Sun.Feb 23, 2014

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Connect by Knowing Your Colleagues’ Stories

Michael Lee Stallard

'#21 Know Their Stories – Take time to get to know the people you work with, especially your direct reports. Have coffee or a meal with them. Ask questions to learn about their lives and what’s important to them. Questions unrelated to work might include “what are your interests outside of work?”, “what do you like to do during your free time?

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Unlock Relationships that Transform Leadership

Leadership Freak

'I knew too much when I was younger. Now that I’m older, I have the same problem. But, the thing that most expands leadership is the belief that we don’t know. Those who think they know are worse off than those who know they don’t. Everyone who’s afraid to look dumb, remains dumb. We learn […].

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Create Your Own Leadership Luck with This Special Offer

Kevin Eikenberry

'March 17 is the day many of us think about luck and finding “the Luck of the Irish.” Recently, I wrote about how leaders can create their own luck, and the combination of those thoughts, and the fact that I will be in Chicago to facilitate our Remarkable Leadership Workshop, got me thinking. What if […].

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Change: The Power of Gradual

QAspire

'In a fast paced environment, we notice things that are urgent, immediate and abrupt in nature. We forget to notice the gradual. One small serving of unhealthy food doesn’t seem to harm but many such servings over a long duration increase the odds of having a health problem manifold. One conversation that went wrong now doesn’t seem to have any direct impact on a relationship but with every such conversation, trust is eroded till it reaches a point where relationship ends.

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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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Think Create Share – Team Building and Innovation Activity

Mike Cardus

'Planning for ‘ How to Think Differently to Drive Results ’ … a four-day creativity & innovation program that provides participants with a toolbox of methods and skills for creativity and innovation that are instantly transferable to their work. Sharing Think :: Create :: Share as a sample of what we will do & one of the many innovation tools you will gain.

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We All Need to Be Refreshed – Creatively Refreshed – on a Pretty Regular Basis (insight from Seth Meyers)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'It is the beginning of new versions of some familiar TV shows. Jimmy Fallon has taken over the Tonight Show. And Seth Meyers is now taking over for Jimmy Fallon for the later hour. Here’s a nice read on the two of them – their strengths, their differences: The Difference Between Seth Meyers And Jimmy […].

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“Moore’s Law” and the Second Machine Age

First Friday Book Synopsis

'In The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee explain that their book “is about the second machine age unfolding right now — an inflection point in the history of our economies and societies because of digitization. It’s an inflection point in the right […].

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Leadership Caffeine—Breakaway Leadership Part 2

Management Excellence

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The First Step To Create a Life of Balance

The Idolbuster

'Work Over People. We live in overscheduled times. The company demands that you do more with less, and rewards a job well done with more job. Or, maybe you are passionate about what we do. The job brings fulfillment, which gives an incentive to work more hours. At some point, it will get to be too much. If you are starting to feel like Anakin Skywalker crawling out of the lava pit, this post is the first of three that will teach you how to put things right without becoming Darth Vader.

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Immanuel Annual Report

Ron Edmondson

'We’ve received great response to our annual report, so I thought I’d share it here. We had an amazing year at Immanuel Baptist Church and, borrowing from ideas we’d seen elsewhere, we decided to produce our first annual report. We had a talented young couple in the church help us with this. The staff provided input and I was able to share it with leadership of the church.

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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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Chris Guillebeau and The World-Changing Value of Helping People

Terry Starbucker

'On the latest More Human Podcast, my guest is Chris Guillebeau , writer, entrepreneur, world traveler, and author of the recent NY Times Best selling book: “ The $100 Startup: Reinvent the way you make a living, do what you love, and create a new future ”. Chris recently completed his quest to visit every single country in the world – all 193 of them – when he landed in Oslo Norway in April of 2013.

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