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Beyond The Basics: The 10 Best Ways To Fine-Tune Your Leadership

Terry Starbucker

Now that you’ve absorbed the 8 basic principles of More Human Leadership , learned the 10 immutable laws that go with them, and truly know the difference between a boss and a leader , it’s now time to dig a little deeper. Let’s get beyond those basics and into a little leadership fine-tuning – those refinements and adjustments that keep that wheel of success turning without too much friction.

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Facilitate Connection with a “Getting Connected in Our Community” Guide

Michael Lee Stallard

#85 Create a “Getting Connected in Our Community” Guide. Facilitate connection by providing the members of your community with a directory of community members that includes names, photos, contact information and other information that identifies responsibilities, strengths, expertise and interests outside of work. The directory could be online or in print.

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10 Ways to Discern Rather than Condemn

Leadership Freak

Foolish leaders believe pointing out what went wrong inspires people to do better. You can’t condemn and inspire at the same time. Discerning leaders hunt for things that are going right.

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The Case of the Disposable American Worker(s) – (Fossil reminds us, Where will the jobs be?)

First Friday Book Synopsis

So, I woke up this morning reading the news that Fossil is shipping many (most) of its jobs out of country. So, imagine this… someone is hired at Fossil to do a job. That person does that job well. That person is asked to be a part of the Fossil team, and Fossil aims at high employee […].

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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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Don't Let These 20 Excuses Derail Your New Business Transformation Ideas

Eric Jacobson

In their book, How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things , co-authors Neil Smith and Patricia O'Connell list 20 excuses commonly heard in companies for reasons why new business transformation ideas are not considered. The authors recommend eliminating these 20 excuses from your vocabulary : Our company is well run; there are no opportunities. We're inefficient, but my department is not the problem.

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Robbie Kellman Baxter: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Robbie Kellman Baxter created the popular business term “Membership Economy.” She is the founder of Peninsula Strategies LLC, a strategy consulting firm. The Peninsula Strategies website is [link] Her clients have included large organizations like Netflix, SurveyMonkey and Yahoo!, as well as smaller venture-backed startups. Over the course of her career, Robbie has worked in […].

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Reflections on Brinkley’s Biography of Cronkite

First Friday Book Synopsis

On Wednesday, I present a synopsis of Douglas Brinkley‘s biography of Walter Cronkite. The book, simply titled Cronkite (Harper, 2012) took me a summer to read, as it is over 1000 pages long. It was worth it. I presented it at a bonus program for the First Friday Book Synopsis, and for several associations and […].

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