Fri.Nov 11, 2011

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What Did He Know and When Did He Know It?

Leading Blog

Senator Howard Baker’s famous question, "What did the president know and when did he know it?" is about moral responsibility. Leaders have a moral responsibility to the people they serve. Those relationships are a leader’s stock in trade and are to be valued above our agendas. For it is through the relationships we develop that we are able to accomplish anything at all.

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Dear Joe Paterno – One Alumni’s Letter to Our Fallen Coach

Modern Servant Leader

Our Weeping Nittany Lion. Dear Joe, In addition to others, especially the victims, I am praying for you and Sue. You could not have stopped it, but you could have mitigated this catastrophe. Therefore, I want you to know, while I may not agree with the method, I must support the university’s decision to let you go. As a Christian, I forgive you.

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Is Empowering Employees A Myth in Your Organization?

Tanveer Naseer

I’m pleased to announce that I have joined in partnership with Sprint to highlight and share some of the valuable content being provided on their new small business information and community site, Business on Main, which can be found on the MSN Network. On the surface, most leaders will agree that encouraging a workplace where employees feel valued and engaged is important to their organization’s growth and success.

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One Useful Strategy for Becoming More Useful

Leadership Freak

Peter Drucker encouraged leaders to ask, “How do we make ourselves useful?” Daniel Pink’s research indicates three drives motivate us. Autonomy: the desire to be self-directed. Mastery: the urge to get better at stuff. Purpose: making a contribution. Combining Drucker and Pink: Leaders are useful when they honor the contribution of others. Honoring contributions: Explain [.].

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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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Are You Holding Yourself Back?

Women on Business

Many women wonder why they may not be advancing as quickly as they wish in work, or why some of the men simply ignore their ideas. A recent study by Europe’s Institute of Leadership and Management has suggested that it may not simply be gender inequality that is causing this dynamic, but a lack of confidence displayed by women in the workplace. Another study by McKinsey & Co has “proven a positive correlation between a company’s performance and the proportion of women serving on its executiv

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Are You In Control?

Kevin Eikenberry

David Allen is best known for his book Getting Things Done. His book has been, over the last decade, the most popular time and productivity management book and process on earth. The quotation below applies to managing our time, but goes much deeper, if you allow it to. I hope today’s questions and action steps [.].

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Stevie Awards for Women in Business Live Tweet Tonight

Women on Business

Don’t forget, WomenOnBusiness.com will live tweet the Stevie Awards for Women in Business awards ceremony from the Marriott Marquis in New York City tonight beginning at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Follow @womenonbusiness to hear who the winners are as well as insightful snippets from winners’ acceptance speeches. You can also follow the #stevieawards hashtag on Twitter or using TweetChat to easily follow and join the conversation!

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Kirsten Dunst With the Presentation Tip of the Day – Prepare!

First Friday Book Synopsis

I haven’t yet seen Melancholia. I intend to. It is clearly a provocative film. Kirsten Dunst, who has been acting since she was 12 (actually, since she was about 3 or 4), has apparently given the performance of her life. She won the Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her role. Here’s a [.].

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Hey Boss, Your Policy is Stupid!

Women on Business

As business owners we often set policies and procedures from a reactive point of view. Something happened that brought the situation to our. attention and then we put things in place to ensure they don’t happen again. But is this the best way to create policies? Can your staff weigh in on their effectiveness and when they do, do their opinions matter?

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From Tyler Cowen: We Are All Infovores Now – Let’s Get Good/Better At It

First Friday Book Synopsis

Tyler Cowen is an “infovore.” An economist (he wrote The Great Stagnation – a terrific, provocative book!), he reads more than anyone else that I know of (I think he may even read more than our blogging colleague, Bob Morris. And that’s saying something). Mr. Cowen travels a lot, and he always has a stack [.].

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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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Can You Sell?

Coaching Tip

Robert Louis Stevenson said, "Everyone lives by selling something." Yet, most people don’t understand the sales process and their part within it. Business owners constantly worry about the selling function and how it affects their ability to manage the firm’s cash flow. "It's sad that something as important to the economy as sales shows up as a footnote in the principles of marketing course at most graduate business schools," says Andy Zoltners, a professor at Northwestern University's Kellog

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Photo Inquiry Friday: Pretend everyone BUT YOU knows the best choice, how would they support you in making this choice?

Mike Cardus

For the 4th year in a row I worked with a group from Buffalo State College Student Support Services Program. An excellent group of first year college students and Faculty to assist them in being successful. My work is to lead Team Building & Leadership workshops and develop a culture of support to enhance the success rates of theses students. One area of focus was decision making and how this group can support you in making choices and learning from the choices made.

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Bulldozer vs. Fork: When to ask “Why…?”

CO2

When to ask "Why.?" Some questions do the work of a bulldozer while others do the work of a fork. If you want to learn the most about someone, quickly, dispense with the forks–the “Who…?” “What…?” “Where…?” and “When…” questions. Instead, ask, “Why…?” Why did you make this decision?

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The Danger of Letting Community and Forum Policy Violations Slide

Managing Communities

photo credit: mikecogh If you manage an active community, like I do, violations to your guidelines can be a dime a dozen. Most of them are probably fairly simple – your garden variety spam, duplicate posting and what not. Mix that in with some copyright infringement and some culture setting guidelines, like those to do [.].

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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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Because I’m worth it.

Deep Imprints

Tomorrow, I am 46. Not 45, not 35. Tomorrow I start the second half of my life. At the beginning of the first half of my life, I had to learn to breathe (with asthma, harder than you’d think), how to walk, talk, and learn. (I think eating came pretty naturally.). Actually, I spent most of the first half of my life preparing to be an old wise woman.

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Choosing Happy

Chartered Management Institute

Happiness is a decision. You can choose your response to a situation and decide to be happy in the moment. Related Content: How and why do companies, governments and their leaders fail? Create the Mindset for Business Success! Humility sucks! Mood - attitude part 3 How your values drive your success. You are not watching this post, click to start watching.

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Share Your Financial Results and Improve Performance

Strategy Driven

Should you share your firm’s financial results with this staff? This is one of the questions that business owners face every day, and all too often the answer is no. But no is probably the wrong answer. An organization can very often improve performance and get its employees bought into it’s mission and purpose simply by sharing financial results with the employees.

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Brag Friday: Share Your Blog

Ron Edmondson

I’m looking for some new blogs to follow. I may or may not know you have one. Today, I’m giving you permission to brag on yourself. Gotta blog? Let me hear from you. Comment on this post and give me your blog link. I’ll check it out (and so will many of my readers. (For even more exposure, retweet or share this post on Facebook.). Let’s find some great new blogs!

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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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Employee Engagement & Talent Management #cipd11

Rapid BI

Engagement – heads they win, tails you lose Who are “THEY”? Why your competitors of course. This article contains some of my thoughts and reflections from Day 2 of the annual CIPD conference in Manchester UK. The recurring theme and thought at this years CIPD annual conference for HR professionals has been engagement. Some speakers have [.].

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Leadership Is a Gift Given by Those Who Follow

Harvard Business Review

Here is General Mark Welsh , Commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, speaking after lunch at the Air Force Academy a few days ago. The video is 50 minutes long, but I encourage you to watch the whole thing. It may be the finest piece of public speaking you will hear this year. The general is everything we want a speaker to be — companionable, funny, illuminating, truth-telling, and spellbinding.

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Social Media, Talent Management & Communications #cipd11

Rapid BI

Social Media – the power of communications using internal & external talent Social business is born and its all change for Human Resources, marketing, communication, engagement,talent management… At one level or another we have all been impacted by some form of social media, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Forums, Blogs, Yammer, Sametime, MSN etc.

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Put Your Best People On Your Most Boring Challenges

Harvard Business Review

At a recent not-for-attribution dinner with several (exceptionally) successful internet entrepreneurs, the conversation quickly turned to talent. How do you get the best value from your best people over time? The majority insisted that top talent's time should focus on the highest value-added problems and opportunities. Align the best people against the biggest challenges that only they can surmount.

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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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Closeout for 11.11.11

LDRLB

Every friday we review the posts from LeaderLab contributors that has appeared on this blog and elsewhere online. We shared the current Leadership Development Carnival. We reviewed The Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management. Dan Pink presented on the benefits of non-commissioned work time. We presented an infographic look at the best company to work for.

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How to Instill Purpose

Harvard Business Review

A great many organizations invest a significant amount of money in trying to improve themselves. This commitment to getting better is laudable, but many times organizations overlook something within their organization that, when tapped, can sharpen focus, tighten alignment, hone execution, and — in the process — deliver better results. It's called purpose.

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Maintaining Physical, Social and Mental Fitness for Peak Performance

Harvard Business Review

Whatever we give energy to, we give life to. For example, if we (even unintentionally) infuse negative energy, the brain reacts a certain way that reinforces a more unconstructive environment. Another more positive example is that if we focus on positive reinforcement of effort, process, and learning, we can create a growth mindset. As a leader responsible for developing leaders, I find this notion of leveraging energy for improved results intriguing.

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Why Everyone Hates the Boss

Harvard Business Review

One of the most common complaints about leaders is that they are promoted for their technical skills, and often have poor social skills. A big insight that emerged on day two of the 2011 NeuroLeadership Summit is that this may simply be a function of the leader's role. UCLA professor Matthew Lieberman, one of the founders of the Social Cognitive Neuroscience field, presented research on our ability to mentalize, or predict other people's emotional or intentional states.

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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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To Win Customers, Get Out of the Way

Harvard Business Review

Superior operational excellence cannot be achieved or maintained with an iron fist. It needs to be organically grown and fostered throughout the company. I oversee all aircraft, flight and customer service operations at Hawaiian Airlines. For any company, and especially any airline, operational excellence and customer service go hand in glove. I'm thankful that those I work with are predisposed to hospitality — it's a feature of Polynesian culture.

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Collaboration's Hidden Tax on Women's Careers

Harvard Business Review

A few years ago we hosted a seminar for 150 businesswomen. The topic for the morning was "Power: Do Women Really Want It?" Just imagine the noise level when that many smart and engaged female managers debated the pros and cons of wielding power. As the session came to a close we asked for a tally of how the breakout groups had answered the question.

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