Fri.Jan 24, 2014

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Getting Past Fake Talk at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

'Fake talk diminishes relationships, slows work down, and jeapordizes results. At yet, the B.S. factor is alive and well in corporate America. We need more straight talk about fake talk. Fake talk is attractive as an easy way out. But when fake talk’s the norm, the real game becomes guessing what’s really happening or what […] The post Getting Past Fake Talk at Work appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Applying Neuroscience for New Leadership Results

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Development [link] Today’s article is from Rebel Brown, someone I admire greatly for constantly learning and leading the way to applying new knowledge and ideas to help us all be better and do better. Her latest work, The Influential Leader, is no exception. All leaders face similar questions. Why are humans so darned unpredictable?

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Collecting Junk

Joseph Lalonde

'T here’s been a lot written about having a clean workspace. My workspace could be considered far from clean. When I look around my home office, I see Christian music posters from a web-based business that’s no longer active, various electronic gadgets, music CDs (do you remember those), and a bunch of random junk. Image by David Hunter.

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Who are the Real Leaders?

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Development As we get closer to the Super Bowl, I’ve got an American Football analogy to consider. On a football team, who are the leaders? By “leader” I mean who is voluntarily granted the most influence with other members of the team? Who is the most influential member of the team? We don’t often think of [.] Author information Mike Henry Chief Instigator at Lead Change Group Mike is the Chief Instigator of the Lead Change Group and co-author with 20 other L

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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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Is the Boardroom Your Career North Star?

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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A Powerful Path to Influential Connection

Leadership Freak

'Masking weakness keeps people at arms length. Leaders who pretend they do all things well have shallow connections. I’m put off by insecure braggarts. Leaders without frailties are fakers. But… Frailties are channels of connection. I notice how people connect with vulnerability after presentations I give on Social Media. Every country in the world has Leadership […].

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What happens when the team stops working and how can I fix it?

Mike Cardus

'Working on a team can be rewarding and increase productivity OR it can be a nightmare and make everything more awful. What happens when the team stops working & how can I fix it? It happens to most teams: at some point, the team doesn’t seem to be working as well as it should. You may have a nagging suspicion that things could be more efficient…or it may be very obvious that the work just isn’t getting done.

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Weekly Round-Up: On Leadership & Effective Communication

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 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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David Burkus: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'David Burkus is the author of The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas. David is Assistant Professor of Management at the College of Business at Oral Roberts University, where he teaches courses on leadership, creativity, strategy, and organizational behavior. He is the founder and host LDRLB, a […].

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Margulis & Sagan on Life

Tony Mayo

'Life did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking. Margulis & Sagan [widow and daughter, respectively, of astronomer Carl Sagan] in Microcosmos.

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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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Too Many Strategic Initiatives?

Six Disciplines

'Is your organization "drowning" in too many strategic initiatives? If you''re evaluating far more opportunities than your team can realistically handle, it''s time to do a serious screening of those initiatives. . According to Robert W. Bradford, President/CEO of the Center for Simplified Strategic Planning, your organization should only take on between 3 - 10 strategic opportunities, depending on the size, breadth of your team and its resources.

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How to spread innovation and customer-focused practices?

Coaching Tip

'Ignorance, mediocrity, and mistakes run rampant when organizations fail to link the right people to the right information at the right time. But, if your organization has a bit of excellence, a "pocket of goodness," how do you spread it to others? The short answer is: teach a class, coach key managers, "infect" a few colleagues and a new positive culture will spread.

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What is Managerial Love? It is the key to success for Engagement. And why we should be giving more of it.

Management Craft

'I have been teaching quite a bit lately and I have been talking about the concept of managerial love. It resonates with folks, but it is a slow burn - meaning that I can see their minds churning on the idea and then they start having flashes of what that might mean for them and then, oh yeah! The idea sinks in. Here is a descritption of managerial love, which is the key to success for Employee Engagement: BTW, this all is based on my view of Accountability and Engagement, which you can read abo

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7 Ways I Deal With Fatigue as a Leader

Ron Edmondson

'I posted recently on what happens when I’m tired. It isn’t pretty. (See that post HERE.) I hear someone say every day “I’m so tired” It’s epidemic it seems. There appears to be a lot of fatigue in our world these days. I know it’s true of those in ministry. Someone asked me how to deal with the issue, besides the simple answer of rest.

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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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Proud To Be No. 55 On This Top 100 Leadership Blog List

Eric Jacobson

'Thanks to Center for Management and Organization Effectiveness , and honored and humbled to be No. 55 on this list of 2013''s Top 100 Socially-Shared Leadership Blogs. And, be sure to check out: No. 1 No. 15 No. 42 No. 43 No. 75.any my all-time favorite for some of the most compelling content on leadership, No. 18 ! Thank you for reading my blog and sharing my posts!

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The Great Leap Generation F Needs to Make

Harvard Business Review

'Imagine a towering, sheer cliff. Imagine a deep canyon below, full of ruined cities. Now imagine, on the canyon’s other side, a bountiful plain, rippling in the breeze, stretching into the sunset. Welcome to the economy of the twenty-first century. For young people today, the economy basically feels something like the portrait above, and they’re the ones stuck at the bottom of the ravine.

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It’s Your ‘Reputation’ Stupid: the Real ‘R’ in CRM

Strategy Driven

'As the co-inventor of ACT! contact management software, the product credited as the catalyst for the Customer Relationship Management industry, I’m surprisingly not a champion of the concept of ‘managing relationships’ at all. I don’t think entering data, scheduling activities, or even communicating with someone amounts to ‘management’ in any meaningful way.

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If You’ve Just Taken Over a Team, Quickly Let Underperformers Go

Harvard Business Review

'The best way for a manager to be successful is to build a top-notch team. But when most managers take on new positions, they hesitate to act quickly in replacing poor performing incumbents. Months later, when reflecting on what they could have done differently, almost all of these managers say that they should have moved faster in making the tough “people calls.”.

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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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We Can’t Afford to Leave Inequality to the Economists

Harvard Business Review

'Americans are about as likely to move from one income quintile to another as they used to be. That, put as prosaically as possible, was the big economic news of the week, as the epic income-mobility study led by Harvard’s Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren, UC Berkeley’s Patrick Kline and Emmanuel Saez, and the U.S. Treasury Department’s Nicholas Turner generated another data-rich installment.

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The Largest Risk (and Opportunity) Investors Are Ignoring

Harvard Business Review

'Tackling climate change — and thus keeping the world inhabitable — is an achievable goal, but it will become prohibitively expensive if we wait to act. This is the key message from a leaked United Nations study that The New York Times reported on last week. Journalist Justin Gillis wrote about the risk of “severe economic disruption” and “wildly expensive” solutions — ones that may not even exist — if we don’t leverage existing technologies to shift the global economy away from carbon over the

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Why Top 40 Radio Plays Fewer Songs, and Plays Them More Often

Harvard Business Review

'Because improved monitoring of consumers’ radio habits shows that listeners pay attention only when they hear songs they know, Top 40 radio stations, facing intense digital competition, play a lot fewer songs now—and play them with greater frequency—than in the past, says the Wall Street Journal. In 2013, the top 10 songs were played nearly twice as much as the top 10 a decade ago.

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Research: Don’t Offshore Your R&D

Harvard Business Review

'Just because a company can offshore some portion of its operations doesn’t mean it should. The benefits might come in the form of easily recognized savings on the balance sheet, but the costs may accrue over time in the more obscure form of added organizational complexity. That appears to be the case with the offshoring of research and development, according to a new paper from the Center for European Economic Research.

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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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The Unspeakable Davos

Harvard Business Review

'“Oh, you’re a Davos virgin!” a colleague teased me last year upon learning that I was about to join, for the first time, the contingent of academics, journalists, artists, and public servants who orbit around the rich and powerful at the Alpine gathering of the World Economic Forum. I quipped back that I’d let her know if I enjoyed it, but the metaphor has stuck with me.

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Yes, Your Company Can Wipe Your Personal Phone (for Now)

Harvard Business Review

'Work, Life, and Data BYOD? Leaving a Job Can Mean Losing Pictures of Grandma The Wall Street Journal The most common complaint the nonprofit National Workrights Institute receives from workers is phone wiping — companies remotely clearing out the contents of personal smartphones that employees sometimes use for work purposes. In fact, a recent survey by Acronis found that 21% of companies "perform remote wipes when an employee quits or is terminated.