Wed.Nov 16, 2016

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Leading Teams to Greatness – Part 2

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.”. General George S. Patton. After all the instruction and practice on the beach, it was time to actually put my board into the ocean and paddle out to the break.

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You Matter – Regardless of Your Position

Lead Change Blog

Do you think that you matter at work? What do you think the majority will answer…? In November, the You Matter Marathon is being held, when participants hand out one You Matter card to one person a day to remind people that they matter. It’s a beautiful initiative, of course, but let’s think about what this implies. It means that many people need to be reminded that they matter.

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4 Goals You Should Add to Your To-Do List After Attending a Conference

Women on Business

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How Do You Recognize a Trustworthy Leader?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton I'm hearing people talking about trustworthy leadership everywhere I go. We all crave it. We seek it out because trustworthy leadership allows us to be at our best so that we can make a meaningful contribution.

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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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Overcoming The Overwhelm With Beth Beutler – Answers From Leadership Episode 25

Joseph Lalonde

B eth Beutler is the guest on today’s Answers From Leadership podcast. Beth is virtual assistant, consultant, author, speaker. She helps principle-centered yet overwhelmed professionals excel. Today, we discussed overcoming the overwhlem, and becoming a more productive leader. Listen To The Answers From Leadership Podcast. . Show Notes: What else would you have listeners know about you?

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12 Ways to Ignite and Maximize Growth in Others

Leadership Freak

All that you hope to accomplish as a leader depends on igniting and maximizing growth in others. Learn what makes people tick if you dream of maximizing their growth. #1.

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What to Say Before You Say Anything – Important Script for Consultants

David A Fields

You’re sitting down with Yolanda Blatherpumpkin, a hot prospect at Rocket Chocolate who desperately needs your help. If you manage the process well, a lucrative consulting project and a case of mocha turtles are just two conversations away. But before you launch into the first conversation—the Context Discussion—with Yolanda, you need to take an important step that I outline in detail below.

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Project Management for the Rest of Us—Getting Started

Management Excellence

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7 Ways to Fuel Creative Thoughts When You’re Stuck

Ron Edmondson

Or When Your Brain Can Only Think Routine I’m an idea guy. No on has ever accused me of not having an original thought. Most of the time the opposite is more accurate. The teams I lead usually fight overload with the number of ideas I produce. I have to discipline myself to “unthink” and give teams I lead permission to tell me when something is a bad idea.

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How To Get The Feedback You Need

Eric Jacobson

Getting feedback is an important way to improve performance at work. But sometimes, it can be hard to seek out, and even harder to hear. “Feedback is all around you. Your job is to find it, both through asking directly and observing it,” says David L. Van Rooy, author of the book, Trajectory: 7 Career Strategies to Take You From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.

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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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The Three Keys to Employee and Company Fulfillment

Strategy Driven

Who wouldn’t like to be more fulfilled? If you’re not feeling totally fulfilled, you’re not alone. Even if you are fulfilled, the odds are that many of your managers and employees are not, according to new study conducted by Metrus Institute. In fact, few Millennials and only some Gen Xers describe their lives as fulfilled. In the study, life fulfillment is defined as achieving one’s dreams and creating a lifestyle that brings exceptional happiness and inner peace.

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Creating and maintaining a high performance culture

Rapid BI

A High Performance Culture is something many organizations strive to achieve. Many have achieved it in their own unique and distinctive ways. However, certain fundamental common factors need to exist without which a “High Performance Culture” will not be created. In difficult economic time this can be difficult to justify – however now is the time […].

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If You Can’t Empathize with Your Employees, You’d Better Learn To

Harvard Business Review

Marion Barraud for HBR. Empathy—the ability to read and understand other’s emotions, needs, and thoughts—is one of the core competencies of emotional intelligence and a critical leadership skill. It is what allows us to influence, inspire, and help people achieve their dreams and goals. Empathy enables us to connect with others in a real and meaningful way, which in turn makes us happier—and more effective—at work.

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The Traits of Leaders Who Do Things Fast and Well

Harvard Business Review

An exceptional leader we know would occasionally get a question from his direct reports in a variety of forms but with the common message, “Do you want this done fast or right?” His answer was always the same: “Yes!” He chose not to compromise on either dimension. For this leader and for most highly effective leaders we know, making mistakes is not an option.

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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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What a Visit to an AI-Enabled Hospital Might Look Like

Harvard Business Review

The combination of machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and cognitive computing will soon change the ways that we interact with our environments. AI-driven smart services will sense what we’re doing, know what our preferences are from our past behavior, and subtly guide us through our daily lives in ways that will feel truly seamless.

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CEOs Need to Ask the Right Questions About Their Digital Businesses

Harvard Business Review

Companies everywhere are making investments to build their digital businesses. Decisions about digital platforms can make the difference between high growth and high margins or limited growth with declining margins. Unlike other technology and business investments, the digital business gets to the core economics of the company: revenue, growth, and margins.

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business Review

Shortly after forty-six-year-old Karen Hull had elective disc surgery at one of our hospitals, she used a new Geisinger app to request a refund for $150 of her $2250 financial responsibility. The problem wasn’t with the surgery – that went well. But Karen was unhappy with a phone call she’d received earlier from a hospital representative who had requested a “good faith payment” – making her feel as if we didn’t trust her to show up for her surgery.

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The Data on Who Takes "Bleisure" Trips

Harvard Business Review

Everyone combines business travel and vacation.

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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 China’s Government Helps — and Hinders — Innovation

Harvard Business Review

By all accounts, the Chinese state is on all-out drive to move the country up the technological ladder. As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Given its ideological leanings, China presents itself as a unique experiment in the power of the state to help the economy become more innovative.

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Improve the Affordable Care Act, Don’t Repeal It

Harvard Business Review

Republicans are poised to use their control of the presidency and both houses of Congress to repeal major parts of the Affordable Care Act. But a careful review reveals that significant parts of the ACA are actually working. Specifically, it has allowed for significant expansion of insurance coverage and it is accelerating the move from a financing system that pays for the volume of services provided to one that rewards care providers for delivering higher-quality care.

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How to Negotiate After a Staggering Defeat: A Playbook for Democrats

Harvard Business Review

There’s an adage in diplomacy circles: If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. Since they lost control of the White House and both houses of Congress, it’s easy to imagine that Democrats (and others who voted against President-elect Donald Trump) feel that they don’t have a seat at the table. And if that’s true, everything they hold dear and every policy they care about could be a mere presidential oath away from being sacrificed at the altar of Trump&