Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 12, 2013
'Results lag in a key area. You energize the team to fix it. Results improve. Fantastic. Now other results are plummeting. Beware of unintended consequences. Improve customer service, reduce efficiency Improve efficiency, damage morale Improve morale, increase costs Results don’t improve in vacuums. Unintended consequences lurk around every corner. 4 Ways to Avoid [.
Michael Lee Stallard
JUNE 12, 2013
'This post begins our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.” The series highlights attitudes and behaviors that help you connect with others. Although the attitudes and behaviors focus on application in the workplace, you will see that they also apply to your relationships at home and in the community. #1 Develop the Courage to Connect – It requires courage to make the effort to connect because not everyone will reciprocate.
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Lead Change Blog
JUNE 12, 2013
'Posted in Meet LeadChange Each month in our newsletter, we feature an interview with one of our Instigators. The interview for May was with Chery Gegelman, president of Giana Consulting LLC. Chery is a speaker, author, consultant, and first-time expat. Get in touch with her at www.consultgiana.com. What is your background in leadership? I am an ordinary person that has [.].
Persuasive Powerhouse
JUNE 12, 2013
' . I’m a pushover for flowers, filling the house with plenty of them as long as the things we’ve planted around our yard keep blooming. My daughter knows this and gave me a lovely potted calla lily for Mother’s Day. It was something to plant outdoors eventually, but meanwhile, I wanted to enjoy it indoors for a while. I gave this lovely plant some water and parked it on the dining room table, happy as I caught sight of the lush foliage and the lovely deep purple flowers every
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Leading in Context
JUNE 12, 2013
'By Linda Fisher Thornton What are the benefits of working for an ethical leader? Here are ten I came up with to get you started: A low stress workday.
Women on Business
JUNE 12, 2013
'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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Leadership Freak
JUNE 12, 2013
'I married my high school sweetheart. I remember leaning over the back of a green rocking chair, in 1969, and kissing her upside down. We were 13. It was my first stolen kiss. I remember learning to ride a bike, drive a car, and the first time, at sixteen, I gave a public presentation.
Kevin Eikenberry
JUNE 12, 2013
'I’ve been blogging for over nine years, so I have written a lot of posts about leadership, learning, and a variety of related personal and professional development topics. I’ve recently decided to occasionally go back to some old posts to find inspiration for new posts (and to reflect on my growth as a leader, learner [.].
Engaging Leader
JUNE 12, 2013
'Imagine you’ve been hired to write something that will engage people’s attention about a particular topic, such as trains. You can write anything you want, but to be successful, you need to win and hold the focus of as many people as possible. So you make the following choices: Genre: Will you write a poem […]. The post Story Pyramid of Gamification Elements appeared first on Engaging Leader.
CEO Blog
JUNE 12, 2013
'I am spending the day in NYC at World Innovation Forum. I am a "blogger" so get to sit in the press gallery. At the same time, there is high pressure to be insightful in Tweets (#wif2013) and Blogs. And there will be lots of blog posts today. I spend some of my time on short term issues and some on longer term. I consider going to a seminar day like today as a "long term" use of time.
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Jason Womack
JUNE 12, 2013
'Rode my bike through, up and down the mountains of Colorado yesterday. It was day 3 (of 7) of my 520+ mile tour. Here''s where I sat at the end of the ride. I wrote up a couple of observations about the day.you can read about them here (as well as my focus on today''s ride).
CEO Blog
JUNE 12, 2013
'At World Innovation Forum, Harvard''s Rebecca Henderson spoke about sustainable business. She used one of my favorite phrases - "Change is Opportunity" and she did emphasize that change is happening. She recognized that businesses need business cases in order to fully embrace environment and sustainability. She laid out 4 plausible cases: 1 - Save Money.
LDRLB
JUNE 12, 2013
'[Editor''s Note: This is a guest post from Eric Lowitt. Eric is the author of The Collaboration Economy: How to Meet Business, Social, and Environmental Needs and Gain Competitive Advantage.]. Today, companies that will last understand that business is no longer about money-grabbing at any cost. Our economy is in the middle of an undeniable shift, and the corporations that will succeed need leaders who understand the necessity of collaboration.
Mike Cardus
JUNE 12, 2013
'Competitive demands require quicker, more effective and innovative problem solving. Problem solvers are required to quickly provide solutions to increasingly complex problems, develop and design new and innovative products and processes – all while reducing research and development time and costs. Hire Mike of Create-Learning to Think Differently & Enable Innovation within your company and team. 1.716.629.3678.
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Deep Imprints
JUNE 12, 2013
'“If only…” “Someday…” There is a part of me that is always making excuses. I’m not who I was created to be because…”I’m too fat”; “I have bills”; “I’m not detailed enough” or when all else fails, “maybe another day.” The truth is that God is not surprised by our circumstances.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 12, 2013
'Mind Code: How the Language We Use Influences the Way We Think Charles E. Bailey GIST Publishing (2013) How to develop a practical understanding of the relationships between and among language, the human brain, behavior, and nature The subtitle suggests that “the language we use influences the way we think.” It can also be true […].
Management Excellence
JUNE 12, 2013
'From long experience and ample client CEO and Board input, the typical state of a management team looks less like a team and more like a group of functional experts who occasionally gather to talk uncomfortably (and shallowly) about the hard issues confronting their organization. The behaviors and integration you might anticipate from a “team” of smart people are often absent from the equation.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 12, 2013
'Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Wendell Cox for NewGeography.com, a joint venture of Joel Kotkin and Praxis Strategy Group. To read the complete article, check out others, and subscribe, please click here. * * * The United States labor market has been undergoing a substantial shift toward small-scale entrepreneurship. The […].
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Ron Edmondson
JUNE 12, 2013
'I was talking to a young pastor recently. He’s been called to a church in steep decline and asked to salvage and, hopefully, even grow the church again. It’s hard work changing a church. (I know this firsthand.) He knew immediately he would have to do some things differently to achieve different results. (You understand that…don’t you?
First Friday Book Synopsis
JUNE 12, 2013
'Lewis Schiff is the executive director of Inc. Business Owners Council, a membership organization for Inc. Magazine’s top entrepreneurs and owners of closely-held family businesses and maintains a blog about behavioral entrepreneurship on Inc.com. His new book, Business Brilliant: Surprising Lessons from the Greatest Self-Made Business Icons, which focuses on the wealth-creating behaviors and attitudes […].
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 12, 2013
'People in every age think they''re living in a time of transition (I''m sure Adam turned to Eve and said, "Darling, I think we''re living in a time of transition"), but some ages really do usher in broad and deep change. Right now in American workplaces, I believe we''re experiencing a transition with regard to well-being. An increasing number of employers and employees alike are acknowledging that the current model of success isn''t working, and is in fact leading to burnout, stress, decreased
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 12, 2013
'Another women''s conference finds another predominantly female group of HR Directors seeking to improve the gender balance in their firms. In reality, women are working far too hard at an issue actually beyond their power to solve. Corporate leaders must recognize that additional women-dominated efforts are not the way to get companies to take the gender issue seriously.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 12, 2013
'Her confession was blurted out in the midst of our first conversation about the new digital marketing strategy which we would eventually advise them on: "You know, I don''t think I believe in segmentation anymore." She said it fast and softly, almost in hope that the sounds around us would make it inaudible. But we did hear it, and responded, "Well, we don''t either.".
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 12, 2013
'If your business is relatively small, keeps a low profile, and isn''t involved in financial services or national defense, you might assume that data security isn''t a big issue for you. Why would someone in the presumably limited pool of hackers take the time to target your company? How would they even know about it? And if by some strange chance a hacker did get in, so what?
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 12, 2013
'"A properly integrated business model forms the essence of a company''s competitive advantage," my colleague Mark Johnson advises. That quote ran through my head as I watched a young man in a track suit prance around my table twirling a 10-foot noodle. I was in one of the Shanghai locations of a chain of hot pot restaurants called Hai Di Lao. If anything deserves to be commoditized, it would be a hot pot restaurant.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 12, 2013
'If shareholders think a CEO has done something good to boost profits, they reward the boss with a pay increase amounting to 48.9% (on average) of the perceived contribution to higher profits. But when the CEO is seen as causing a profit decline, there''s a zero effect on his or her pay, Lucian A. Taylor of The Wharton School reports from his study of more than 4,500 chief executives.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 12, 2013
'In the beginning, mobile advertising was all about conversions. Remember QR codes? Vouchers? What got people excited about mobile were the opportunities that didn''t exist at all on desktop — to use location and behavioral cues to speak to the consumer on the path-to-purchase and become part of the in-store experience. It was about converting a potential customer into a buyer, right then and there.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 12, 2013
'We all know no one posts the best jobs. The really juicy positions usually get handed around like a treasured prize within social networks. Maybe you''ll see a notice on LinkedIn, or a posting on your alumni listserv — but probably not. The most exciting jobs have an infinite number of aspirants, so unless you''ve been personally recommended by someone close to the action, it''s difficult to get noticed.
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