Fri.Nov 04, 2011

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Leaders: Don’t just stand there, share something!

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Sharing is a kindergarten concept, isn’t it? We just don’t talk about it that much in the serious corporate world or we might sound new-agey. So I hope this post will bring it back big time, beginning with you! What if you wrote it in your schedule: “Share something?” It can mean a number of [.] Leaders: Don’t just stand there, share something!

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If You Will Lead. Well

Leading Blog

If You Will Lead by Doug Moran, is a good book for reading chapter by chapter and stopping to reflect on each one. Based on Kipling’s poem “If–,” Moran has created the “If” Sixteen Leadership Framework to help us answer four important questions: 1. Who am I, and what do I believe? 2. What do I want? 3. How will I attract and motivate others? 4. How will I earn and retrain the privilege to lead?

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Three Power Phrases to Disarm a Verbal Aggressor

The Recovering Engineer

When you feel that you have been verbally attacked, it is incredibly difficult to think of the right words to calm the situation and disarm a verbal aggressor. Developing power phrases for use in various situations can help you get past this mental roadblock so that you can respond calmly and quickly in a wide range of situations. In working with workshop participants and coaching clients to find good ways to address specific, emotionally charged situations, I have learned three power phrases yo

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10 Reasons NOT to do Succession Planning

Great Leadership By Dan

Succession planning is the systematic assessment and identification of individuals to fill key leadership positions that may or will open up sometime in the future. It’s otherwise known as “what do we do if so and so gets hit by a bus or wins the lottery”. I’ve listened to speakers and authors say that it’s imperative that every organization do succession planning.

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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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The Top Ten Lies Leaders Believe

Leadership Freak

The truth is we tell ourselves lies. Lies seem to make life better, they make us feel more useful and in control. I can always tell when I touch the lies people believe about themselves. They deny the obvious and defend the ridiculous. It reminds me of the time one of our children denied stomping up [.].

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When Are You At Your Best?

Kevin Eikenberry

One of the first and most influential inspirational speakers I learned of and learned from was Earl Nightingale. Today I reread one of his profound quotations. “We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve [.].

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One More Leadership Lesson from a Chilean Miner

Next Level Blog

One of the greatest leadership feel good stories in recent memory ended just over a year ago when 33 Chilean copper miners were rescued from their mine 70 days after they were trapped inside. Their. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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The Inside Scoop on Recruiting

Women on Business

Once you strike out on your own, your relationships with recruiters change. When you were looking for a full-time job, they represented. a way to get your foot in the door at a company. As an entrepreneur, their roles shift slightly. They still help you get a foot in the door, but now they also bring the ability to provide new projects. The one thing that continually frustrates me about recruiters is how little they seem to know about what you actually do.

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Photo Inquiry Friday: Do people or the systems that they work in create bad behaviors?

Mike Cardus

Purchase the E-Book: How to Lead Awesome Team-Building Programs. Did you ever wonder “How does one lead AWESOME team-building programs? Programs that ensure that content and learning take place. A teambuilding program that is fun, and teams leave better than when they arrived?” Now you can find out; In this 55 page E-book you will find applicable strategies, team-building activities, facilitation, de-briefing, and processing activities + theory that you can use immediately.

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Pricing Is Not a Moral Issue

CO2

Ben Shapiro, my professor of marketing at Harvard Business School , taught me that pricing is not a moral issue. Not everyone agrees. I worked with one company recently that thought it was immoral to charge what it cost them in total for shipping and handling. The question was not, what value do we bring to the customer? Or, what will our customers be willing to pay for shipping our products?

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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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Closeout for 11.4.11

LDRLB

Every friday we review the posts from LeaderLab contributors that has appeared on this blog and elsewhere online. Here. Tim Vanderpyl pondered what organizational life would look like without HR. We examined whether Americans are overworked. John Richard Bell continued his series on The Essence of Strategy. David Burkus interviewed Kevin Oakes on talent management.

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Time to Preview Performance

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Samuel Culbert by Ladan Nikravan in which he explains why companies should get rid of the performance review, eliminate the intimidation, change the politics, and hold the bosses accountable for making every employee a success. He asserts that traditional performance reviews are destroying employee morale and killing the [.].

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5 Ways To Get More Ideas From Your Employees

Eric Jacobson

Your employees have lots of ideas. So, be sure you provide the forums and mechanisms for your employees to share their ideas with you. Hold at least a few brainstorming sessions each year, as well. And, when you are brainstorming with your employees, try these five tips : Encourage ALL ideas. Don't evaluate or criticize ideas when they are first suggested.

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Learning from Steve Jobs: How to lead with purpose

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Baldoni and featured by CNN online. to read the complete article, please click here. * * * Leadership is a choice. Pure and simple When you assume a position of authority, either formally as a manager or informally as a team leader, you make the [.].

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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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Listen to understand or to respond? #management

Management Craft

One of Covey's classic suggestions is to " seek first to understand, then to be understood." This assumes, of course, that our aim is to understand or be understood. Often this is NOT our aim. Many people, and all of us some of the time, listen in order to prepare a response. Response-driven listening manifests itself in many ways including: Shallow conversations - people are speaking but never getting to the heart of things.

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Escape Velocity: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Escape Velocity: Free Your Company’s Future from the Pull of the Past Geoffrey A. Moore Harper Business/A HarperCollins Imprint (2011) How to free your organization from “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom” The quotation in the title of this review is from Leading Change in which James O’Toole brilliantly explains why most [.].

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12 Top Blog Posts of Some of My Favorite Bloggers

Ron Edmondson

As a blogger, there are some posts I love more than others. There are other posts that get more traffic than others, often to my surprise. I assumed this is true of some of my blogging friends also, so I decided to ask them. I emailed some of the bloggers I read most frequently and asked them to send me a post that met one of the following criteria: Their favorite post.

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Why Peter Drucker Distrusted Facts

Harvard Business Review

Management consulting is an industry built on facts. A "fact-based decision" (a phrase that returns 1.8 million Google results) requires legions of analysts to gather and crunch data, and it so happens that consulting firms supply precisely such people. Facts appear to de-politicize decisions, imposing objectivity and facilitating difficult choices.

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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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The Big Picture of Business – The Book of Acronyms

Strategy Driven

Organizations are accustomed to looking at concepts and practices one way at a time. Clinging to obsolete definitions and viewpoints have a way of perpetuating companies into downward spirals. By viewing from others’ viewpoints on life, we find real nuggets of gold with which to redefine organizations. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree.

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The Interview Question You Should Always Expect

Harvard Business Review

Whether you are a new middle manager or a new President-elect , the common wisdom is that you have three months to make an impact in your new role. And yet when preparing for job interviews , candidates make the mistake of believing that most questions will be about their past experience, not what they plan to do once hired. New hires have to impress their bosses, peers, and employees in less time than it takes some of us to arrange a meeting.

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Three Ways to Manage Luck (Both Good and Bad)

Harvard Business Review

Luck is something that happens to you and your company. So if it's outside your control, why bother to try to manage it? In our new book, Great by Choice , Jim Collins and I studied the role of luck in explaining corporate success. Our research suggests that you can indeed manage luck, although perhaps not in the way you might think. Are great companies just luckier than the rest?

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How to Scale Without Losing Savvy Customer Service

Harvard Business Review

How can a low-tech, high-touch startup scale to a high-tech one without losing users? I asked several tech startup founders, community managers, and users for any lessons learned on how startups can successfully transition their early adopters, who are used to feeling like VIPs, to technology that reduces hand-holding. Here are three principles they work by as their startups continue to scale from high-touch to high-tech: 1.

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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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Getting Ahead by Leading Across

Harvard Business Review

Witnessing the downward-spiral of Carla Sanders' career was painful — yet her experience offers an important commentary on the requirements of executive leadership in today's organizations. (Carla's an actual executive whose name has been changed.). Carla was literally bred for success as a business manager. The daughter of a senior corporate executive, she had all the right tickets including an MBA from a top school and several years of experience with a prestigious management consulting

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Seeing Robots Everywhere

Harvard Business Review

At RoboBusiness this week, a conference devoted to the business and technology of robots, the revelation for me was not just how far robotic capabilities have come but also the range of problems robots are already helping to solve. Take the robot developed by a team at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute to assist in autism research. It's very cute and approachable and responds to kids' behaviors toward it in engaging but low-key ways.

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Be Your Own Hero

Harvard Business Review

When I was growing up, I looked for a savior in just about everyone. There were too many fruitless visits from child protective services. There were too many police cars that arrived to "quiet things down" only to let them flare up again the next day. There were too many visits to the hospital.The police men, the agency representatives, and even the hospital workers seemed unable to do anything about what they clearly knew was a problem.

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How Online Innovators Are Disrupting Education

Harvard Business Review

Four years ago Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen predicted that online education would take off slowly and then hit everyone by surprise: the S-curve effect. And indeed, while it initially grew slowly, online education has exploded over the past several years. According to the 2010 Sloan Survey of Online Learning , approximately 5.6 million students took at least one web-based class during the fall 2009 semester, which marked a 21% growth from the previous year.

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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.