Fri.Oct 03, 2014

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How to Be Manager When Your Employees Are Older Than You

Let's Grow Leaders

'Pleased to welcome Scott Huntington with a guest post. Good news: You have been hired for a leadership or managerial position. Awkward news: You’re younger than the employees you’ll be managing. Discovering that you’re younger than your new employees is neither good news nor bad news. However, it has been known to make young managers uncomfortable or nervous.

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Do you fete or filet for failure?

General Leadership

'“Failure is an event, never a person.” William D. Brown. I failed. There, I said it. In the military, that phrase is unacceptable. Failure in an operation often equates to damage or death to the wrong side –ours. That goal of zero-failure permeates beyond operations to every aspect of the military. Accepting zero failure is perfect for an F-15 dogfight to the death; however, in matters not related to life or death, failure is critical to success.

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Drive Change Towards Your Desired Culture

Lead Change Blog

'Leaders face change – or the need to change – frequently in their work environments. When leaders look at needed change from a Western-thinking viewpoint – “this is broken, we need to fix it” – they miss a critical factor in effective change leadership. Leaders miss the opportunity to describe where and why. They need to be specific about where the change will take their team – and why it is time to make that change.

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Live Leadership Notes From Craig Groeschel At Catalyst 2014

Joseph Lalonde

'C raig Groeschel is the lead pastor at LifeChurch. Through his leadership, the church has become a force to be reckoned with. They’ve revolutionized the way church is done. LifeChurch is committed to getting the Word of God out to the people through giving away sermon plans, videos, and much more. They’re a leading force in the church world.

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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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Why Embracing Personal Values is Important

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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Live Leadership Notes From Charles Duhigg At Catalyst 2014

Joseph Lalonde

'C harles Duhigg is the author of The Power Of Habit. He’s also a New York Times staff writer. His book, The Power Of Habit , has changed the way we think about habits. Get ready for some great leadership lessons from Duhigg. We’re living in a golden age of how habits work and what affects our brains. This session may go very well with Dr.

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Live Leadership Notes From Chris Brown At Catalyst 2014

Joseph Lalonde

'C atalyst announced a special guest for us today. That guest was Christ Brown. No, not Rhianna’s Chris Brown but Chris Brown who works for the man Dave Ramsey. This Chris Brown is a pastor and wants to help people learn proper stewardship. Hopelessness is sweeping across the country. You may not have noticed the issue. But it’s there. We’ve got to dig deep and discover the reason for the hopelessness.

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Solve the Frustration of Team Decision-Making

Leadership Freak

'Can we please make a decision and move on? Ineffective teams don’t know how to make consensus decisions.

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Live Leadership Notes From Pastor Sergio De LaMora At Catalyst 2014

Joseph Lalonde

'P astor Sergio De LaMora is the lead pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Diego and the author of The Heart Revolution. His mission is to turn the hearts of youth and families all over the world back to God and back to each other. On Wednesday, I had the chance to hear Pastor Sergio speak in one of the Catalyst Lab sessions. His leadership speech stirred me up.

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Weekly Round-Up: On How to Apologize Effectively, Helping Employees Become More Productive & Tips to Translate Your Messages Successfully

leaderCommunicator

'Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. Each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays I pull some of the best together here on my blog. So in case you’ve missed them, here is this week’s round-up of top posts. They’ll provide you with tips, strategies and thought-starters from many of the smart folks in my network.

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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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Zero to One (Peter Thiel) & Unretirement (Chris Farrell) – Our Selections for the November 7 First Friday Book Synopsis

First Friday Book Synopsis

'This morning, we had a terrific session of the First Friday Book Synopsis. Karl Krayer presented his synopsis of The Power of Noticing; I presented my synopsis of The Organized Mind, and Michelle Kinder of The Momentous Institute led a helpful and useful bonus session on the now well-established connection between mental and emotional health […].

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The Importance of Coaching In A Strategy Execution Program

Six Disciplines

'Most leaders fail to understand the implication of the human nature barriers. Our natural tendency is to do what we like doing, not necessarily what we should. The topic of coaching offers the most insight into what it takes to deliver a complete strategy execution program. Strategy execution coaching implies that an accountability model exists. Employees in organizations will learn to be accountable – that is, they’ll do what is needed and expected – proportionate to the extent in which three

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The Big Picture of Business – Visioning Scope: Applying Vision Toward Your Organization’s Progress

Strategy Driven

'Visioning is the process where good ideas become something more. It is a catalyst toward long-term evaluation, planning and implementation. It is a vantage point by which forward-thinking organizations ask: What will we look like in the future? What do we want to become? How will we evolve? Vision is a realistic picture of what is possible. 7 Steps Toward Strategic Vision.

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Can You Step Back To Lead Forward

Eric Jacobson

'Can you step back to lead forward ? That is the key question for you to answer as you start to read Kevin Cashman''s book, The Pause Principle. Because, Cashman firmly believes that as a leader, you need to pause to lead forward. " What sleep is to the mind and body, pause is to leadership and innovation ," explains Cashman. He goes on to say: Pause transforms management into leadership and the status quo into new realities.

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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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Title – Should You Accept Legal Clauses?

David A Fields

'A question I was asked: Some of my clients have active legal departments who want me to sign a standard agreement that contains all sorts of wacky legal clauses that are in their favor. How do you deal with this? Do you have a language you use? I hate hiring an attorney myself. What would your suggestion be to this consultant? What has worked for you?

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Engaging Leader

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How do you live life on purpose?

Lead Change Blog

'An aerial shot of the sidewalks of any major city bear an amazing resemblance to the view we get as we look down at a large ant den. . Lots and lots of tiny little bodies scurrying as fast as they can, doing what they can for as long as they can. Both are building, gathering food, and protecting their colony. . Each strikes out when attacked, at other times seems completely oblivious to the world around it.

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Being Bilingual Makes You Better at Non-Linguistic Tasks

Harvard Business Review

'In a small study, bilingual people were about a half second faster than monolinguals ( 3.5 versus 4 seconds ) at executing novel instructions such as “add one to x, divide y by two, and sum the results,” say Andrea Stocco and Chantel S. Prat of the University of Washington. The findings are in line with past studies showing that children born into bilingual families exhibit superior performance on non-linguistic tasks.

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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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Live Leadership Notes From Andy Stanley At Catalyst 2014 Final Session

Joseph Lalonde

'A s usual, Andy Stanley closes out the Catalyst Atlanta conference. Even though we saw Andy at the beginning session, it’s always fun to hear him again at the end of the Catalyst Conference. Andy began by talking about Trip and Tyler. They used to work for him at the church but they went off on their own. But Andy doesn’t think about it as losing people but as launching people.

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Regular Exercise Is Part of Your Job

Harvard Business Review

'When we think about the value of exercise, we tend to focus on the physical benefits. Lower blood pressure, a healthier heart, a more attractive physique. But over the past decade, social scientists have quietly amassed compelling evidence suggesting that there is another, more immediate benefit of regular exercise: its impact on the way we think. Studies indicate that our mental firepower is directly linked to our physical regimen.

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The Most Innovative Companies Don’t Worry About Consensus

Harvard Business Review

'Consensus is a powerful tool. When CEOs set out to conquer new markets or undertake billion-dollar acquisitions, we’d hope they’d at least sought out some consensus from their trusted advisors. We hope they’d be as sure as possible that their teams are ready, that their strategies are sound, and that they’d done their diligence. The problem with consensus is that it’s expensive.

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Impact Investing Needs Millennials

Harvard Business Review

'As impact investing tries to make the move from philanthropic thought experiment to powerful instrument for global change, a vital demographic and financial reality is emerging — it’s going to be millennial investors (particularly those inheriting or building significant private wealth) who make or break it. Since the term was coined in 2007 , impact investing — the idea that private capital can be deployed to alleviate pressing social needs like access to clean water, affordable housing or pre

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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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Integrate Analytics Across Your Entire Business

Harvard Business Review

'An Accenture survey conducted last year found that only one in five companies said that they were “very satisfied” with the returns they’ve received from analytics to date. One of the reasons analytics is working for the companies in this select group is because they tend to deploy analytics technologies and expertise across the breadth of the enterprise.

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An Open Office Experiment That Actually Worked

Harvard Business Review

'Nowadays many people regard open-plan offices with skepticism — remnants of a once-cool work space fad that led to more distraction than innovation. As this article explains, there are downsides to too much transparency. But we at The Bridgespan Group decided to test that conventional wisdom six months ago when we moved 70 employees from offices and cubicles on two floors of a building in Boston’s Back Bay to a dramatically different space fashioned out of the gutted top floor of a tower four b

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Integrate Analytics Across Your Entire Business

Harvard Business Review

An Accenture survey conducted last year found that only one in five companies said that they were “very satisfied” with the returns they’ve received from analytics to date. One of the reasons analytics is working for the companies in this select group is because they tend to deploy analytics technologies and expertise across the breadth of the enterprise.