Tue.Apr 26, 2016

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5 Ways Forgiveness Lowers Accountability and Influence

Lead Change Blog

Forgive and forget…. If we want to be seen as good people, that’s what we do every time someone has caused us pain. Maybe she didn’t hand in that report you needed on time, so you had to work an extra three hours, missing your daughter’s volleyball game. Or maybe your coworker cut you off mid-sentence in a meeting and then later reiterated an idea of yours that he claimed as his own.

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Where Do We Go Next After We Succeed?

Tanveer Naseer

So you achieved that long sought-after success at work – great! Everyone is cheering you on, applauding your success while you enjoy your time in the limelight. But as time moves on, your colleagues start to focus on other matters and that success that garnered you all those accolades and praise slowly dims, leaving you with one uncomfortable and glaring question – what do I do now?

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Making Sense of Speed, Agility and Innovation

Leading Blog

This is a post by Jeffrey Phillips and Alex Verjovsky authors of Outmaneuver: OutThink, don’t OutSpend. Every executive knows that speed is important. Meg Whitman at Hewlett-Packard declared recently that “the future belongs to the fast.” But is speed enough? If you can simply accelerate the current activities, products and strategies that your business implements, will that help you win in the future?

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Asking the Right Questions

Women on Business

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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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WHE29: Behavioral Economics for Business Leaders: Turn Good Intentions into Positive Results | with Bob Nease

Engaging Leader

The new book, The Power of Fifty Bits: The New Science of Turning Good Intentions into Positive Results, by Bob Nease, PhD, is the first practical guide for business leaders to apply behavioral economics to activate the good intentions of people in their workforce. Behavioral economics has shown that people’s choices and actions often are […] The new book, The Power of Fifty Bits: The New Science of Turning Good Intentions into Positive Results, by Bob Nease, PhD, is the first practical gu

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The True Test of a Vision

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

The true test of a vision is whether it continues to inspire and guide people after the leader is gone. Consider the seamless transition at Southwest Airlines when founder Herb Kelleher stepped down compared with Disney’s two decades of floundering after the death of Walt Disney. Time and again, we see examples of companies that […]. The post The True Test of a Vision appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Become an Artist and Other Secrets to Success

Leadership Freak

Three keys to Success: #1. Become an artist. Paint a picture of personal success in your mind. Avoid artificial goals like money, power, and prestige. Paint with colors that express your values.

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Experience the joy and freedom of leadership

Persuasive Powerhouse

Are you a leader who was promoted into a position of responsibility for a work team because you were smart and successful as an individual contributor? Are you proud of the expertise that allows you to know the course of action to be taken in almost every situation? Do your team members beat a path to your door to ask lots of direction about how to do their work?

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Remarkable TV: What You Can Learn From Blind Golfers

Kevin Eikenberry

Today’s leadership lesson comes from the United States Blind Golf Association. And I promise, it will apply to you whether you like golf or not! Tweet it out: If blind people can play golf better than you can, what could you accomplish? via @KevinEikenberry From this Episode: Learn more about Remarkable Coaching here. The post Remarkable TV: What You Can Learn From Blind Golfers appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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You're invited to TODAY'S class

Jason Womack

I'm writing today to share news of a fun, FREE, online class to help you get momentum that's happening today. At 3:15pm Pacific (6:15pm Eastern), Jodi and I are presenting a live, web training to help you break through the.

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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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Negotiating

Coaching Tip

Everything we’ve previously been taught about negotiation is wrong. The real art of negotiation lies in mastering the intricacies of No , not Yes. In “NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It” by former FBI negotiator Chris Voss and co-author Tahl Raz offer a groundbreaking, paradigm-shifting approach to high-stakes negotiations that will give readers the competitive edge in any discussion whether in the boardroom, at the dinner table, or at the car dealership.

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The Three Box Solution: A Strategy For Leading Innovation

Marshall Goldsmith

My colleague and friend Vijay Govindarajan (VG), who is on Dartmouth and Harvard faculties, has just published his book The Three Box Solution: A Strategy For Leading Innovation today. The book is rated #1 New Release on Amazon. The book explains how companies can meet the performance requirements of the current business—one that is still thriving—while dramatically reinventing it (two fundamentally different management challenges that are hard to do simultaneously).

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Vince Molinari’s The Leadership Contract – One More Addition to the “Let’s Get Better at Developing Leaders” Movement

First Friday Book Synopsis

We have no shortage of observers stating this – we have a shortage of good leaders. This seems to be true in every arena – business, education, politics… Vince Molinaro, has one approach to beckon forth better leaders and better leadership. It’s right there in the title of his book: The Leadership Contract: The Fine… Read More Vince Molinari’s The Leadership Contract – One More Addition to the “Let’s Get Better at Developing Leaders” Movement.

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Starting Thought: Leadership in 2016 – Part 2

leaderCommunicator

I continued the dialogue with the PRSA New Professionals group on what effective leadership looks like today. The series airs here on the PRSA New Pros blog, and the dialogue has been so great that I want to continue to bring the topic and conversation to you, too.

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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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How To Identify A Leader During An Interview

Eric Jacobson

The next time you are interviewing a candidate and you want to access their leadership skills, consider asking the candidate these questions: What personal qualities define you as a leader? Describe a situation when these qualities helped you lead others. Give an example of when you demonstrated good leadership. What is the toughest group from which you've had to get cooperation?

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A Leadership Experiment – The Little Things Matter

Ron Edmondson

In making a first impression – the little things matter. When a visitor shows up on our church campus for the first time – the little things matter. When a parent decides to trust us with their children – the little things matter. The way we follow up with guests – the little things matter. Most leaders and pastors believe this, but we often don’t pay attention to the little things.

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The Benefits of Virtual Mentors

Harvard Business Review

Having a mentor has always helped with professional development and career advancement, but in today’s complex workplace, one mentor alone often won’t do. To spark innovation and ideation, employees often require information from a number of areas in real time. That’s why there is a need for us to have multiple mentors with expertise in various domains.

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Don’t End a Meeting Without Doing These 3 Things

Harvard Business Review

When a sports team finishes a game, they usually don’t gather up their gear and immediately leave the court, rink, field or locker room. The players and coaches take a few minutes for a post-game meeting – a ritual that’s just as important as the pre-game warm-up. In our view, participants in business meetings can benefit from the same exercise.

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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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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business Review

paul garbett FOR HBR. For decades, Sales and Academia remained worlds apart and the business world did fine. But Sales is changing, Academia is out of touch, and this is bad for business and the academy. Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent.

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How Companies Escape the Traps of the Past

Harvard Business Review

A staggering 88% of companies listed in the 1955 Fortune 500 are nowhere to be found in the same list today. They have gone bankrupt, merged, or simply shrunk off the list. Half a century ago, the life expectancy of a firm in the Fortune 500 was around 75 years. Now it’s less than 15 years. If we want our companies to last, we must excel at the “ Three Box Solution.” This is a framework I have developed over the course of 35 years of working with and doing research in corporati

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How Companies Use Strategically Timed Announcements to Confuse the Market

Harvard Business Review

On October 23, 1996, the day AT&T announced that John Walter, an industry outsider, would be named CEO, the company’s market valuation dropped by $4 billion. In his book Searching for a Corporate Savior , Rakesh Khurana at Harvard Business School noted that this negative market reaction became a self-fulfilling prophecy, causing the board of directors and other top executives to lose confidence in Walter, and leading to his dismissal only nine months after assuming office.

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What Makes Some Silicon Valley Companies So Successful

Harvard Business Review

vincent tsui FOR HBR. Executives and entrepreneurs from all over the world have traveled to Silicon Valley to learn the secrets of its success. But in our conversations with executives about what they’ve learned, we’ve seen a tendency to focus on superficial elements rather than on the root causes of companies’ success. Sure, speed and boldness are important, but what is it about the culture of these companies that cultivates them?

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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.

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If There’s Only One Woman in Your Candidate Pool, There’s Statistically No Chance She’ll Be Hired

Harvard Business Review

There are more CEOs of large U.S. companies who are named David (4.5%) than there are CEOs who are women (4.1%) — and David isn’t even the most common first name among CEOs. (That would be John, at 5.3%.). Despite the ever-growing business case for diversity, roughly 85% of board members and executives are white men. This doesn’t mean that companies haven’t tried to change.