Wed.Oct 22, 2014

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5 Reasons Teams Lose Confidence

Let's Grow Leaders

'Great leaders help teams visualize a winning future. They arm their team with the courage and audacity to remove roadblocks and galvanize people toward “impossible” feats. Take John. John had been in tough situations before, but this time the cocktail of challenges was just too much. He needed more time, more resources, better systems, and the uncertainty of the restructure was distracting to everyone, including him.

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The Two Most Important Questions In Leadership

General Leadership

'“Judge a man by his questions, …not by his answers.” Voltaire. 1. Do you know what you’re doing? 2. Do you know where you’re going? These are the two most important questions I ask when evaluating young leaders in my organization, or even when assessing my own leadership ability. I find answering these simple, deep-meaning questions tells me a lot about a leader’s impact and potential.

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10 Rules for Women Who Want to Lead: Melissa Greenwell, The Finish Line

Lead Change Blog

'In presenting to the women at The Indiana Governor’s Conference for Women yesterday in Indianapolis, Melissa Greenwell, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at The Finish Line shared that the end result is that women earn only $0.77 for every dollar men make. Working harder does not help us close the gaps that exist for us.

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Give Me A Reason

Joseph Lalonde

'T hat’s what every member of your team is trying to tell you. Please, give me a reason! Give me a reason to follow you. Give me a reason to believe in the organization. Give me a reason to keep pushing forward. Image via Creative Commons. As a leader, are you giving your team a reason? If not, it’s time to begin giving reasons. The reasons have to be encouraging to your team.

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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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What is Integrity? Beyond “I’ll Know It When I See It”

Leading in Context

'By Linda Fisher Thornton During the recent 2014 NeuroLeadership Summit, Jamil Zaki (an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford) talked about an interesting experiment the Stanford Neuroscience Lab did. The team took a large number of Fortune 100 statements of company values and generated a word cloud from them to see which word would appear most often.

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What You’re Selling isn’t Always What They’re Buying

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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Are You Fit to Lead?

Next Level Blog

'The question posed in the title of this post is one that I’ve heard asked a lot over the years. Usually, it refers to someone having the right mix of temperament, ethics, experience and the like that’s needed to be an effective leader. My guest in the podcast interview that accompanies this post would likely ask the question from a different perspective.

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Holding others accountable

Persuasive Powerhouse

'When I was young and new to a corporate position, my manager Karen gave me an assignment that involved translating a very confusing government regulation into a benefit that would be available for our employees. She was expecting a proposal from me that would detail what needed to be done and then to lead the implementation of the benefit. At first, I struggled to understand the regulation and had difficulty grasping how this could be put to use in our company.

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How Questions are Statements and What to Do About It

Leadership Freak

'Questions are statements for those who listen. Questions, more than statements, explain who you are. Lack of questions is most revealing of all.

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No Compelling Value Proposition? No Business Needed!

Mills Scofield

'Alex Osterwalder & team have created the definitive easy-to/must-uses guide on how to create a compelling value proposition - Value Proposition Design. Yes, definitive. Any business is first and foremost about the customer, even though it seems so many have forgotten that. If you don’t have a compelling value proposition, you don’t need a business model because you won’t have a business.

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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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We All Start at the Beginning – The Question is, “How Far Along are You?”

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Do you know what to do when you show up to work? This is not a small point. Have you every watched the youngest youth team play soccer? I’m talking sbout really young? About the only comparison to actual soccer is that they play on a field, with nets… I’ve heard it called “mob ball.” […].

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Lead Like it Matters… Because it Does, part 3 of 4

Strategy Driven

'We asked Roxi Hewertson about the 8 overarching leadership insights that kick off her new book Lead Like it Matters…Because it Does hitting the stores in just a few weeks. She agreed to share them with us as a four-part series. This is Part 3 of 4. Insight #5: Leading is All About Relationships. Let’s get to the heart of the matter. If no one is following you, you aren’t leading.

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Rod Pyle: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Rod Pyle is author of multiple best-selling books on space exploration and innovation for major publishers including Smithsonian, McGraw-Hill, HarperCollins, Prometheus/Random House, Sterling and Carlton. His most recent books are Innovation the NASA Way: Harnessing the Power of Your Organization for Breakthrough Success for McGraw Hill (March 2014), which the Library Journal called “A gripping […].

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How Should You Ask for Feedback After a Speech?

David A Fields

'A question I was asked: When you are following up after a speech, is there any specific wording you use to elicit feedback or do you simply say, ‘What did you think of the speech?’ or ‘What resonated with you?’ What would your suggestion be to this consultant? How do you ask for feedback after you give a speech? Post your suggestion by using the ‘Leave a Comment’ box below.

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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 Performance Characteristics of a Great Team Member

Ron Edmondson

'I love team dynamics and organizational structures. I have written many times about what makes a healthy team, my expectations of team members, and elements to build health into your team. I previously wrote 7 Traits of a Great Team Member. But, how does a great team member perform on a team? I’m not sure I’ve talked specifically about the performance characteristics I believe make a great team member.

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Successful Innovators Don’t Care About Innovating

Harvard Business Review

'Successful innovators care about solving interesting and important problems — innovation is merely a byproduct. If this distinction seems like hair-splitting, it isn’t. The two focuses create vastly different realities. Focusing on innovating — as a worthy goal unto itself — tends to be born from self-centered motives: We need to protect ourselves from competitive forces.

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New Mom Motivations – Increase Employee Happiness

ExactHire - Leadership

I have a new daughter, and she is amazing! I love having a baby in the house again. My two sons are six and eight, full of energy, and involved in everything. But having an infant in the house has reminded me to slow down and enjoy life a little bit more. Although my husband and I are often sleep deprived, we’ve learned to appreciate the quiet times and enjoy the first smiles, snuggles, pretty dresses, and bows.

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The Sectors Where the Internet of Things Really Matters

Harvard Business Review

'The Internet of Things is emerging as the third wave in the development of the internet. While the fixed internet that grew up in the 1990s connected 1 billion users via PCs, and the mobile internet of the 2000s connected 2 billion users via smartphones (on its way to 6 billion), the IoT is expected to connect 28 billion “things” to the internet by 2020, ranging from wearable devices such as smartwatches to automobiles, appliances, and industrial equipment.

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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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When It Comes to Data, Skepticism Matters

Harvard Business Review

'Managers should rarely take an important analysis at face value. They should almost always dig into the data and develop a deeper understanding of the hidden insights that lie within. Sometimes there are real gems awaiting discovery. Other times the data contain some truly snarky beasts, and failing to spot them soon enough presages real danger. Consider a (hypothetical) company that is trying to drive traffic — especially mobile traffic — to its website.

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Ignore Emotional Intelligence at Your Own Risk

Harvard Business Review

'Call it Grant vs. Goleman. Two academic heavyweights face off on a topic that every student of leadership and HR cares — or at least hears — a lot about: emotional intelligence. Wharton professor Adam Grant kicks it off with a LinkedIn blog post, “ Emotional Intelligence Is Overrated ,” arguing that “it’s a mistake to base hiring or promotion decisions on it” and that “even in emotionally demanding work, when it comes to job performance, cognitive ability still proves more consequen

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Cable Providers Win Even in an a La Carte World

Harvard Business Review

'When HBO and CBS announced that they’re going to go over the top (OTT) , offering their programming to internet users who don’t have cable subscriptions, the news was greeted in some quarters as the beginning of the end of cable TV. Thomas Hazlett, a George Mason University economist and author who has been studying the cable business for three decades, tends to scoff at such predictions.

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Counterfeiting as a Form of Free Advertising

Harvard Business Review

'In a study of a 1995 surge in counterfeiting in the Chinese shoe market, Yi Qian of the University of British Columbia found that the entry of fakes had the effect of increasing sales of high-end authentic shoes by 63%. The arrival of counterfeits on the market affirmed the value of the brands in consumers’ minds and in many cases introduced the brands to new customers.

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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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Design a Workspace that Gives Extroverts Privacy, Too

Harvard Business Review

'Some of the most unlikely people have confessed to being introverts lately. One recent acquaintance–while chatting amiably during a pre-event networking session– leaned over to quietly tell me that she is actually an introvert. She felt she had to learn more extroverted behaviors to succeed in her career. And she’s not the only one. It seems like everyone is talking about where they are on the introversion spectrum these days, and for good reason.