Thu.Jul 10, 2014

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Pass the Tolerance, Please

Lead Change Blog

'We joined the conversation just as Matt was defending the right to be quirky and go against the mainstream. He was calm, gracious, and articulate—speaking his mind without being in anyone’s face, urging respect for different values and opinions. His message of tolerance went unheeded. As the threads of conversation began anew, anyone who disagreed [.

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Check Out Today’s 200-Second Soundbite™ Video Spotlight!

General Leadership

'Associate Curator and GeneralLeadership.com CGO, Colonel Chris R. Stricklin discusses the importance of friendship in leadership. by. … Read the rest. The post Check Out Today’s 200-Second Soundbite™ Video Spotlight! appeared first on General Leadership.

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How to Develop a Small Business Social Media Strategy

Women on Business

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Executive Presence – A 2-Sided Definition

Great Leadership By Dan

'Guest post By Karen Hough When I ask people to define executive presence, they pause, and usually hold out their arms as they search for words. Eventually, after throwing out a few words like “strong,” “smart” or “gravitas,” they give me an example. “You know, like President Kennedy.” “…like Oprah.” “…like my dad.” “…like Sheryl Sandberg.” “…like Rocky Balboa.” – believe it or not, I’m not kidding about that one.

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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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10 Reasons To Build An Email List

Women on Business

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An Audio Journey To The Heart of More Human Leadership

Terry Starbucker

'Recently I was honored to do a podcast with Richard Rierson , former Marine Corps Officer, leadership coach, trainer, speaker, & entrepreneur. His blog, and podcast, is called “Dose of Leadership” Richard has done over 150 interviews with leadership experts “who pursue excellence, truth, & common sense” I love his passion for leadership: I believe that it is central to every aspect of our lives.

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7 Steps to Becoming a Leadership Hit Squad

Leadership Freak

'Capable people, who walk in the shadows, represent wasted, untapped potential. Leadership hit squads target the overlooked and under-utilized for greater more fulfilling involvement. The target for leaders is developing leaders.

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7 Team Building Lessons I Learned from White Water Rafting

Lead by Adventure

'Last week, while on vacation, I went on a whitewater rafting adventure with some of my family. We were on a Class IV (advanced) section of the Clear Creek river outside of Idaho Springs, Colorado. The company we went with was Liquid Descent , and our guide was Alan (he was awesome!). It was a great thrill and a rush of adrenaline. We got through the whole half-day without anyone falling out and having a blast.

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If You Live Well, You Lead Well.

Coaching Tip

'and vice versa. "Personal leadership is the self-confident ability to crystallize your thinking and establish an exact direction for your own life, to commit yourself to moving in that direction, and then to take determined action to acquire, accomplish or become whatever you identify as the ultimate goal in your life." Joe Farcht, Building Personal Leadership (New York: Morgan James, 2007) .

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Keeping Current – One Job that’s Never Finished

First Friday Book Synopsis

'I am always feeling just a little bit behind. Or, maybe, a whole lot behind. Take the current turmoil in Iraq, and surrounding areas. I’ve done a fair amount of reading about Al-Qaeda. I read The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Lawrence Wright, the week it […].

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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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Midlife-teen transition

Deep Imprints

'Midlife-teen years are no fun. This is the moment when you want to take back every mean thought you ever had towards your mom during your teen years. Seriously – I didn’t like the teen years the first time around, and I’m not liking them any better today. To add to the complexity, I get […].

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Organizational health: The ultimate competitive advantage

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Here is a brief excerpt from another outstanding article from The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which co-authors Scott Keller and Colin Price explain why organizations must build the capacity to learn and keep changing over time to sustain high performance, To read the complete article, check out other resources, register to […].

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It’s The Consensus, Stupid*

Strategy Driven

'Buying decisions happen well before buyers consider your solution regardless of their need or the efficacy of your solution, marketing, or content. In fact, a purchase is the very last thing that occurs in a string of events buyers must handle as they seek to solve a business problem. One of the first things they must do is assemble the complete Buying Decision Team to garner the consensus necessary for change.

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Employee Advocacy: Don’t Inject Your Brand Into Another Brand’s Positive Story

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. How Should I Participate?

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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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Are You a Boss or a Leader?

Ron Edmondson

'Are you a boss or a leader? I have to be honest I hate the term boss. When someone refers to me as their boss I almost feel like I’m doing something wrong as a leader. Forgive me for making me think I’m the boss. There are so many differences in a boss and a leader. If only in connotation. A boss seems to have all the answers — even if they really don’t.

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Show Your Team How To Provide Good Internal Customer Service

Eric Jacobson

'Too often, we think of only external customer service, and forget about the need for excellent internal customer service. No matter what type of business, organization or team you lead, remind your team members/ employees of the need for and importance of internal customer service. Similar to external customer service, that means employees/team members should: 1.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #120

Rapid BI

'“I’m sending you to a seminar to help you work harder and be more productive.

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Discover Your LeaderGrade

Eric Jacobson

'If you need a tool to measure your leadership skills, check out LeaderGrade , by Quantum Workplace, which measures your leadership influence by asking your peers and followers to rate your leadership skills. The online survey tool uses a 45 question assessment to measure your leadership skills across 15 dimensions of leadership. The survey typically takes respondents seven to 10 minutes to fill out and the results you get will identify your strengths and weaknesses, and will allow you to compar

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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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Why Marketing Needs More Introverts

Harvard Business Review

'Susan Cain’s book “Quiet” has provided wonderful insight to me, because I am an introvert. Cain’s core premise is that western culture overvalues extroverts and under-utilizes introverts. Introverts prefer less stimulation and quiet concentration. We listen more than we talk, think before we speak, and focus on relationships. Introverts focus on the meaning of events around us, while extroverts focus on the events themselves.

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Relationships Matter

Leading Blog

'“At the center of every success,” writes Brian Church in Relationship Momentum , “you will find a pivotal relationship. Conversely, you can trace the cause of most failures to a relationship vacuum or breakdown.” Relationship Momentum is a book about how to create momentum for moving your ideas you’re your career) forward. Church begins by stressing that at the foundation of any success is relationships.

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Restore Trust at Work with These 3 Words

Harvard Business Review

'We are allies. Three simple words. Yet when spoken by a manager to an employee, these may be three of the most powerful words possible. Most of us spend the majority of our waking hours at work, on our way to and from work, or thinking about work. When we meet someone new, the first question Americans ask and are asked is typically, “So, what do you do?

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Leadership Development: #1 Priority for Human Resources Leaders

Coaching Tip

'Leadership development is the number one priority for human resources (HR) leaders globally, according to Talent Management : Accelerating Business Performance , a survey by Right Management, the career and talent management experts within ManpowerGroup. Among the more than 2,200 senior HR leaders globally who participated in the survey, 46 percent identified leadership development as the top priority for 2014.

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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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Toxic Talent Management Habits

Harvard Business Review

'All organizations have problems, and they always involve people. Indeed, talent management issues are a major cause of organizational underperformance. For example, a recent report by Deloitte, based on data from over 2,500 business and HR leaders from 90+ countries, shows that employers around the world are poorly prepared to tackle key human capital challenges, such as “leadership, retention and engagement, the reskilling of HR, and talent acquisition.

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Why No One Wants to Buy Your Used Heirloom Furniture

Harvard Business Review

'With stores like Ikea and Target importing large volumes of inexpensive desks, tables, chairs, and sofas, the cost of furniture, in constant dollars, has fallen about 50% over the past 30 years, according to the Wall Street Journal. The result has been a decline in the U.S. market for used furniture: Many homeowners trying to downsize have discovered that their prized pieces are impossible to sell.

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A Case for Group Risk-Taking

Harvard Business Review

'I work in the investment business, where risk-taking is an occupational necessity. There isn’t anyone successful at managing a mutual or hedge fund who avoids risk; we just need to face it carefully. Traditionally the industry encourages a solo approach to evaluating risk; at Fidelity Investments, where I worked for over two decades, each fund is assigned to one person who makes all the buying and selling decisions.

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Marc Andreessen and Jim Barksdale on How to Make Money

Harvard Business Review

'The tech luminaries on bundling and unbundling in the digital age. For more, visit HBR.org. Download this podcast.

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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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Marc Andreesen and Jim Barksdale on How to Make Money

Harvard Business Review

'The tech luminaries on bundling and unbundling in the digital age. For more, visit HBR.org. Download this podcast.

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Your Boss’s Work-Life Balance Matters as Much as Your Own

Harvard Business Review

'What leaders say is far less important than what they do. That’s one of the clearest conclusions we drew from a study , in collaboration with HBR, of 19,000 employees around the world, focused on how they experience their lives at work. (You can still take the survey to see how your experience compares to other HBR readers’ ). As we reported last week , companies seeking more sustainable high performance from their employees need to meet four of their core needs: renewal (physical); valu

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How to Avoid Collaboration Fatigue

Harvard Business Review

'It’s nearly impossible to escape a meeting or conference call without someone touting the virtues of collaboration. After all, researchers have linked collaboration to increased innovation, and many have compellingly argued for collaboration’s role in better leadership performance. Collaboration just feels right — like a big hug or a warm puppy. But collaboration also has an overlooked dark side.

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A Better Approach to Infrastructure Planning

Harvard Business Review

'We know in the U.S. that the nation’s transportation infrastructure urgently needs investment. The same is true in many other parts of the world. Why aren’t more projects underway? Many assume it’s for lack of funding. More often, however, it’s for lack of agreement on what should be done. For proposed projects to gain traction, various stakeholders must be aligned; chief among these are the companies that rely on transportation systems to connect them to customers and suppliers, and the govern

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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.