General Leadership
AUGUST 21, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Henry Ford. As a freshman engineering student, I remember vividly the day my professor announced we needed to know the answer before we performed the calculations.
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 21, 2015
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard people confess to their fear of failure as the reason for abandoning their dreams, I’d be a wealthy woman today. And yet failure, however much we might fear it, is often how we learn best, if we’ll open ourselves to the learning along the way. Unfortunately, fear rarely travels alone. Failure is often how we learn best.
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Women on Business
AUGUST 21, 2015
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Joseph Lalonde
AUGUST 21, 2015
W e’re all trying to get somewhere or become something better. We purchase programs that promise to make us a better person. We attend seminars that are supposed to improve our self-esteem. We watch videos that promise to show us the way. Image via Creative Commons. What’s The Process? The process is simple. The process is the journey we take from where we’re at to where we belong.
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Leadership Freak
AUGUST 21, 2015
Every organization has a bottom 10% of employees, leaders, and managers who perform poorly. Your goal, if you can’t remove the bottom 10% is to maximize the situation. 7 reasons for poor performance: Negative environments where managers are dictatorial, disconnected, or incompetent. Leadership that tolerates poor performers. No honor for high performers.
Coaching Tip
AUGUST 21, 2015
Markets are moving! Want to get onboard? By Elliott Wave International. "When the alarm goes off and the dreamers awake, it will be pandemonium in the stock market." -- Bob Prechter, from the just-released Elliott Wave Theorist. You would agree that markets around the world have served investors a lot of surprises lately: Crude oil just fell to $40 a barrel, a 6 1/2-year low.
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First Friday Book Synopsis
AUGUST 21, 2015
Here’s a rather obvious observation: people who work on the same thing over the long haul are generally much more knowledgeable than those who just dabble. The folks at Sandler Training (Acuity Systems) do not dabble! Yes, they are our sponsor for 2015. But we were glad to welcome them as our sponsor, because we… Read More You’ve Got Millennials On Your Sales Team (or, will soon) – L’areal Lipkins of Acuity Systems can help you work with them more effectively.
Rapid BI
AUGUST 21, 2015
Some office fun for a Friday afternoon – Blue Fun Friday – weekly office cartoon #301 “Yes, the shirt on page 41 is available in blue. Did you mean coral blue, springtime blue, granite blue, berry blue, checkbook blue, cotton candy blue, poodle blue, antifreeze blue, bodacious blue, hillbilly blue, heavenly blue, varicose blue, wheatgrass […].
CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!
AUGUST 21, 2015
Die IT-Branche definiert mit agilen Ansätzen wie Scrum den Standard für kurze Produktentwicklungszyklen. Durch die Nutzung innovativer Zusammenarbeitsmodelle werden neue Produkte kundenorientiert und mit hoher Effizienz entwickelt. Unternehmen aus der Industrie beraten sich ab sofort auf unserer Plattform über den Einsatz agiler Methoden im Bereich der Produktentwicklung und des Produktmanagements.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 21, 2015
Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our August Festival is all about communication. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Festival is all about Building Effective Peer Relationships. New contributors welcome. Refining Your Personal Communication Style.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 21, 2015
Micromanaging is a hard habit to break. You may downplay your propensities by labeling yourself a “ control freak ” or by claiming that you just like to keep close tabs on your team, but those are poor excuses for excessive meddling. What can you do to give your people the space they need to succeed and learn? How should you prioritize what matters?
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 21, 2015
During one of my very first consulting assignments, a colleague and I interviewed direct reports of the Chief Information Officer of a chemical company about improving project execution. We consistently heard that the CIO was autocratic and intimidating, and that his people were afraid to talk openly about mistakes. Knowing that this was an important issue for project success, we met with the CIO alone and, with some trepidation, gave him this feedback — direct and to the point.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 21, 2015
This week, two women will earn the Ranger tab for the first time. But the path to this day began decades ago, with the women have already served and sacrificed on the battlefield alongside Rangers and SEALs. Those earlier experiences are an important study in building teams, breaking ground on behalf of mission success, and successfully integrating new groups into the established order.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 21, 2015
Setting the right price for your product or service is hard. In fact, determining price is one of the toughest things a marketer has to do, in large part because it has such a big impact on the company’s bottom line. One of the critical elements of pricing is understanding what economists call price elasticity. To better understand this concept and how it impacts marketing, I talked with Jill Avery, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and an author of HBR’s Go To Market Tool
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From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 21, 2015
Recently, a federal district judge in California began hearings in a case aiming to determine whether Uber drivers should be legally considered employees instead of independent contractors. Several other similar cases involving other service marketplaces (e.g. Postmates, Lyft, Washio) are also under way. Whether Uber’s drivers and the workers for other service marketplaces fall on one side or the other of the dividing line between independent contractors and employees as currently construe
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