Thu.Jun 23, 2011

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The Art of Disruption

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development What do these things have in common? Fire; the wheel; the plow. Electricity; the internet; the iPhone. Galileo; Newton; Einstein. Martin Luther King Jr.; Gandhi; Jesus. Each of these items or individuals caused an irreversible disruption in the course of human history. Their influence is so tightly woven into the fabric of our daily lives that [.

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The Essential Ingredient for Executing Your Vision

Leading Blog

If you don’t build a framework of values around your vision, it will fall short of the goal. And those values must be clearly understood by everyone on the team if the initiative is to succeed, for a couple of basic reasons. A vision is what could be , but it is grounded and guided by—or even sent off-course by—your most deeply held values— what is.

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29 Fortune 500 Companies Have No Women on Boards

Women on Business

In a new ranking of public companies without women in top leadership from Bloomberg Businessweek.com, it was revealed that 5.8% of the companies in the S&P 500, “remain all male in decision-making roles, with no women on the board of directors or among the company’s top five highest-paid officers.&#. Perhaps the most surprising company on this list is Discovery Communications, the company that produces Animal Planet and the Oprah Winfrey Network.

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Thought-full Thursday: Two Kinds of Power

Persuasive Powerhouse

Every Thursday, we provide you with a thoughtful way to coach yourself – something all leaders need to do. So take five and enjoy the inspirational quotes and reflect on the questions that follow. Your comments, thoughts, and responses to the questions are most welcome! Power is of two kinds. One is obtained [.

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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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Teaming: New Skill Sets Required for High Performance Teams

Mike Cardus

originally found this video on LeaderLab. “Teaming has replaced teams” this video is an excellent example of what is happening in many organizations. Where groups of people are brought together for a project cycle, asked to complete the task / goal that is established then return to their regular work. Edmonson points to exactly what team-building is “Many groups no longer have the time to go off-line for team building activities.

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The Seven Critical Elements of Strategy Execution

Six Disciplines

"The greatest strategy in the world is useless - if you cannot execute it.". Here are the seven critical elements of strategy execution: People. Strategy formulation often gathers the "smartest people in the room." However, it's not the senior leadership team that executes strategy - it's everyone in your workforce. Get the right people in the right positions.

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Execution - The Greatest Challenge in Business

Six Disciplines

To quote former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz: " When it's all said and done, more is said, than done.". Likewise, execution is critical to an organization's success, yet it's much easier said than done. In their book Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, authors Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan strongly support strategy execution as a critical leadership role, making three clear statements: Execution is a discipline, and it's integral to strategy formulation.

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Work/Life Balance Across Time Zones and Technologies

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Elizabeth Harrin (London) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. “Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.” To read the complete article, check out a [.].

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The Importance of Business Coaching In A Strategy Execution Program

Six Disciplines

Most leaders fail to understand the implication of the human nature barriers. Our natural tendency is to do what we like doing, not necessarily what we should. The topic of coaching offers the most insight into what it takes to deliver a complete strategy execution program. Strategy execution coaching implies that an accountability model exists. Employees in organizations will learn to be accountable – that is, they’ll do what is needed and expected – proportionate to the exten

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Praise as Much as You Criticize

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. Human performance is inconsistent—even world-class athletes have off days. Yet, most managers focus on their employees’ shortcomings when coaching and providing feedback. Sure we all have “opportunities for [.].

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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 End of Teams as We Know It

LDRLB

'Interesting short video I cam across the other day: Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson talks with Professor Karl Moore about teams. Edmondson argues that the future of teams is also the end of traditional teams.

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Send in the Clones. The Abuse of “Must Have” in Recruiting and Hiring

Management Excellence

Aside from a few obvious technical and vocational roles, there are very few positions in most organizations that absolutely “Must Have” someone who has held the identical role in the same industry with the same job. Nonetheless, the use of "Must Have" remains a staple in recruiting and hiring. It's too bad, because over-reliance on "Must Have" can lead to a chronic case of mediocrity or worse, a terminal case of recycled bad ideas from industry participants.

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Thoughts on The Bloating of America, and on The Encore Career… prompted by Marc Freedmans’s The Big Shift

First Friday Book Synopsis

I just presented my synopsis of The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife by Marc Freedman. It is a thoughtful book, and a provocative read. Though there is a lot in it, from a host of sources, it raises issues that we have known for some time. And, in simple terms, it comes [.].

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Good Charlotte Defends Their Community at Concert at The NorVa

Managing Communities

photo credit: 0uT$!d£r Back in May, I wrote about a highly unfortunate experience that I had at a Diddy/Dirty Money concert at The NorVa, a concert hall in Norfolk, Virginia. A member of the tour’s security team was verbally and physically threatening toward me and a member of the venue’s security only made it worse. [.].

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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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First Steps to a Competitive Intelligence function

Chartered Management Institute

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE. You may be interested in Competitive Intelligence, already have a function or you may be thinking about setting up some sort of Competitive Intelligence (CI) operation within your company. You may have struggled at the best way to start. You fire up Google and are swamped, then frustration sets in. What do you need to do to set up a Competitive Intelligence function.

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Good Charlotte Protects Their Community at Concert at The NorVa

Managing Communities

photo credit: 0uT$!d£r Back in May, I wrote about a highly unfortunate experience that I had at a Diddy/Dirty Money concert at The NorVa, a concert hall in Norfolk, Virginia. A member of the tour’s security team was verbally and physically threatening toward me and a member of the venue’s security only made it worse. [.].

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Knowledge Transfer: Avoid scaring off the talent

Chartered Management Institute

You need top staff when times are hard. Ask great questions – and don’t alienate candidates, says Caitlin Mackesy Davies.

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Is the Problem with the Gym the Same Problem with the Church?

Ron Edmondson

Let’s face it…going to the gym can be brutal on the ego… Recently Cheryl and I moved downtown. It was an intentional life change (You can read about it HERE.) Part of that move involved changing gyms. I now workout on the campus of our local university, Austin Peay State University. I love the facility. I’m a huge supporter of our local school.

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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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Mini Saga #97 – Intuition

Rajesh Setty

Most people need to see it to believe it. Those who believe in intuition, just need to feel it. Mini Saga #96 – Connection. Rob and Chris were at it again – arguing about Intuition. Unlike Chris, Rob thought “Intuition” didn’t make any logical sense. Just then, Rob received a very short phone call from a new prospect. He was grinning after he hung up – “This one is in the bag.

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New Ideas Come From Doing…

Ron Edmondson

In my experience, many of the new ideas for our organization…and for my life…have come while I was doing something else. Usually when we are working on planning a service it’s when the best ideas for a service develop… Often when I’m working on a blog post, I get several new ideas for a blog post… Look at most great inventions and they were discovered while doing something…many times while doing something totally unrelated to what was discovered… T

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The Six Keys to Surviving on the Road

Harvard Business Review

I was walking through the lobby of the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose one day last week just before 6 pm, feeling a bit bleary after three consecutive weeks flying back and forth across the country to visit five different cities. The question at hand was whether or not to attend a cocktail party being thrown by my corporate hosts. Then I spotted the spa.

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The Power of Focus - Concentrate Your Personal Energy

Building Personal Strength

If you were placed in a pen with two rabbits and you knew that your life depended on catching both rabbits, there is only one way you could succeed. You'd have to chase them down one rabbit at a time. Focus exclusively on the first rabbit until you catch him. Then refocus on the rabbit you had ignored. It takes an extraordinary person to work on multiple "top" priorities simultaneously.

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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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Square, ATMs, and the Pace of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Remember how after Chemical Bank launched the first Automated Teller Machine in the 1960s, waves of bank branches shut down? And remember when banks went online, how waves of local bank branches shut down? Oh wait. In both cases the new technology ended up augmenting, rather than replacing existing channels. This isn't unusual. Despite bold proclamations of industry transformation, legacy technologies often last for a very long time.

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The Flipside of Cisco's Flip Decision

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, I purchased a Flip HD camcorder. Around the same time, Cisco purchased Flip, the company, for about $600 million. It was never clear precisely what Cisco was up to, but with YouTube being a big deal, some form of Internet connectivity seemed to top the list of the possible "synergies." It took Cisco just a year to change its mind, announcing in April of this year that it would shut Flip down.

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The Education Bubble, Tenure Envy, and Tuition

Harvard Business Review

Featured Guest: Justin Fox, editorial director of the HBR Group and author of the article Disrupting Higher Ed. Download this podcast.

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The Happiness Dividend

Harvard Business Review

Nearly every company in the world gives lip service to the idea that "our people are our greatest asset." Yet when the Conference Board Survey came out earlier this year, employees were the unhappiest they have been in their 22 years of tracking job satisfaction rates. Around the same time, CNNMoney reported a survey that indicated 84% of Americans are unhappy with their current job.

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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.