Thu.Mar 02, 2017

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Empowering The Quiet Team Leader

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Ilene Marcus : It’s crunch time. Your team is on overdrive. Each decision matters. Every moment counts. You can’t afford to be distracted and yet, there it is – the workplace annoyer. A team member with a trait, a quirk that gets under your skin. You rationalize, we have just been spending too much time on this project. Or as the leader, I have so much more on my plate that I can’t be involved in every detail and they keep dragging me in.

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More Leaders, Faster

Lead Change Blog

We welcome Mark Miller for the first post in a five-part series defining the core principles of Leaders Made Here. Step #1: Define It. Have you ever been part of an organization who needed more leaders? I have. It’s happened to me several times over the years. I have experienced this shortfall in schools, churches, and other non-profit organizations, and I’ve also seen this shortfall in hundreds of individual businesses.

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Beware the Brutally Honest Workplace

Michael Lee Stallard

An old fad is making a comeback: the “ brutally honest workplace.” From my vantage point, interacting with your colleagues using “radical candor” or “radical transparency” is a subtle—and sometimes not so subtle—form of verbal assault that seems to be spreading, given the success of firms like Bridgewater Associates , and contributing to the rise of incivility and insensitivity today.

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How to Succeed by Aiming Ridiculously Low

Leadership Freak

Aiming high is overrated. Aim ridiculously low if you want swift response and immediate action. Big goals are marshmallow clouds on chocolate rain Mondays, unless they distill into small daily behaviors.

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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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How One Entrepreneur Made $75K In Less Than 6 Months

Women on Business

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How to Get Helpful Feedback From Your Boss

ReImagine Work

It happens all too frequently. When I was an HR manager employees would talk in my office at performance appraisal time and ask me how to interpret this feedback from their bosses. “Just keep doing what you’re doing.”. If that is the sum total of the feedback you get, you can leave frustrated. Sigh. You don’t have to give up just because you got an unhelpful answer.

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Lent - Buy Lettuce

CEO Blog

Lent made me think. "not doing something is a decision and can often have more impact than actually doing something". We make decisions by lack of action. It is interesting that people give things up for lent and not take up doing something new. Either can have a positive effect. Give up eating sugar or add lettuce to every meal (yum - goes great on oatmeal).

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The Reunion 1.7 – 1.8

Steve Farber

Chapter 37. I must have made a wrong turn as I walked down the hallway away from Rich’s office. I thought reception would be on my right, but, instead, I was looking at a row of offices I’d never seen before. In an attempt to get my bearings I glanced around and bam ! there he was in the office across the way. Cam was working like a vortex: he had a phone on one ear and a headset wrapped around the other.

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Lent - Buy Lettuce

CEO Blog

Lent made me think. "not doing something is a decision and can often have more impact than actually doing something". We make decisions by lack of action. It is interesting that people give things up for lent and not take up doing something new. Either can have a positive effect. Give up eating sugar or add lettuce to every meal (yum - goes great on oatmeal).

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Ten Ways To Be A Healthy Leader

Eric Jacobson

If you're like many leaders, you're "too busy" to exercise on a regular basis. And, you don't give yourself time to renew and refresh. Truth is, there are ways to fit exercise and healthful habits into your busy day that will pay off in dividends. From Experience Life magazine, here are 10 tips for how to fit even just moments into your day (at work, on the road and at home) to help you become more healthful: Make a plan to exercise.

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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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4 Ways to Start Memorizing Scripture

Ron Edmondson

Our oldest son texted me New Year’s Day this year. He wanted to practice memorizing Scripture again this year. He’s been out of college for several years and fell out of the habit. He used to do it regularly when he was in high school. he wanted to know if I have any tips. Of course, he already knew I’m fairly simple-minded, so my response may be overly simplistic, but I think it may have been what he was seeking.

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Everybody Thinking, Learning and Doing

Deming Institute

In this presentation Dan Jones discusses what we (with an understanding of Deming’s ideas) can see as an aspect of the Deming chain reaction : Focusing on quality and then time the consequence is that we lower costs. Rather than focusing initially on costs as most people do and then somehow hoping that quality and time will be impacted. That is the wrong sequence, the right sequence is quality and then time and then cost and then new products.

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The Right Way to Start a Meeting

Harvard Business Review

We all know there’s a price to pay for a making bad first impression: A limp handshake conveys low confidence; a wrinkled suit makes you seem lazy; oversharing comes across as emotional instability. But do you ever think about the first impression your meetings make? Frequently restarting meetings for stragglers sends the message that participants have more control than you do.

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How to Get on the Shortlist for the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

The career question I hear most often from rising senior leaders is this: “How do I get on the C-suite shortlist?” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss. Yet the path narrows significantly as executives ascend closer to the top slots. Having played a role in many C-suite successions, I’ve found there’s no one-size-fits-all approach.

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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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Globalization: Myth and Reality

Harvard Business Review

Michael Mankins, Bain & Company partner and head of the firm’s Organization practice, explains how organizations unintentionally fail to manage their employees’ time and energy. He also lays out what managers can do to reduce what he calls organizational drag. Mankins is a coauthor of Time, Talent, Energy: Overcome Organizational Drag and Unleash Your Team’s Productive Power.

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How Blockchain Applications Will Move Beyond Finance

Harvard Business Review

To understand the transformation that’s being brought about by blockchain technology, it’s useful to start with its largest implementation to date: bitcoin. In the fall of 2014 my colleague Catherine Tucker and I conducted a large-scale experiment at MIT, in which 4,494 undergraduate students were offered access to bitcoin. The vast majority of students ended up hoarding the cryptocurrency, in the expectation that it would increase in value.

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Navigating Political Talk at Work

Harvard Business Review

CAT YU for HBR. We know that work is one of the leading causes of stress for American adults. But in the aftermath of a heated presidential campaign, we were curious about whether political talk was adding an extra layer, threatening job performance, productivity, and employee well-being. The American Psychological Association (APA) regularly releases surveys that take the pulse of the U.S. workforce and explore various topics related to people’s experiences on the job.

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business Review

On February 3 President Trump issued an executive order directing the Treasury Department to conduct a sweeping review of financial regulation, including Dodd-Frank , the financial reform bill passed, in 2010, as part of the Obama administration’s response to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession. “We expect to be cutting a lot of Dodd-Frank,” the president said, “because, frankly, I have so many people, friends of mine that had nice businesses, they can̵

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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.