Mon.Oct 31, 2011

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13 Frightening Faces of Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Change Management Leadership Development Self Leadership Have you stocked up on garlic and holy water? Is there plenty of candy prepared by your door? Got the tune of Michael Jackson’s, ‘Thriller‘ stuck in your head? It’s All-Hallow’s Eve and the ghosts and goblins will be out in force tonight! I love Halloween.

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from October 2011 that you might have missed: @mikemyatt: The biggest leadership blind-spot and what to do about it: Leadership & The Expectation Gap. @RonEdmondson: The Encouragement Folder : Every Leader Needs One. From @MJAsmus: Letting Go of Your Need to be Right. Servant Leader Quiz: Servant Leadership Assessment.

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Meetings Don’t Have to Suck by Susan Mazza

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Workplace Issues [link] Susan Mazza (@SusanMazza, web) posted some great meeting tips over at Random Acts of Leadership Sunday. In her post titled Meetings Don’t Have to Suck, she offered 3 keys to help you get the most out of any meeting. Of interest: #3 is a reminder to only speak if what you’re going to say will [.] Meetings Don’t Have to Suck by Susan Mazza.

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The Four Leadership Lessons of Halloween

Kevin Eikenberry

Tom woke up Halloween morning and mentally previewed the day ahead. He didn’t have to think much to know it was going to be a long one. A full day of leadership training followed immediately by the costume party his wife was dragging him to. The only good thing about the day that he could [.].

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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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Women Wearing the Pants and Taking Over [Infographic]

Women on Business

Women might not get equal pay or equal leadership roles, but they’re making strides in other areas. A new infographic from EducationalLeadership.com (via Mamiverse.com ) offers a great visual representation of how women’s roles have changed in recent years. You can click on the image below (after the jump) to view it at full size. Created by: Educational Leadership.

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Embracing the Joys of Fear and Pain

Leadership Freak

Fear and pain motivate you to stop, run, avoid, or stubbornly dig in. They don’t move you forward, they move you away. Fear and pain may, however, ignite passion to change. Politicians create fear that galvanize constituents around a cause and garners votes. The problem, fear only works for the short-term. It creates a huddling [.].

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Parenthood, Leadership and Being On Stage

Next Level Blog

Leaders – whether they’re leading at home or in the workplace – are always on stage. Whether they know it or not; whether they like it or not, people are watching and taking their cues from what they. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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WomenOnBusiness.com Will Live Tweet Stevie Awards for Women in Business Ceremony

Women on Business

Want to get inspired by successful women in business? Follow WomenOnBusiness.com on Twitter, @womenonbusiness , and tune in to the WomenOnBusiness.com Live Tweet of the 2011 Stevie Awards for Women in Business awards ceremony. The ceremony begins at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, November 11, 2011 and will be hosted by Sara Eisen of Bloomberg Television.

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The Power of LEO and BEG for Candy

CEO Blog

I read a great book with an acronym in the title. The Power of LEO - The Revolutionary Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results by Subhir Chowdbury. From the publishers web site: L is for Listen. Observe and Understand – To obtain a deep understanding of the issue at hand, assumptions must be put aside and interaction with all relevant parties – including customers, suppliers, and employees – is critical.

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You can’t manage time, so manage your priorities

Tony Mayo

The most valuable time management skill is recognizing the important tasks and ignoring the rest. I first observed it early in my consulting career, at Arthur Andersen & Co in New York, after a meeting with my manager and our client, the Vice President of a large energy company. After the client left, my manager [.].

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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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Three Traps to Avoid When Choosing a Successor

Marshall Goldsmith

Q: Many otherwise objective leaders seem to have real difficulty in evaluating their potential successors. From your experience, why does this happen? Can it be avoided? A: When evaluating our potential successors, we should first look at ourselves. Following are three classic mistakes leaders make when reviewing potential successors. All three can cloud our objectivity and diminish our ability to evaluate successors. 1.

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Simple. Keep it simple. Know What to Leave Out – (Insight from Tony Bennett & Steve Jobs)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Everywhere we turn, the message of “simple” screams out at us. And this weekend, I heard and read that message reinforced time and again. On Saturday, Scott Simon interviewed Tony Bennett. Here is a great slice of that interview: SIMON: Who do you think you can put into a song in your 80s that you [.].

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Does your calendar reflect your values?

CO2

Scheduling Your Values. As you go about your day, ticking off items on your to-do list, you may feel a rush of accomplishment and pride. But how long does that feeling last? Does your level of satisfaction and fulfillment reset the next day? When you look at the past week, month, or year, have you accomplished what your heart truly desires? If your daily tasks, meetings, and events aren’t aligned with what is important to you, your feelings of accomplishment and pride will be fleeting and

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The Decision to Trust: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Decision to Trust: How LEADERS Creat High-Trust Organizations Robert F. Hurley Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) How and why in most (if not all) workplaces, everything of value starts with trust and stops without it. Obviously, a decision to trust anyone and anything is based on factors that vary from one person to another, from [.].

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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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Kim Kardashian - Her Made-For-Reality-TV Life

Building Personal Strength

Kim Kardashian NBA player Kris Humphries' wife Kim Kardashian has filed for divorce. You may have read the report. On the other hand, maybe you didn't. After all, as a cast member of a "reality TV" show, she's one of those people whose celebrity derives from celebrity, not from any kind of talent for performing. She's famous for letting cameras record her outrageous off-the-wall behavior.

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Leadership Caffeine-If You Want to Be a Critic, Go Watch a Movie

Management Excellence

The Leader as Critic is one of the most toxic, idea-crushing characters you’ll ever find in the workplace. This individual mistakenly assumes that title confers a License to Kill (perceived bad ideas) and he/she takes pride in shooting down ideas to protect people and teams from themselves. Here are ideas to help you recognize whether you are the critic.

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What demotivates employees

Chartered Management Institute

In this three minute video Jim Collins — the author of the legendary Good to Great and co-author of the new and equally compelling Great by Choice– has an insightful 3-minute Big Think video describing three ways organizations demotivate their employees.

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A LEAP Letter to the Coach

Steve Farber

A little birdie just forwarded this essay to me. (It helps to know lots of birdies that LEAP –I get some great intel as a result). If you don’t know the name, Mark Tremayne, read this previous post first and then check out the following college application essay from Hilliard Darby High School student and track team member, Sean Newman.

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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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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – No Free Lunch

Strategy Driven

There exists a pervasive and ongoing belief among many that government has the power to eliminate hardship and create prosperity for everyone. Nothing, of course, could be farther from the truth. “You don’t make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.” Winston Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940-45, 51-55) and Nobel Laureate (literature) The following video is that of a lecture made by Nobel Laureate and Economist Milton Friedman.

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The Encouragement Folder: Every Leader Needs One

Ron Edmondson

I have a special folder… It’s where I keep the notes of encouragement… The emails you get that are extremely positive…. The cards that came in the mail…. The ones that say you’ve done something right…. The ones that say you know what you are doing…. The ones that say you made a difference in someone’s life…. We don’t get many of them…it may be months before we get another….

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Points to Ponder on Being an Acorn or Decaying Sheep

The Practical Leader

This month’s November illustration shows pigs feeding on an autumn harvest of acorns. This medieval European scene continues today in large oak groves of Spain and Portugal. A 14th century English proverb states, November , from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. “Large streams from little foundations flow and tall oaks from little acorns grow.” The acorn has long been a symbol of potential and growth.

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5 Things I’ve Learned In Public Speaking

Ron Edmondson

My friend Scott Williams , author of Church Diversity , and were comparing speaker experiences after each of us finished our talks at a conference where we were both speaking. We discovered we had some of the same observations about speaking to groups. I have continued thinking about our conversation since then and came up with a few more thoughts. Here are 5 random observations about public speaking: What you think is your worst message will often be the audience’s best – Scott said

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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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Leadership Quality #3 - Have a Purpose

My Own Coach

'What is your purpose, your mission? Great leaders know where they want to take their followers. They have a clearly defined sense of purpose and direction, and they share it. How has your mission been put into words? Often, the simpler the mission is defined, the better! For example, the Jamie Oliver Foundation has a mission to " educate and empower as many people as possible to love and enjoy good food ".

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October 2011 Top 50 Leadership Experts to Follow on Twitter

Rapid BI

Evan Carmichaels’ October 2011 Top 50 Leadership Experts to Follow on Twitter Evey month Evan Carmichael publishes a number of top 50 blogs or tweeters to follow. [link] #1) @richardbranson – richardbranson – Founder of Virgin Group:@virgin #2) @HarvardBiz – Harvard Biz Review – The latest Harvard Business Review blog posts, Management Tips of [.].

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Case Study: Play it Safe at Home, or Take a Risk Abroad?

Harvard Business Review

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. If you'd like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address. Stan Windham walked into the newest Coe's store in South Tucson.

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Cool and the Corporation

Harvard Business Review

The 2012 Beetle ad is a charmer. A guy driving a Beetle discovers that everyone who sees him wants to slap hands or punch fists. A new variation on the "punch buggy" is born. Our driver slaps hands with a truck driver, a construction worker, a policeman, and a dog. Then a pack of cyclists show up. The slapping continues. The Beetle passes a mural (pictured) at one point.

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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.