Tue.Jun 24, 2014

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Ignite Innovation In Your Team

Lead Change Blog

'No business will be successful unless its product, service or process is innovative on some level. Innovation is what differentiates companies within the same industry from one another. It isn’t something that can be purchased or built, but it is something that can be encouraged and fostered within a company culture. Just because an idea [.] Author information Piera Palazzolo Piera Palazzolo of Dale Carnegie Training wants to contribute to the online conversation about leadership and business

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How Leaders Promote Collaborative Environment

Tanveer Naseer

'When it comes to thriving in today’s fast-changing, interconnected global economy, one of the attributes of organizational success that often comes up is ensuring that we promote greater collaboration among the various teams and departments within our workplace. Indeed, the ability to foster collaboration in your organization has become a critical leadership competency as technological, process-driven differentiators give way to people-centric ones in today’s knowledge-based global

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Is It Time To Shut Down Your Job Postings? — Zappos Did!

Lead Change Blog

'Zappos has once again stepped away from the traditional way of doing things. This time it is in regard to their hiring practices and their efforts to continue to create a more “human centric” culture. JoAnn Corley shares her interview with Zappos man Rocknee here… Author information JoAnn Corley JoAnn is the CEO & Founder of The Human Sphere, a holistic talent management consultancy.

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Five Industries Lacking Female Workers

Women on Business

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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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Check Out Today’s “200-Second Soundbite™” Podcast!

General Leadership

'Cruise over to PodBean to hear our latest 200-Second Soundbite entitled “Organizational Communication Tips From a Fruit Fly” or subscribe to our PodCast directly via iTunes at the following link. Senior Curato r and GeneralLeadership.com COO, Lt Col Matthew Fritz shares tips on handling organizational conflict. Leaders find it necessary to confront poor behavior when it happens, if only to prevent poor modeling from becoming a repeatable trend within the Team.

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7 Ways to Break the Bondage of Old Patterns

Leadership Freak

'Predictability is stability, until it shackles. Old patterns are hard to break because they worked, once. But, you’ve changed and what worked once is bondage now.

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Great Leaders Serve With Great Returns

Lead from Within

'Most of us—myself included—believe that the best leaders are those who help, support, guide and serve. But what we don’t always realize is that the more we give, the more we help, the more we guide, and the more we serve, the more we get back in return. Great leaders serve with their time. The precious resource of time is among the greatest of gifts.

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport

Marshall Goldsmith

'My career as an executive coach began many years ago with a phone call from the CEO of a Fortune 100 company. I had just given a leadership clinic to the CEO’s human resources department. This is what I was doing in the late 1980s – advising HR departments about identifying future leaders in their companies and creating programs to form them into better leaders.

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5 Reasons Your Team Needs a Retreat

Lead by Adventure

'The economy has been in a slump. Budgets are tight, and usually the first things to go are retreats, outside training, and staff development. However, in my opinion, those things need to stay as top priorities in the budget, and here are 5 reasons why. 1. Your team needs a better foundation of trust. If trust is one of the foundational components of any team, why is so little time spend on building trust among team mates?

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Self-Discipline Isn’t Emotional

Tim Milburn

'“But I don’t feel like it.” I don’t know how many times I’ve said that, heard that, or read that when I challenged someone to follow through on their promise. How much of our life is directed by our emotions? How many times do we default to our feelings instead of our commitments? Photo Credit: kaneda99 via Compfight cc.

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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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Robert T. Kiyosaki

Joseph Lalonde

'F ailure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. The post Robert T. Kiyosaki appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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It Starts Here – Leaders Need to Like the People they Lead

First Friday Book Synopsis

'BARTLET: I’ve been a real jackass to you, Josh. JOSH: Well. BARTLET: To everybody. Toby Ziegler, C.J. Cregg, Sam Seaborn. JOSH Yeah. BARTLET: Don’t think I don’t know what you gave up to work on this campaign, and don’t think that I don’t know your value. And I’ll never make you think I don’t again. […].

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John G. Agno, Certified Executive & Business Coach

Coaching Tip

'John G. Agno has personally coached executives and business owners during the last decade; after a successful corporate executive and management consulting career. Agno is also a keynote speaker on the importance of personal leadership and facilitates management team development seminars at corporate locations. . You may be asking, what is professional coaching and how does it differ from management consulting?

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Art of Managing—In Searching for Talent, Emphasize Potential

Management Excellence

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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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Where a friend found my book!

Management Craft

'A friend sent me this picture - it''s my latest book, Double the Love , with a nice shelf space at the International SHRM Conference. Woohoo! I particularly love that my book is shelved higher than, How to Work for an Idiot (What an idea for a book.Who''s going to keep that on his or her desk? Only idiots, clearly. How ironic!). We writers LOVE it when people send us pictures of our books (unless they''re in the Super Bargain bins, then we don''t want to know) so feel free to take a picture and

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Wisdom Versus Knowledge

Eric Jacobson

'Knowledge is the process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification -- Martin H. Fischer.

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7 Qualities of Good Change Agent Leaders

Ron Edmondson

'If you want to be in leadership get comfortable with change. It’s part of the experience of every leader. The best leaders get accustomed to leading change. Every leader deals with change, but in my experience, some handle it better than others. There are change agent leaders who seem to have an innate gifting at leading through change. I love to learn from these special leaders.

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Where a friend found my book!

Management Craft

A friend sent me this picture - it's my latest book, Double the Love , with a nice shelf space at the International SHRM Conference. Woohoo! I particularly love that my book is shelved higher than, How to Work for an Idiot (What an idea for a book.Who's going to keep that on his or her desk? Only idiots, clearly. How ironic!). We writers LOVE it when people send us pictures of our books (unless they're in the Super Bargain bins, then we don't want to know) so feel free to take a picture and send

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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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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #108

Rapid BI

'“Your resume is bloated with half-truths, false praise, exaggeration and unsubstantiated accomplishments. I’d like to hire you to write our Annual Report.

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Dinosaurs, Big Consulting Firms and Disruptive Innovation

N2Growth Blog

'By John R. Childress. Chair, Cultural Transformation – President, N2Growth Europe, N2Growth. The dinosaur’s eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better. ~ Eric Johnston. Thanks to Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard University and his 1997 landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma , we have a new way of understanding the life cycle of companies and why some market leaders maintain their dominant position and othe

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The Best Negotiators Plan to Think on Their Feet

Harvard Business Review

'You can’t script negotiation. Instead, you need a supple strategy you can adapt to the situation at hand. Opportunities pop up. So do obstacles. Power ebbs and flows. Talks that seem to crawl along can suddenly race forward or veer off in another direction. After all, negotiation is a two-way street. Whoever you’re dealing with may be as smart and determined (or as fallible) as you are, and you can’t dictate their agendas, perceptions, or actions.

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99% of Marketing Spending is Wasted

CEO Blog

'John Wannamaker is credited with saying "50% of the advertising spending is wasted - the problem is I do not know which half". But he was wrong. 99% or even more of the advertising $ that are spent are wasted but the 1% more than pays for the advertising. The Atlantic printed an article that basically says internet advertising does not work. See the article here.

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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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Your Marketing Organization Needs an Overhaul

Harvard Business Review

'Unilever is one of the world’s consumer marketing powerhouses, with annual advertising expenditures totaling nearly $9 billion. So when it decides its marketing organization needs rethinking, that’s a pretty big deal. Last week at Cannes Lions, the big award-giving event for creatives, the audience heard Unilever CMO Keith Weed explain the transformation he’s trying to pull off.

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Don’t Let Probable Trump Possible

Mills Scofield

'I don’t buy lottery tickets. Perhaps I should. When it’s the huge MegaMillions ® I think about it, but I don’t. Why? Because, while it is definitely Possible that I could win, it’s not highly Probable. We interchangeably use Possible and Probable or view them as ‘either/or’ options instead of ‘and/both’ Let’ break down this artificial distinction !

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Competing for Talent in Every Geography

Harvard Business Review

'In the late 1990s, Steven Hankin of McKinsey provoked a lot of discussion when he coined the phrase “the war for talent.” As the phrase became more popular (and was elaborated in a book ), others used it to warn corporations of impending talent shortfalls, advocating that it be considered a strategic business challenge that required attention at the highest levels.

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Why the VA Couldn’t Keep Up with IT

Harvard Business Review

'It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. IT systems need constant tweaking, updating, or replacing, or else they become an inefficient drag on the organization. Of course, that’s much easier said than done – especially in the public sector, where funding decisions and approval processes trail far behind the tech cycle. Take the recent Department of Veterans Affairs scandal.

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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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Insider Trading Is More Commonplace Than You Might Think

Harvard Business Review

'As many as one-fourth of all mergers and acquisitions of public companies in the U.S. appear to be the targets of undetected insider trading by investors with advance knowledge, according to a New York Times report on research by Menachem Brenner and Marti G. Subrahmanyam of New York University and Patrick Augustin of McGill University. The researchers discovered the instances of what they call “informed trading” through a statistical analysis of stock-option movements; fewer than 5% of the dea

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The Condensed July-August 2014 Issue

Harvard Business Review

'Amy Bernstein , editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features. Download this podcast.

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How to Succeed in Business by Bundling – and Unbundling

Harvard Business Review

'Much of the business story of the digital age so far has been about taking products and institutions apart — unbundling them. Music CDs were unbundled into MP3s that were sold (and illicitly downloaded) individually. Newspapers have been unbundled by blogs and classified ad sites. Now, digital-education upstarts are trying to unbundle the university.

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Say No Without Burning Bridges

Harvard Business Review

'Many of us don’t like to say no to a coworker or a boss—for instance, when the boss asks for a tighter deadline, or a team member needs a longer one—because we’re worried about damaging the relationship. That’s because it often feels synonymous with confrontation. And whether you are conflict-averse or conflict-ready, your counterpart may not always handle hearing no the way you’d hoped.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.