Fri.Aug 05, 2011

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Do You Know What Farm Kids Know about Leadership?

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Best of Blogs Series Leadership Development Self Leadership I grew up on a farm. Yep, that’s me on the right, at 5-years old, working with my father. Notice the stripe-on-stripe outfit. I dressed myself that day. And that’s not the only thing I did that day… Farm kids learn responsibility early. I would say I “added value&# as early as age 5.

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How to Maximize Your Success by Aligning Behaviors with Intentions

Leadership Freak

You won’t get where you want to go until your behaviors consistently express your intentions. If we could see your behaviors without your explanations, what would we think of you and your life-direction? The project: I’m asking a small group of selected leaders to evaluate my behaviors. I want them to let my behaviors explain [.].

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The Goal of Great Communication

Kevin Eikenberry

The late great Jim Rohn, was more than just a great speaker, he was a modern day philosopher. Here is one of my favorite quotations from him about communication. &# The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, ‘Me, too!’ versus ‘So what?’&# – Jim Rohn, speaker and author Questions to Ponder [.].

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Photo Inquiry Friday: Belief vs. Evidence, Which Wins?

Mike Cardus

We all have beliefs. Belief that the sun will rise, that your significant other will still be the same physical person when you wake up, the belief that your desk at work exists when you are not sitting at it. Then there are beliefs that are more personal-how one should drink their coffee, proper etiquette, how to dress, hygiene, religious practices, etc….

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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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5 Reasons Why Middle Children Make Great Employees

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an article written by Donna Fenn for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * If you’ve ever uttered the words “troubled middle child,” you owe it to yourself [.].

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Closeout for 8.5.11

LDRLB

Every friday we review the posts from LeaderLab contributors that has appeared on this blog and elsewhere online. Our monthly full-length podcast released on Monday, featuring an interview with Pam Fox Rollin and some vitals rules for new senior leadership. We dabbled our hand in marketing as Tim Vanderpy reviewed UnMarketing. We reposted a teaser video for Clayton Christensen’s new one The Innovative University.

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10 ways to negotiate your starting salary

Chartered Management Institute

In the current environment the prevailing wisdom appears to be that having a job at all is a blessing, and pay should not be a major motivating factor at the moment. Just this week we've had CIPD announce that pay rises are the preserve of a minority, and a Badenoch & Clark survey revealed pensions are more valued than pay in the public sector.

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Just How Gullible (And Wrong) Can Randy Be? – (In Which I Admit To A Rather Embarrassing Mistake)

First Friday Book Synopsis

So, this morning I was presenting my synopsis of Prescription for Excellence, a terrific book about customer service excellence by Joseph Michelli. In the midst of my presentation, I was talking about UCLA Health System’s commitment to innovation. From the book: “Innovation distinguishes between leaders and followers.” (Steve Jobs). The battlefield of business competition is [.].

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Learning to Collaborate at the Top

Management Excellence

If you’ve spent any amount of time inside the walls of an organization, you understand the promise and perils of collaboration. Great things can happen when we reach across silos and boundaries and seek to work together in pursuit of shared interests. However, as team guru Prof. J. Richard Hackman offers when talking about the potential of teams, “just don’t count on it.

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Paula Marantz Cohen on how to make books spark to life for college students

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Paula Marantz Cohen and featured by The American Scholar magazine. As you probably know already, The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the [.].

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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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How To Avoid These 8 Employee Evaluation Pitfalls

Eric Jacobson

You'll learn how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls in what I think is the best chapter of the book " The Essential HR Handbook ," written by Sharon Armstrong and Barbara Mitchell. If you are a leader and it's time to conduct an employee evaluation, Armstrong and Mitchell caution you to watch for these pitfalls when making your evaluation: Clustering everyone in the middle performance-rating categories Overlooking flaws or exaggerating the achievements of favored employees Excusing s

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How to Cope with Your Incompetent Boss

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. Everyone complains about his or her boss from time to time. But dealing with a truly incompetent boss is frustrating and exhausting. Here are three strategies to handle [.].

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7 Things This Pastor Would Love From His Church

Ron Edmondson

I have such a generous church. Every week someone sends me a note or an email to tell me they are praying for me. I routinely get encouragement when I need it most. Some of our closest friends are at Grace. I’m so thankful for the body of Christ called Grace Community Church. A question I receive often is, “Pastor, what can I do for you?

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50 Prosperity Classics: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

50 Prosperity Classics: Attract It, Create It, Manage It, Share It Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2008) Henry Ford was right Note: This is one of the volumes in the 5o Classics series, each available in a softbound edition and priced at less than $15.00. In my opinion, the value of the material in each [.].

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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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Changing Behaviour - The Fun Way!

My Own Coach

'I love this video, showing a fun way to change behaviour. When thinking about the behaviours you want to change in your organisation, what creative and fun ways can you come up with?

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Market Correction? Try Perma-Crisis

Harvard Business Review

It's been a scary couple of days. I'd bet, given recent events in the markets, like many, you'd like to get to the bottom of what the heck is really going on here. Why does everything we try to fix this crisis seem not to work? Let me recap my take of what's happened over the past several years: In 2006-7, the prevailing narrative discussed a never-ending boom thanks to hyperfinancialization.

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The Big Picture of Business: Leadership for the New Order of Business Part 1

Strategy Driven

Just as companies have books of business and corporate cultures, so do individuals, who in turn populate and influence organizations. Last month, there were two of my columns on defining and recognizing what contributes to a Body of Work. The first used the analogies Fine, Aged Cheese and Valuable Antiques. The second looked through the analogies and focused upon business strategies and methodologies.

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Crack the Hidden Job Market

Harvard Business Review

I often hear British graduates expressing something like a physical revulsion at the idea that they might have to network their way into a job. The UK recently had a minor scandal about the fact that young people with great social connections find themselves in the top internships. Workers used to an equal opportunities culture often express ethical objections to the idea that you might talk your way into a short-list of one simply through opportunity or connections.

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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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Two Teen Journeys - One Tragic, One Triumphant

Building Personal Strength

Most mornings I start the coffee, put fruit on my granola, and sit down to read the San Antonio Express-News. What I see are stories about people who had great mentoring and coaching during their teen journey, and those who didn't. Today I happened to read a story (by Michelle Mondo and Hollie O'Connor) about Pierre T. Abernathy, 30, who was chased by police between 3 and 4 AM because he was driving on the wrong side of the road.

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Privacy is a Luxury You Don't Have

Harvard Business Review

I remember my first taste of social networking — a 2004 invitation to join Friendster. I declined, traumatized at the thought that people I didn't know would see information about me (the point of the site, which I deemed quite suspicious, was to help connect you with friends-of-friends). Fast forward to the spring of 2006, when I was teaching a course at Emerson College.

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Winners, Lifelong Learners, Seekers.

Building Personal Strength

I was checking Twitter today and I saw this tweet from my long-time friend and colleague, Meredith Bell : If you're a lifelong learner, you'll love this free guide from @DennyCoates: [link] #success You can click on the link if you want to, but you can enter to download the free guide right here on this page, in the right sidebar. Meredith uses the phrase "lifelong learner.

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How to Sustain Front Line Process Improvement Activities

Harvard Business Review

Even though it's what keeps companies operationally in shape, front-line process improvement is hard to sustain. Why? Consider the story of Technicolor. The manufacturer of DVDs was featured in a book on front-line suggestion system, All You Gotta Do Is Ask by Norman Bodek and Chuck Yorke (which I mentioned in a previous post on Toyota's approach to front line improvement).

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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.