Tue.Sep 01, 2015

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Tuesday Time Machine: Confrontation From A Fruit Fly’s Perspective

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 7 Feb 2014. “Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.” Groucho Marx. There are over 5,000 species of fruit fly in the tephritidae family, each with unique properties.

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Bringing a Business Back to Life (and FREE Resources)

Lead Change Blog

Have you ever heard the statistic “9/10 new business fail within the first five years?” Many people have mentioned this or a similar statistic to me, often in reference to restaurants in my hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana, that seemed to open and go out of business every other day. When I heard about how Cheryl Bachelder , CEO of Popeye’s chicken and veteran restaurant industry leader, was able to bring back Popeye’s declining brand—increasing sales by 25% and profits by 40% within 7 years of

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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2015

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in September. 5 Gears : How to Be Present and Productive When There Is Never Enough Time by Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram. Leadership BS : Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer. What You Really Need to Lead : The Power of Thinking and Acting Like an Owner by Robert Steven Kaplan.

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10 Ways to Keep Cool and Composed

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was originally recently published in SmartBlog on Leadership : When a leader blows up, loses their temper, or lets their emotions get the better of them they can quickly develop a reputation as volatile, moody, defensive, or having a lack of leadership presence. Unfortunately, all it takes is one public outburst. When coaching leaders who have received negative 360 degree feedback about composure, I’ll ask them when the last time they lost their cool was.

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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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Why Compassion Is Key To Succeeding At Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

With the arrival of September, many of us are returning to our regular routines now that our children are back in school and the period for taking summer vacation breaks has come to an end. For myself, this September also marks a special milestone in my writing career – specifically, it marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of my first leadership book, “ Leadership Vertigo ”.

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4 Tips for Building a Positive Online Presence

Women on Business

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Why You Should Stop Writing Job Descriptions

Leadership Freak

“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

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119: Goals Gone Wild: The New Performance Management | with Kris Duggan of BetterWorks

Engaging Leader

Research shows no one is happy with annual performance reviews—not executives, not managers, and not individual contributors. Even HR teams responsible for performance management aren’t convinced annual reviews provide value. According to Kris Duggan of BetterWorks, that’s because traditional performance management processes and systems no longer accurately reflect the way we work.

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Anticipate and Adapt to the Social Media Change Curve

leaderCommunicator

When asked what made him such a successful competitor, hockey great Wayne Gretzky famously said, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”. The same lesson holds true for social media. In choosing the most effective tools and platforms for collaboration and dialogue, communicators need to anticipate where their key stakeholders—employees, managers and leaders—are headed, not where they’ve been.

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Improve Leadership Capabilities

Coaching Tip

The ability to lead--to make split-second decisions under "the fog of war" can mean life or death on the battlefield. "FIRST, FAST, FEARLESS: How to Lead a Navy SEAL" offers an insider's view of the intense leadership training every SEAL receives, and how performance under stress underscores every step of the training process. The ability to motivate, inspire trust, and place value on every soldier's life is the backbone of SEALs leadership training.

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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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0618 | Ryan T. Hartwig

LDRLB

Ryan Hartwig is Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies at Asuza Pacific University, where he teaches courses on Group Communication and Leadership. He is co-author of Teams That Thrive. In this interview, we discuss the myth of meaningful work, its leadership implications, and Ryan’s recent TEDx talk on the subject.

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Sitting in Transition

Deep Imprints

I put out a frantic text to my cohort. "I can see my life shrinking. Soon it won't be bigger than my couch." This was a critical moment in my recent transitions. We all reach that point - some of you aren't as dramatic as I was. I knew I was in trouble because I […].

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Maybe hearing about it, reading about it, doesn’t fix it…

First Friday Book Synopsis

“until your people are mocking you, you’ve not repeated your message enough.” Verne Harnish, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits ——————— Maybe hearing about it, reading about it, doesn’t fix it… Recently, I heard someone say “I’ve heard enough about this.” Yes, there are themes that crop up pretty often in business books and other business writings.… Read More Maybe hearing about it, reading about it, doesn’t fix it….

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0618 | Ryan T. Hartwig

LDRLB

Ryan Hartwig is Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies at Asuza Pacific University, where he teaches courses on Group Communication and Leadership. He is co-author of Teams That Thrive. In this interview, we discuss the myth of meaningful work, its leadership implications, and Ryan’s recent TEDx talk on the subject.

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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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7 Lead-Off Mistakes to Avoid as a First Time Manager

Management Excellence

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How Do You Win BIGGER Consulting Projects?

David A Fields

A consultant send me the following LinkedIn message: How do you win $75-150k consulting projects… and are you really doing many of those or are most of your engagements more like mine: around $20-30k? Also, what type of work warrants those high fees? Well, folks, are any of you winning $75k+ projects? If so, how are you winning those vs. smaller projects?

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5 Ways to Incentivize Church Revitalization

Ron Edmondson

We need some sharp people to move from one Kingdom-building opportunity to another Kingdom-building opportunity. We need some sharp church planters to become church revitalizers. I’ve been in some conversations recently concerning the need to get younger leaders interested in church revitalization. The need is huge. The fact is it is “cooler” to be in church planting.

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Why the Future of Social Science Is with Private Companies

Harvard Business Review

Nullius in Verba —take nobody’s word for it—is the Royal Society ’s great motto. Proof, not prestige, should be the true persuader. So when a group of academic research psychologists decided to take it seriously, the entire discipline was shaken by the results. The Reproducibility Project found it could substantively replicate the results of fewer than 40% of 100 high-profile experiments published in peer-reviewed journals.

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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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Case Study: Should This Startup Take VC Money or Try to Turn a Profit?

Harvard Business Review

Unable to solve their impossible problem, VV and Reza went out for a ride. Miles down the California coast, they parked their bikes under the eucalyptus outside a winery conference center. It wasn’t a random stop. They knew that FundersPlatform, a rival to their start-up, AndFound, was holding a networking event there, and they were curious about what sort of crowd it had drawn.

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Dealing with the Emotional Fallout of Selling Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Steven Moore for HBR. “Congrats on selling your business,” a longtime mentor said the day after I signed the paperwork. “Now get ready for a depression.” That was seven years ago. At the time, I was confused by this remark. I had just made what felt like a pile of money, achieved a long-term goal of building and selling my business, and was about to spend the coming months traveling abroad, one tropical country at a time.

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As Hopelessness Sets In, Grexit May Be Inevitable

Harvard Business Review

When the European Union has finally approved Greece’s €86 billion bailout package, and Greece has used some of the money to repay the European Central Bank, why does uncertainty still dog the country’s future? Why did Alexis Tsipras, who led Greece’s fight against the EU until recently, resign as prime minister, forcing general elections for the third time in 2015?

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What the CEO of the “New” Google Needs to Do Next

Harvard Business Review

HBR STAFF. The Google/Alphabet metamorphosis has catapulted Sundar Pichai into one of the highest profile leadership jobs in Silicon Valley. As the new CEO of Google, he has been handed the keys to one of the world’s most valuable brands , the top website to open to get to other websites , the most popular operating system for smartphones , and the most desirable employer for engineering or business graduates.

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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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How Making Time for Books Made Me Feel Less Busy

Harvard Business Review

Six months ago, I found myself drowning in a flood of easy information. The internet—and all the lovely things on it, things like Wikipedia, Twitter, podcasts, the New Yorker, email, TED Talks, Facebook, Youtube, Buzzfeed occasionally, and yes, even the Harvard Business Review—provide unlimited sources of delight at the touch of a finger.

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