Thu.Nov 13, 2014

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Embrace Discomfort

Lead Change Blog

'Over time, I’ve learned that one of the most important things you can do to advance your own life is to become comfortable with discomfort. Dis comfort is essential to personal progress, growth, and development. So important is discomfort to personal development, that there’s even an educational term for that uncomfortable place where learning happens: the zone of proximal development.

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Engaging Your Team in Three Steps

Great Leadership By Dan

'Guest post from Chris Ruisi : Achieving collective employee engagement is a challenge for most companies, especially in today’s delicate economy. It’s crucial for business leaders to engage their workers in order to prosper. What is an engaged employee? This team member is fully invested and enthusiastic in their work because they identify with the company’s overall vision and feel their job responsibilities contribute to the company goals.

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Are You Building Your Business Based on Relationships?

Women on Business

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Seven Things Leaders Can Learn from Bill Clinton About Connecting with People

Next Level Blog

'Delivering his monologue after the midterm elections last week, David Letterman was talking about President Obama’s low approval ratings and landed a great line: “Take a look at this: gas under $3 a gallon – under $3 a gallon. Unemployment under 6%, whoever thought? Stock market breaking records every day. No wonder the guy is so unpopular.”. As Letterman said, before delivering his punch line, being President of the United States is a “lonely, lonely gig.”.

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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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Let Go of Control But Keep Responsibility

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

'Last week I had the honor and pleasure of co-chairing the Berrett-Koehler Authors Cooperative annual retreat, attended by over 70 people – ranging in age from 25 to 83, and enriched with authors from Slovenia, Singapore and Australia. Each year I look forward to this retreat where I gather with fellow authors and community members to exchange ideas, connect around issues, and deepen friendships.

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12 Ways to Get Serious about Fun

Leadership Freak

'The law of the sad face says the more important leaders are the less they smile. You can’t milk fun out of self-important, problem-centric leaders.

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Thinking Fast, While Executing Slowly

CO2

'by Gary Cohen. Thinking Fast as an Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial leaders are open-minded, energetic, and always questioning. They ask: How can we do it better? Where should we go from here? What is preventing us from taking action, and how can it be overcome? Couldn’t we do this and that? These questions lead to millions of ideas, and entrepreneurial leaders tend to see opportunities everywhere!

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Be the Best Bad Presenter

Coaching Tip

' According to Forbes , 90% of all people have anxiety about public speaking. Everyone''s heard tips like "Picture your audience in their underwear," and "Practice in front of a mirror," but Karen Hough has written " Be the Best Bad Presenter Ever " to help the 90% feel truly confident in presentations--by being our authentic selves. You can''t be authentic if you''re following rules that drain the life and personality out of your presentation, Hough says.

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Get Out of Your Rut – Get Into Your Groove (Insight from Twyla Tharp, & a little Taylor Swift)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Everybody’s complaining about how music sales are shrinking, but nobody’s changing the way they’re doing things. Taylor Swift; From Taylor Swift on 1989, Spotify, Her Next Tour and Female Role Models When optimism turns to pessimism during the creative process, you are in a serious, dangerous rut. So serious that it can become the mother […].

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Entrepreneurial Leadership: Thinking Fast, While Executing Slowly

CO2

Thinking Fast as an Entrepreneur Entrepreneurial leaders are open-minded, energetic, and always questioning. They ask: How can we do it better? Where should we go from here? What is preventing us from taking action, and how can it be overcome? Couldn’t we do this and that? These questions lead to millions of ideas, and entrepreneurial leaders tend to see opportunities everywhere!

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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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Get Out of Your Rut – Get Into Your Groove (Insight from Twyla Tharp, & a little Taylor Swift)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Everybody’s complaining about how music sales are shrinking, but nobody’s changing the way they’re doing things. Taylor Swift; From Taylor Swift on 1989, Spotify, Her Next Tour and Female Role Models When optimism turns to pessimism during the creative process, you are in a serious, dangerous rut. So serious that it can become the mother […].

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How To Project A Professional Image

Eric Jacobson

'From Jay Miletsky''s book, 101 Ways to Successfully Market Yourself , here 10 tips for projecting an effective professional image : Discipline yourself to be positive and enthusiastic. In tense situations choose positive responses by maintaining perspective and getting along well with others. Acknowledge mistakes and shortcomings and learn how to correct them.

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Be Creative, Be Innovative – Repeat, and Repeat, and……….

First Friday Book Synopsis

'We all know that we have to work on this. Book after book after article after presentation after seminar and workshop all saying the same thing. The future belongs to the company that comes up with the next new big thing. To come up with that next new big thing will take great creativity and […].

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Private Messages: Not Flashy, But a Must Have for Community Managers and Staff

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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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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Thinking Fast, While Executing Slowly

CO2

Thinking Fast as an Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial leaders are open-minded, energetic, and always questioning. They ask: How can we do it better? Where should we go from here? What is preventing us from taking action, and how can it be overcome? Couldn’t we do this and that? These questions lead to millions of ideas, and entrepreneurial leaders tend to see opportunities everywhere!

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #210

Rapid BI

'“E-mail, voice mail, text messages, contacts, appointments, reminders, social media, news, sports, weather, banking…that’s a lot of responsibility for such a little guy!” Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. see more office humor Tweets by @RapidBI See some of our […].

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An Easy Way to Make Your Employees Happier

Harvard Business Review

Morale 13
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7 Bad Decisions in a Declining or Plateauing Organization

Ron Edmondson

'Recently I wrote a post about 7 tensions in fast growth situations. I have had the pleasure of leading (and am today) in churches and a business in fast growth mode. Thankfully. As exciting as those seasons are, they do produce some tension. But, I have to be honest. Equally important, in the formation of me as a leader, is that I’ve had great experience in leading through difficult days also.

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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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An Easy Way to Make Your Employees Happier

Harvard Business Review

Morale 13