Mon.Jul 14, 2014

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5 Reasons to Lose a Battle- And How To Lose It With Grace

Let's Grow Leaders

'If I had to pick a side, I would have chosen hers. But picking sides was entirely beside the point. The other guy’s heels were dug in deeper than skis sunk in a tree well of deep powder. No amount of convincing was going to change his mind. “ It’s time to let it go. ” I offered. “This battle is not worth winning. ” “But I’m right, she insisted.” That’s entirely possible.

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The Second Most Important Leadership Trait

Lead Change Blog

'It’s no surprise research has shown one of the characteristics people most want to see in their leaders is honesty. Honesty is not geographically bound. This characteristic is listed as one of the top five most important leadership qualities from people around the world. Do you know what the second most important leadership trait is? [.] Author information Bill Benoist Owner at Leadership Heart Coaching Bill Benoist is Vice President of Information Services for one of the nation''s largest comm

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LeaderView™ Leader Profile: David M. Cohen

General Leadership

' GeneralLeadership enjoys the opportunity to highlight leaders who our readers believe provide excellent examples worth taking note of. Through our LeaderView™ Leadership Profile series, we reach out to identified candidates and ask for their insights as to what makes them tick as a leader. In our latest LeaderView™ Leadership Profile, we caught up with David M.

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Six Critical Areas Where You Need to Be Grounded

Leading Blog

'Good leaders are healthy leaders. We can’t separate our leadership from who we are inside. “Your well-being, success, and organization depend, first and foremost on who you are. You need to examine the internal stuff—what goes on in your mind and heart—before doing anything,” writes Bob Rosen in Grounded. Faced with the speed of change today, staying aligned with who we are is very difficult making us feel stressed and defeated.

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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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Working from Home – How to Maximize Your Productivity

Women on Business

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Don’t make them cry

Persuasive Powerhouse

'If you’ve been in the corporate or business arena for any period of time, chances are that someone has done something to you that was unthinking or insensitive, making you feel like you didn’t matter. This can be particularly upsetting if that someone is your boss. I shed a lot of (silent) tears because of some of the insensitive ways I was treated by some managers: The first day I returned from maternity leave, I walked into my office and found someone else sitting at my desk.

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Virginia Ginsburg Joins the Women on Business Contributor Team

Women on Business

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Two Steps and Four Landmines

Leadership Freak

'Blazing new trails is tougher than staying where you are. We usually chose escalating frustration over the perils of moving forward. There are two steps in forward movement.

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Six Ways Leaders Can Help Others Measure Success

Kevin Eikenberry

'One of earliest tools I learned how to use growing up on a farm was a tape measure. There are several reasons for that – it is often used, using it won’t hurt you (think hammer, saw, or torch!), and my Dad carried a small one in his pocket. And as a boy, emulating Dad […].

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?Mindful Mondays: Six Things to Admire in LeBron James Letter to Cleveland

Next Level Blog

'Long time readers of this blog may have noticed that I don’t write as often as I used to about leaders in the news. There are different reasons for that. One of the biggest is the great examples seem fewer and farther between. Another is that I’m skeptical about being spun. You may have heard about the way NBA superstar LeBron James shared the news last week that he’s returning to his hometown to play again for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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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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Six Ways Leaders Can Help Others Measure Success

Kevin Eikenberry

'One of earliest tools I learned how to use growing up on a farm was a tape measure. There are several reasons for that – it is often used, using it won’t hurt you (think hammer, saw, or torch!), and my Dad carried a small one in his pocket. And as a boy, emulating Dad […]. The post Six Ways Leaders Can Help Others Measure Success appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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092: 7 Keys to Clarity and Conciseness

Engaging Leader

'Back in episode 89, about the Power of Brevity, we discussed why brevity works and provided four tips for being brief yet powerful. In these tips, clarity leads to brevity, and vice versa. Now, contrast that with most of the corporate-level communication that companies provide their employees. Whether it’s a letter or email from the […] Back in episode 89, about the Power of Brevity, we discussed why brevity works and provided four tips for being brief yet powerful.

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport: Think

Marshall Goldsmith

'Thinking before speaking is a challenge for a lot of people. It might even be hard for you, especially if you are trying to prove to the world how smart you are. Take the following little test and see if you’ve got this bad habit running through your communication with colleagues, friends, and employees. Your assistant rushes into your office with news of an urgent document that needs your attention right away.

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In A World of Insecure Not-Engaged Employees, Reid Hoffman’s The Alliance Suggests a Solution – Alliances with “Tours of Duty”

First Friday Book Synopsis

'“Maximizing employee security is a prime company goal.” Earl Willis, Manager of Employee Benefits, General Electric – 1962. Quoted in The Alliance: managing talent in the networked age, by Reid Hoffman (Cofounder, Chairman, Linkedin) and Ben Vacnocha and Chris Yeh ——————- I’ve been waiting for the book to be published.

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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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Changing Your Community Software Won’t Save You

Managing Communities

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Don't Hire Someone Just Like You

Eric Jacobson

'Despite the temptation to hire someone like yourself, hire someone to complement your skills --not to duplicate your skills. Managers often find it easier, more comfortable, or less threatening to hire someone with similar skills and work habits. But, to build a well-balanced team and to achieve maximum success, you need to have employees who can fill in your weaker areas.

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Really, “close” the sale? Eh, no Sparky. It’s “earn” the sale.

Strategy Driven

'It never ceases to amaze me how many people still ask me, “What’s the best way to close a sale?”. Other than cold calling and finding the pain, this is one of the biggest misconceptions in sales. It’s not a technique. It’s not a manipulation. It’s not something that you wait until the end of your presentation to do. It’s not something that requires intimate timing.

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A Word to the Introverted Pastor: Be Extroverted on Sunday

Ron Edmondson

'I have a strong word of encouragement to the introverted pastor. Be extroverted on Sunday. You can do it. Every time I post about introversion I hear from pastors and church members who talk about how introversion negatively impacts the ministry of the church. I get it. I really do. In fact, I am it. On a scale of 1 to 10 of introversion — if there were such a scale — I’m probably a 7 or 8.

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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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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #122

Rapid BI

'“Bad ideas make average ideas look good. Great ideas make average ideas look bad. So it’s better to come up with a bad idea.

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13 Leadership Lessons From Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes

Joseph Lalonde

'A nother great summer blockbuster movie released over the weekend. This time it was Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, the sequel to Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes. After viewing Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, I was left wondering when they were going to do a sequel. The movie was well done and did a great service to the Planet Of The Apes series. And I can say Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes continues in that tradition.

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Act Like an Entrepreneur Inside Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

'We often find ourselves engaged with members of large organizations on questions of how to be more innovative and entrepreneurial. In virtually every case we hear something like this: “I have an idea for a new product (or process, system, program, etc.). I’m not dead certain it can be pulled off, but if it could, it can have a significant impact on the business.

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Resumes Are Messing Up Hiring

Harvard Business Review

'While we are surrounded by a wave of new disruptive technologies and apps, HR still hasn’t improved how it evaluates the prospective workforce. Traditional hiring processes that revolve around CVs are no longer sufficient – they don’t pinpoint the right qualities demanded of leaders today, and their dated criteria obscures many talented individuals from even hitting the radar.

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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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How to Prepare for Maternity Leave

Harvard Business Review

'It can be stressful to step out of your job for three months, no matter how happy the occasion. How can you be sure that you’ve prepared those around you for your absence? And how can you set things up so you don’t return to a complete mess? How much do you rely on others versus putting things on hold? Do you need someone to replace you? What the Experts Say.

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Even When Women Ask for a Raise, They Don’t Ask for Enough

Harvard Business Review

'Margot, my client, was offered a “great” job as the CFO of a fledgling unit within her company. It was a nice little step up for her, and she was thrilled by the prospect. Margot had earned this promotion by spending the previous six months running her department while her boss was out on leave. She did an exemplary job leading a vast piece of the company and was rewarded with a modest promotion.

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What Makes a CMO Powerful

Harvard Business Review

'As new conditions and capabilities relentlessly change how business is done, marketing – that is, the internal function responsible for shaping demand for a company’s offerings—is being challenged to reexamine its own workings. My own research interest is in the top of those functions: the leader of the marketing group (whom I’ll henceforth call the CMO, for Chief Marketing Officer, though not all have that specific title).

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Freedom of Information Laws Had a Big Impact on Corruption

Harvard Business Review

'Freedom of Information laws in American states reduced the rate at which officials committed corrupt acts by about 20% , according to an analysis by Adriana S. Cordis of Winthrop University and Patrick L. Warren of Clemson University. In the immediate aftermath of implementation of strong FOI laws, corruption-conviction rates approximately doubled , suggesting that the regulations made it easier to detect malfeasance.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.