Thu.Sep 18, 2014

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

General Leadership

'Take a lesson from the tiny fruit-fly and apply it to your interaction within your Team…through engagement, preparation and constructive collaboration and watch your team evolve to a higher species! Senior Curator and GeneralLeadership.com COO, Lt Col Mathew T. Fritz discusses confrontation from a fruit fly’s perspective. by. … Read the rest.

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John Baldoni Interviewed on ESPN

N2Growth Blog

'NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has not spoken publicly since Sept. 9. Bob Ley talks with ESPN NFL business analyst Andrew Brandt and John Baldoni, Chair of N2Growth’s Leadership Development Practice about the commissioner’s recent lack of presence. Watch the Interview.

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How One Simple Networking Tip Can Build Business Relationships

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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12 Powerful Ways to Make People Feel Powerful

Leadership Freak

'Lousy leaders feel powerful by making others feel powerless. You can’t grasp power and give it at the same time. Leaders who fear losing power are afraid to make others feel powerful.

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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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The Cost of Distrust

Kevin Eikenberry

'More and more often I find that a centerpiece of leadership training we design for Clients has trust – understanding it and understanding how to build it – as an important component. In thinking about trust this week I was reminded of a great quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Our distrust is very expensive.” I love […].

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How Safe Is Your Career Today?

Rich Gee Group

'Today, work is weird, complex, and ever-changing — but you have the talent and tools to take advantage of this situation and grow your career. Let’s get right to it: 1. Don’t drink the Kool-Aid. The news is sensationalized and fear sells. Things are rarely as good as they seem and things are rarely as bad as they seem. If you allow yourself to give in to the news, you will determine your destiny.

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What Leaders Must Learn from the NFL Fiasco

Next Level Blog

'The speed and volume of the emerging fiasco facing the NFL has been breathtaking. In the first football weekend after the League’s response to the video of Ray Rice punching his fiancé, there were players with similar charges against them scheduled to play on Sunday. One was pulled just before game time; the other played.

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Principles for Personal Achievement

Coaching Tip

'During young Napoleon Hill''s interview with Andrew Carnegie, the man who had built one of the most powerful industrial empires in human history after once being a penniless immigrant in a new land, told Hill that the world needed a philosophy of success based upon the "know-how" of men like himself who had gained their knowledge by experience over a lifetime through the trial and error method.

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Since People Don’t Learn (very easily), We Need Lots of Kitchen Table Conversations (Insight from Margaret Hefferenan and Amanda Ripley)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'So, here’s a problem. We know some of our problems, big problems… but we have not solved them. This is true for our country; our companies and organizations, and our own lives. We – I – you – have not learned and changed in the ways we could. I have recently revisited what I now […].

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What To Do After Reprimanding An Employee

Eric Jacobson

'"A reprimand should end with a reaffirmation of the person''s past performance," explains authors Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge in their book, Helping People Win At Work. They provide this example: "The reason I''m upset is because this is so unlike you. You''re one of my best employees, and you usually get your reports in on time." "The reason this step is important is that when you finish giving someone a reprimand, you want him thinking about what he did wrong, not how you treated him.

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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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Introducing The Circle (What Online Community Questions Do You Want Answered?)

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. ManagingCommunities.

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Advice to New Graduates in Their Job Search: ‘Put Your Baseball Cap to the Side’

Strategy Driven

'If you are a recent college graduate entering the job market after spending the summer backpacking through Europe or taking some downtime, you are facing a tight labor market. Now is the time to put your baseball cap to the side and look long and hard at how you can present yourself to an employer in the best possible light. Here are some basic, yet all-important, steps you can take to stand apart from the crowd as you embark on your job search in this highly competitive environment: Have a gre

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Want More Joy in the Journey? — Throw Away the Scripts

Ron Edmondson

'Are the routines and details of your life getting you down? Is the direction of your life not turning out as you planned? Are you stressing so much about things that are happening — out of your control — that you can’t enjoy the good things already in your life? Here’s one suggestion for more joy in the journey… Throw away the scripts.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #170

Rapid BI

'“You said I lack critical leadership skills, but I’m being as critical as I can!” Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. see more office humor.

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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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Better Teachers Receive Worse Student Evaluations

Harvard Business Review

'A 1-standard-deviation increase in university teachers’ effectiveness in boosting student performance reduces the students’ evaluations of their professors’ teaching quality by about half of a standard deviation , on average — enough to significantly reduce the teachers’ percentile ranking at the university, says a team led by Michela Braga of Bocconi University in Italy.

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Most People Don’t Want to Be Managers

Harvard Business Review

'Most American workers aren’t interested in becoming managers. At least, that’s what a new CareerBuilder survey seems to suggest. Of the thousands surveyed, only about one-third of workers (34%) said they aspire to leadership positions – and just 7% strive for C-level management (the rest said they aspire to middle-management or department-head roles).

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A Process for Human-Algorithm Decision Making

Harvard Business Review

'Think for a moment about how an organization makes a decision. First come the facts , the data that will inform the decision. Using these facts, someone formulates alternative courses of action and evaluates them according to agreed-on criteria. The decision maker then chooses the best alternative, and the organization commits itself to action. Advanced analytics can automate parts of this sequence; it offers the prospect of faster, better-informed decisions and substantially lower costs.

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Why Start-Ups Replace Early Employees (and How to Keep Your Job)

Harvard Business Review

'John joined a hot enterprise startup, backed by a top VC. His job: close pilot deals with enterprise customers. Jess joined a SaaS company backed by the same investor, to develop an inside sales process to convert individual users into enterprise clients. Two years later, both John and Jess had closed key early clients, confirming their business’s customer acquisition assumptions and helping secure premium Series B valuations.

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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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Don’t Let Cost Cutting Run Amok

Harvard Business Review

'When our last receptionist asked if she could leave an hour early each day at a reduced salary so that she could get home to her son, I initially jumped at the chance to save some money. I never envisioned losing a major potential client who called our office two weeks later at 4:45, left a message on our main line’s voice mail since no human was there to take the call, and then wasn’t very interested when I responded the next day.

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NFL Owners Can’t Manage Their Players Without Better Rules

Harvard Business Review

'America’s National Football League seems to have a problem with the rules. That problem? They don’t have enough of them. Recent weeks have seen two high-profile players charged with criminal violent activity. In July, Ravens player Ray Rice was suspended two games for cold-cocking Janay Palmer, the woman who is now is wife. The punching took place in February, so the NFL had plenty of time to think of an appropriate punishment… which was a two-game suspension.

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A Process for Human-Algorithm Decision Making

Harvard Business Review

Think for a moment about how an organization makes a decision. First come the facts , the data that will inform the decision. Using these facts, someone formulates alternative courses of action and evaluates them according to agreed-on criteria. The decision maker then chooses the best alternative, and the organization commits itself to action. Advanced analytics can automate parts of this sequence; it offers the prospect of faster, better-informed decisions and substantially lower costs.

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Fixing the College Grad Hiring Process

Harvard Business Review

'Sanjeev Agrawal , Collegefeed cofounder and CEO, explains what recruiters, new graduates, and college career centers need to do differently. Download this podcast.

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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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6 New Workspaces That Are Killing the Corporate Campus

Harvard Business Review

'To hear Samuel Pepys tell it, the 17th Century diarist and Royal Navy clerk was the world’s first mobile worker. As the architect Frank Duffy notes in his book Work and the City , Pepys tirelessly traversed London giving and taking orders and trading gossip, whether at the docks, at court, or in one of city’s fashionable new coffee houses. His greatest annoyance?

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Ken Burns on “The Roosevelts” and American Leadership

Harvard Business Review

'More than nine million viewers tuned in to watch the first episode of Ken Burns’s new film “The Roosevelts” on PBS earlier this week—a sign that even in an era of reality TV and critically-acclaimed cable dramas, people want to understand more about real-life leaders. For Burns, the seven-part, 14-hour series (which is available via streaming video on the PBS website ), is the latest in a career in which he’s trained his lens on leaders from Jefferson and Lincoln to Susan B.

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