Mon.May 26, 2014

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How Well Do You Manage Up? A Challenge and Other Tools

Let's Grow Leaders

'The conversation about Imperfect Bosses continues. Today, I’m exited to bring you several additional resources, including a free knowledge assessment. I hope you will share this with anyone having a challenging relationship with their boss. Overcoming an Imperfect Boss Credspark Knowledge Challenge. How well do you manage up? How are you handling a difficult boss?

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Leading Change – It’s Not About You

Lead Change Blog

'A certain supervisor was assigned to a larger territory as a promotion for the job he had been doing. His biggest challenge was to help the largest flagship restaurant fully develop their concept and start to make headway on service, quality, and revenue. This store had a staff that was proud of their status. They [.] Author information Paul LaRue Author at The UPwards Leader Paul LaRue is the creator of the leadership blog The UPwards Leader and an account executive for a national broadline fo

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21 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From X-Men: Days Of Future Past

Joseph Lalonde

'H oly cow has this been a blockbuster year for superhero movies! Captain America: The Winter Soldier and The Amazing Spider-man 2 have already released. This past Friday was the release of the newest X-Men movie, Days Of Future Past. X-Men: Days Of Future Past has probably been the superhero movie I’ve most anticipated. I grew up on the X-Men.

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3 Steps to Transform Your To-Do List

Lead Change Blog

'“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” – Bill Gates Change one year to one day and ten years to one year and the same applies. We tend to overestimate what we can do in a day and underestimate what we can do [.] Author information Susan Mazza Susan has worked with organizations and individuals around the world for over 25 years in developing relationships that work and producing exceptional results that matter.

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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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Five Birthday Gifts Leaders Should Give Themselves

Kevin Eikenberry

'“Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday you leader. Happy Birthday to me.” Today is my 52nd birthday – a year for every week in a calendar year. The other day I was thinking about how birthdays are different as an adult than as a kid. If you are […].

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The Secret to Finding Your Own Voice

Leadership Freak

'The voice in your head is someone else, who sounds like you. Don’t trust it. Inner voices are the disguised voices of people from your past.

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The Success Delusion

Marshall Goldsmith

'Any human, in fact, any animal will tend to repeat behavior that is followed by positive reinforcement. The more successful we become, the more positive reinforcement we get – and the more likely we are to experience the success delusion. I behave this way. I am successful. Therefore, I must be successful because I behave this way. Wrong! The higher we move up the organizational ladder, the more our employees let us know how wonderful we are!

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Memorial Day – The Ultimate “Start with Why” Reminder

First Friday Book Synopsis

'…that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain… Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863 ——————– This is primarily a “let’s think about getting better in our business […].

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How To Build A Culture To Foster Creativity

Eric Jacobson

'Here are some great tips and guiding principles for how a manager and leader can build a culture to foster creativity. Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better. If you don’t strive to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.

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What to Do When Prospects Delay Deciding

David A Fields

'A question I was asked… Yet another prospect wants to put a project on hold… What am I doing wrong?…See my response in the Solo Consultant’s Network. The post What to Do When Prospects Delay Deciding appeared first on David A. Fields. Closing Consultants Creating Value Fees Positioning Relationships adding value agreements Consultative selling Context Discussion positioning.

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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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Quentin Tarantino: You Won’t Watch a Four Hour Movie, But You’ll Be Dying to Binge Watch a Four Part Miniseries

Managing Communities

'Please Update Your ManagingCommunities.com RSS Feed Subscription This feed has moved to: [link] I apologize for the trouble. For more details, please read my post on the matter. Thank you.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

'This is a full transcript of LDRLB episode 0511, an interview with Larry Downes. David: Who are you and what do you do? LARRY: I’m Larry Downes, and I’m a research fellow at the Accenture Institute for High Performance. David: You’re incredibly humble. You are also the author of a ton of different stuff around this idea of disruption, the most recent one being- I’m making sure I get this title right.

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Honoring Those Whose Sacrifice Gave Us Freedom

Strategy Driven

'Freedom is never free … It is the SERVICE MEMBER, not the preacher, who has given us freedom of religion. It is the SERVICE MEMBER, not the campus organizer, who has given us freedom to assemble. It is the SERVICE MEMBER, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial. It is the SERVICE MEMBER, not the politician, Who has given us the right to vote.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #87

Rapid BI

' “The 99% hate the 1%, the 80% hate the 20%, the 60% hate the 40% and the 55% hate the 54%.

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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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How Separate Should a Corporate Spin-Off Be?

Harvard Business Review

'Businesses sometimes need to invest in new opportunities that do not fit the current business or current strategy well. The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

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Business School Professors Should Be Like Movie Directors

Harvard Business Review

'As business school professors, we always ask ourselves why we are needed. Because we train future leaders and shape how organizations create value for societies. But will students need us in the same capacity in the future? Not if we don’t change to meet shifting educational needs. A January Economist article on the Future of Jobs quoted experts saying that 47% of all job categories, including high-skill professions in medicine and law, will be automated within two decades.

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Where There’s No Margin for Toxic Leadership

Harvard Business Review

'Growing a midsized firm takes a top team with zero weak links. Even one ineffective executive weakens a firm’s ability to address big problems. But building a consistently strong top leadership team is difficult for at least three reasons: the tendency to be loyal to existing members, the lack of management depth to promote from, and many CEOs’ lack of experience in many functional areas.

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Health Care Becomes Entrepreneurial (Finally)

Harvard Business Review

'All of us know that you have to be a little crazy to be an entrepreneur. Launching, let alone sustaining, a new enterprise can be challenging along almost every dimension ? mentally, emotionally, and often financially. Historically, this reality has been even more sobering in the health care sector, where the typical hardships experienced by any start-up have been amplified by numerous industry-specific challenges: Extensive regulation, entrenched players with a strong grip on the status quo, c

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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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Do Genes Affect Our Attitudes Toward Interdependence?

Harvard Business Review

'Numerous studies have shown that Americans of European origin have a more independent, and Asians have a more inter dependent, social orientation, as measured by questionnaires asking about agreement with such statements as “I feel it is important for me to act as an independent person.” But this social-orientation difference is about 6 times greater among people from both backgrounds who are carriers of two particular alleles of a dopamine-receptor gene known as DRD4, according to a team led b