Wed.Jun 24, 2015

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What I Learned From Marshall Goldsmith: A Simple and Effective Technique

Let's Grow Leaders

When Marshall Goldsmith sent me his new book, Triggers, I read it cover to cover on my flight to Vegas. Great read. But what makes a good book a great book is when it leads you to action. This one did. The Power of Daily Questions. It’s so simple. Goldsmith recommends asking yourself a few “easy” questions each day. Of course, I say easy because they should be straightforward.

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Top Gun Leadership: Increased Performance through Candid Debriefings

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ Gutsiest move I ever saw, Mav!” Hollywood. Remember the scene in “Top Gun” when Charlie is reviewing previous dogfights and is debriefing Maverick’s latest engagement with the bogies? Charlie says, “The F-14 is defensive, he has a chance to bug out right here…better to retire and save your aircraft than push a bad position….

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The Unexpected Realities of Being an Entrepreneur

Lead Change Blog

How interesting is it to start your own business? Many people say they wish to own their own businesses. Sometimes people tell me, “You must be so lucky,” or “it must be a relief to be out of the rat race.” The truth is that none of these statements are true. As for the “rat race,” while entrepreneurship is very different, it’s a competition like no other.

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Why A Leader Must Lead Himself First

Joseph Lalonde

C ulture tells us that one does not need to lead himself before he can lead others. Image by Zach Dischner. There’s a lot of reasons behind this belief. People believe leaders don’t have to lead themselves because: People can be better at getting others to do things they don’t want to do. As long as others are being moved forward, it doesn’t matter where the leader stands.

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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 Successful Female Entrepreneurs Know

Women on Business

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Finding Meaning Requires Growth

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton When Nicolae Tanase at ExcellenceReporter.com asked me to submit an entry for his Meaning of Life project, I hesitated. It was a question I had often thought about. But it was a big one, and I wasn't sure I was ready to tackle it publicly. After thinking it over, I decided that the question was related to my work in human development and leadership, and that a clear answer could be valuable to readers.

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Leadership Development Investments

Coaching Tip

A new U.S. study of nearly 400 organizations by Lee Hecht Harrison has identified that 54% of employers plan to increase investments in leadership development in 2015. Only 5% of employers plan to decrease investments, and a further 41% reported leadership development investments will stay the same. “Not surprisingly, our same study also identified developing leaders as one of the top talent management priorities in 2015,” noted Kristen Leverone, Senior Vice President for Lee Hecht Harrison’s Gl

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Starting Thought: Time for Summer Vacation, Not for Email

leaderCommunicator

The weather is warming up, my children are on summer break, and like many of you, I’m seizing this opportunity to go on vacation. However, unlike many people – I’ll be disconnecting from work email during that time. By now you may be familiar with my thoughts on checking email during vacation and even my. Email-Free Vacation Pledge. But have you made the commitment to yourself yet?

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Don’t Forget the Fundamentals; Don’t Neglect Them – Even as We seek New Insights and Strategies

First Friday Book Synopsis

There’s something about fundamentals that basketball players love. Phil Jackson — Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success You can’t skip fundamentals if you want to be the best. The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether it’s proper technique, work ethic, or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out… You have to monitor […].

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The 10 Attributes of a Successful Consultant

David A Fields

Text and images are © 2015 David A. Fields, all rights reserved.

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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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Emmanuel Gobillot: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

“There must be a better way.” That’s the motto Emmanuel Gobillot has adopted toward everything he does. As one of the world’s most popular speakers, consultants, and thought-leaders, he believes there is a better way to lead, relate to customers, and engage an organisation’s creativity, passion, and drive. The author of three bestselling books: The […].

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Best Leadership Quotes From The Book, Just Listen

Eric Jacobson

Here are some terrific quotes from Mark Goulston's book, Just Listen : Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. -- Paul Hawken Life is mostly a matter of perception and more often misperception. -- Dave Logan Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their next saying, "Make me feel important." -- Mary Kay Ash Do the unexpected.

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Why Do We Listen to Each Other?

Strategy Driven

What if it were true that we only understand a fraction of what others say to us? And if true, what can we do about it? As someone who has taken great pride in accurately hearing what others say, I was annoyed to discover that it's pretty impossible for any listeners to achieve any consistent level of accuracy. The problem is not the words – we hear those, albeit we only remember them for less than 3 seconds and not in the proper order (Remember the game of Telephone we played as kids?).

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5 Things NOT To Do In Times of Crisis

Ron Edmondson

In my profession, I encounter a lot of people in crisis. Since this is mostly a leadership blog, I tend to think of leaders I know who are currently or have been in crisis. They may be a personal crisis or within a group or organization in which you lead, but the way you respond will almost always determine the quality of recovery from the crisis. For the next few posts, I want to address this issue with some thoughts on how to respond during these times of crisis in life.

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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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The Top Complaints from Employees About Their Leaders

Harvard Business Review

If you’re the kind of boss who fails to make genuine connections with your direct reports, take heed: 91% of employees say communication issues can drag executives down, according to results from our new Interact /Harris Poll, which was conducted online with roughly 1,000 U.S. workers. In the survey, employees called out the kind of management offenses that point to a striking lack of emotional intelligence among business leaders, including micromanaging, bullying, narcissism, indecisivene

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5 Essential Elements of Icebreaker Activities

Lead by Adventure

As a teamwork facilitator, understanding how each element works and fits in to the overall design of a team building program is vital. This infographic details the 5 essential qualities that each icebreaker activity you run should have. What icebreaker activities are your favorites? Do they qualify according to this infographic? Share in the comments below!

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You Don’t Need a Promotion to Grow at Work

Harvard Business Review

As organizations run leaner and flatter, your ability to move up can stall much earlier in your career because, simply put, there’s no place to go. This is true whether you work for a corporation, nonprofit, or public agency. So what should you do when you reach that plateau and you’re only midway through your career? First, take stock. Do you enjoy and learn from your colleagues?

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Build STEM Skills, but Don’t Neglect the Humanities

Harvard Business Review

Who doesn’t stand in awe of the advances that science and its STEM siblings (technology, engineering, and math) have created to better our world? But since the time of Aristotle, it has also been recognized that the hard sciences and the humanities must walk side by side in governing human action. Aristotle praised “practical wisdom” (the ancient Greek word is phronesis ) — the middle ground between scientific knowledge (in Greek, episteme ) and what he referred to as the

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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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How Local Context Shapes Digital Business Abroad

Harvard Business Review

One of the most enticing global entrepreneurial opportunities these days is taking a digital business model that works in the U.S. and transplanting it somewhere else, particularly in a developing country. Several students in my Leading Global Ventures class at Harvard Business School have done just that over the past few years, and many more would like to follow suit.

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Navigating the Dozens of Different Strategy Options

Harvard Business Review

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? When and how should you implement it? The practical tool offered here helps executives answer such questions as: What replaces planning when the annual cycle is obsolete?

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Inventory Management in the Age of Big Data

Harvard Business Review

We are on the verge of a major upheaval in the way inventory is managed. This revolution is a result of the availability of the huge amounts of real-time data that are now routinely generated on the internet and through the interconnected world of enterprise software systems and smart products. In order to make effective use of this new data and to stay competitive, managers will need to redesign their supply-chain processes.