Tue.Apr 15, 2014

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What Every Leader Should Know About Organization Culture

Lead Change Blog

'Your behaviors are contagious. Choose carefully. Perhaps you are familiar with a popular insurance company TV ad based on the concept of “paying it forward.” A woman prevents a guy from stepping off the street corner into the path of an oncoming car. The man who observes this from a restaurant window later helps a [.] Author information Mary C Schaefer President at Artemis Path, Inc.

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How Leaders Can Successfully Champion Change

Tanveer Naseer

'When it comes to seeking insights on the best leadership practices, the natural inclination is to look towards successful organizations like Southwest Airlines and Zappos for inspiration and guidance. Not surprisingly, in most countries, one area we often disregard for leadership guidance is the political arena, as most politicians tend to represent examples of what not to do than what leaders should be doing to engage and enable those they serve.

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Assertions & Assessments: What Comes After Your “Ass…”?

Lead Change Blog

'We all know language is key to leadership. The subtleties, nuances, intonations, and gestures have profound effects on leaders’ credibility and on organizations’ success. Yet, while we think about the customers of our products and services, many of us don’t think as much about the ‘hearers’ (customers) of our words when it’s our own people. [.

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10 Ways to Maximize Bad Experiences

Leadership Freak

'A young leader writes, “How do you recover from bad experiences with leadership in a previous job, and from having trust in leadership demolished as a result?

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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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GC26: Online Leadership Training Game | with Kevin Allen from Planet Jockey

Engaging Leader

'The Planet Jockey Game is based on actual situations and dilemmas drawn from the experience of real CEOs and other senior leaders of Fortune 500 companies. Planet Jockey trains users to become emotionally intelligent leaders by adopting the concept of buoyancy, the phenomenon whereby, as a leader, you float because the people you have inspired […].

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Leadership Reflection: The Strength to Change Ourselves

Lead from Within

'He was an elderly man whose face had life written all over it. He sat drinking tea as he reflected on his life: When I was young, I was full of fire and I wanted to awaken everyone. I prayed for enough strength to change the world. In midlife, I awoke one day to realize my life was half over and I had changed no one. I prayed for strength to change those close around me, who so much needed it.

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Steve Jobs

Joseph Lalonde

'R emembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. The post Steve Jobs appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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New eBook—Top 10 Barriers Communicators Face: How to Get Your Leader on Board with Internal Communication

leaderCommunicator

'Helping leaders lead more effectively and courageously is one of the biggest challenges that today’s communication professionals face. Those trained in communication know that all the benefits that come with effective employee engagement—shared understanding, productivity, innovation, achievement of business goals—can only become a reality when a leader prioritizes communication.

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The Energy Efficiency of Trust & Vulnerability

Mills Scofield

'Note: Carl & I met at BIF9. As usually happens, a beautiful friendship and collaboration ensued. Our conversations are like jazz.live, interactive, impromptu. Eavesdrop on one here. Photo: Stephanie Alvarez Ewens. DMS : At BIF, you performed before an audience of over 400 people with two musicians you’d barely met before. It was fabulous – resulting in BIF’s first encore!

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Se7en Deadly Sins Blog Post Series: Sin #2 Hypocrisy

leaderCommunicator

'More than 65 percent of employees rate their level of trust in their leaders as moderate at best. According to the 2013 Global Leadership Pulse Survey conducted by Forum. 1. There is a crisis of trust in business today. You can’t turn on the TV or read a newspaper without seeing how one leader or another has let his or her integrity—or at least good decision making—slip.

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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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The Foolishness of Prejudging – Thoughts about Doug Glanville and his Snow-Covered Driveway (with a Reminder from Gladwell’s Blink)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'We make snap judgments. Sometimes, they are good snap judgments. Sometimes, not so good… Doug Glanville is a retired Major League Ballplayer, now works for ESPN, and a homeowner. And, he is African American. He was shoveling snow off his driveway when a police officer walked up. It is important to note that other folks […].

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Design and Communicate Change webinar: April 23

Change Starts Here

'To influence change across an entire organization requires designing tools, programs and systems to move groups of people in the right direction. These elements help communicate, enable, and motivate change. Your job as change agent is to select the proper tools to influence change, customize them to suit your organization and initiative, and keep track of all the moving parts – and their affect on the change.

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My Top 7 Goals to Accomplish on Easter Sunday

Ron Edmondson

'Easter. It’s a time of year when churches have an opportunity second only to Christmas in attracting visitors. Hopefully all of God’s churches will be packed Easter Sunday. That’s my prayer. We’ve had months of praying, planning and preparing. We’ve done all we can do, but God is ultimately in charge of all that happens in our church — and yours.

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Finding Composure Under Stress

Your Voice of Encouragement

'It was a tremendous opportunity. I’d been invited to speak to 900 entrepreneurs at the fall conference of GKIC, a leading provider of marketing information and tools for building small businesses. I used to deliver training programs and speak on stage regularly, but that hasn’t been a primary focus for me in more than two decades. While I was excited about the chance I’d be given, I knew I needed to prepare thoroughly.

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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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Turning to the crowd for business advice

Chartered Management Institute

'Turning to the crowd for innovative insights is far from a new concept. Innocentive has been providing an ideas marketplace for many years now, whilst organisations are increasingly tapping into insights from their employees for strategy and business planning. A new site is aiming to provide a similar level of crowdsourced insights to small and medium enterprises around the world.

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Powerful Quotes From The Book, Just Listen

Eric Jacobson

'Just Liste n is the book to read to learn the strategies to make you more compelling, and break down the walls that keep you from getting through to the people you need to buy into your ideas and goals. Some of my favorite parts of the book are the following compelling quotes author Mark Goulston includes throughout the book: Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. - Paul Hawken Don''

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Decision-Making Warning Flag 1d – Distinction Without a Difference

Strategy Driven

'“ What is six to one is a half dozen to another.” Unknown. While two or more things may be truly the same, people may attempt to characterize them as being different; drawing attention to characteristics or features that are either exactly or materially the same. These individuals seek to draw a distinction between the subject items where no difference exists.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #58

Rapid BI

' ”There’s even an app that gives you a foot massage! Just set your ringer to ‘vibrate’ and stick it in your sock.

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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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30 Thoughts We All Have in Staff Meetings:

Great Leadership By Dan

'Right before the meeting: 1. Arrgh, I’m supposed to be at a meeting in 10 minutes. What the heck is it for, who’s running it, and where is it? 2. Oh no, it''s the dreaded staff meeting! I’d better take a look at the agenda and make sure I wasn’t supposed do anything to prepare. 3. Dang – we’re supposed to do status updates. No problem, I’ve got 8 more minutes. 4.

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How to Override Your Default Reactions in Tough Moments

Harvard Business Review

'“It’s 9:00am, you’re across the table from a colleague who doesn’t like you or the changes you’re proposing, she’s pushing all your hot-buttons and resisting your efforts to get her to support the change. What’s your typical reaction?” I recently posed this question to a group of executives. About two thirds of the executives admitted that their typical behavior is competitive: return the aggression and argue to win.

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Your Business Doesn’t Always Need to Change

Harvard Business Review

'Evolve or die. If it ain’t broke, break it. If you don’t like change, you are going to like obsolescence even less. By now, the idea that organizations must adapt in order to maintain both relevance and market share in a rapidly changing world is so ingrained that it’s been reduced to pithy sayings. And there are many organizations — from Blockbuster to Kodak, print-only newspapers to pay-phone makers — that no doubt wish they’d followed the advice.

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The Indispensable Power of Story

Harvard Business Review

'Some people have a way of making the complex clear. They know who they are, why they do what they do, and where they want to go. Because they have internalized all this, they are able to sharply crystallize ideas and vision. They speak in simple, relatable terms. And they can get a lot accomplished. Making your words understandable and inspirational isn’t about dumbing them down.

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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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Prototype Your Product, Protect Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

'Designers and entrepreneurs have been experimenting with live prototyping — putting unfinished product ideas in the context of real markets and real customer situations — for years, and now bigger businesses have begun to catch on. Many executives, eager to avoid over-investing in the wrong ideas, are intrigued by this approach, but they’re leery of putting unpolished products and services out in the market.

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Your Ability to Size Up a Face Probably Isn’t Based on Experience

Harvard Business Review

'If adults assume that their ability to discern trustworthiness, or the lack thereof, in strangers’ faces is a skill honed over a lifetime, they’re wrong. Children ages 5 and 6 made very nearly the same judgments about the trustworthiness of computer-generated faces as adults, and children ages 3 to 4 were off by just a few percentage points , says a team led by Emily J.

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To Tell Your Story, Take a Page from Kurt Vonnegut?

Harvard Business Review

'In the 1989 movie Dead Poet’s Society, Robin Williams, playing the iconoclastic English teacher John Keating, dismisses the notion that you can judge the perfection of a poem mathematically by plotting how artfully it employs meter, rhyme, and metaphor against how important the subject is. Rather than have his students think they could graph the relative merits of, say, a Shakespeare sonnet against a poem by Alan Ginsberg, he has them rip up their textbooks.