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The Inside Story

Let's Grow Leaders

As we prepare for our Winning Well speaking tour, I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to talk with the media about our mission to help leaders Win Well–without losing their soul. Today, I’m sharing My Interview with Dr. Gayle Carson. We discuss: Why I left Verizon to pursue this dream. The most difficult part of transitioning from executive to entrepreneur.

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Tune in Tonight! – 9pm Eastern – SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125!

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. It’s that exciting time of the month again when you have the opportunity to interact with us LIVE on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 at 9pm Eastern (8 Central, 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific) Wednesday, 2 Dec 2015.

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Featured Instigator – John Stoker

Lead Change Blog

As we mentioned in our November Featured Instigator post , we have decided to help our readers get to know our Instigators and their incredible work on a more personal level by highlighting a new Instigator each month. This Month We Feature John Stoker. John first got involved with Lead Change when Becky Robinson, Founder of Weaving Influence, managed the relaunch of his book, Overcoming Fake Talk.

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Standing Desks Less Popular in Wake of New Study

Women on Business

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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We All Have An Ugly Couch

Joseph Lalonde

I want to let you in on one of my dirty secrets. It’s kind of embarrassing, too. I have an ugly couch. One that should have been thrown out years ago. Yet I haven’t. Image via Creative Commons. I’ve kept this ugly couch in our living room. It’s stayed in front of our picture window. Even more so since we put Zane down. Why We Have An Ugly Couch.

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How Negative Leaders Become Positive Thinkers

Leadership Freak

You may think being ungrateful makes you look powerful. Nothings good enough for you. But the companions of ungratefulness are disappointment, frustration, stress, and negativity. Ungratefulness says things aren’t good enough.

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Magnetic: The Art of Attracting Business

Strategy Driven

Creating exceptional value for customers should be the core of your sales, marketing, and growth strategy. Word of mouth is the most powerful factor in buying decisions today. Whether it’s consumer or business to business, buyers want to know what your existing and past customers think of you. Increasingly, this word of mouth is taking place on the internet, whether on review sites, in chat groups, or on social media.

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Weekly Round-Up: Making a Communications Plan in 2016, the Best Companies to Work for (According to Employees), Unchanged Employee Engagement in November and Simple Ways to Make Work Better.

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog. This week you’ll read articles on making a communications plan in 2016, the best companies to work for (according to employees), unchanged employee engagement in November and simple ways to make work better.

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How To Be An Open Leader

Eric Jacobson

Open Leadership author Charlene Li reminds leaders to periodically ask themselves these " open leadership skills assessment " questions: Do I seek out and listen to different points of view? Do I make myself available to people at all levels of the organization? Do I actively manage how I am authentic? Do I encourage people to share information? Do I publicly admit when I am wrong?

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Just One Thing—Captain Obvious and The Fresh Start Effect

Management Excellence

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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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5 Joys of Being an Empty-Nester

Ron Edmondson

I have to be honest. I was a reluctant empty-nester. Cheryl and I love our boys and them being at home was one of our greatest joys in life. Walking in the door and being handed a football to throw or a soccer ball to kick was often the best part of my day. Thankfully, we were intentional as parents and in our marriage. Now, we are reaping the reward of that intentionality.

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Purpose of LinkedIn – Ninja tips to raise your profile increasing prospects #hrblog

Rapid BI

What is the purpose of LinkedIn? Many will say that LinkedIn doesn’t work. They do not get jobs through it. As a consultant they do not get work through it. They also say that LinkedIn cannot be used for raising your profile to increase job or consulting prospects. Why do they say that? Simple, they have […]. The post Purpose of LinkedIn – Ninja tips to raise your profile increasing prospects #hrblog appeared first on.

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Nonverbal Cues Get Employees to Open Up—or Shut Down

Harvard Business Review

Studies on power posing show that intentionally adjusting your body posture, facial expressions, and voice can help you express your ideas and concerns and win greater influence. This is true no matter what title or position you hold. Simply comporting yourself as if you’re a rung or two higher makes people act more deferentially toward you. Often, they’re not fully aware that they’re responding this way, yet the effect is in full force in any kind of hierarchy, whether it̵

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8 Keys for Overcoming Extreme Personal and Professional Adversity

Strategy Driven

‘Sur-thriver’ insights on how to conquer fear and devastating losses with confidence, courage and chutzpah. Soldier 1: “You’re hit, you’re bleeding man.”. Soldier 2: “I ain’t got time to bleed.”. This short, yet intense excerpt from the movie Predator provides an important insight into one’s character. While challenges are sure to present in life, the principle here is that you can’t allow tragedy to stop you from moving forward toward completing your mission.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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How to Free Your Innate Creativity

Harvard Business Review

Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF. Creativity can feel like an accident. Suddenly, out of nowhere a novel idea shows up in conscious thought and we’ve solved that persistent problem. Or, after days of staring at a blank page, words fly off our fingertips and we’ve written that perfect blog post or editorial. Some attribute creativity to brilliance, but we now know just being smart isn’t enough.

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Are You Trading Attention for Influence?

Leading Blog

P EGGY NOONAN brought up some great thoughts in her editorial, A Rash Leader in a Grave Time that would be good for us to consider in any time. She was referring to the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, but too frequently we see the tendency of leaders of all walks of life, to use their “ mouth as a blunt instrument ” whenever they feel they are in the right, have a just cause, want to get attention, or simply want to put their foot down.

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Employers Should Offer Free Screenings for Depression

Harvard Business Review

America’s workforce is in crisis as a silent epidemic eats away at the U.S. economy through lost productivity and underperformance. More importantly, if this health crisis is left unchecked, it will cost lives. It’s not AIDS, cancer, or diabetes. It’s clinical depression, and it continues to cost America’s workforce even though it doesn’t have to.

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Case Study: Should He Be Fired for That Facebook Post?

Harvard Business Review

By the time Susannah Winslow remembered that her ringer was off, she had seven text messages from her father, Dell, who was also her boss. Dell was the president of Downcity Motors, which owned BMW, Range Rover, and Mercedes-Benz dealerships in Charlotte, North Carolina, and had been in the Winslow family for three generations. Susannah, the general manager, was poised to take over in five years, when her dad retired.

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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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U.S. Health Care Is on the Cusp of Bundled Payments

Harvard Business Review

Close to 50 years ago, in March 1967, a landmark article described how to change the unit of analysis in medical care from an individual service to a medical episode. It’s a simple concept, after all: Instead of looking at and analyzing a set of seemingly disjointed services, group them into an episode that defines an illness, an injury, or a treatment.