me in welcoming Jess Webb to the WomenOnBusiness.com team of contributing writers. Jess brings a creative flair to the business discussion as you’ll learn from her background below. About Jess Webb. Jess is a quirky 20-something who loves to help women entrepreneurs be irresistible online to attract their ideal fans and clients, and make more money.

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The Vision All Leaders Always Need

Leadership Freak

We say leadership is all about others and then hypocritically say, follow me! Leader-centric vision casting captures and dominates current leadership thought. From Moses to Martin Luther King Jr., stories of leaders with captivating dreams fill leadership literature. I love it and hate it. We’ve made the exception the rule. How many Moses’ are there?

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It’s Time to Get Intentional

Kevin Eikenberry

Having written a blog with relative consistency for a number of years, I often get asked, “How do you find things to write about?” While there are many others who write more frequently than I do, and might be more qualified to answer this question, here’s my answer: “Writers write and bloggers blog.” This isn’t a blog [.].

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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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It’s Time We Value People Over Profits.

Rich Gee Group

I'm talking about fairness.

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The Vision All Leaders Always Need

Leadership Freak

We say leadership is all about others and then hypocritically say, follow me! Leader-centric vision casting captures and dominates current leadership thought. From Moses to Martin Luther King Jr., stories of leaders with captivating dreams fill leadership literature. I love it and hate it. We’ve made the exception the rule. How many Moses’ are there?

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Dorie Clark on “Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012?

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Dorie Clark 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. * * * I recently got back from a month’s vacation — the [.].

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P90X…2!

Tim Milburn

I started P90X2 yesterday. If you’ve followed my site for any length of time, you probably read about my experience with P90X (the first one). If not, you can read about it here: I Completed P90X. To sum up my first experience: it was life-changing. Tony Horton and the gang at BeachBody.com have just released P90X2. It arrived on my doorstep about 10 days ago.

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Good Company: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Good Company: Business Success in the Worthiness Era Laurie Bassi, Ed Frauenheim, Dan McMurrer, with Larry Costello Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2011) How and why companies must prove worthy of consumers’ business, employees’ best efforts, and investors’ dollars What’s in a word? That depends on which of its connotations is selected. For Jim Collins, the word “good” [.].

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The Best Decision Makers are Reflective - Happy New Year #leadership

Management Craft

Many people set goals for the new year. I do that, too. Even more important than goals, however, is reflection. How did 2011 go? Of what are you most proud? What would you do differently if you could have a "do-over?" If your last year ended up being your last year, would it have represented your best living? Reflection is critical for our growth because it is often only through looking back that we can see things that will shape our future.

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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 Power of LEO: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Power of LEO: The Revolutionary Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results Subir Chowdbury McGraw-Hill (2012) Still another “revolutionary process” to achieve “extraordinary results Subir Chowdhury and other authors of recently published business books are to be commended for having the courage to contribute additions to the thousands of volumes already in print about how a [.].

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2011 – The Year In Review

Change Starts Here

Thank you everyone for reading my blog this year! I thought I would share a list of the most popular posts for 2011. Perhaps there are some you missed! The top 5 Enclaria blog posts from this year are: Seven Roles of a Change Agent. My boss won’t listen to me – what do I do? Three Signs You’ve Crossed the Line from Influence to Manipulation.

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#5 – 2011: 10 Secrets of Many Senior Pastors

Ron Edmondson

Counting down the top blog entries posted this year, this one only recently appeared. I posted this less than 30 days ago, but it still makes the cut. Here is the 5th most read blog post written this year: 10 Secrets of Many Senior Pastors: I get to hang out and know many senior pastors. I have a great heart for them and understand, firsthand, some of the pressures, frustrations and joys, which are unique to the role of a senior pastor.

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10 BIG Development Goals for Leaders for 2012

Great Leadership By Dan

The end of the year is typically a time spent scrambling to do all the things you need to get done but still haven't finished. However, it’s also a time to reflect on our accomplishments and think about what we want to achieve for the New Year. That includes individual development goals. In a business context, individual development goals should be closely aligned with your short and long term job responsibilities.

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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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Start the New Year with Progress

Harvard Business Review

To get yourself and your team off to a good start for the new year, focus on progress. Our research discovered that fostering progress in meaningful work is the most important way to keep people highly engaged at work — even if that progress is a " small win.". We call this phenomenon the progress principle ; it works because people want to feel that they are contributing to something that matters.

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

As 2011 comes to a close, the editors of HBR.org are taking a look back at the most popular blog posts of the year to find out what most preoccupied you, our readers. These 11 posts all hit a common nerve and went viral; it's no surprise that most of them contain advice about how to succeed and be happy at work. We can't resist including another 11 posts, a hard-to-agree-upon sampling of the ideas we were proudest to publish and discussions we most enjoyed hosting this year.

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Are You Stuck in a Girls' Club?

Harvard Business Review

"There's a woman you have to meet," said a male CEO during a recent meeting. "She sounds terrific. I love meeting interesting people.Any men you'd like me to meet?". "Aren't you married?". "Sure am. Happily.". We both chuckled. I then clarified, "In my experience, men have more power than women.". He agreed. "It's not a level playing field.". "Ergo, if a man with 500 people in his network, likely skewing male, only connects me with women he knows, then my power, or ability to get things done, is

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Identify Future Leaders

Harvard Business Review

video platform video management video solutions video player. Claudio Fernández-Aráoz , senior adviser, Egon Zehnder International, explains how to spot top talent. For more, go to the article How to Hang On to Your High Potentials.

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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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Why You Really Shouldn't Curse at Work (Much)

Harvard Business Review

The media brouhaha over Carol Bartz's coarse language in the wake of her firing was telling. Rather than responsibly assessing her merits as the chief executive of Yahoo!, the conversation instantly devolved into what kind of woman swears on the job. That, to me, is so twentieth century. When we've reached a point in our anything-goes culture that the anchors of the most important newscasts (Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert) curse nightly, and public figures like prime-time teenage role model Lea

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Amazon Should Partner with Independent Bookstores

Harvard Business Review

I didn't buy any gifts from Amazon this year. I, whose entire job basically depends on the Internet — including editing HBR Singles like this and this , both sold through Amazon — developed a moral and intellectual aversion to purchasing goods from this Internet stalwart. Here's what happened. My original plan this holiday shopping season was, as usual, to order a pile of books — and kitchen gizmos, and DVDs, and who knows what all — from the online giant.

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