Wed.Jan 11, 2017

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The Secret Ingredient for Extraordinary Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Do you (or your organization) use the vending machine approach to leadership? That approach is when someone asks the boss a question (inserting the coins) and out pops (like the candy bar, soda, or bag of chips) the correct answer. Fitting the mold. This “all-knowing” expectation is common in many organizations: you, as a leader, are rewarded for looking smart by quickly providing answers.

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Digital Transformation Or Digital Free Fall: What Every CEO Must Know

N2Growth Blog

Every organization occupies a unique place on the spectrum of digital transformation. Whether they have an accurate perception or understanding of what that means to their business is the bigger concern. Some see digital as little more than a portfolio of projects or initiatives to be implemented, others as a problem to be solved or an opportunity to be exploited, and yes, there are always those who fail to see it at all.

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How To Find True Success With Michael Teoh – Answers From Leadership Podcast Episode 29

Joseph Lalonde

The Answers From Leadership Podcast The guest for episode 29 of the Answers From Leadership podcast is Michael Teoh. Michael is a global speaker, consultant, and trainer whose passion is geared towards developing the human potential for success. Michael founded Thriving Talents Pte. Ltd, co-curated TEDxKL and TEDxYouth from 2009-2014, and was appointed as a Global Advisor for Microsoft’s YouthSpark Initiative.

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5 Ways to Create The Invisible Advantage

Leadership Freak

The opposite of innovation isn’t stagnation, it’s slow miserable defeat. The future belongs to organizations that view innovation as an expression of who they are, not something they do.

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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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Top 10 Posts 2016: Leading in Context Blog

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Of the 52 posts published on the Leading in Context Blog in 2016, these 10 were the most popular.

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One Way to Be the Change You Want to See in Your Life

ReImagine Work

You want to eliminate an unhelpful habit, address a hot-button issue or negotiate a change at work. You find yourself hesitant and don’t know where to begin. There’s no substitute for firsthand experience, like this one. I was a young professional on one of my first big business trips. I was attending a weeklong deep-dive professional development session on my own.

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New eBook: Our Top 16 Blog Posts of 2016

leaderCommunicator

What better time than the start of a new year to look back as a way to look forward. Included in our latest free eBook are the most popular leadercommunicator blog posts of 2016, recapping the most read, tweeted, and shared leadership and communication advice.

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The Search for Truth in Leadership

Coaching Tip

Over the course of 29 years as a professional coach, Mike Jay has been in search of the "truth" about development. Now, finally relieved after not finding it, Jay has entered into the age of post-truth! . Let him share briefly with you what he found while traveling, working and living around the "world of development." It’s called LeaderW@RE (It was Behavioral Meta Dynamics but LeaderW@RE seemed more user-friendly.) .

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Two Case Studies in Winning Consulting Business. Connect the Dots.

David A Fields

Two case studies reported to me by consultants in the past couple of weeks: Rich, in South Carolina, nabbed a $64,000 project from a state agency. To win the project, he submitted a proposal that was easily accepted because he was the only consultant bidding.

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How A Lick O’ Paint In The Office Can Foster Creativity

Strategy Driven

Forget about your office for a moment, and think about how you personally would design the perfect space in which to work and play. What would it look like? The chances are that it wouldn’t look much like modern offices today with all their fluorescent lights and gray paint. No – it would be colorful, well designed and bright – an environment that was conducive to human flourishing on a basic level.

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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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3 Ways to Help Creatives On Your Team Flourish

Ron Edmondson

There are some lessons we only learn the hard way. One of those for me has to do with working with creatives. I used to think when leading creatives, the key was to free them to create. I gave huge blank slates, allowed them to dream, and gave them very few parameters of what I was thinking. I’ve learned – the hard way – freedom alone for a creative can spell disaster.

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Going freelance in training, HR or as a coach

Rapid BI

Many trainers, developers, coaches and facilitators occasionally get the urge to jump ship and do their own thing. So what is the difference between those that ‘make it’ and those that don’t? The post Going freelance in training, HR or as a coach appeared first on RapidBi.

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Bring in Outside Experts to Mentor Your Team

Harvard Business Review

Organizations depend increasingly on independent, temporary workers, even for mission-critical work. We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. They contribute technical expertise that an organization does not already have to a critical project or initiative. By providing temporary support, they make it possible for organizations to resource their critical activities more cost efficiently.

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Remote Workers Really are Happier than Office Employees – Infographic

Women on Business

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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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An Inside View of How LVMH Makes Luxury More Sustainable

Harvard Business Review

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. It might seem that luxury goods companies would not feel the same pressure, but the high-end brands face important questions about the way their businesses impact the world.

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The Explainer: Blue Ocean Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Make the competition irrelevant.

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Research: Cracking a Joke at Work Can Make You Seem More Competent

Harvard Business Review

As a society, we often make judgments about people based on small snippets of their behavior. For example, we may judge a person’s confidence, competence, and status on the success of a single joke. Telling a joke to an unfamiliar audience is risky — Will they laugh? Will they be offended? Even if they laugh, will they really think the joke is funny?

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Why It’s So Hard to Train Someone to Make an Ethical Decision

Harvard Business Review

One of the conundrums of ethical decision making is that many moral decisions that are quite straightforward — even easy — to resolve in a classroom or during training exercises seem far more difficult to successfully resolve when confronted during actual day-to-day decision making. Take the decision of Sam Waksal, the former CEO of the emerging biotechnology company ImClone Systems.

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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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Stop Waiting for Governments to Close the Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

Donald Trump was elected with the promise to “make America great again.” But America was already great for some people. For example, America has been good for investors: The Dow Jones was at a record high before Trump got elected, and it has risen further since the election. But the country has not been great for workers, who have seen their wages stagnate or decline over the past 15–20 years.

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