Wed.Apr 30, 2014

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More Secrets to a Great Relationship With Your Boss

Let's Grow Leaders

'When it comes to developing a great relationship with a boss, most of us can use all the help we can get. You have more power than you think. I’ve been having a blast talking with leaders and writers on tips for creating a great relationship with your boss. Their questions are challenging and ideas robust. Today […]. The post More Secrets to a Great Relationship With Your Boss appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Courage of Purpose

Lead Change Blog

'“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” Ambrose Redmoon What are you most afraid of losing? No, I’m not talking about your life. Let’s say in your job, what are you most afraid of? Generally, for me, I’m most afraid I’m wasting my [.] Author information Mike Henry Chief Instigator at Lead Change Group Mike is the Chief Instigator of the Lead Change Group and co-author with 20 other Lead Change Instigators, of The Character-B

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Six Critical Leadership Moments

Leading Blog

'Step Up by Henry Evans and Colm Foster is about learning to recognize six critical leadership moments where we need to lead. These moments were areas that clients found difficult to deal with. Leadership is not someone else’s job. Anyone can recognize moments where leadership is required, know what to do and step up. The six critical moments are: Using anger intelligently in the workplace.

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5 Marketing Automation Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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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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LeadershipNow 140: April 2014 Compilation

Leading Blog

'Here are a selection of tweets from April 2014 that you might have missed: The 4 Practices of Successful Flat Organizations by @JesseLynStoner. Understanding The Needs of Your Employees by Georgina Stewart. 4 Tips to Engage Your Employees by Piera Palazzolo. Bob Mankoff: Management Is A Laughing Matter by @JohnBaldoni. The Untold Story of Larry Page''s Incredible Comeback | Inc.

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The insatiable desire to control

Persuasive Powerhouse

' . It’s mythical and alluring, that thing that you may secretly desire. It surfaces slowly and silently unseen, unheard, and often unrecognized. It hides within the façade of your ego, growing larger with time while blinding you to its presence. Make no mistake. It will destroy you and your organization even while it parasitizes your values and harms the spirits of those who once willingly followed you, but who now trudge along like sheep going to slaughter. “Why aren’t our em

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4 Ways to Stir the Pot and Not Get Burned

Leadership Freak

'Leaders stir pots. But, you’re an irritating trouble maker, if all you do is stir. Stir the pot, too often, and you’ll end up burned. A leader without relationships is an individual contributor.

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37 Ways To Make Your Next Conference Your Most Successful Ever!

Kevin Eikenberry

'You (or your organization) has paid the bill. Your travel arrangements are made. You are off to a professional conference. It is a big investment in time and money, likely both for you and your organization. And the days you spend there will likely be very different from your normal work day, so can’t run […].

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WHE09: What Pepsi’s 7-Year Experiment Teaches about Workforce Health Engagement

Engaging Leader

'Earlier this year, the non-profit research group RAND Corporation released yet another study questioning the return on investment (ROI) of workplace wellness. RAND’s new study found that wellness can improve employee health and reduce costs, if the employer strategically engages employees beyond industry-standard lifestyle management tactics. Is it a waste of money and effort for […].

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The Visual Organization Achieves Data Discovery

Coaching Tip

'It''s not hard to find truly awful representations of information. . Some work in concept but fail because they are too busy; they confuse people more than they convey information. Visualization for the sake of visualization is unlikely to produce desired results--and this goes double in an era of Big Data. Bad is still bad, even and especially at a larger scale.

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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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Providing Answers Is like Eating Sugar

CO2

'by Gary Cohen. “We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”. ? Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday. You make a vow not to eat sugar. A few minutes pass. Still, no. And then an hour. That is a definitive no! That is an absolute I will not touch the stuff. NO! And yet you crave it, and it calls to you like a mama to her cubs.

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Getting the Name Right Really Matters – (The Parable of the “Nissan Fairlady”)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Vocabulary matters. What you name your company, your product, your device makes a difference. The wrong name can do real damage. The better name is ok. But a brilliant name raises the potential for success to a new level. And, I’m not sure we know we’ve got a great name, or a not-so-great name, until […].

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Just One Thing—Is it Time to Suspend Your Judgment in Hiring?

Management Excellence

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What if a Prospect Wants More References?

David A Fields

'A question I was asked… My prospect called after checking my references and now wants more references that were more relevant to his business. I gave him four top references and I don’t feel that I need to give him more, what should I say?… See my response in the Solo Consultant’s Network. The post What if a Prospect Wants More References?

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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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The role of your peers in creativity

Chartered Management Institute

'In this era of social collaboration it is almost a given that the collective plays a major role in our creativity and innovation. The popularity of collaboration at the moment suggests that the group is always beneficial. Of course, you’re all smart folks so you know better than that. You know that collaboration for the sake of collaboration is often worse than none at all.

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Change-friendly Leadership

Eric Jacobson

'Because Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan delivers so much timely, straight-forward and relevant wisdom in his book, Change-friendly Leadership , reading it is like talking with your trusted best friend. Or, listening to your favorite teacher. Or, soaking in the thoughts from your respected mentor. That''s why you''ll want to spend plenty of time reading the book.

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The Cure for an Uncaring Boss

The Idolbuster

'Today I went to a webinar where Matt Kohut and John Neffinger gave a Q&A about their book Compelling People. Really interesting book. Kohut and Nefflinger define strength and warmth as the two attributes that define how people judge you. During the webinar, they made reference to psychology studies that show that powerful people care less about the less powerful.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #69

Rapid BI

' ”There’s something wrong with the world when my laxative has more Facebook friends than I do!

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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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Top Five Regrets of the Dying.

Rich Gee Group

'I’ve just finished one of the most powerful books I’ve read this year. It’s by a wonderful woman named Bronnie Ware , and it focuses in on the actual voiced regrets of people she encountered when they were dying. Powerful stuff – go and pick up the book ! Here’s a small excerpt: For many years I worked in palliative care.

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Supertanker Leadership

General Leadership

'“If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.”. Albert Einstein. Picture a giant ocean-going vessel…it can help people accomplish amazing amounts of work in a single voyage. It can seem powerful, unstoppable, never tiring as it moves cargo in dogged pursuit of its goal. In calm water, the ship can be run at high speed, covering hundreds of miles every day.

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The 7 Stages of Business Travel Stress

Harvard Business Review

'How stressful is business travel? Very. Especially if you’re a female vice president. We know this because Michael Segalla and Dominique Rouziès of HEC Paris teamed up with Catalin Ciobanu and Vincent Lebunetel of Carlson Wagonlit Travel to survey thousands of business travelers about the stress they felt at every stage of a trip. When mapped on the timeline of a standard business trip, the data offer a view into who’s stressed out by what.

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How To Prepare For Leadership

Joseph Lalonde

'R egardless of how old you are, you can always step into the role of a leader. Doing so requires you to prepare for leadership. Many people will overlook these steps and hop right into the role. Often ending in disaster, for the leader and, sometimes, for the organization they’re leading. This is why it’s important young leaders prepare for the role of leadership.

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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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Become a Company That Questions Everything

Harvard Business Review

'Imagine you’re a bright, inquisitive person working for a company with long-established policies and work processes in place (or maybe you don’t have to). Now let’s say you’ve noticed one of those processes is not as efficient or effective as it might be, which leads you to reasonably ask: Why are we doing it this way? Is there a better approach?

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7 of the Greatest Needs of a Wife

Ron Edmondson

'In my years of counseling and ministering to married couples, mostly in distress, I have learned some principles that run fairly consistent within each marriage. Couples really are not that different from each other. There are common needs most men and women bring to a marriage in order to make the marriage the best it can be. We may use different terms, but the needs remain relatively similar from marriage to marriage.

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How Innovation Ecosystems Turn Outsiders into Collaborators

Harvard Business Review

'Running a truly innovative company means constantly improving your innovation culture and process. Running a successful innovation ecosystem, however, demands more. Successful innovation ecosystems make people outside the company measurably smarter, richer, and more innovative. Biologically speaking, innovation ecosystems invest in symbiosis, not parasitism.

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LA Clippers: A Sterling Case of Hari-Kari

In the CEO Afterlife

'Call it a hiccup or a long-term slump; large or small, every brand faces a crisis. The crisis can be brought on by a direct competitor (Blockbuster trumped by Netflix), a sudden shift in consumer habits (The Beatles haircuts on Brylcreem Hairdressing), a product recall (GM’s ignition switches), the mishandling of an environmental disaster (BP‘s oil spill), or the personal misbehavior of an executive.

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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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Data Alone Won’t Get You a Standing Ovation

Harvard Business Review

'A few years ago, Dr. Brené Brown delivered a presentation on “The power of vulnerability” at TEDx Houston. As a professor at the University of Houston, Brown studies vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. It’s a pretty big subject area to squeeze into 18 minutes, yet Brown did it so well that her presentation has been viewed 15 million times and has turned Brown into a New York Times bestselling author.

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What Violence and War Do to Global Output

Harvard Business Review

'Creating violence of various kinds and then attempting to contain and quell it cost the world $9.46 trillion in 2012, according to research by the Institute for Economics and Peace. That’s 11% of gross world product. By contrast, the recent financial crisis cost just 0.5% of 2009 global output, Talia Hagerty writes on Pacific Standard. The IEP has posited eight “pillars” that support peace: a well functioning government, equitable distribution of resources, free flow of information, a sound bus

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The Right Way to Measure Executive Diversity

Harvard Business Review

'Having spent the last five years of my career working hand in hand with many of the world’s most well-known companies on efforts to advance women and diverse professionals into leadership roles, I read with interest the recent study and blog post by my esteemed colleague Avivah Wittenberg-Cox. Avivah has undertaken an ambitious scorecard to measure the progress of women into corporate leadership around the world.