Tue.Oct 06, 2015

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Tuesday Time Machine: Life & Leadership Lessons from a Lemonade Stand

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 26 Feb 2014. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”. Mother Teresa. Seven-year-old Lucy Mixson had never seen a homeless person. Until she met Charlie.

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The Puzzle – Building Effective Teams

Lead Change Blog

Building an effective team is like putting together a complex puzzle. Your method for doing that might be putting all the pieces of one color together; others may choose to put the edges together to create a framework. Some puzzlers choose to start in a corner and build from there, and I am sure there are many other techniques that people swear by. It is the same for builders of teams.

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How Leaders Can Manage The Perception Of Progress

Tanveer Naseer

In much of my work with leaders and organizations in various industries and disciplines, there’s a common issue that they seek help on addressing. Specifically, how do we keep employees invested in the long-term goals of our organization? For these leaders, the question is not so much how to improve employee engagement as it is how to sustain that enthusiasm and drive over the life span of a project or change initiative where it takes months or even years to achieve a successful outcome.

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The Fine Art of Giving Effective Feedback

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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How to Disrupt Your Way to Exponential Growth

Leadership Freak

Leave a comment on this post to become eligible to win one of fifteen copies of, “Disrupt Yourself,” by Whitney Johnson.

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Remarkable TV: Why Am I Wearing Sunglasses?

Kevin Eikenberry

In today’s video, I’m using a fun example that might make you laugh but will hopefully make you think about how you’re communicating with others as a leader. Check it out below. “If you want them to hear you, take off your sunglasses.”Click To Tweet Listen to the audio-only version of this episode. Learn more […].

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It’s a Mistaketo Assume Employees Know How They Contribute

leaderCommunicator

This article is an excerpt from the book “No Cape Needed: The Simplest, Smartest, Fastest Steps to Improve How You Communicate by Leaps and Bounds.” Want more? Get your copy today.

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Five Signs Your Team is Avoiding the Truth (or Other Uncomfortable Topics)

Change Starts Here

Implementing change at work requires facing the truth and discussing uncomfortable topics. For example, you might have to share that the change will have negative repercussions for certain stakeholders. To adequately assess risk, you may have to admit the possibility that the change won’t work. Or, you may need to help leaders see the behaviors they must change in themselves for the project to be successful.

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From Acuity Systems – A Women’s Executive Roundtable in Dallas on October 15 – Check it Out!

First Friday Book Synopsis

Practically every step forward comes after some form of information and insight exchange; a seminar, a conversation, a roundtable discussion. And, when there is real opportunity to interact, with people who face similar challenges and have similar aims, the step forward can be significant. So… if you are a woman in a leadership position, near… Read More From Acuity Systems – A Women’s Executive Roundtable in Dallas on October 15 – Check it Out!

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Managing Executive Assistants: Should you get your own coffee?

CO2

by Gary Cohen This is the first in a series of posts about how to best manage your executive assistant (EA). This series of posts will alert you to conversations you need to have with your EA, help you create time-saving processes, manage expectations, avoid confusion/duplication of effort, and work as a coordinated team. Delegating Personal Tasks. Managing your executive assistant is different from managing any other direct report.

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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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Some thoughts on “Sins” and “Transgressions” and Corporate Responsibility

First Friday Book Synopsis

I’ve been thinking about the difference between “sins” and “transgressions.” (I could write of my own failings; there are many! – but here I‘m thinking about “corporate responsibility”). There have been times when companies have made mistakes. Terrible mistakes. Mistakes that hurt people, misled people; mistakes that did not live up to what a good,… Read More Some thoughts on “Sins” and “Transgressions” and Corporate Responsibility.

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My Favorite Books For Leaders - Look Back At 2013

Eric Jacobson

In a few months I'll post my top (favorite) books for leaders that were published in this year. In the meantime, here again is my list of my eight favorites from the year 2013. In no particular order, these are my picks -- each provides timely, practical and valuable tips, techniques and tools for how to become a more effective leader. You'll find among the books useful information about: communicating more effectively the power of story telling creating an ethical workplace culture increasing r

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Professional Development Best Practice 2 – Ongoing, Critical Self-Assessment

Strategy Driven

The StrategyDriven Professional never takes anything for granted. He or she seeks to represent excellence in all areas of performance. To achieve this lofty goal requires ongoing, critical introspection; a constant identification of performance improvement opportunities and the actions to be taken to close those gaps once identified. Hi there! This article is available to StrategyDriven Personal Business Advisor Remote Access and Dedicated Advisor clients and those who subscribe to one of the ar

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Human Proof Design

Curious Cat

Human proof design is design that prevents people from successful using the item. It is similar to mistake proofing except instead of prevent mistakes it prevents people from using it. When you see human proof design you will often see signs to tell people how to use the device that has been human proofed. Common instances of this are hotels that have shower designs so opaque they need instructions on how to use a device most people have no problem using if they are not human proofed.

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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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5 Tips for the Leader When Conflict Develops on a Team

Ron Edmondson

As a leader, one of your primary roles is developing and maintaining the health of the team. What do you do when team members aren’t getting along with each other? How should you handle conflict on a team? In my post 10 Tips for Handling Conflict , I primarily address team members individually working together to address conflict. The question I receive is: What happens when conflict escalates to the point where a leader’s input is needed?

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How an Accounting Firm Convinced Its Employees They Could Change the World

Harvard Business Review

It’s a fabled story about a janitor’s exchange with President Kennedy during the early days of NASA: “What do you do?” the president supposedly asked the man with a broom during a visit to Cape Canaveral. “Well, Mr. President, I’m helping to put a man on the moon.” This meeting may not have actually taken place.

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Leadership vs. Management: The Key Difference

Six Disciplines

In any organization, there is a distinction between “The Leaders” and “The Managers.” Apart from nicer offices and bigger paychecks, the perceived difference is that leadership usually stays hands-off on the execution side of things and focuses mostly on strategy. A way to sum up this thought would be: “Leadership develops the vision, management executes it.”.

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What Do You Do Well That Others Don’t?

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, Jayne Juvan became one of the youngest partners ever at the Cleveland-based law firm Roetzel & Andres — thanks to Twitter. When Juvan started using social media a decade ago, very few lawyers used such tools. They didn’t see the opportunity. But after only a few months of blogging, Crain’s Cleveland Business interviewed Juvan on the use of social media for lawyers.

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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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A New Way to Define Value in Drug Pricing

Harvard Business Review

Prices for specialty drugs in the United States are out of control, with spending rising much faster than in many other health care domains. Some state Medicaid programs have been driven to the brink by the cost of new drugs for diseases such as hepatitis C, for which 12 weeks of treatment with Sovaldi can cost nearly $100,000. Many people are cheering a new potential solution: paying for drugs according to how well they actually work.

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You Don’t Have to Go to a Conference to Enjoy It

Harvard Business Review

Are you jealous of your colleagues as they jet off to attend yet another innovation conference? Do you suffer from FOMO when you see people in your network sending tweets and posting pictures from TED, SxSW, or Burning Man? How do they have the time, money, or connections to always wangle their way into every cool conference? You don’t have to be envious though.

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Bed Bath & Beyond’s Persistent Coupons Would Work Better with More Hurdles

Harvard Business Review

It’s going to be a rough holiday season for brick-and-mortar retailers. For starters, Amazon is heavily promoting its Prime program , which makes online shopping more attractive by providing two-day shipping. Jet.com recently entered the e-commerce fray with a pledge of being 10–15% cheaper than online rivals. Wal-Mart, a company whose primary weapon is discounting, is under pressure to boost its web sales, which made up just $12.2 billion of its $476 billion in revenue last year.

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3 Ways Managers Start Off On the Wrong Foot

Harvard Business Review

When you take your first leadership role, or find yourself at the helm of a new team, first impressions are essential to get right. (Sorry to have to add even more pressure to what is already a challenging situation, but the reality is that thanks to the way human brains are wired, impressions are very, very hard to undo.) Come across the wrong way in those early days of working together, and the odds are good that you will be dealing with the negative consequences of that for a long time to com

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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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Staying Human in the Robot Age

Harvard Business Review

In Don Siegel’s 1956 film shocker Invasion of the Bodysnatchers a California doctor becomes convinced that his patients are being taken over by alien replicants. They look the same; they’re just strangely emotionally absent. As those around him morph into their affectless lookalikes, it’s the frantic doctor who seems insane. “Relax, don’t fight it,” he’s advised – can’t he see that it’s easier, simpler – better – to live in

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