Wed.Dec 17, 2014

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5 Times It’s Better to Say No

Let's Grow Leaders

'It’s almost always easier to say yes than no–in the short run. Yes, it’s okay for you to treat me that way. Yes, I’ll stay late tonight and miss dinner again– after all my wife won’t say no. Yes, it’s okay skip my workout. Yes, your work is fine (even though it could be better.). A close second to expectation violations , the inability to say no is one of the top sources of intrapersonal and interpersonal conflict in organizations.

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Holiday Break – We’ll Be Back on January 5th!

General Leadership

'“ As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It’s that festive time of the year when we pause to spend time with our families and focus on what is important: our relationships. As a result, we turn off the monitors, switch off the laptops, close the books and take off or reading glasses for a short period while we recharge our batteries and sharpen our pencils for the ne

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December 2014 Carnival of HR

Lead Change Blog

'As 2014 comes to a close, do you feel like you are on a Tilt-A-Whirl? The combination of year-end business activities and personal holiday observations can be dizzying. In the midst of the blur of time and activities, I hope you’ll take a moment to enjoy the submissions from this month’s participants in the Carnival of HR. Since I am hosting, and my main business focus is books, this month’s post is mostly about books that have influenced people.

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5 Leadership Lessons: Richard Branson on Leadership

Leading Blog

'The Virgin Way by Richard Branson takes us over very familiar territory. But then maybe that’s the point. While there is not much that is new, Branson has taken sound principles and demonstrated that – in practice – they work. He quotes Mark Twain, “All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them.

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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 Compassionate Objectivity is Important

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 Gifts of Leadership (Will You Give Them This Year?)

Leading in Context

'By Linda Fisher Thornton How do we lead when we want to bring out the best in people? These 12 Gifts of Leadership are on the wish lists of employees around the world. They aren’t expensive. They don’t require dealing with the hustle and bustle of holiday shopping, and one size fits all. Sure, these gifts are harder to give […].

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Setting The Example

Joseph Lalonde

'L eaderships is influence. We must be able to inspire others to action. There are leaders out there who constantly wonder what they can do to garner this action. What must they do to see their teams respond? What must be said to see action? What must be done for results? This Stormtrooper knows how to set the example – Image by JD Hancock. In my experience, there’s one thing that will inspire others to take action.

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How to Avoid the Disaster of Leadership Vertigo

Next Level Blog

'Is there a gap between how you view the impact of your leadership and the way others view or experience it? If there is, then you''re suffering from what leadership expert, speaker and author Tanveer Naseer calls "leadership vertigo." That''s actually the title of a new book that Naseer has co-authored with S. Max Brown. As Tanveer explains it in a recent conversation he had with me, leadership vertigo occurs when your brain tells you one thing and the facts tell you another.

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The Secret

Leadership Freak

'Confusion is common. Confusion is the gift of those who think they know but don’t. Wisdom seeks clarity. Evaluated experience delivers it.

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Developing Visionary Capacity

Coaching Tip

'What enables great corporate leaders to detect signals that their industry, or perhaps the entire world, is about to change ? How are they able to place their companies in a position to capitalize on that change? It boils down to visionary capacity. Leaders who lack it often guide their companies to obsolescence and failure. The rare leaders who cultivate a strong vision have disrupted industries, created new ones, and remade the world.

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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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Have You Developed a Well-Educated Mind? – Insight and Challenge from Susan Wise Bauer

First Friday Book Synopsis

'“Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.” Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind Quoted in The Well-Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer ——————– Every now and then, we should remind ourselves of the basics. Though there are a lot of reasons for reading – to escape, to journey, to be entertained, to be amused… — one […].

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Starting Thought: 5 Items on Every Employee’s Holiday Wish List

leaderCommunicator

'It’s officially the month when we’re all talking about which “hot” items are on everyone’s holiday wish list. Stores and online retailers create wish lists for every type of person you could ever need to shop for: for teens, for sports fans, for the cook in your family, for the outdoor person, etc. This flurry of wish-list making got me thinking about a different category that we don’t hear much about: employees.

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Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail

Chris Brady

'With just about the lowest amount of fanfare possible, my new book Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail was released this month. I have been so busy with my duties at Life Leadership that. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How’s That For F*ing Timing?

David A Fields

'Stuart Armstrong, the CEO of a digital marketing company in New York City, posted a video on YouTube. Not a promotional message, though. Apparently Stu, a successful executive, always contemplated life as a stand-up comic. Evidence being his seven-minute debut at the Gotham Comedy Club, captured for posterity online. Striding the stage, Stu intones that his stand-up routine was the culmination of a comedy class in which he learned the importance of timing.

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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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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon 234

Rapid BI

'“I think we can charge more if we calculate our billable hours in dog years.” Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. see more office humor Tweets by @RapidBI See some of our products to help develop your people and your […].

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How Do I Use the Gradual Approach on Cold Calls?

David A Fields

'A question I was asked: I like your approach of winning a prospect gradually, but how does this apply to cold calling? How do I get the attention of a busy manager who is hardly waiting for my call? What is your answer to this consultant? What has your experience been and what works for you? Post your thoughts on this by using the ‘Leave a Comment’ box below.

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What Happens When All Employees Work When They Feel Like It

Harvard Business Review

'Do you work for a firm where managers think employees really have to work (what is called) “full time”? That forty hours per week (or whatever is considered “full time” in your profession) is really a necessity? Perhaps you are one of those people with that conviction yourself — that in your job it is really not possible to work “part time.” Of course you are wrong: working five out of seven days is really just as arbitrary as six days, or three –

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The Strategic Planning Process

Coaching Tip

'Here is the background regarding the importance of clearly understanding the " intangible identity elements " that consist of the assumptions/beliefs, values/aspirations, vision and guiding principles as it relates to creating a Vision/Mission Statement (along with the supporting business plans that each functional unit will put together based on the leadership developed Vision/Mission Statement). .

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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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Dealing with a Hands-Off Boss

Harvard Business Review

'Having a hands-off manager can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, these bosses give employees considerable initiative and empowerment. On the other hand, they can sometimes be so removed from the action that they’re unable to intervene when needed, making employees feel like they’re left to fend for themselves. A hands-on manager is similarly problematic.

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What to do When You’re Waiting for a Lead Position

Ron Edmondson

'Recently I posted “ The Tension Between Staying in a Learning Position and Jumping into the Lead Position “ The point was there is a fine line between when a person is ready to be in a senior leadership role and needs to remain in a learning position. The post was to help discern that proper time to make the transition. I know some 20-something year old youth pastors who will some day be senior pastors, for example.

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What Economists Don’t Get About Uber’s Surge Pricing

Harvard Business Review

'During Sunday’s hostage crisis in Sydney, Australia, Uber, the car service, raised its prices. The company’s algorithm does this automatically when demand increases, during, for instance, a rainstorm or on a busy night like New Year’s Eve. It’s taken heat for this practice before. But since this was a slightly different set of circumstances – a mentally unstable man had taken hostages in a cafe – surge pricing created an almost-immediate brouhaha that was jus

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What Is GRIT And Why Is It Essential To Your Success?

Strategy Driven

'Today, ‘grit’ is a hot topic in leadership, education, performance, and personal success. So far, the conversation has focused on appreciating and understanding basic grit, or what I call ‘grit 1.0.’ Grit 1.0 is about degree or quantity of perseverance or persistence, as in “How persistent are you?”, or “How much grit does she have?”.

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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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4 Reasons to Kill the Office Holiday Party—and One Reason to Save It

Harvard Business Review

'Early in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol , the first spirit to visit Scrooge summons up a cheerful scene from his youth: old Fezziwig’s Ball. When the book was published to great acclaim in 1843, bosses on both sides of the Atlantic were so moved by Fezziwig’s merry example, and Marley’s frightening one, that they promptly joined Scrooge in handing out turkeys and granting days off.

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How Hard Do Company Founders Really Work?

Harvard Business Review

'I’m a passable golfer. I enjoy the sport. I have clients who like to play golf. And I often get asked to hit the links. Yet I really have a hard time tearing myself away from the office to play. That may be because I am a founding CEO. The operative word in that sentence is “founding” or in my case “co-founding.” My partner David and I developed the idea for our company 10 years ago, and I took over as CEO several years ago.

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

'How much does your company need to invest in innovation? It seems like a simple enough question, but answering it with a degree of rigor often highlights a gap that’s bigger than you think between your future financial targets and your current investments in growth. Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities.

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The Sony Hack Shows How Lawless the Internet Really Is

Harvard Business Review

'If Walt Disney’s Guardians of the Galaxy proved Hollywood’s biggest surprise hit this year, then credit Sony’s “ Guardians of Peace ” with producing Tinseltown’s biggest surprise hack. It’s like something out of a movie: larger-than-life characters, A-list stars, mystery, farce, international intrigue, revenge, and computer-generated special effects designed to captivate a worldwide audience.

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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.