Thu.Aug 28, 2014

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Be a Pioneer: Five Power Tips For Moving Onward

Lead Change Blog

'“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist.” -Unknown Somewhere around the junior high school years, our U.S. history classes cover the compelling stories of trailblazing people venturing west—crossing the plains ISO (In Search Of) new country and treasures. As I remember studying those [.] Author information Deborah L.

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Check Out Today’s 200-Second Soundbite™ Video Spotlight!

General Leadership

'A supertanker leader is one who pushes aside the normal procedures and looks at a problem from a completely different perspective. He chooses to embrace the discomfort of change and reacts by pushing through that discomfort towards a goal on the other side. The disruption in the organization causes ripples that spread behind the leader and force change rapidly to compensate for the imbalance.

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Three of the Most Common Delegation Ah-ha’s

Next Level Blog

'One of the biggest shifts that most rising leaders have to make is the shift from being the go-to person to someone who builds teams of go-to people. As you take on more and more scope in your leadership role, you can’t continue to operate as the go-to person who acts as if you’re personally responsible for everything that happens. You need to be accountable and own the results but you can’t expect yourself to do everything that leads to the results.

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6 Reasons Women Have Problems Getting Loans

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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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 Change Lives with Two Words

Leadership Freak

'Tell people they’re inadequate long enough and they’ll believe it. Undermine their confidence with constant correction, tweaking, and complaints and they’ll pull back. Fill people with confidence and they’ll act with boldness.

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How to Use Team Building Activities in the Classroom

Lead by Adventure

'This week’s post is dedicated to teachers everywhere. You are a hard-working bunch, and I admire what you do and the dedication you bring day in and day out. I have a lot of gratitude and respect for educators. I consider myself an educator; although, not in the traditional sense. Here are some suggestions on how to use different kinds of team building exercises in the classroom.

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Don't Forget Your Middle-Layer Employees

Eric Jacobson

'As a leader, your focus may gravitate toward your lower level employees and your higher level employees on your team. But, don''t forget your middle-layer employees who appreciate your attention and coaching, and your training and opportunities for new challenges. Often these employees are more eager to learn and to tackle new projects because they have the drive to move up and to learn new skills.

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Carmine Gallo on Talking Like TED: A third interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'A global best-selling author, Carmine Gallo is also a former reporter and anchor for CNN and CBS. He has sat down with many of the most dynamic and respected business leaders of our time. In these interviews, Carmine gained insight into what makes a great leader. Great leaders are also great communicators. He formed Gallo […]. Bob''s blog entries 10 Simple Secrets of the World’s Greatest Business Communicators: How you too can learn the presentation secrets behind today’s greatest CEOs Ca

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Improve the Writer/Commenter Relationship by Leaving Moderation to Moderators

Managing Communities

'Please Update Your ManagingCommunities.com RSS Feed Subscription This feed has moved to: [link] I apologize for the trouble. For more details, please read my post on the matter. Thank you.

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Jesus Inner Leadership Circle

Ron Edmondson

'Jesus had an inner circle of leadership. It sounds exclusive. And it was. But you should have one too. Matthew 15:32 Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.”. It’s a leadership principle we can learn from and should implement also.

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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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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #155

Rapid BI

'“If you know how to beg, we may have a position for you in Accounts Receivable.” Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. see more office humor.

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The Real Reason Companies Are Spending Less on Tech

Harvard Business Review

'After the dot-com bubble, investment in software and information processing equipment in the U.S. tumbled, and stayed down. As a percentage of GDP, it’s now back to mid-1990s levels: There’s a version of the chart above in the much - discussed paper that MIT economist David Autor presented last week at the Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole meeting.

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Coaching Conscious Leadership

Coaching Tip

' . ABOVE THE LINE. OPEN CURIOUS COMMITTED TO LEARNING. __. BELOW THE LINE. CLOSED DEFENSIVE COMMITTED TO BEING RIGHT. The first mark of conscious leaders is self-awareness and the ability to tell themselves the truth. It matters far more that leaders can accurately determine whether they are above or below the line in any moment than where they actually are.

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Score a Meeting with Just About Anyone

Harvard Business Review

'We’re all inundated with meeting requests these days. It’s easy to say no to the egregious ones, like the stranger who recently emailed me to suggest that I meet with him on a specific date so I could provide him with free career coaching. But — though I know better than to ask for pro bono resume critiques — I’ve certainly been on the other side of the equation at various times, having my meeting requests turned down or ignored altogether.

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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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Smart Watches: Ravishing, and Creepier than Google Glass

Harvard Business Review

'Samsung’s new Gear S smart watch , introduced yesterday, is ravishing. The sexy, curved screen, the fact it’s a 3G phone, the 4GB of storage. It may well inspire that techlust that periodically sends hipsters and Valley bros into a tizzy, like the iPhone, or Google Glass. The initial lust for Glass, though, has given way to skepticism , even rage.

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Market Basket’s Employees Were More Important Than Its Shareholders

Harvard Business Review

'Over the past half century, the question of who’s really in charge at a corporation has come to receive a pretty simple answer. It’s the shareholders, of course. They’re the ones who bear the residual risk of corporate actions, so they should get final say. Any theory of corporate governance that assigns roles to other stakeholders such as customers or employees has been vulnerable to the criticism that it’s too complicated to work.

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Reclaiming Your Turf After Maternity Leave

Harvard Business Review

'We’d all like to believe that when we return from maternity leave, our bosses, colleagues and subordinates will welcome us back, and maybe even demonstrate some patience and supportiveness. Unfortunately, that’s not always what goes down. Too often, bosses are insufficiently empathic and organizations do not provide enough flexibility. However, in my own experience, both as a new mother in the corporate world, and as an executive coach who has worked with women who are ascending to senior leade

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What Baseball Fans Really Love: Doubt About the Outcome

Harvard Business Review

'In major league baseball’s first half-century, game attendance was entirely determined by teams’ winning percentages, but in recent decades fans have been increasingly attracted by stadium quality, batting performance, and outcome uncertainty, raising the importance of competition-enhancing policies such as player free agency, say Seung C. Ahn of Arizona State University and Young H.

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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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What the Lending Club IPO Means for Business

Harvard Business Review

'Lending Club, a San Francisco-based peer-to-peer lending start-up, filed for an IPO yesterday, hoping to raise half a billion dollars at a $5 billion valuation. The company’s original focus was personal lending – individuals borrowing a few thousand dollars here and there to pay off credit card bills or fund a home improvement project. But as of earlier this year, the company has expanded into the world of commercial loans , specifically for small businesses.

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Privacy’s Shrinking Future

Harvard Business Review

'Scott Berinato , senior editor at Harvard Business Review, on how companies benefit from transparency about customer data. For more, read “Pushing the Limits of Personalization” in the September 2014 issue of HBR. Download this podcast.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

'A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses.

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In America, Labor Is Friendless

Harvard Business Review

'I imagine that labor is feeling quite wistful about Labor Day 2014. It has been a while since labor, especially organized labor, has had much to celebrate. And the prospects going forward aren’t particularly bright. Real wages for production and non-supervisory workers have declined since the mid-1970s. The share of jobs that are unionized has plummeted back almost to the level it was before 1935 when the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) facilitated a huge increase in unionization.

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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.