Wed.Nov 09, 2016

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How to Structure Your Day for More Success

Lead Change Blog

We all want to have a successful day. Not only one day but as many successful days as possible. We every minute of our lives to count and bring us one step closer to achieve our dreams. When we lead others, they are looking to us to set the tone. But to achieve success, we need to invest in self-discipline and create a structure that leads us towards it.

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How Using a PDF Editor Saves Your Business Money

Women on Business

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Is Spam An Ethical Red Flag?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Consumers expect companies to respect boundaries. That allows them to live happy and meaningful lives without intrusion from companies that want them to "buy right now.".

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Are Your Employees Satisfied?

Joseph Lalonde

E mployee dissatisfaction is a major factor in leaving a job. Employees don’t want to work for a place they don’t enjoy. Unfortunately, we’re not doing a good job of surveying the workplace environment to see how employees are feeling. Because of this, we see large numbers of employees come and go. That’s not good for business.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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How to Capture the Opportunity in Awkward Silence

Leadership Freak

The need for quick answers is the path to shallow solutions. The best thing to hear after asking penetrating questions is silence, especially your own. Courageous leaders dare to ask awkward questions.

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One Thing Super Successful People Don’t Do!

Marshall Goldsmith

Super successful people do not “coast” on their success. Over the years, I’ve worked with hundreds and hundreds of very successful people, and I’ve found they have one thing in common. They always keep challenging themselves. They always keep trying to be better. I have a tendency to want to coast. If I’m good at something, my default is to keep doing it!

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How to Tell If You Are in the Wrong Job

Marshall Goldsmith

Every once in a while, you have a moment of clarity, a flash of insight into what you really want, who you really want to be, how you really want to live your life. Can you recall a few of these glimpses? I’ve had three such flashes of “temporary sanity” in my life. The first was years and years ago. I broke my neck surfing. I thought I would never walk again.

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4 Failure Points that Can Undermine Your Business – Failure Point 4: Don’t Close Your Ears to Experts

Strategy Driven

When I launched my second business, a publishing company called Sigma Communications, I was filled with passion but knew next to nothing about publishing a magazine. Without proven competence, I desperately needed guidance. Sure enough, I came to learn that the Chairman Emeritus of Time Warner, Dick Munro, was in the neighboring office. I could not imagine a better advisor for our startup publication and decided to introduce myself.

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Why You Need a Personal Superhero!

Marshall Goldsmith

My greatest hero is Buddha. He is my personal superhero. Like all of my other wonderful heroes, Frances Hesselbein, Peter Drucker, Alan Mulally, and Dr. Paul Hersey, Buddha was a generous teacher. The difference between the Buddha and my other heroes is that although I never met him, his teachings transcend space and time to me today and he illuminates my life thousands of years after his.

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A Life Principle My Daddy Taught Me

Ron Edmondson

You May Need This One Today My father was probably the most bottom line guy I know. One of his most quotable lines was “ The main thing is don’t get excited. ” If anyone was ever tempted to stress about an issue he would interject this often repeated line. And, there have been many times I have needed to remember those words. There’s another phrase he used often, however, which may be even more poignant for our day.

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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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Marshall Goldsmith 15 Coaches Winners + Much More!

Marshall Goldsmith

Dear Friends, Greetings from Dallas to Riyadh! A few months ago I came up with the idea of mentoring 15 people at no charge. My idea was to pick 15 people to teach everything that I know. In return, these 15 would do the same thing for 15 others, for free. I called the project 15 Coaches. I was inspired to do this by the many wonderful teachers and leaders who have so generously helped me – without ever asking for anything in return.

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Secular Sermon

Steve Farber

[ Today’s guest post is from my friend and colleague Richard Corder Richard is a passionate advocate for patient safety and a high-level coach and consultant in the healthcare industry. He also happens to be a Certified Facilitator of The Extreme Leadership Workshop. —SF ]. Extreme Leadership by Richard Corder. I’d like to share some thoughts and stories that embody leadership for me.

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Six Questions To Ask As A Superboss

Eric Jacobson

From Sydney Finkelstein 's book, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent , comes these great questions you should routinely ask yourself as a leader: Have you answered the "why do we exist" question for your team? Could all of your team members share this answer with you right now? Do you have people on your team who have followed non-traditional paths to their jobs, or do you find yourself attracted to cookie-cutter backgrounds?

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Secular Sermon

Steve Farber

[ Today’s guest post is from my friend and colleague Richard Corder Richard is a passionate advocate for patient safety and a high-level coach and consultant in the healthcare industry. He also happens to be a Certified Facilitator of The Extreme Leadership Workshop. —SF ]. Extreme Leadership by Richard Corder. I’d like to share some thoughts and stories that embody leadership for me.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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What Artificial Intelligence Can and Can’t Do Right Now

Harvard Business Review

Many executives ask me what artificial intelligence can do. They want to know how it will disrupt their industry and how they can use it to reinvent their own companies. But lately the media has sometimes painted an unrealistic picture of the powers of AI. (Perhaps soon it will take over the world!) AI is already transforming web search, advertising, e-commerce, finance, logistics, media, and more.

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How To Be A Synergist To Lead Your Team To Predictable Success

Eric Jacobson

Why do so many teams and groups fail to perform --achieving compromise at best and gridlock at worst? According to best-selling author Les McKeown , the problem lays in conflicting personality types: the Visionary with big ideas and little execution. the Processor who insists on putting every detail through a system, slowing things. down the Operator who just wants to end the meeting and get back to the "real work.

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How Leaders Can Focus on the Big Picture

Harvard Business Review

Every leader knows that they shouldn’t micromanage — even if some of us still do. But while we understand the downsides of micromanaging and taken action to avoid it, we still haven’t sufficiently embraced the upsides of not micromanaging. The main upside is that leaders have more time to spend on what we call macromanagement. Although there are different definitions of this term floating around, when I talk with executives, I use it to mean managing the big issues rather than

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The Case for Radical Kindness

Next Level Blog

As I write this, it’s 6:30 AM on November 9, 2016, and, I think it’s fair to say, hundreds of millions of people around the world are asking themselves, “What next?” Millions are asking that question with excited anticipation and millions more with overwhelming anxiety. Whether you’re on one end of the spectrum or the other, somewhere in between or haven’t figured out yet where you are, it feels pretty safe to conclude that the election of Donald Trump as Pre

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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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4 Steps to Sustaining Improvement in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

No one wants to toil away at a health care improvement effort only to see that progress disappear as systems and processes revert to the old way of doing things. Leading health care organizations recognize that improving care isn’t enough; having a systematic approach to sustaining improvement is equally important. To learn how to build systems that sustain improvement, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement studied health care organizations that were able to achieve standout results and

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Our Reaction

CEO Blog

Most things that happen - positive or negative happen because of our reactions. It is not what happens - it is our reaction to it that is important. I do not do politics. The Trump victory will cause massive reactions in the stock market, housing prices, oil prices, gold prices, currency etc. There will be great uncertainty while people try to figure out what is going to happen.

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A Tough Conversation About Trump With Our 6-Year-Old

leaderCommunicator

"How are we going to tell Avi that Trump won,?" Steve said to me this morning.

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Our Reaction

CEO Blog

Most things that happen - positive or negative happen because of our reactions. It is not what happens - it is our reaction to it that is important. I do not do politics. The Trump victory will cause massive reactions in the stock market, housing prices, oil prices, gold prices, currency etc. There will be great uncertainty while people try to figure out what is going to happen.

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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 Pollsters Were Completely and Utterly Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Traditional political polling in America has been living on borrowed time, and the divergence of the actual votes in Tuesday’s election from what was expected in the polls may signal that its time may be up. The fact that the polls apparently missed the preferences of a large portion of the American electorate indicates a larger, more systematic issue, and one that’s unlikely to be fixed any time soon.

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Why Mexico’s Economy Doesn’t Depend on the Next U.S. President

Harvard Business Review

The Mexican peso initially fell 13% in trading after Republican Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency in a surprise result over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. It was the biggest drop for the currency since an economic crisis in 1994. President-elect Trump has threatened to rip up and renegotiate Mexico’s most important free-trade agreement: NAFTA.

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Blindsided by Trump’s Victory? Behavioral Science Explains

Harvard Business Review

Vincent Tsui for HBR. When Leslie John , an associate professor at Harvard Business School, arrived at work on the morning of the U.S. presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, she was worried. John is an expert in behavioral decision research and studies the various innate flaws and biases that impede human reasoning. As a supporter of Hillary Clinton, she wondered whether the same cognitive traps that she studies in a laboratory could be leading to overconfidence about th

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Trump Is About to Test Our Theory of When Leaders Actually Matter

Harvard Business Review

I will not pretend that this is an easy piece for me to write. I was absolutely certain that Hillary Clinton would not just win but win handily, and equally certain that Donald Trump, were he to be elected, would be a disaster as president, both because I disagreed with his policies and because I felt that his combination of erratic decision making and ignorance about the basics of government spelled nearly certain catastrophe.

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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.