Wed.Aug 03, 2016

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The Flip Side of Fear: What Your Fear Says About You

General Leadership

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How Not To Fund Your Startup Using Credit Cards

Women on Business

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Why Smart People Make Dumb Decisions

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Did you ever find your self in a mess and wonder how you got there? There’s no guarantee your decisions are always going to be good ones. Too much is unpredictable. However, many of us have had the experience of looking back on a situation and thinking “I should have known better. The warning signs […]. The post Why Smart People Make Dumb Decisions appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Tune-In Tonight – 9pm Eastern – SiriusXM Radio Ch125

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Turn your radio dials to SiriusXM Channel 125 tonight at 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific) for the #GeneralLeadership Hour on the David Webb Show! On the first Wednesday of every month, we strive to bring you the opportunity to engage with our team and our guests virtually and on-the-air with the radio program and live Twitter stream.

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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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Moved by Moon Day: Reflections on Motivation and Goal Setting

Lead Change Blog

Every once in a while, the human race achieves something that is truly seminal and ground-breaking. The first moon landing (and moonwalk) in 1969 provided a relevant case in point, and one that we celebrate every year on what is colloquially referred to as Moon Day. This often overlooked celebration, which is celebrated annually on July 20, teaches us about far more than outer space, however, as it also reinforces the ideal that anything can be achieved with planning, determination and a keen se

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Great Leaders Draw Lines In The Sand

Joseph Lalonde

O ne thing I look for in a leader worth following is whether or not they’re willing to draw a line in the sand for the right reasons. To the average person, this may seem odd. Why would someone want someone leading them who does this? For me, the answer is easy. By drawing a line in the sand, this type of leader is telling you what they believe.

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Understanding Your Why, Purpose and Values

CoachStation

Know your ‘why’ Values and gaining an understanding of your key drivers and motivations matter. I know this because people keep telling me. Maybe not in specific values-related language, but certainly when they describe how they feel and what is happening at that time. Knowing your core purpose, why we make certain decisions and the influence of values impacts lives.

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5 Signs Your Culture is FAILING

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Building a positive ethical culture is a long-term process. It involves much more than just company trappings and perks - leaders must make a commitment to people and to creating a positive work space. When things seem to be going well, it's easy to miss signs that the culture may be off track.

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What to Do When Your Boss is a Wuss

Leadership Freak

I invited several top leaders, authors, and bloggers to share their wisdom with Leadership Freak readers. Thanks to Karin Hurt for sharing this insightful post filled with advice on dealing with a wussy boss.

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5 Signs Your Culture is FAILING

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Building a positive ethical culture is a long-term process. It involves much more than just company trappings and perks - leaders must make a commitment to people and to creating a positive work space. When things seem to be going well, it's easy to miss signs that the culture may be off track.

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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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How to Break the Trust Barrier

Next Level Blog

There’s trust and then there’s trust. Sure, you and your team need to trust each other to achieve results over the long run, but you’re likely not working together at supersonic (and I mean that literally) speed to achieve peak performance. JV Venable has led teams that perform at supersonic levels and joins me in this podcast interview to explain how it’s done.

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Jason W. Womack, MEd MA's invitation is awaiting your response

Jason Womack

Jason W. Womack, MEd MA would like to connect on LinkedIn. How would you like to respond? Jason W. Womack, MEd MA WILEY Author. TEDx Speaker. Leadership Coach. Latest book available via Momentum.Works Confirm you know Jason W. You received.

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Featured at Forbes: Tips for your company to excel ethically

ReImagine Work

Forbes, Aug. 3, 2016: “Culture has a significant influence on the decision-making process in any organization. When ethical responsibility becomes part of the culture, companies see huge benefits — a stronger reputation, higher employee retention, more interest from investors, and general trustworthiness. But what can a company do to excel ethically, to best communicate its corporate values to employees so that they act in accordance with its values?

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5 Ways to Bring Your Strategy to Life

leaderCommunicator

You might have the most compelling vision for your organization, but if you can't get it out of your head and get others to see it and believe in it, it might as well not even exist.

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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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Getting to Yes

Coaching Tip

Closing the Deal. "Is that your best and final offer?" the chief sourcing officer asked. Best and Final Offer Strategy . One of the trickiest and most important parts of negotiating is holding the ground you've spent time and effort protecting as your try to bring a deal to a close. Depending on how well you've defended your price, you may or may not have a good deal at this point.

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We Never Wanted a VCR Anyway – What we wanted was always much more than that!

First Friday Book Synopsis

New item: the last VCR has now been made ——————– I think we owned three or four VCRs during its run. I never could figure out how to program it to record a TV show. In other words, we used the VCR (the Video Cassette Recorder) like most people – not as a recorder, but… Read More We Never Wanted a VCR Anyway – What we wanted was always much more than that!

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103 Year-Old’s Message for Consultants Like You

David A Fields

I hope to be old. Someday. Old enough that no one at any age could look at me and call me a whippersnapper. Nobody calls me a whippersnapper now, but they could. When I finally reach those platinum years, what will I know that I wish I had known back when I was running my consulting firm? Fortunately, I’m able to get a glimpse at the answer to that question.

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How to “Zap” Executives Out of Their Comfort Zone

Strategy Driven

In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing business environment, leaders must stay motivated. Motivated leaders consistently seek out new ideas to improve the business and are very aware of what the competition is doing. They enjoy what they do and are willing to take risks. They set the example for others. When you have motivated executives, you have motivated employees.

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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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Effective Listening Do's And Don'ts

Eric Jacobson

Here are some great tips from Michelle Tillis Lederman's book, The 11 Laws of Likability. They are all about: what to do and what not to do to be a leader who's an effective listener : Do : Maintain eye contact Limit your talking Focus on the speaker Ask questions Manage your emotions Listen with your eyes and ears Listen for ideas and opportunities Remain open to the conversation Confirm understanding, paraphrase Give nonverbal messages that you are listening (nod, smile) Ignore distractions Do

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The Power of Vulnerability

Steve Farber

In a previous post, I listed “Vulnerability” as one of 5 Great Leadership Risks. In movies, leaders tend to be shown as super strong and svelte, dressed in an impenetrable and dashing suit with a walk that means business and talk that means taking action at all costs. It’s all about encompassing that “no funny business” demeanor and giving a stone-cold stare in the face of death.

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10 Common Complaints about Leaders

Ron Edmondson

As a result of this blog, I receive emails regularly from staff members of other churches or non-profit organizations. There is usually a question they have about leadership, but along with the question often comes a complaint about their leader. And there are many. I’ve been in a leadership position for near 30 years so I know complaints are common in leadership.

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The 4 Leadership Styles, and How to Identify Yours

Harvard Business Review

We all want to be part of a great success story. To run, start, or play a senior role in a company that wins big or changes the course of its industry. To launch a brand that dazzles customers and dominates its markets. To be the kind of executive or entrepreneur who creates jobs, generates wealth, and builds an organization bursting with energy and creativity.

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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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Work Perks That Help Attract and Retain Employees – Cafe Quill

Chart Your Course

Employee Retention: Benefits that Attract and Retain Employees. In the “old days” of work, an employee could sign on with a company in their early 20s and expect to earn a decent salary for the next 40 years before retiring on a respectable pension. These days, employment isn’t so cut and dried. Salaries, loyalty, and retirement plans range considerably from job to job.

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The Saatchi Ouster Shows Leaders Need to Be Gender Smart, Not Gender Blind

Harvard Business Review

Kevin Roberts, the chair of advertising company Saatchi & Saatchi, probably still doesn’t know what hit him. He announced his resignation today after being put — very publicly — on a leave of absence for being gender blind. Like most executives I work with, he probably was proud of his blindness. We’ve raised a generation of men — and many women — who pride themselves on ignoring gender totally.

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Figuring Out How IT, Analytics, and Operations Should Work Together

Harvard Business Review

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. Is there a “right” way to structure these relationships? Data and analytics represent a blurring of the traditional lines of demarcation between the scope of IT and the responsibilities of operating divisions.

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How Self-Managed Companies Help People Learn on the Job

Harvard Business Review

Self-directed study is transforming the way employees learn — and self-managed organizations are leading the charge. The main way members of these organizations drive their own learning is by experimenting with how they structure roles, relationships, responsibilities, and decision making processes. Nothing is sacred. Of course, if experimentation is your organization’s primary path to learning, you have to brace yourself for unexpected things to happen.

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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.

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Research: Innovation Suffers When Drug Companies Merge

Harvard Business Review

We know that mergers and acquisitions are challenging for the companies involved. But we spend less time thinking about the challenge they pose for antitrust authorities. This regulator has to decide whether to approve a merger based on its predicted outcome for the businesses and society as a whole. Generally, if consumers are likely to be harmed, authorities prefer to block the merger.

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The Two Things Killing Your Ability to Focus

Harvard Business Review

I used to wake up, stumble over to my phone, and immediately get lost in a stream of pointless notifications. This digital haze continued throughout the day, keeping me from accomplishing important tasks. I was distracted, anxious, and ineffective as a leader. I knew I had to change but could not seem to break free from the behaviors that kept me locked into the same cycle.

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Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and the Danger of Comparing Leadership Styles

Harvard Business Review

As leadership spectacles go, the 2016 U.S. presidential election is the equivalent of a Hollywood blockbuster. It features household names in leading roles, a cast of first-class supporting characters, plenty of compelling villainy and intrigue, and what is shaping up to be a cliffhanger of an ending. Every leadership trait, trick, and flaw in the books is on display.