Fri.May 10, 2013

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Moms Growing Leaders: A Mother’s Day Tribute

Let's Grow Leaders

'If you ask my mom if she’s a leader, she’ll say “no.” And then, everyone who knows her will just shake their heads and laugh. People follow leaders toward a vision. Leaders serve. Leaders grow leaders. My mom’s a leader. She’s grown a nice crop. Moms Growing Leaders Some moms hold formal leadership roles. Others [.

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Leave room for possibility

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Development When Amy, my business partner at Braithwaite, and I decided to add elearning to our services two years ago, we had a business plan full of charts and projections. We’d both worked at Fortune 500 companies so we knew the drill. Former bosses would have been proud. While we were planning rich, the elearning business [.].

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Women and Leadership Influence Includes Women on Business

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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Lean’s U.S. Origins: The Seed of Change is Planted

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Workplace Issues [link] (This is the second in a 12-part Series on the Origins of Lean in the U.S.) “Go find the best management practices in the world!” That was the challenge that Omark Industries’ president gave the task force I was assigned to in late 1981. It was a broad and exciting charter, one that would significantly [.].

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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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12 Ways to Find Your Confidence

Leadership Freak

'Lack of confidence is the dirty secret in top leaders. Insecure leaders often cover insecurities with strutting. Cocky is compensation for lack of confidence. Cocky is phony confidence. Puffing up, putting down, posturing, excuse making, and negative comparisons express – lack of confidence – cockiness. The need to feel superior means you aren’t.

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The Universal Causes of Human Behavior

Kevin Eikenberry

'Today’s quotation isn’t new. Aristotle lived in the days before most all of the technology we take for granted was invented. But what hasn’t changed is human nature. Enjoy today’s quotation, and be challenged by the questions and actions that follow it. “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, [.].

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The Top Challenges of Small Businesses

Six Disciplines

'Even though small businesses collectively generate $5 trillion in sales in the U.S., the biggest challenge of an individual small business is “survival.” 80% of all new business start-ups are out of business within five years. And if that doesn’t get your attention, 80% of the 20% that survive the first five years don’t survive the second five!2 That means, on the average, 960 out of 1,000 businesses that start this year will not be around in 10 years.

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In Case You Missed It: From Leadership to Millennials - this week's best posts

leaderCommunicator

'Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. Each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays pull some of the best together here on my blog. So in case you’ve missed them, here is this week’s round-up of top posts. They’ll provide you with tips, strategies and thought-starters from many of the smart folks in my network.

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What is Your Level of Coaching Literacy?

Coaching Tip

'People involved in the delivery of coaching may also become ambassadors of coaching in their sphere of influence. However, it is the high-level management of coaching initiatives that sets the overall frame and direction of coaching within an organization and provides the central basis for successful coaching. Get a realistic idea of the nature and degree of your own coaching implementation and improvement intelligence.

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All Good Solutions Are Obvious, in Hindsight

Mike Cardus

'Great Team Building is recognizing all good solutions have one thing in common – they are obvious, but only in hindsight. I’ve been reflecting on this quote, and smiling about how true it is. Working with teams and consulting managerial-leaders and coaching people , the challenges at first seem insurmountable. As we make progress and gain some quick wins the solutions become obvious, and we realize that we had assumptions that were blocking us, or we just did not know then, what we know now.

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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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Ten Types of Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs Larry Keeley with Ryan Pikkel, Brian Quinn, and Helen Walters John Wiley & Sons (2013) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison With regard to the Edison quotation, I agree while presuming to add, “Execution without discipline is merely activity.” Larry Keeley wrote this book with […].

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My Role Model for Patience

Your Voice of Encouragement

'My amazing mother, Doris Roy Melancon, and me I don’t have to look very far to find the person who’s modeled the personal strength of patience throughout my entire life. My mother. As we honor mothers this time of year, I reflect with deep gratitude on the ways my own mother has positively influenced my life through the consistent application of patience with people and situations.

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When You Have Work to Do, Be an “Enthusiastic Accomplisher” – (insight from John Perry)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'One rather nice book is called The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin. It records her experiences during the year she made a determined effort to find happiness, or at least to find more happiness than she already posessed. Now clearly Gretchen Rubin is no procrastinator. She belongs to a different species, one that I’d call […].

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Old Wisdom for New Teams?

Steve Farber

'Way back in 1995, I had the great pleasure of seeing the legendary management sage, Peter Drucker , speak about teams and teamwork at a conference for training industry executives. Keep in mind the context of that now bygone era: CD-ROM was the latest, sparkly new technology, the internet was essentially a network of electronic brochures downloaded via modem to your computer at the rate of a millennium per page and The Wisdom of Teams by Katzenbach and Smith, first published in 1992, was all th

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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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Motivation: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Motivation Brian Tracy AMACOM (2013) Tracy Concise but definitely not Tracy Light I have read all of Brian Tracy’s books and reviewed most of them. In my opinion, he is among the most thoughtful and, when appropriate, thought-provoking business thinkers. He is also an especially pragmatic person who is intrigued by what works, what doesn’t, […].

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10 Things I’d Do If I Were Raising a Son Today

Ron Edmondson

'I previously posted 10 Things I’d Do If Raising a Daughter Today. In this post, I will focus on the boys. I know a little more about this subject, having two incredible sons of my own. But, we always look at life differently from the other side of it. My boys are grown. I’m still parenting, but in a completely different way. Mine now is one of influence.

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business diagnostic instrument

Rapid BI

'Many people involved in organizational development are looking for business diagnostic instruments. These are well researched tools which can identify the priority development needs in an organization. The BIR is a Business provement Review diagnostic instrument developed by RapidBI.

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You're Doing Social Wrong. Your Teenager Does It Right. (The Shortlist)

Harvard Business Review

'It seems that everyone is freaking out about teens abandoning social media sites like Facebook. By "everyone" I mean advertisers. They’re racking their brains trying to figure out why it’s happening. If you’re puzzled too, read this lovely piece in Medium by Cliff Watson , who argues that the number one reason kids don''t need Facebook is that they "literally don''t need Facebook.

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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 Excessive Need To Be Me

Marshall Goldsmith

'Mark Reiter is a top literary agent and a master with words. Mark and I worked together on my book, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. In the book, we discuss 20 annoying habits of successful people – and then talk about how to break these habits and achieve positive, lasting change in behavior. One of the 20 habits discussed in our book is “an excessive need to be me.” What do we mean by “an excessive need to be me?

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Surprise Is Still the Most Powerful Marketing Tool

Harvard Business Review

'Life has never been more predictable. Yelp provides an early-warning system for dining out, by helping us avoid bad restaurants and alerting us to must-try items at good ones. Facebook lets us investigate a potential romantic interest before the first date. Turn-by-turn instructions from Google Maps prevent us from ever getting lost. The same thing is happening in marketing organizations.

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Truths for Our Daughters

Harvard Business Review

'As a senior professional in financial services — an industry with comparatively few women in the executive ranks — I''ve spent a lot of time thinking about why there aren''t more women at the top-most levels of companies. I''ve read the studies and heard the theories that women don''t network well ; don''t have the "vision thing" ; communicate too passively ; don''t ask for bigger jobs and the top clients ; and have fewer sponsors who are willing to use political capital to advocate

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The Unexpected Antidote to Procrastination

Harvard Business Review

'A recent early morning hike in Malibu, California, led me to a beach, where I sat on a rock and watched surfers. I marveled at these courageous men and women who woke before dawn, endured freezing water, paddled through barreling waves, and even risked shark attacks, all for the sake of, maybe, catching an epic ride. After about 15 minutes, it was easy to tell the surfers apart by their style of surfing, their handling of the board, their skill, and their playfulness.

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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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Parting Ways with Public Trading

Harvard Business Review

'One of the dilemmas of firms in rapidly transforming environments is that their ownership structure may get in the way of making tough decisions. Investors in publicly traded companies are understood to desire stable, predictable earnings and growth. But such expectations are unrealistic in many industries. As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets.