Sun.Aug 07, 2011

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10 Sticky Note Reminders For The Busy Leader (Plus One from the Heart)

Terry Starbucker

For many leaders out there (myself included), sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in a day. Work piles up, deadlines loom, milestones are passing, folks are tugging at you from all different directions- and guess what suffers. Our leadership. Unless we give ourselves enough time to climb back up to 10,000 feet from ground level, all those things we’ve learned about great leadership can get pushed into the recesses of our conscious mind, and thus, we become very task orientated,

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The August 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

The August 2011 Leadership Development Carnival is up! It's hosted this month by Jason Seiden, at his new profersonal blog. Jason has done an awesome job of screening and organizing over 40 recent posts on leadership development, submitted by some of my favorite bloggers. Good stuff - read all about it here.

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IT Overinvesting – Is it Better to be Safe than Sorry?

Women on Business

While I haven’t read the book, an article on Reuters suggests that the book Aligning Technology with Strategy by Harvard Business Review advises companies evaluate their IT costs to prevent overinvesting. Specifically, companies should: “Spend less. Evaluate expected returns from IT investments. What’s essential spending versus discretionary or unnecessary?

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Is There a CEO Afterlife? | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership. Branding. Life. Is There a CEO Afterlife? by John • August 7, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Life • 0 Comments. Those of you who have followed my blog have an idea of how I’m spending my time as a retired CEO. I’m working – not for money, for fun. Beyond my recreational life (weapons of choice being a tennis racquet or a golf club - on a good day I use both), I’m writing about business leadership, branding and life.

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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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Succeed: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals Heidi Grant Halvorson Hudson Street Press/Penguin Group (2010) How and why almost anyone can achieve the goals they set IF…. Others have their own reasons for praising this book. Here are five of mine. 1. The book is very well written. Heidi Grant Halvorson has accumulated, organized, and [.].

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Today, Economic Confidence is Fragile

Coaching Tip

As the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 513 points last Thursday, then gyrated wildly on Friday, all of Wall Street seemed to be asking the same question: What the heck is going on? Evidence that the American economy is bad and growing worse has been piling up for a while now. And it’s not as if we didn’t know Europe had a debt problem. Why, then, all these crazy swings?

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“Can I Go Back To My Books Now?” says the “Extreme Reader” – Has The “Reading Class” Reached Its Natural Limits?

First Friday Book Synopsis

I love to read. Not everybody does. I know some really, really smart people who read very little – at least, they read very few books, or even longform reads (what we used to call essays). Oh, they read lots and lots and lots of e-mails, business proposals, spreadsheets… They know how to learn. They [.].

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Podcast from ASTD of Gary Cohen – Question based leadership!

CO2

Click to hear: ASTD TCC Podcast Gary Cohen Interview. Company leaders today face new and increasingly complex problems. Most of these problems are intractable, if not, in the end, problems without real, lasting solutions. It is an extremely frustrating situation for today’s leaders, who are accustomed to finding answers and whose ability to find the right answers got most of them into leadership positions in the first place.

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A Brand is Bigger Than Performance

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excellent article written by Nigel Hollis 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. * * * Not long ago, a popular post on HBR‘s site, by Dan Pallotta, was [.].

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Honoring a Pastor’s Wife (Revised)

Ron Edmondson

One of the toughest jobs in the church is that of being a pastor’s wife. I know I’m biased, but I have one of the best in Cheryl. Cheryl has a full-time professional job, is an excellent wife and mother, but the demands on her as my wife are often overwhelming. There is never a day she’s not asked to minister to someone. She is every bit as much in the ministry as I am.

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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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Nicholas Carr: Schools should beware the e-book bandwagon

First Friday Book Synopsis

In an article featured by the Dallas Morning News (“Our fleeting focus,&# Sunday, August 7, 2011), Nicholas Carr says that, given what we know now, schools should be wary of replacing textbooks with e-readers. I agree. In fact, I think everyone should be wary of replacing bound volumes with e-readers or replacing e-readers with bound [.].

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Complimentary Resource – Document Process Management: The Case for an Integrated Lifecycle Approach

Strategy Driven

Document Process Management : The Case for an Integrated Lifecycle Approach. by Oca Business Services. Learn how you can manage enterprise information and evidentiary records in a well documented and consistent manner, while reducing costs and increasing productivity. IDC has found a direct correlation between effective document management and improved business performance.

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Alan Trefler (Pegasystems) in “The Corner Office”

First Friday Book Synopsis

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Alan Trefler, founder and chief executive of Pegasystems, a business technology company. He says it’s the job of each person [.].

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The Wolves Inside

Rajesh Setty

Maynas Eric Chua made my day with this note on his Facebook page. Apart from what was written on that note that brought tears in my eyes, Eric shared a beautiful story with a message that all of us should remember. Here it goes: The Wolves Inside. An old Cherokee told his grandson, “My son, there’s a battle between two wolves inside us all.

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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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Satan Loves to Mess with the Good Guys

Ron Edmondson

Sometimes God uses one situation to get my attention in another. Let me explain. Today at Grace Community Church we ordained Ben Reed to the ministry. Ben is community groups pastor at Grace. In our tradition, ordination is separate from licensing. We see licensing as the act of making Ben legal to perform marriages and meet state requirements as a minister.