Thu.Oct 23, 2014

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Leadership Change Is Not Free

Lead Change Blog

'Change is a necessity. Our markets and competitive situations never hold still. Team members don’t sit still. Adapting keeps us growing in what we do and how we do it. While change is required to meet new requirements, change is not free. Leadership change carries a cost. Just as change is a necessity, certain costs of change are a necessity. Let’s explore some areas where the cost of leadership change is evident and essential.

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The Moment You Can’t Ignore

Leading Blog

'A leader once told me, “We’re stuck.” It was an un-ignorable moment that reflected a cultural issue within the organization. In this case, it hinged around a destructive, persistent, self-perpetuating organizational belief about what leadership should look like that had plagued it for decades. Un-ignorable moments, write authors Malachi O’Connor and Barry Dornfeld, “typically occur when an organization is teetering on the brink of a cultural shift.

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Why Leaders Don’t Listen

Great Leadership By Dan

'Guest post by Marcia Reynolds, PsyD “Leaders boldly go where no one has ever gone before.” Is this true? Rarely. The more successful a leader becomes, the less likely he or she chooses to step into the unknown. Although I have seen the words, “Embracing ambiguity,” on the list of leadership competencies for many companies worldwide, I have never met an executive who loves not knowing the answers.

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Meeting Of The Minds

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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Simple Question – Profound Shift

Leadership Freak

'Don’t feel bad if you haven’t mastered the shift from serving self to serving others. It’s a journey. I don’t know about you, but self-serving attitudes come naturally to me.

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Write Your Speech Out Word-for-Word – The Case for Manuscript Speaking

First Friday Book Synopsis

'(a couple of posts about communication issues today. Here’s the first). If you read many articles about different approaches to take for speeches and presentations, you find a lot of people in favor of not using a manuscript. But… maybe you should. Here’s my thinking. First, quick: name the greatest speeches you know of. Pick […].

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Dominant Companies of Yesteryear, No Longer With Us – a Hidden Warning in Walter Cronkite’s 1967 Home Office of the Future

First Friday Book Synopsis

'When you’ve been at it for decades, you’ve seen the companies disappear. I bought my first stereo at Montgomery Wards. I used to eat at Wyatt’s cafeteria. I won’t even describe the pants I wore briefly in the 1970s, or my permed hair that same decade (my wife told me to leave that detail out […].

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The Rule of Replenishment

David A Fields

'If you’ve been running your consulting business for fewer than seven years, you’ll want to pay attention to the story of Meredith Starr. Meredith, who is in her mid-thirties, has been building a reasonably successful practice in northern Virginia, making rain of roughly $300k/year for herself and her full-time assistant. Not exactly the stuff of legends, but better financials than her neighbors working at the White House.

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Extreme Clearness – Simple and Clear Communication Advice from The Earl of Chesterfield (from Shannon Camberlain)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'(a couple of posts about communication issues today. Here’s the second). So, this one’s a little shorter. I read this terrific article from The Atlantic: How to Write a Business Letter: Advice From the 18th Century – You too can sound like a rich, proper, old English gentleman with guidance from their charming correspondence manuals […].

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Compliance And Risk Management In Today's Business World

Eric Jacobson

'Dave Yarin is a compliance and risk management consultant to senior management and directors of large and mid-size companies, and author of the soon to be published book, Fair Warning – The Information Within. Yarin follows and researches news stories regarding ignored warnings that lead to bad business outcomes, along with the social psychology theories that explain why these warnings were ignored.

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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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If creativity, change, and innovation were easy… – Do You Need a Jump-Start? We might be able to help

First Friday Book Synopsis

'If creativity, change, and innovation were easy… There has been no shortage of books and articles and case studies and blog posts to read about this… But, the reality is, change is hard. Creativity is harder. And, you don’t learn to be good at change, you don’t become a creative genius, by reading one book […].

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It’s Not Open Season on Your Community Manager (and If Your Boss Thinks It Is, Find a New Boss)

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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If I Could Rewrite Myers Briggs Type Codes

Ron Edmondson

'Let me warn you this is a random post…from my random thoughts. And, that makes more sense considering my Myers Briggs. Random. Stay tuned. I have used the Myers Briggs personality profile for years. I even became certified to instruct and administer the assessment a decade ago. I have shared and talked about my type HERE and have written mostly about the difference in the Extrovert and Introvert preferences.

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A Military Leader’s Approach to Dealing with Complexity

Harvard Business Review

'The most effective leaders I’ve known or studied all share a common trait: they were unwilling to settle for the existing state of affairs. They believed with all their heart that what we focus on can become reality. In my quarter-century of military service, I’ve been afforded the rare privilege of leading in a broad array of environments: commanding a 500-person special operations expeditionary air refueling group in the Middle East after 9/11; guiding a 7,000-person military community throug

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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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Help Your Team Spend Time on the Right Things

Harvard Business Review

'What is the most common resource that’s always in short supply? The answer, of course, is time. This applies not only to your time, but to your team’s. It’s the one organizational resource that is neither expandable nor renewable. Therefore, making sure that time is spent in ways that will have the biggest impact is a critical determinant of organizational success.

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Predictive Medicine Depends on Analytics

Harvard Business Review

'Regression models, Monte Carlo simulations, and other methods for predicting what’s around the corner have been in use for decades. It’s only recently, though, that advances in information technology have made it possible for predictive tools to access and manipulate big data, and to do so continuously — accelerating the generation of insights, and opening up opportunities to anticipate issues with unprecedented precision.

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Australia Tries to Keep Older Workers in the Workforce

Harvard Business Review

'When Australia introduced its age pension in 1909, only 4% of the population was living long enough to claim it. Today, with life expectancies growing, 9% of Australians draw a full or partial government-funded age pension, often for more than 20 years , according to the Academy of Management Journal. Australia plans to incrementally increase the official retirement age to 70 by 2035, making its retirement age the highest in the world, and the government has a plan to offer cash incentives for

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Why We Need to Outsmart Our Smart Devices

Harvard Business Review

'Most commentary about the Internet of Things assumes that we sacrifice privacy and security for huge efficiency gains. But what if the notion underlying that tradeoff — the idea that more connectivity always means greater efficiency — is flawed? What if indiscriminate information sharing has the same drawbacks with devices as it does with people?

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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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Myths About Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

'Linda Rottenberg , author of Crazy Is a Compliment , on what it really takes to start a business. Download this podcast.