Thu.Aug 22, 2013

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Impatience as a Leadership Virtue

Let's Grow Leaders

'Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength -Charles Caleb Colton “Karin, we should be able to have this project done by the end of the year.” I listened impatiently as the team broke down the timeline, contingencies, and tasks. They were the experts, and the project involved heavy IT lift–never fun. I [.

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Give ‘em a second chance

N2Growth Blog

'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. Management can sometimes be an act of faith, particularly when the people you hire have a questionable past. One approach to giving people a second chance is to sit down with them and ask them to write about what they want to achieve and how they want to be remembered. The savvy manager who can connect with such an employee not only gives the person a second chance, but he or she also creates an environment where the past can be put in

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Integrity Matters

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Development Integrity comes from the Latin word for integer. Integer means something doesn’t divide easily. It’s a whole. Integrity originally meant purity, completeness, the opposite of hypocrisy. Only recently have we associated it with honesty or trustworthiness, possibly because it’s easy to make promises and present ourselves a particular way in our easy-media culture.

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How to Give Advice

Great Leadership By Dan

'Guest post from Chip Bell : “There is no human problem which could not be solved,” wrote novelist Gore Vidal, “if people would simply do as I advise.” Mentors have a similar challenge. Recall the last time someone said, “Let me give you a little advice!” No doubt it quickly put you into a defensive posture. And, it was even labeled a gift! Advice giving works only in the context of learning—that is, when you are offering advice because you believe that the protégé’s performance will be improved

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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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Take your Small Business Back to School

Women on Business

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The Seven Powers of Words

Leadership Freak

'Complaining says stop or improve, but doesn’t improve anything. Encouraging points to behaviors or attitudes to continue, but doesn’t continue anything. The danger of talking is it feels like doing. The biggest waste of words: It feels good to get something off your chest. But, “off your chest” conversations are pleas for affirmation not expressions […].

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051: The Impact Equation | with Julien Smith

Engaging Leader

'You and your team likely have ideas from time to time that you think would make a difference in the world. But how do you get your important ideas to spread, to engage a larger audience to see them, act on them, and even join a community around that experience? Perhaps more challenging, how do you create a trustworthy, human brand, when the world seems be relying on digital channels like social media that actually reduce our physical closeness to others?

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Customer Service, Analytics, and Happy Meals

LDRLB

'[Editor''s Note: This is a guest post from Siddharth Naga S. He is Chief People Officer at www.Cloudninecare.com , India’s premier Maternity and Child care centre. He is the author of How Many? , a FREE ebook on HR analytics available at www.HowManyTheBook.com.]. Recently, we took our three-year-old daughter to McDonalds for her birthday. I was excited to buy her a happy meal, and give her the little toy that comes with it.

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No Question on the Value of Asking Questions

leaderCommunicator

'Before my 3-1/2-year-old daughter Avi goes back to school (pre-K), I wanted to spend some quality time with her – just the two of us. So we went on an adventure together to Los Angeles. On the car ride back to the airport, I listened to her ask what seemed like a hundred questions. I love how curious she is, and welcome any and all questions. They came rapid-fire in some cases, and other times, in between moments of silence where I know she was thinking.

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The One Non-Negotiable for Business Success is this! – (Seen Any Wang Word Processor’s Lately?)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'The path to business success has to start here – and, it pretty much ends here: You have to have a product or service that others will pay for… If you get everything right except this, you’re toast. You’ve got to have a product, or service, that people want, or need, and will pay for. […].

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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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Team Building and Leadership Development in New Jersey

Mike Cardus

'Facilitated a train-the-trainer team building and leadership development program with Stevens Institute of Technology ? orientation leaders. Objective of the Team Building & Leadership Development: Providing all team members with skills, tools, and facilitation that will allow them to find strengths within themselves, their fellow orientation leaders; and to develop skills in facilitation for the Incoming Student Orientation.

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Imagine If Only 96 Minutes of your Day Really Counted – Harvey Schachter Helps Us Think More Clearly about the Productivity Challenge

First Friday Book Synopsis

'(Yes, I admit, this is a bit “self-serving.” But I am appreciative, and have found a valuable new resource). ——————– Here are the opening lines from a recent Monday Morning Manager column by Harvey Schachter, The 96-minute rule, and other timely tips, from The Globe and Mail: Your work day today might be the traditional eight […].

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Why Positive Feedback Is Better Than Praise

Eric Jacobson

'There is an important difference between giving your employees positive feedback and giving them praise. Positive feedback focuses on the specifics of job performance. Praise, often one-or two-sentence statements, such as “Keep up the good work,” without positive feedback leaves employees with empty feelings. Worse yet, without positive feedback, employees feel no sense that they are appreciated as individual talents with specific desires to learn and grow on the job and in their careers, repor

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Jeffrey M. Stibel: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Jeff Stibel writes about the intersection of science, technology and the complex networks that influence people’s lives. He is the Chairman and CEO of The Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corporation and Chairman of BrainGate, as well as serves on boards for U.S.C., Brown, and Tufts University. Jeff publishes articles and books about networks and how […].

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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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You Can Remove Content From Your Community While You Decide if It is OK

Managing Communities

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Making Good Changes in a Highly Structured Environment

Ron Edmondson

'We had a situation recently where a staff member felt the need to make a change in his area of ministry. It would save the church lots of money, is more in line with our vision, and would have a greater Kingdom impact. Sounds like a no-brainer to me. It’s the best decision. Problem? It’s changing the way something has been done for years and something that is very popular.

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Closing the Chasm Between Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

'Setting strategy is elegant. It''s a clean and sophisticated process of collecting and analyzing data, generating insights, and identifying smart paths forward. Done at arm''s length in an academic fashion, tight logic is the only glue needed to hold ideas together. The output is a smooth narrative in a professional-looking document made up of Venn diagrams, 2x2 matrices, and high-level plans of attack.

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Yes, Marketers, You Should Pay Your Influencers

Harvard Business Review

'A consumer advocate can be your brand''s best friend. They spend 13% more than the average buyer and refer business that equals 45% of the money they spend, according to Satmetrix. The rise of these brand influencers has spawned quite a bit of buzz in recent months for companies thinking this could enhance their marketing campaigns. Some have even started paying influencers for their time to boost some initial success.

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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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Groups Grow Disappointed with Extroverts Over Time

Harvard Business Review

'Upon joining a group, extroverts are perceived as having high status. But in an online experiment involving imagined scenarios, extroverts'' perceived status slipped from 4.37 to 3.87 on a 7-point scale as the group came to consider their assertiveness and talkativeness less valuable and to suspect that they were motivated by self-interest, say Corinne Bendersky of UCLA and Neha Parikh Shah of Rutgers.

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IT Governance is Killing Innovation

Harvard Business Review

'Recent CEB research shows that work has become much more interdependent — employees increasingly need to tap a broader array of internal and external colleagues and partners to be successful in their jobs. The emergence of this new work environment has significant implications for how IT should enable business growth and, more specifically, for the kinds of investments IT should be making to support employees.

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The Rise of the Megacorporation

Harvard Business Review

'An interview with Richard Adelstein , professor of economics at Wesleyan University and author of The Rise of Planning in Industrial America, 1864-1914. Download this podcast. A written transcript will be available by August 30.

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Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

'There are three popular explanations for the clear under-representation of women in management, namely: (1) they are not capable; (2) they are not interested; (3) they are both interested and capable but unable to break the glass-ceiling: an invisible career barrier, based on prejudiced stereotypes, that prevents women from accessing the ranks of power.

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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.