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Check Out Today’s 200-Second Soundbite™ Video Spotlight!

General Leadership

'Associate Curator and GeneralLeadership.com CGO, Colonel Chris R. Stricklin reveals a leadership lessons from a corn farmer which can yield results in every aspect of our lives. by. … Read the rest. The post Check Out Today’s 200-Second Soundbite™ Video Spotlight! appeared first on General Leadership.

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How Do You Check Your Leadership Intentions?

Lead Change Blog

'Intentions are essential. Knowing if our intentions are showing up in the right way is challenging, less so if we take the time to define them and then really lead in this defined manner. Even then, intention is only a third of the formula. Leadership intentions, along with core beliefs and positive, growth-oriented actions, enable [.] Author information Jon Mertz Jon is a vice president of marketing in the healthcare software industry and named one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy

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The 3 V’s of Connection Culture: An Infographic

Michael Lee Stallard

'At the heart of a Connection Culture are 3 V’s: Vision, Value, & Voice. Explore each of the three in this helpful infographic: The post The 3 V’s of Connection Culture: An Infographic appeared first on Michael Lee Stallard.

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The Myth of Multitasking

Women on Business

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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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15 Powerful Shifts that Transform Leadership

Leadership Freak

'Know-it-alls are completely predictable. They don’t change. Those who already know never develop new skills, embrace new ways of thinking, or grow as leaders. Everyone who grows changes.

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10 Tips to a More Positive Outlook

Women on Business

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You Have to Have a Goal to Achieve a Goal

The Recovering Engineer

'One January day about thirteen years ago, I stepped on the scales in my bathroom, and I did not like the feedback I received. I was at the highest weight I had ever been in my life. My clothes were starting to get a bit tight, and I was feeling uncomfortable in them. That day, I resolved to lose weight. I do not remember the exact timeline, but I do remember that before the week was over, I had written a goal weight, developed a weight loss plan, and started implementing it.

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Why Walls Won’t Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide by Michael Dear – Some Thoughts, Lessons, & Takeaways

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Michael Dear has traveled the entire length of the border between the United States and Mexico, partly on a grant from The National Geographic Society. His experience, and plenty of history and reflection, is found in his book Why Walls Won’t Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide (Oxford University Press. 2013). I am presenting my synopsis […].

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Handshake Etiquette

Chris Brady

'Sincerely, Chris Brady (Click here to subscribe to my youtube channel). [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How to Be Heard When No One is Listening

Change Starts Here

'When implementing change in your organization, you may come to a point when you’re frustrated because your ideas don’t seem to go anywhere. Your suggestions are getting shot down or ignored, but no one seems to have any better ones for moving forward. How can you be heard when no one’s listening? The following tricks can open up dialogue when you’ve reached an impasse.

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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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Type II Fun

CO2

'by Gary Cohen As a teenager, I found myself with 16 others on the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine in a 30-foot pulling boat with 12-foot swells and no tiller or rudder. The seas were getting rougher and the sky was crackling with lightning and thunder. We were scared, wet, and tired. We were unprotected from the elements, and the elements looked like they were preparing to swallow us up.

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78% of Anonymous Commenters Will Leave If Forced to Use a Real Identity

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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Type II Fun

CO2

As a teenager, I found myself with 16 others on the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine in a 30-foot pulling boat with 12-foot swells and no tiller or rudder. The seas were getting rougher and the sky was crackling with lightning and thunder. We were scared, wet, and tired. We were unprotected from the elements, and the elements looked like they were preparing to swallow us up.

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Philanthropy Is About Involvement

Eric Jacobson

'Here''s one more piece of great advice from Eli Broad''s book, The Art of Being Unreasonable : "Philanthropy isn''t just a pursuit for the wealthy. Philanthropy is about involvement. Pick your issue, work at it, and do your best to make things happen. Even if you''re not wealthy, you have time, expertise, skills and other resources you may not even have realized that can be used to serve others.".

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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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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #160

Rapid BI

'We´re looking for someone with the wisdom of a 50-year old, the experience of a 40-year old, the drive of a 30-year old and the pay scale of a 20-year old.” Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. […].

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Should You Get an MBA?

Harvard Business Review

'At least once a month an ambitious and hard-working person in their 20s asks me, “Should I get an MBA?” I earned my MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in 2000, and since 2007 I’ve been an Instructor and an internal coach back at the GSB, helping hundreds of students develop their leadership and interpersonal skills. Here’s how I respond to those inquiries.

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Why Reframing is Important to Great Leadership

Leading Blog

'Leaders need to be able to look at the situations they face from different perspectives. The need to be able to reframe a situation in order to understand what it really going on and deal with it effectively. A leader’s “ability to reframe sets them free” and helps them to “avoid getting trapped in cognitive ruts,” write Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal, authors of How Great Leaders Think.

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Plan a Satisfying Retirement

Harvard Business Review

'You’ve worked hard all your life, and now you’re on the brink of retirement. Trouble is, the things you looked forward to all those years — mornings on the golf course, afternoons puttering in the garden, trips to exotic places — don’t feel like they’ll be enough to sustain you. Encore careers — jobs that blend income, personal meaning, and often some element of giving back — are becoming an increasingly popular alternative to full-time retirement.

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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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Breaking Down the Freelance Economy

Harvard Business Review

'The American workforce is now 34% freelancer, according to a new study commissioned by the Freelancers Union and the recently-merged Elance-oDesk. Well, sort of: 14.3 million of the 53 million freelancers counted in the survey are “moonlighters” (people with full-time jobs doing independent work in their spare time). Another 5.5 million are temp workers.

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To Make Better Decisions, Combine Datasets

Harvard Business Review

'A complicated system is somewhat like a complicated recipe. You know what the outcome will be because you understand what will cause what — combine a given number of ingredients together in a certain way, put them in the oven, and the results will be consistent as long as you repeat the same procedure each time. In a complex system, however, elements can potentially interact in different ways each time because they are interdependent.

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How Unethical Behavior Becomes Habit

Harvard Business Review

'When a former client’s secretary was arrested for embezzlement years before his own crimes were uncovered, Bernie Madoff commented to his own secretary, “Well, you know what happens is, it starts out with you taking a little bit, maybe a few hundred, a few thousand. You get comfortable with that, and before you know it, it snowballs into something big.”.

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A Simple Fix Makes a Big Difference in Phone Thefts

Harvard Business Review

'Kill switches in cell phones appear to be having an effect on thieves. Thefts of iPhones declined 38% in San Francisco and 24% in London in the six months after Apple’s offer in September 2013 of software that allows users to lock down phones after thefts, and in New York City, robberies of Apple products fell 19% in the first five months of 2014, according to The New York Times.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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To Make Better Decisions, Combine Datasets

Harvard Business Review

A complicated system is somewhat like a complicated recipe. You know what the outcome will be because you understand what will cause what — combine a given number of ingredients together in a certain way, put them in the oven, and the results will be consistent as long as you repeat the same procedure each time. In a complex system, however, elements can potentially interact in different ways each time because they are interdependent.

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The Fall of the Talent Economy?

Harvard Business Review

'Roger Martin , former dean of the Rotman School of Management, on why talent’s powerful economic position is unsustainable.?. Download this podcast.

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The Ice Bucket Challenge Won’t Solve Charity’s Biggest Problem

Harvard Business Review

'I love the Ice Bucket Challenge. Period. It’s a collective expression of love in a world with far too little of it. It has generated public tears in an age with far too few of them. It restores faith. It connects. And, as of last week , it raised more than $100 million for the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association, up from donations of $2.8 million for the same period last year.

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