Tue.Apr 21, 2015

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3 Surprising Ways to Succeed in Self-Leadership

Michael Lee Stallard

'It’s ironic that successful self-leadership has more to do with others and less to do with self. I learned this later in life. The sooner you see it, the better. Following are three lessons I learned from personal and professional experiences over the course of my life. My hope is that they will help you be more successful over your career and journey in life. 1.

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Making a “Comeback” in a “Go Away” World!

Lead Change Blog

'It’s out there…the headlines are printed, the paper is printed and the world is reading the news over morning coffee. Information once hidden is now fairly public. Someone has messed up and the consequences are splashed across the information landscape. The conversation might be as broad as the news media, or as narrow as the office gossip around the snack machine.

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The Key To Promoting Organizational Growth And Success

Tanveer Naseer

'Now that the first quarter of this year is coming to an end, many of us are naturally taking stock of how much progress we’ve made towards reaching those targets we set out to attain this year. This naturally leads to an examination of our current efforts to promote the growth and development of our organization and with it, new opportunities to broaden our scope and leverage our existing assets.

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Common Recruiting Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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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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10 Tips for Hiring Awesome Employees

Great Leadership By Dan

'Management is easy when you have great employees! Invest the time in hiring the best people and you won’t have to invest the time later in in dealing with difficult employees. Read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership for 10 tips to select great employees.

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7 Ways to Reach Bull-Headed Teammates

Leadership Freak

'You’re banging heads with bull-headed teammates. It’s not the facts. It’s personal disposition. Personal disposition often determines the “right” decision. Personal disposition. Visionary disposition.

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NYC CoffeeChat is scheduled

Jason Womack

'Good morning, and happy spring to my New York City friends and colleagues. On Sunday, 26 April 2015 we will gather together for a #CoffeeChat, conversation and general good-will. Over the past few years of meeting new friends and old, we''ve always found these #CoffeeChat events to be informal time to share stories - and sometimes even ideas, experience, or advice - as each one of us manages our way through the day.

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The Divided Will Always Be Separated

Lead from Within

'He called because everyone on his leadership team said he needed a great coach. He was head of a large global organization, and the feedback he kept getting is that he was a lousy leader. I thought to myself, This must be either a brave organization or a desperate one to ask their CEO to seek help. I wouldn’t know which until I spoke to him. The call was going fine until he said, “Stop asking me questions about myself—let’s do a 360 and figure out what’s wrong, and then you can give me some pro

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Three Ways We Make Resistance More Frustrating Than It Really Is

Change Starts Here

Recently, I posted Eight Telltale Signs of Resistance , in which I described some of the resistant behaviors people use to slow down or prevent change from happening. When we’re trying to implement change and we encounter these resistant behaviors, we often have three unhelpful responses that make it seem even more frustrating than it really is.

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Here is the New York Times April, 2015 Business Books Best Sellers List – Becoming Steve Jobs at #2

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Here is the New York Times April, 2015 Business Books Best Sellers List. A new book on getting the most out of Social Security is at the top of the list. At #2 is Becoming Steve Jobs, the new unauthorized biography of Steve Jobs. I will present my synopsis of this book at the May […].

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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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Nine Steps To Lead Breakthrough Change

Eric Jacobson

'David S. Pottruck ''s book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. This book tells the in-the-trenches stories of individuals who led bold, sweeping change.

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TED Talks on 60 Minutes – Remember, these are “Talks” (Should we call them TED Speeches?)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'What we’re trying to do is to make difficult knowledge accessible. Chris Anderson, Curator of TED (from 60 Minutes Overtime) ——————– Last Sunday night, on CBS’ 60 Minutes, Charlie Rose profiled the TED Talks. View and read the segment here. What a terrific segment! Here’s how it started: It has become a place where big ideas […].

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5 Words of Encouragement to the Church Planter or Young Leader

Ron Edmondson

'Recently I was able to share some encouragement with church planters in Chicago. Having been a planter twice, I understand the unique challenges facing planters. They are constantly struggling with leadership issues, finances and simply knowing what to do next. I get it. Most of what I know now came from experience and the wisdom of others. Many of the suggestions I shared are suitable for young leaders in any field.

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How Effective is Speaking on a Big Stage?

David A Fields

'A consultant asked me the following question: How effective is it to speak at a national conference? What advice would you give this consultant? Have you had success translating speeches on a big stage to projects? Are national conferences more or less effective than local/regional events? Please share your thoughts below. (I’ll post the answer I gave this consultant in a few days.

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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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The Importance Of Setting Goals

My Own Coach

'It''s no good setting goals if they are not well formed!… The post The Importance Of Setting Goals appeared first on My Own Coach Limited.

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Why change initiatives fail to deliver

Rapid BI

'Why do change initiatives fail to deliver the expected results? It does not matter how many books you have read or how many change management projects you have been involved in. Some are successful. Some change initiatives fail. The real question is, can we identify failure early before any damage is done? And what can […]. The post Why change initiatives fail to deliver appeared first on.

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Here’s How Managers Can Be Replaced by Software

Harvard Business Review

'Fortune 500 executives spend a fair amount of time thinking about how automation and the Internet are changing the nature of employment, but they rarely wonder how technology will have an impact much closer to home: on their own jobs. For the last several years, we have been studying the forces now shaping the future of work, and wondering whether high-level management could be automated.

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Why “Company Culture” Is a Misleading Term

Harvard Business Review

'Kenneth Andersson. A great deal of ink has been spent over the past thirty years or so on the idea of corporate or organizational culture. Back in the 1980’s, I picked up a now-famous book, Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman’s In Search of Excellence , that praised the unique management structure and corporate culture of computer then-giant Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).

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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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There Are Still Only Two Ways to Compete

Harvard Business Review

'Photo by Andrew Nguyen. Back in the early 1960s, the great Boston Consulting Group founder and strategy theorist Bruce Henderson asserted that there was only one way to successfully compete: gain a relative market share advantage over all competitors so as to have lower costs than all of them. The payoff is that it puts the firm in a position to drive those relative costs even lower as competition unfolds due to the learning curve advantage.

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Why Do We Get So Emotional About Brands?

Harvard Business Review

'Honestly, it’s puzzling that an inanimate, imaginary thing such as a brand should seem to have gender. But obviously brands do send out gender signals, and sometimes they’re quite strong. In fact, recent research shows that the more intense the gender signals, the greater the brand value — so not only do we readily perceive gender in brands, we like to perceive gender in brands.

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No, That Meeting Could Not Have Been an Email

Harvard Business Review

'We’ve all been there. We’re sitting in back-to-back hour-long informational meetings. We try to sit attentively as waves of information are poured over us in report after report. Eventually, we realize the meeting is coming to a close and no decisions are being made. We’re bored, we’re tired, and we think: “This whole meeting could have been an email.” Not so fast.

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Becoming Powerful Makes You Less Empathetic

Harvard Business Review

'Last year, I worked with a senior executive — let’s call him Steve — who had received feedback from his boss that he was wearing the power of his new title in an off-putting way. Steve’s boss told him that he had developed a subtle way of being right in meetings that sucked all the oxygen out of the room. No one wanted to offer ideas once Steve had declared the right answer.

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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.