Mon.May 13, 2013

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Can You Ignore Office Politics?

Let's Grow Leaders

'Can you ignore office politics? I wish the answer was yes. I’d love to give you a Harry Potter style invisibility hoodie to pull up over your head when the cross-fire starts. You could go on with your work while the turkeys battle for survival. It’s not that easy. I’m a bit like Cheryl [.] The post Can You Ignore Office Politics?

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Five ways to improve communication with your teams

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Development Everything you do and say communicates SOMETHING. In fact, the most effective leaders know that their team’s performance hinges on being a great communicator. “Since we communicate whether we want to or not, it’s in our best interest to get good at it” David Grossman Communication Expert. When a leader communicates effectively, everyone understands the [.].

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The First Step in Self-Awareness Isn’t You - Redux

Leading Blog

'Human beings—and that includes most leaders—are relational. Self-leadership is fundamental to good leadership, but it is not the end-game. Self-awareness for self-awareness sake has a limited value. Through introspection and reflection we can get to know a great deal about ourselves—as far as we know. The problem is that we don''t know what we don''t know.

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12 Takeaways from Chick-fil-A Leadercast 2013

Nathan Magnuson

'My favorite annual leadership event takes place each May. It’s Chick-fil-A Leadercast. The seminar features some of the biggest names in all of leadership. This year’s theme was: “Simply Lead.” I hope you got to attend, but if not, I’ve included 12 of my greatest takeaways. Here they are: Complexity is the enemy of clarity. [.].

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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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Hit it with the Simple Stick

Leadership Freak

'Complexity makes confused leaders feel important when they should feel like failures. “The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.” Warren Buffett Rivers take long, complex routes to the ocean because they follow the easy path. The hard path is the straight one. Rejection: Simplicity is […].

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Simplify Leadership and Focus on What’s Essential

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

'Guest Post by Bill Treasurer. Leadership: It’s amazing how complicated leadership “experts” have made the topic. I know because I am one of them. I am a senior ranking officer in what can only be called the Legion of Leadership Complexifiers (the LLC). We members of the LLC make our livelihood plumbing, parsing, and peddling leadership concepts. We use fancy words and nitpick the life out of the subject.

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Five Strategies for Hiring Success

Chart Your Course

'It’s never been easier to find warm bodies to fill job slots. With the volume of social media and online networking and career sites, connecting with workers is only a matter of searching profiles or placing ads. However, it’s increasingly difficult to distinguish “the best” or even “adequate” choice for job openings or promotions, and making a bad hire is costly.

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The Leadership Principles That Matter Most

Kevin Eikenberry

'It is a bit daunting to write an article with the title I just typed. It reminds me of those questions you get asked during ice breaker exercises or at dinner parties. “If you could take only five books to a desert island what would they be?” I’m not very good at [.].

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Mindful Mondays – Breathe to Relax

Next Level Blog

'If you’ve been following Mindful Mondays, you know that I’m a big fan of stretching and breathing. As I mentioned in this video, combining the two can be a quick and effective way to take a break that pushes the reset button on your brain. Of course, you may want to take a quick break by focusing on one or the other. If I had to pick one to start with, it would be breathing.

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Is A Commanding Leadership Right Style For You?”

LDRLB

'[Editor''s Note: This is a guest post by Amy Jen Su and Muriel Maignan Wilkins are co-founders of Isis Associates, an executive coaching and leadership consulting firm. They are also co-authors of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence.]. Think of a leader you know who has a commanding leadership style. Who comes to mind?

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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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The Referral Engine: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself John Jantsch Portfolio/Penguin Group (2012) First, you must be (or become) worthy of the referrals you seek. Whatever their source of power (e.g. wind, water, coal, nuclear fission), the most effective engines throughout human history share common attributes: they are well-designed and conscientiously maintained.

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Leadership Caffeine: 5 Ideas to Bring Strategy to Life on Your Team

Management Excellence

'Regardless of your level in the organization, you have a responsibility to find ways to create a direct link between your team’s priorities and your firm’s ability to make money, create and satisfy customers and beat competitors.

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These Soft Skills Can Go a Long Way

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Here is an excerpt from an article written by Paul H. Eccher and Dave Ross for Talent Management magazine. To read the complete article, check out all the resources, and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and/or Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here. * * * While they […]. Bob''s blog entries Chief Learning Officer magazine Dave Ross Listening and collaborating MedfiaTec Paul H.

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What Do You Talk About With Your Team?

Steve Farber

'No matter the structure of your team, no matter the challenge your team is working on, and no matter the proximity (or lack thereof) of its members, there are three things all successful teams have in common: They are all made up of human beings. Human beings perform better with great leadership (although not necessarily the traditional top-down kind).

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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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Our Wonderful (and at times Exhausting) Custom Nation

First Friday Book Synopsis

'As we get deeper into the 2010s, the most successful companies in every industry in the United States – from food to fashion – are ditching mass production in favor of customization… America is becoming a nation of customizers. And the one new rule for successful businesses across the country is simple: Customize for your […].

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7 Ways to Offer Criticism that Actually Gets Heard

Ron Edmondson

'I’ve written numerous posts on criticism previously. Two of the more popular are 5 Right Ways to Respond to Criticism and 5 Wrong Ways to Respond to Criticism. All of these have been written from the perspective of the leader receiving criticism. There are times, however, where someone needs to offer criticism. In fact, the best leaders and the best organizations are made better by learning to receive, process and respond to criticism.

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My Friend Posted Those Comments Under My Account!

Managing Communities

'Please Update Your ManagingCommunities.com RSS Feed Subscription This feed has moved to: [link] I apologize for the trouble. For more details, please read my post on the matter. Thank you.

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Innovation: a Case for Entitlement (really!)

Mills Scofield

'Entitlement is required for Innovation? Seriously? Yes - here''s why.

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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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What do you do EVERY DAY to build attraction and brand?

Strategy Driven

'PERSONAL REALITY: You wake up, shower, shave (M), put on makeup (F), brush your teeth, and comb/fix your hair (if you have any). Every day like clockwork. Those are personal habits. Rarely (if ever) missed. What about business habits? Personal, business habits? BUSINESS REALITY: Do you have the same consistency in your daily business habits? And I wonder how many of your daily habits take the long-term view.

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Be Selfish. Be Very Selfish.

Harvard Business Review

'Here is a leadership lesson: Be selfish. Be very selfish. For this message to be an effective leadership tip, we need to understand what selfishness is. Selfishness is typically defined as "concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself." If someone hears that the CEO is being selfish, the thought that is likely to come to mind is, "The leader is maximizing personal financial rewards even at the cost of the company''s interests.

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Listening to Your Inner Voice Makes You a Better Manager

Harvard Business Review

'Some of the best advice we have all got — be it while making big personal decisions or making critical business decisions — is the same: Follow your inner voice. Most of us have heeded that counsel, yet if we were asked to list the elements that enable better decision-making, we would cite experience, research, data, even polls — but never our inner voices.

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Change the World and Get to Bed by 10:00

Harvard Business Review

'Let''s say you believed deeply in the importance of sleep health, and you wanted to start a movement to change people''s attitudes and behavior. Maybe, like Arianna Huffington , it''s a personal crisis that convinces you. Or maybe it''s a key piece of research or two that opens your eyes, as it were, to the dangers of too little sleep: As a choice of cause, you could do a lot worse.

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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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Are You Considering a Job with Two Managers?

Harvard Business Review

'If you are sitting in a job interview and hear the words "dotted line reporting," you have just encountered the world of matrix management. In these organizational structures, you typically have two bosses: a "straight-line" direct boss, who is the person who prepares your performance review and decides on your raise; and a "dotted-line" boss, who may also assign you work but has less control over your review.

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What's Lost When Shareholders Rule

Harvard Business Review

'The form of capitalism that has emerged in Britain is the textbook description of how to organize capital markets and corporate sectors. It features dispersed shareholders with powers to elect directors and remove them with or without cause, large stock markets, active markets for corporate control , a good legal system, strong investor protection, a rigorous anti-trust authority — the list goes on.

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Research: What JPMorgan Shareholders Should Know About Splitting the CEO and Chair Roles

Harvard Business Review

'The board of directors is supposed to keep watch over the CEO, right? So if the CEO also serves as the chairman of the board, you''re setting yourself up for trouble, or so the conventional wisdom goes. The checks and balances are inadequate. The CEO has the run of the place. He or she is free to set compensation, engage in empire building, and make decisions that destroy shareholder value.

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Apple's Trojan Horse

Harvard Business Review

'Last week Apple''s Tim Cook made fleeting reference to "new product categories." Bloomberg West called it " tantalizing.". There are a couple of candidates in Apple''s "big thing" category. One is an iWatch, but I think the one to monitor is the other, Apple TV. The current Apple TV, as it stands, is a set top box that enables an end-run around the cable companies and lets us pipe movies and TV into our living rooms.

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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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Why Customers Don't Buy

Harvard Business Review

'The real enemy of salespeople today isn''t their archrivals; it''s no decision. That''s according to the several hundred business-to-business salespeople I conducted recently. What is it that prevents a prospective customer from making a purchase even after they have conducted a lengthy evaluation process? The reasons may surprise you. Regardless of the prospective customers'' confident demeanor, on the inside they are experiencing fear, uncertainty, and doubt while making their selection.

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