Tue.Oct 14, 2014

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Are You Using The Right V.I.C.E. Grip?

Lead Change Blog

'Leaders with any size team in any size of an organization have to ensure they are using the right tools in order to achieve elite performance. If you are trying to build a house with the wrong tools you won’t ever be able to build it. If you are trying to lead a team to deliver world class results with the wrong tools you won’t even be able to lay the foundation.

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Leading Rookie Talent: A Sizing Guide for Stretch Assignments

Leading Blog

'Rookies: Bumbling newbies that require copious management? Or underutilized top performers that need to be turned loose? While we often think of newcomers (be they young employees or experienced staff from another arena) as empty vessels that need to be filled up, my research shows that being a rookie – facing a new problem or a challenge for the first time – can provoke top performance.

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6 Simple Leadership Don’ts and Dos

Great Leadership By Dan

'Sometimes we tend to "complexify" things. Things like leadership. That''s why I love Bill Treasurer''s guest post over at About.com Leadership and Management: 6 Simple Leadership Don’ts and Dos.

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Leadership Infrastructure – A Prerequisite To Mightiness

Tanveer Naseer

'The following is a guest piece by Robert Sher. As a society, our physical infrastructure consists of the structures that support us: roads, bridges, water pipes and pumps, sewers and generators, cellular towers, and the acres of servers and miles of wires that give us the Internet. These structures sustain us, delivering what we need to survive and thrive.

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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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How to Rise Above Overworked and Overwhelmed

Leadership Freak

'How can you overcome things that prevent you from being at your best? “There are simple, relatively easy steps you can take to pull your life from the brink.

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Remarkable TV: How Assumptions Get in Our Way [VIDEO]

Kevin Eikenberry

'We’ve probably all heard what they say about the word “assume” and when it’s broken into parts… And we all make assumptions as communicators. Check out today’s Remarkable TV for tips on breaking through the interference of assumptions to better communicate. I’m Kevin Eikenberry – and I’m here to help you reach your potential as […].

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Invest in Tomorrow’s Leaders Today

Lead from Within

'Leaders at every level understand that the world is changing, and changing rapidly. If we want to remain effective, the most valuable investment we can make is the development of our leaders today to ensure great leadership tomorrow. When we invest in leadership for the future we need to ensure that we can keep up, both with technology and with increasing levels of interconnection and interdependence.

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Se7en Deadly Sins Blog Post Series: Sin #7 Irrelevance

leaderCommunicator

'Do you feel like people in your company are walking around with blinders on? Like every project exists in a bubble? Like no one has any idea how what they’re doing fits into the grand scheme of the company mission? That’s because leadership is guilty of our final Deadly Sin: Irrelevance, they fail to provide meaningful context for project and company goals and objectives.

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Fail Better

Coaching Tip

'Failure''s inevitability could be a good thing. Unpredictability make life and work interesting by adding an element of suspense and raising the stakes, which in turn drives engagement and enables meaning. It allows discovery, surprises and novel solutions to emerge. Under the right circumstances for learning, the experience of failure sparks new rounds of problem solving, unleashing innovation and creativity.

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Leaders and Ingenuity

Lead by Adventure

'I was in Austin last week attending and speaking at a conference for educators, and it has been quite the experience. In the three days that I was there, I noticed several interesting business concepts that I had no idea even existed. One interesting concept was for bikes that you could rent from one place (self-service) and drop off at a number of different locations.

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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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Interview: The Four Workplace Conversations

Change Starts Here

'In this episode, workplace communication expert Skip Weisman shares the four conversations that happen at work, three of which create low morale, low productivity and kill profits. Which one works? Listen to find out The Four Workplace Conversations, how and why they occur and specific strategies to move to the one “right” conversation.

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Three Steps for Building a New Habit

Your Voice of Encouragement

'When you decide to make a change, you''ve taken an important step. Now you need to follow through on your commitment. But there’s a problem. As you begin this undertaking, you find that your old way of doing things kicks in more often than the new way. That’s because your brain is literally wired – it has physical connections – for the familiar pattern you’ve been using.

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7 Commandments of a Great Marriage

Ron Edmondson

'I have an advanced degree in counseling and hundreds of hours experience working with couples. I’ve taught marriage retreats for years. I wouldn’t say I’m an “expert” in marriage — because I’m married — and my wife reads my blog. That would be a stretch. Actually, I know more to do than I have the practice of doing.

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John Jantsch Flips The Usual Sales Approach On Its Head

Eric Jacobson

'Author John Jantsch flips the usual sales approach on its head in his book, Duct Tape Selling: Think Like a Marketer, Sell Like a Superstar. Today''s sales superstars must attract, teach, convert, serve, and measure while developing a personal brand that stands for trust and expertise. According to Jantsch: Listening is the new prospecting. Educating is the new presenting.

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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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Xiaomi, Not Apple, Is Changing the Smartphone Industry

Harvard Business Review

'Determining which customer to target first is one of the most critical decisions in the entrepreneurial process. Customers that are relatively less risky and more predictable can make it easier for new to firms gain a market foothold. One such set of customers is the nascent middle class in emerging economies. Why? First, as their financial situation improves they are anxious to buy new things.

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“Design” Trumps “Random” – One Message from Peter Thiel in Zero to One

First Friday Book Synopsis

'After praising the “design” brilliance of Steve Jobs, Peter Thiel tells this story in his book Zero to One: When Yahoo! Offered to buy Facebook for $1 billion in July, 2006, I thought we should at least consider it. But Mark Zuckerberg walked into the board meeting and announced: “Okay, guys, this is just a […].

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The Benefits of Giving Away What Your Company Knows

Harvard Business Review

'With 1.4 million customers and an annual revenue of 4 million dollars, social media service Buffer has grown by introducing useful products and exemplary customer service. But its real power and growth comes from something more fundamental — its commitment to being generative. Buffer builds tools to help businesses manage and analyze their social media activity.

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Think You’ll Feel Good After Telling Your Awesome Tale? Think Again

Harvard Business Review

'People tend to expect that if they’ve had an extraordinary experience, they’ll feel good after chatting about it with others who have missed out. But in an experiment, participants who saw a really good video of a street performer and then discussed it with others ended up feeling more excluded if the others had seen a mere low-budget animation: They reported feeling an average of 80 on a 100-point exclusion scale, versus 51 reported by those who had seen the animation.

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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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The Condensed November 2014 Issue

Harvard Business Review

'Amy Bernstein , editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features. For more, see the November 2014 issue of HBR. Download this podcast.

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Get Your Pitch Noticed by a Major Publisher

Harvard Business Review

'Today, editorial voices are outnumbered by public relations professionals by almost 5:1 – something most publishers lament. The problem with this plague of pitches is that publishers have had enough, and they’re beginning to implement strict spam filters to keep public relations pitches out of their inboxes. In an effort to raise awareness, I conducted an exclusive survey with more than 500 leading digital publishers to find out what we can do to improve the noise-to-value ratio for people who

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Zumba’s Success Arose from Long-Term Trends

Harvard Business Review

'How do some brands manage to resonate so strongly with the public that they seem to get woven into the fibers of culture? How do their taglines become rallying cries for change (“Where’s the beef?”), their brand names become verbs (“to google” stands for “to search online”), and their products create completely new lifestyles (Apple iPad)?

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The Internet of Things Is More than Just a Bunch of Refrigerators

Harvard Business Review

'The Internet of Things is definitely becoming a Thing, in the same way that big data’s a Thing or the sharing economy’s a Thing. And the thing about a thing that becomes a Thing is, it’s easy to lose sight of the things that made it a thing before everyone declared it the Next Big Thing that will change everything. Got it? Good. We’ll start there.

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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.