Tue.Jul 07, 2015

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Time Machine Tuesday: Simulated Leadership

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 28 Nov 2013. “No enemy bombs will ever land on Berlin, or my name is not. Hermann Goering.” the leader formerly known as. Hermann Goering. In most organizations, leaders live in an environment of respect, rules, professionalism, and obedience.

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Braithwaite Innovation Group Presents the July 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the July 2015 Leadership Development Carnival! This month brings a treat of 22 leadership posts to savor and share. Topics range from moral character to leadership lessons from World War II to stepping out of comfort zones. Ready to dive in? Art Petty of the Management Excellence Blog by Art Petty shares Leadership Caffeine: Becoming Agile and Adaptable is THE Leadership Issue.

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Are You Creating Purpose Through Your Leadership?

Tanveer Naseer

Over the past few months, I’ve been noticing a common thread in my work with various leaders and organizations, as well through my various speaking engagements with audiences in Canada and the US. Regardless of whether it’s the private or public sector, there’s a clear desire out there among many leaders to understand how to better engage their employees in the work they do.

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July 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

The Lead Change Group is grateful to Jane Perdue of Braithwaite Innovation Group for hosting the July 2015 Leadership Development Carnival. Contributions that incorporated themes of freedom, independence, and pushing boundaries were encouraged. In addition to freedom, independence, and pushing boundaries, we also noted several entries that happened to coincide with the Lead Change July theme of “ creatively resolving conflict.” Here are a few examples: Moral Values.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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How To Build Your Business By Writing Articles

Women on Business

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Manage Your Polarities or They Will Manage You

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Do you ever hear a little voice in the back of your head saying things like: look before you leap … or … two wrongs don’t make a right … or … if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it? We all have tapes running in the background that guide our actions. If you pay attention, you might notice you’re often listening to sayings you learned as a child.

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Simple Strategies to Tap the Power of Letting Go

Leadership Freak

Letting go feels like losing control. Let go to extend capacity, increase energy, and enhance fulfillment, for yourself and for others. It’s time to let go when: Fear of losing control keeps nagging. No one can do it as good as you and talent is under-utilized. Opportunities slip through your fingers. Letting go isn’t: Giving up.

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Remarkable TV: Asking the Right Question

Kevin Eikenberry

If you’re asking these questions of your team, you might be setting yourself (and them) up for failure. Check out today’s Remarkable TV to hear more! Asking the Right Question Click here for just the audio of this episode. Learn more about our Remarkable Leadership Workshop and our Remarkable Coaching Workshop. The question you ask […].

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There Is No Significance Without Character

Lead from Within

He walked into our coaching session smug and proud. He did not think he needed a coach. He didn’t want to work on self –development, nor did he think he needed to. He felt he was fine as he was, successful as he could be and wealthy as he should be for a man in his position. But we soon found out that he appeared much more confident, much more in control, and much more smug than he really was.

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Living in the Age of Airplanes – A Beautiful, Wondrous Film, and a Tutorial on Globalization

First Friday Book Synopsis

Over the weekend, my wife and I took in the Perot Museum. One highlight was the showing of the movie Living in the Age of Airplanes. Narrated by Harrison Ford, it was a wonderful brief history of the airplane. Well, not quite. It was a wonderful look at the impact of the airplane. This is closer. […].

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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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Top 10 Barriers Communicators Face Blog Post Series

leaderCommunicator

When communication is good, it informs. When it’s great, it engages and moves people to action. Today’s employees want more than just information—they want discussion and dialogue. As a communicator, you know all of the benefits that come with effective employee engagement —shared understanding, productivity, innovation, achievement of business goals—can only be realized when a leader prioritizes communication.

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The Stay Interview

CEO Blog

I am still learning at a great rate in my new role as Danby CEO. One of the product lines we sell is air conditioners and dehumidifiers so I now have a different view on hot sticky weather. I am just back from a previously scheduled one week holiday with kids and grandkids. All good. One of the books I was recently asked to review was the Stay Interview - A Managers Guide to Keeping the Best and Brightest by Robert Finnegan People leave managers - not companies.

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Applying Improvement Concepts and Tools to Your Daily Life

Curious Cat

This month the ASQ Influential Voices is taking a bit different approach. This month we are looking at applying quality tools in our personal life based on the post from other influential voice, Sunil Kaushik: How Lean Helped Me Travel To Egypt With Just $500. Sunil is on a nomadic trip around the world to learn and enjoy the experience while also helping others applying lean thinking.

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What if you can get an ROI on Money & Impact?

Mills Scofield

A different way to calculate ROI - on LinkedIn. Return on Investment and Impact are not mutually exclusive - they are mutually reinforcing.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Leadership Caffeine™—Running Uphill Against the Wind

Management Excellence

The oft-cited and disturbingly dismal numbers reported about employee engagement tell an interesting story about leadership effectiveness…or the lack thereof. Even in an environment of aberrant leadership behavior and high levels of unengaged employees, you have the ability and obligation to carve our a "safe" zone where people are treated with respect and support.

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How To Write Your Nonprofit's Annual Report

Eric Jacobson

Here are some tips for leaders responsible for writing an effective annual report for their nonprofit organization. Consider making these objectives for your report: To demonstrate accomplishments ( not activities ) ( results and how you did it). To recognize important people (volunteers, donors, major funders, partners). To provide an account of your organization's work for the past year.

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7 Ways I Partner with My Wife in Ministry

Ron Edmondson

The following question is an actual question I received from a blog reader, but it’s representative of one I frequently receive: Could you share or possibly write a post about your relationship with your wife and how you incorporate or make her feel a part of your ministry and relationships? Great question. I think it is one everyone in ministry should be asking.

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What if you can get an ROI on Money & Impact?

Mills Scofield

A different way to calculate ROI - on LinkedIn. Return on Investment and Impact are not mutually exclusive - they are mutually reinforcing.

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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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Why Leaders Need To Be Unconventional Thinkers

My Own Coach

Leaders in organisations today need to be Unconventiona… The post Why Leaders Need To Be Unconventional Thinkers appeared first on My Own Coach Limited.

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3 Ways Leaders Accidentally Undermine Their Teams’ Creativity

Harvard Business Review

There are a lot of myths and misconceptions about where creativity comes from and how to nurture and grow it in a team. As a result, even well-meaning leaders can end up killing the creativity of a team when they need it most. If your team is in the midst of solving a problem or generating a new product or project idea, you might be killing their creativity without even trying.

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What People Analytics Can’t Capture

Harvard Business Review

After I gave a talk at a global consultancy about how to better handle the strains of extensive travel and demanding clients, one of the consultants took me aside and confided that it’s not just the clients who make them crazy – her own boss was a tyrant and bully who screamed at people for the smallest lapse. He made life so miserable for his direct reports that many of the best had moved on to other companies.

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How to Break Through Deadlock on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

If your team deals with important issues and team members have strong views on those issues, you can end up in a deadlock. When that happens, people dig into their own preferred solutions, operating from a unilateral control mindset where everyone believes that he or she understands the situation and is right, and that those who disagree just don’t understand the situation and are wrong.

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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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What Every Manager Should Know About Machine Learning

Harvard Business Review

Perhaps you heard recently about a new algorithm that can drive a car ? Or invent a recipe? Or scan a picture and find your face in a crowd? It seems as though every week companies are finding new uses for algorithms that adapt as they encounter new data. Last year Wired quoted an ex-Google employee as saying that “Everything in the company is really driven by machine learning.” Machine learning has tremendous potential to transform companies, but in practice it’s mostly far mo

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The Right Way to Plan an Innovation Tour

Harvard Business Review

Kenneth Andersson. Innovation tourism: it’s a thing. The tourists are entrepreneurs looking for the right economic microclimate to start a business; corporate scouts looking to expand their company’s reach or improve their supply chain; policy makers trying to figure out the right balance of rules and infrastructure to create a thriving economy; investors searching for the next crop of opportunities.