Fri.Aug 26, 2016

article thumbnail

Lead at the Speed of Trust

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior.”. ― Stephen M.R. Covey , How fast does a $30B company move, sell, grow and survive? How fast does a start-up develop their foothold in the business environment?

Covey 215
article thumbnail

To Leverage Your Strengths and Kick Ass, Ask Yourself These 3 Things

Lead Change Blog

Focus on your strengths—not weaknesses! How many times have you heard that line? I can’t be the first to say it to you. So, why don’t you do it? Is it because it sounds like mom telling you to wear sunscreen or dad yelling to put on your seat belt? Well, mom and dad were right about that and I am right about focusing on your strengths. But just accepting that as truth doesn’t make you focus on those strengths.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Organizations Die From Within

Leadership Freak

An organization’s deadliest enemies are internal. How we treat each other while we face external challenges determines our ability to win. Internal environments are more important than external issues.

article thumbnail

Merging Community Services and Business for Your Dream Career

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].

Career 146
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Make Seasonal Decisions

Joseph Lalonde

L iving in Michigan, we can get the full brunt of each season. Winters can be brutally cold. Summer can be brutally hot and humid. Fall sees extreme color change. And in Spring we see great new growth. Each season is unique. Each season also requires unique clothing, driving abilities, etc… Seasonal Choices. As the seasons change, we begin to change the clothes we wear.

Influence 121
article thumbnail

What should we do First to help the homeless? Let’s consider Housing FIRST – (mark your calendar, September 19)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Housing First approaches are based on the concept that a homeless individual or household’s first and primary need is to obtain stable housing, and that other issues that may affect the household can and should be addressed once housing is obtained. From the Wikipedia article ——————– A great question, about almost any problem that we… Read More What should we do First to help the homeless?

Article 98

More Trending

article thumbnail

Suzanne Bates on becoming “all the leader you can be”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Before launching Bates Communications and becoming a recognized thought leader in communicative leadership, Suzanne Bates had a successful career in television news, as an anchor and reporter in major markets. “20 years in broadcasting taught her how to be prepared… to show up ready for the game. This helped her to launch her business and… Read More Suzanne Bates on becoming “all the leader you can be”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris.

Report 76
article thumbnail

Overcoming Catastrophe

Strategy Driven

Your department just made a catastrophic blunder that cost your company money and reputational equity. How do you recover? By the time two of my direct reports walked into my office one evening everyone else had gone home, which was just what the pair had in mind. The news they carried was so bad, they didn’t want anyone to witness my reaction. And the reaction they expected was so bad they had spent hours in one of the manager’s office too afraid to break the news to me.

article thumbnail

Empathy Training May Not Be Genuine

First Friday Book Synopsis

We have presented several books over the years that have featured empathy as an important skill for managers to exhibit. Obviously, the Kouzes and Posner best-seller, Encouraging the Heart (Jossey-Bass, 2003), includes many different references to empathy as a management tool in recognizing and reinforcing employee behavior. I was interested in a recent syndicated article… Read More Empathy Training May Not Be Genuine.

article thumbnail

How To Attract, Recruit And Retain Star Talent

Eric Jacobson

Hiring Greatness is the book by David E. Perry and Mark J. Haluska , who combined have closed more than 1,800 search projects. In their book, the authors share their guide for how to attract, recruit and retain star executives. They advise that it is far more important that a leadership candidate possess specific intangible core attributes, than just decades of industry experience.

How To 50
article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Miller’s Powerhouse Debuts at # 2

First Friday Book Synopsis

In the Wall Street Journal‘s best-selling business book list last weekend (8/21-8/22), a new blockbuster by James Andrew Miller debuted at # 2. Miller, who you remember wrote Those Guys Have All The Fun, about ESPN, and Live From New York, about Saturday Night Live, this time tackles the Creative Artists Agency (CAA). The book… Read More Miller’s Powerhouse Debuts at # 2.

article thumbnail

How To Listen And Learn As A Leader

Eric Jacobson

In John Baldoni's book , The Leader's Guide to Speaking with Presence , he provides these tips for listening as a leader and learning as a leader: When Listening As A Leader : Look at people when they are speaking to you. Make eye contact. Ask open-ended questions, such as "Tell me about." or "Could you explain this?" Consider the "what if" question: "What if we looked at the situation like this?

article thumbnail

Peace Often Comes Through Obedience

Ron Edmondson

Are you struggling with a “word from God”? Do you feel there is something you need to do, but you aren’t quite certain about it yet? Do you wish you had greater “peace” before you struck out to follow a dream – a dream you feel is God-given? Are you sensing a desire to plant a church, revitalize a church, launch a new ministry effort, or surrender to vocational ministry?

article thumbnail

What to Do When People Don’t Support Your Next Career Move

Harvard Business Review

You’ve weighed the pros and cons and carefully assessed the impact. After in-depth consideration, you’ve decided to accept that new job, or launch your own business, or take time off to be with your children. You know it’s the right choice — but your boss, friends, and colleagues aren’t convinced. What should you do when people you respect disagree with your decisions?

Career 10
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

A WUP Upside The Head: Part 1.2

Steve Farber

Chapter 3. Closer, dealmaker, phone demon, top producer, Cameron Summerfield is a sales god. He came to work at ILGI fresh out of state college where he’d graduated unceremoniously with a liberal arts degree. Armed with a diploma on the wall and the money bug up his butt, he finagled an interview at the exploding mortgage company and, of course, nailed it.

article thumbnail

How to Know Whether You’re Giving Your Team Needless Work

Harvard Business Review

Is your work time taken up by mandatory tasks that have no discernable value? (Consider the iconic “TPS report,” from the cult film Office Space , an ostensibly useless administrative report whose form is far more important to the boss than its content.) Or does your boss ask you to do things that fall outside of the bounds of professional expectations for your role?

Team 9
article thumbnail

Recognizing the Role of Emotional Labor in the On-Demand Economy

Harvard Business Review

If you’ve taken an Uber recently, perhaps you’ve noticed a sign in the car: “Please rate me five stars.” It might have pointed to the perks (gum, water, chargers) that the driver offered you and thanked you politely for your business. Signs like these might seem innocuous, but they point to a growing problem with businesses in the on-demand economy of app-based services like Uber, Airbnb, and TaskRabbit.

article thumbnail

The Forecasting Sweet Spot Between Micro and Macro

Harvard Business Review

Forecasting is the third rail of business. Few companies are really good at it, and there can be big penalties for being wrong. In fact, a survey of more than 500 senior executives showed that only 1% of companies hit their financial forecast over three years, and only one out of five are within 5%. Overall, companies were off by 13%, which impacted shareholder value by 6%.

GDP 8
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

What ‘The Art of the Deal’ Reveals About Leadership Fairy Tales

Harvard Business Review

2016 might be the year we recognized the impact of an often-derided literary genre: leadership self-help. It dawned on me on a recent visit to the University of Pennsylvania’s bookstore, where an alumnus’s book rested between newer releases on the prime real estate of the best-seller table: Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal. The author — or, more precisely, the protagonist — stared proudly from the cover. “Trump makes one believe for a moment in the American