Mon.May 02, 2011

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Full Steam Ahead! Book Review

Lead Change Blog

“…We have observed that the biggest impediment to managers becoming great leaders is the lack of a clear vision. Yet less than 10 percent of the organizations we have visited are lead by managers who have a clear sense of where they are trying to lead people.”.

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Who Do You Learn From?

Persuasive Powerhouse

All leaders should make an effort to surround themselves with people who stretch their thinking. Those who live out of the box, are different from us, way ahead of us, following the road less travelled, societal outcasts and those who live and work quietly – all are fair game to learn from. Ironically, those who have [.

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Taking Another Look at Leadership and Change

Tanveer Naseer

A few days ago, I decided to change a photograph that’s been on display for the last several years in one of the picture frames which currently grace my desk. The photograph was a picture I had taken of my girls several years ago on one of those days from summer which we tend to look back on fondly through a soft-focus lens. Of course, in the time since that photograph was taken, my girls have grown up and it seemed overdue for this photograph be replaced by a more recent memory of our tim

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The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

It was another great week for reading HR, talent management, and leadership development blogs! With all the great postings this past week it was especially hard to narrow it down to just five to share. Here are five choice blog posts from April 25th - May 1st, 2011 to get your week off to a great start. Enjoy! Dan McCarthy, Great Leadership: By Popular Request: Individual Leadership Development Plan Examples- One area of leadership development that Dan is especially well versed in is the creatio

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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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Taking Another Look at Leadership and Change

Tanveer Naseer

A few days ago, I decided to change a photograph that’s been on display for the last several years in one of the picture frames which currently grace my desk. The photograph was a picture I had taken of my girls several years ago on one of those days from summer which we tend to look back on fondly through a soft-focus lens. Of course, in the time since that photograph was taken, my girls have grown up and it seemed overdue for this photograph be replaced by a more recent memory of our tim

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GUTSY Leaders: “I Owe It to a Horse”

Women on Business

Author, Speaker, Consultant Sam Horn. When I interviewed Sam Horn , I knew it would be a dialogue filled with quick and clever verbiage. You see Sam has written some fun and fascinating books about communication skills that take leaders through the roof; able to get their points across. How about this title “ Tongue Fu ”? It gives great guidance for diffusing verbal conflict.

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Patchogue 5K

CEO Blog

Busy weekend. Mostly gardening. Too much pollen though. On Sunday I did run a 5K race in Patchoque and came in second in my age at 22:07. It helped that there were only 7 people in my age category. So the challenging question for today is - is it better to win in a small field than have a better time in a large field? One thing I like about the US is things are big and competition therefore tough.

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Executing Strategy - The Importance of Leadership Teams

Six Disciplines

The real challenge for senior leadership teams is not necessarily choosing the right strategy. In essence, they know what they have to accomplish. Their biggest hurdle appears to be in driving effective execution of their strategy – which has a significant leadership component to it. The execution of strategy is dependent upon team members on the front line being clear about the organization’s priorities, and how they must act to achieve the stated objectives.

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Free How-to Coaching Ebook for People Who Help Each Other

Building Personal Strength

Who do you coach? Before you answer, I'd like to clarify that I'm not necessarily talking about athletic coaches. Or trainers, counselors, life coaches, executive coaches, or anyone who coaches professionally. Yes, these are important coaching roles, and they're performed by highly trained people who help people do their best in life or work. Actually, my question is addressed to a much larger group of people - ordinary folks such as parents, managers, coworkers, or friends who try to help the p

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How Top-Performing Organizations Differ from the Rest

Six Disciplines

Ever wonder why some organizations (businesses, not-for-profits, churches, etc.) just seem to perform better than others? Is it luck? Chance? More resources? Our research has found there are five key differences - all of which are described in detail in the top-rated book Six Disciplines for Excellence. Here are the top five key differences of top-performing organizations, in order of their importance: Strength of the Leadership Team.

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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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Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, on business culture, technology, and social issues

First Friday Book Synopsis

Once again, McKinsey & Company offers (at no cost) an exceptionally valuable resource, in this instance Eric Schmidt‘s conversation with McKinsey director James Manyika about business culture, technology, and social issues. More specifically, Google’s executive chairman discusses his strategies on hiring, meetings, mobile business, and jobs and education.

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The Invisible Tweets of the Mass Media: How Social Media is Changing the Fundamentals of News

Chartered Management Institute

As shown through an analysis of the diffusion of news of Osama Bin Laden's death, mass media organisations remain sluggish in their efforts to engage with online social media. Related Content: The #26th March Technology and Revolution Are you confused over social media? Get the inside track on the party conferences Experimenting with Twitcam.com. You are not watching this post, click to start watching.

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Smell a Rat – From a Distance

First Friday Book Synopsis

You may remember my presentation at the First Friday Book Synopsis on the book How to Smell a Rat: The Five Signs of Financial Fraud by Ken Fisher (2010, Wiley). The book was all about distinguishing between scrupulous and unscrupulous financial advisers. Its primary feature was identifying the red flags, such as advisers who have access [.].

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May 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

LDRLB

Once again Dan McCarthy at Great Leadership has done us all a great favor by searching the web-based leadership literature and posting his collection of the best articles for the month of May. The May 2011 Leadership Development Carnival features two posts from LeaderLab contributors. Bret L. Simmons presents Employee Empowerment: Why It Matters And How To Get It posted at Bret L.

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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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A Scientific View of Why Women Earn Less

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an article written by Kimberly Weisul for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network (April 6, 2011). To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * I’m not sure why debating the wage gap between men [.].

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Change Anything – Exclusive Interview with Joseph Grenny

CO2

New York Times Best Selling Author. Today I had the chance to catch up with Joseph Grenny , managing partner at Vital Smart s, on his way back from Califonia. Joseph and his three partners have written three New York Times bestselling books. Their next one, Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success , is bound to join the others. Change Anything grew from the ground-breaking work the authors did for their last book, Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, which examined the science b

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We Get (We Accomplish) What We Meet About – (with reflections on President Obama’s focus on getting Osama Bin Laden)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I’ve been re-looking at Mastering the Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish. I have presented my synopsis of this incredibly practical book a number of times. The book describes, and elaborates on, in user-friendly form, the traits and practices of John Rockefeller. At the center of those practices was the discipline of regular meetings. I am [.].

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Leadership Caffeine: In the Face of Strong Headwinds, Learn to Tack

Management Excellence

We face dozens of moments every day where instinct tells us to turn straight into the wind and apply brute force to solve problems, resolve squabbles and keep people moving. Sometimes, our instinct is wrong. Instead of offering a quick solution or mandating an end to squabbling, effective leaders adjust their course by learning to tack. Here are 5 ideas to help you learn this valuable skill when facing significant headwinds in the workplace.

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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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Beware the Busy Manager

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Heike Bruch and Sumantra Ghoshal 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. * * * If you listen to executives, they’ll tell [.].

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May 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

LDRLB

'Once again Dan McCarthy at Great Leadership has done us all a great favor by searching the web-based leadership literature and posting his collection of the best articles for the month of May. The May 2011 Leadership Development Carnival features two posts from LDRLB contributors. Bret L. Simmons presents Employee Empowerment: Why It Matters And How To Get It posted at Bret L.

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On Randy Mayeux’s recent “conversion”

First Friday Book Synopsis

Randy Mayeux’s recent “conversion” to an iPad by no means invalidates or even contradicts his previous and passionate support of the bound volume. The number of electronic reading devices as well as the applications they offer is certain to increase. It seems reasonable to assume that, over time, there will be a corresponding (but not [.].

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10 Things You Can’t Change and 10 Things You Can

Ron Edmondson

There are some things we can’t change and some things we can. Learning the difference and adjusting accordingly is in large part one of the secret’s of a happy life. Concentrating more on the things you can’t change than on the things you can causes frustration, disappointment, and even depression. Let me list a few and you’ll see what I mean.

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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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ROAR! : A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

ROAR! Get Heard in the Sales and Marketing Jungle Kevin Daum with Daniel A. Turner John Wiley & Sons (2010) How to “break through all that noise and visual stimulation to get to the core of the customer” What we have here is another business fable, a very popular sub-genre for business book authors [.].

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Your Bouncer Needs to Have a Brain (or “The First Line of Defense is Just as Important as the Last”)

Managing Communities

It doesn’t matter how smart you are, how kind you are, how much common sense that you have, as a manager (community manager or otherwise), if the people that you have on the front line are ignorant, poorly trained and unable to communicate clearly and respectfully. If these people mess up a relationship with a [.].

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Fiction Turns into Reality on the Same Day

First Friday Book Synopsis

I was amazed that the same day that I read about the bombing of the hideout for Osama bin Laden in a novel was the same day that the United States Navy Seals and our intelligence operations actually killed him! One of my favorite fiction authors is Stuart Woods. His recent best-seller is entitled Strategic [.].

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10 Ways To Freshen Up Your Leadership @starbucker

Management Craft

Kudos to my pal Terry Starbucker for offering 10 ways to freshen up your leadership. Although it seems like it's taking Spring longer to get here this year, that shouldn't keep you from taking a couple of Terry suggestions and using them with your leadership team. I particularly like #7, Ask Your Staff for “5 Things That We Should Stop Doing.” And #2 seems like a fun and potentially eye-opening idea.

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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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3 Specific Ways to Encourage Meeting Participation

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. You know the drill: A meeting is called to discuss an important issue but only the usual suspects participate. Everyone else is quiet and their opinions go unheard. [.].

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7 Ways for a Leader to Offer Praise

Ron Edmondson

One aspect of leadership is appreciating the people one leads. I must admit, this has to be a discipline for me, because I’m not naturally wired for this. I expect much from people, so I don’t always feel the need to acknowledge the excellent work I feel everyone should do naturally. I realize, however, that all of us, including me, enjoy hearing we did a good job, so offering praise is a necessary part of a leader’s responsibility.

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Replace “success” with “contribution”

First Friday Book Synopsis

In The Effective Executive, first published in 1967, Peter Drucker stressed the importance of mastering several learnable disciplines. They include • Manage your time and your energy, not your work • Know your priorities • Do first things first • Do not multi-task • Focus on (leverage) strengths, both yours and others’ He then asserts [.].

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3 Ways Smart People Derail Themselves

Roundtable Talk

Last month, I had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with the lovely Shannon Skinner on her Extraordinary Women show. We chatted about everything from what I learned from Richard Branson, to imposter syndrome, to three things that derail executives. Intrigued? Check out the second part of our interview by following this link: [link]. Tune into Shannon weekdays on www.thatchannel.com and check out www.extraordinarywomentv.com.

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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.