Fri.Oct 14, 2011

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WEadership Practice #3: Embrace Openness

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development This post is the fourth in a series that began here summarizing the findings of a one-year study of workforce leadership. Through that process, we identified six practices next-generation leaders use to be effective; a new model of leadership we call WEadership, in a nod to its collaborative nature. WEadership and the Crowd The idea [.

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5 Leadership Lessons: EntreLeadership

Leading Blog

Dave Ramsey defines EntreLeadership as “the process of leading to cause a venture to grow and prosper.” Entreleaders know how to blend their entrepreneurial passion with servant-like leadership that motivates employees through persuasion instead of intimidation. EntreLeadership is a book about how business works from a practitioner. His advice, on nearly every facet of running a business, is based on solid principles.

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Think Different

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Change Management Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t [.

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Got a Bad Boss? Do the Opposite

Great Leadership By Dan

One of the best ways to learn leadership is from your bosses – both good and bad ones. It’s a pretty simple technique – emulate the good ones and do the opposite of the bad ones. Given that most of us will be lucky to have had the opportunity to work for even one great leader, the majority of our leadership lessons will have to come from the bad bosses.

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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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Why Your Team Doesn’t Trust You

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] I read an interesting post by Mike Figliuolo a few days ago about trust and teams. Mike is the Founder and Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC. He is also the author of One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership. This post, titled “The Real Reason Your Team Doesn’t Trust You” is [.

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The Only Way to Inspire Others

Leadership Freak

Image source Martin Luther King inspired people not because he had a dream but because he touched the silent dream of others. He said what mattered to others. Leaders that busily talk about themselves and their terrific dreams are bores. Inspiring others, like everything else in leadership, is about them not you. The channel to [.].

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What You Do Matters

Kevin Eikenberry

I’ve featured William James, the father of American Psychology here before (most recent, further back). Today, another powerful thought from him. I think after you read it, reflect and the questions and take the actions I suggest, you will be glad I did. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” -William James [.].

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A Self Exam on One Piece of Paper

Next Level Blog

One of the many intelligent things that Socrates said is “An unexamined life is not worth living.” In an era when many professionals are running flat out until they crash, taking time for self. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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The Small Business Bonus

Women on Business

As small business owners we are closer to our customers thanmost of the big boys. When the economy took a turn for the worst, we were the. first ones hit with customers cutting costs and calling on us for lower prices. Some of us complied and lowered our rates and some of us took the heat and held on to our pricing. Like everyone else I love a great deal, but as a business owner I realize that there are some areas that shouldn’t use cost as a deciding factor.

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How do you handle "different"?

Jason Womack

While in Zurich this week (and three other European countries in the past month) I got to see how people live differently. While at the bookstore one day, reading a bit of Kissenger's book, "On China" I got to see a man and his dog. My goodness is it different in California!

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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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Ways to Improve Your Resume After a Career Break

Women on Business

Guest Post by Margaret Francis. Ways to Improve Your Resume After a Career Break. Life happens and sometimes that means that you will have to take a leave of absence from work. You may have to take a break due to pregnancy, illness, or some other type of personal situation. Regardless of the reason, it is important to stay connected to the industry and improve your knowledge and skills while you are gone.

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Follow The Leader: The #1 Task Of The Leader Is To Attract Followers!

First Friday Book Synopsis

Nearly everything I read has something to say about leadership. In one way or another, authors tell us: “this is what a leaders does; this is what a leader needs to do; this is what a leader should focus on.” In the book I presented last Friday at our monthly event, the First Friday Book [.].

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Photo Inquiry Friday: What is the Incentive for Change?

Mike Cardus

Change is a paradox in management: No-One likes it and Everyone expects it. As a manager your job is to plan and develop the method that will make this change happen. Ensuring that everyone (above and below) understands and is a part the plan. There is method to this…Look at Planning: Getting work done and easing your stress. Incentive: any factor (financial or non-financial) that enables or motivates a particular course of action, or counts as a reason for preferring one choice to the alternati

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Creative Thinkering for Logical Thinkers

Coaching Tip

by Guest Author Michael Michalko. We are educated to be analytical, logical thinkers. Consequently, we have the ability to make common associations between subjects that are related or at least remotely related. We are far better at associating two things (for example, apples and bananas are both fruits) than we are at forcing ourselves to see connections between things that seem to have no association (for example, a can opener and a pea pod).

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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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George B. Bradt: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

George B. Bradt has a unique perspective on transformational leadership based on his combined senior line management and consulting experience. He progressed through sales, marketing and general management roles around the world at companies including Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, and J.D. Power’s Power Information Network spin off as chief executive.

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7 Random Pieces of Advice for the Younger Leader

Ron Edmondson

I love working with younger leaders. It keeps me young and it helps to know I’m investing in something and someone who will likely last beyond my lifetime. I want to share some things I’ve learned from experience. Some of it hard experiences. Here’s a random list of practical advice for young leaders. If you can learn and practice these early in your career it will help you avoid having to learn them by experience.

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How and Why to Serve Your New Ideas Raw

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. If you struggle to find new ideas in your organization, don’t assume there aren’t any. Instead, look at the ideas’ processes before they’re presented. Are they batted [.].

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Are you socially lazy?

Chartered Management Institute

I posed a simple question to our Facebook page yesterday. Would you rather spend 4 minutes of your time talking to a stranger or a friend?

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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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Great Ideas: Management & Leadership Week in Review

Management Excellence

Every week (ok, that's not a promise, but an aspiration), I'll offer a few articles/posts and an occasional book suggestion, that I believe are worth sharing and worth thinking about and even acting on in our lives. This week's selections offer inspiration for those striving to achieve, ideas on diagnosing and curing team performance problems, a resource on creating and sustaining organizational performance and some provocative thoughts on what the world needs from leaders.

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I'm Still Here.Wrestling with Nasty Tech Problems!

Building Personal Strength

Writing this from my laptop. Been having the worst kind of computer crash. My motherboard died, so I had to get a new computer. My external backup malfunctioned, so I'm in the process of recovering my data. Even had to get a new monitor because the old one had incompatible connections. Have to install all my programs again. All of this has been an amazing hassle and has eaten up all my time (not to mention a fair amount of $$).

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Businesses – are we in 2011 or 1911?

Rapid BI

are we practicing modern human resource policies or those over 100 years old?

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The Must-Have Leadership Skill

Harvard Business Review

"We hired a new CEO, but had to let him go after just seven months," the chairman of an East Coast think tank complained to me recently. "His resume looked spectacular, he did splendidly in all the interviews. But within a week or two we were hearing pushback from the staff. They were telling us, 'You hired a first-rate economist with zero social intelligence.

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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 10.14.11

LDRLB

Every friday we review the posts from LeaderLab contributors that has appeared on this blog and elsewhere online. Here. We shared a handy infographic revealing the Top 5 Reasons Talent Leaves Your Organization. Our Review of Mike Figliuolo’s One Piece of Paper. John Richard Bell asked Corporate Leaders,” What will be your epitaph? ” David Burkus shared how leaders inspire creativity by giving followers freedom to fail.

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Employee Values = Stakeholder Value

Harvard Business Review

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. The recent ups and downs of the global financial markets have placed a lot of scrutiny on CEOs, corporate boards and executive teams to deliver stakeholder value that can withstand the fluctuations. As a CEO leading a global U.S.-based software company that went public just last year, I know this well.

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Why Your Salespeople Are Pushovers

Harvard Business Review

This blog, the third in a four-part series, is also part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line. Its conclusions are based on data from a global study of more than 6,000 sales reps across nearly 100 companies in multiple industries. One of the age-old stereotypes in business is the pushy salesperson. But what if we told you that the real issue in sales today isn't that salespeople tend to be too pushy, but that they're not pushy enough?

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Steve Jobs, the Immediate Case Study

Harvard Business Review

In all kinds of places this past week — from Twitter feeds to boardrooms — people discussed Steve Jobs's career at Apple as a kind of informal but very important case study. This is not surprising, given his contributions to technology and the lasting impact he'll have on the way we communicate. On the other hand, given the currency of Jobs and Apple's achievements, this is quite rare.

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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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In Praise of Charitable Giving — to Uncle Sam

Harvard Business Review

I have been thinking a lot about charity lately. Where can we make the biggest impact, have the profoundest influence? I sit on a few non-profit boards and try to do my share of donating. But the more I ponder, the more it becomes clear that the greatest cause in need right now may be our government. As I have written about since January of this year, the nation appears to be falling back into recession.

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Gain Advantage with Predictive Analytics (Webinar)

Harvard Business Review

Most organizations are sitting on massive amounts of data, but they fail to leverage this data to make better decisions or improve their competitive position. So can leaders build better business strategies around their analytical capabilities? How can companies use analytics to improve operations, make better decisions, and improve revenues and profitability?

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Occupy Wall Street: What Businesses Need to Know

Harvard Business Review

With the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations spreading from New York to other U.S. cities this week, business leaders beyond the stock exchanges are wondering what exactly is going on: Is this truly the American version of the Arab spring? What do the demonstrators want? What outcome can be expected? Should businesses respond to the Wall Street protests, and if so, how?