Mon.Feb 17, 2014

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Winning Against the Odds: Olympic Imperfection

Let's Grow Leaders

'“If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.” -Charles Buxton The odds are against you. With all your imperfections, odds are… Someone else is more qualified Your marriage won’t last Your new business will fail The publisher will reject you You won’t win the election You’ll never make the olympic […] The post Winning Against the Odds: Olympic Imperfection appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Flexibility: Stretching Traditional Notions of Work

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Development Team Dynamics “The key to sustained happiness, health, and longevity is flexibility.” –Ev Duran There is a parable here in Afghanistan about a mule and a well that speaks to the value of flexibility in our lives. Having fallen into a shallow well, an Afghan farmer’s mule brayed incessantly while the farmer and his son considered their [.

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Five things even the best leaders can do more of

Persuasive Powerhouse

' . I’m so fortunate. I get to work with the best leaders around. But it’s difficult sometimes when they are expecting to magically discover what they need to get better at, even as they’ve had stellar 360 results and are respected and valued within their organizations. Sometimes their blind spots take over, and they can’t quite grasp their development opportunities.

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Mindful Mondays: What Can We Learn from a 10 Year Old Girl About Making a Stand?

Next Level Blog

'The adorable 10 year old girl in the picture with my wife, Diane, and me is Vivienne Harr. We met her at a party at the Wisdom 2.0 conference in San Francisco on Valentine’s Day evening. Earlier that afternoon she spoke to 2,000 people (video below) about how her lemonade business has raised over a million dollars to help free 18 million child around the world from slavery.

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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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5 Leadership Lessons From The RoboCop Remake

Joseph Lalonde

'R oboCop. If you were around in the 80′s, you most likely remember the original movie. Alex Murphy, mortally wounded in the line of duty, was given a second chance to “live” and serve the citizens of a decaying Detroit. They’ve now remade the movie. As I loved the original RoboCop, I was thrilled to know the remake was happening.

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5 Feelings that Signal Failure is Near

Leadership Freak

'Excellence is war. Business as usual means mediocrity prevails. It’s one thing to pursue excellence as an individual. But, how can leaders make the pursuit of excellence a matter of culture? “Scaling Up Excellence,” by Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao, takes readers deep into the battle of pursuing exceptional on an organizational level.

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Women on Business Welcomes Lionel Luigi Lopez to the Contributor Team

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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Where Credibility Comes From

Nathan Magnuson

'When was the last time your face was the unfamiliar one? You may have gotten a new job or joined a new team. Maybe you moved to a new area, joined a new network or gave a presentation to a new group. How did it go? If you had anything to say, share or contribute, chances are at some point you found yourself wondering, “how can I make myself credible to these people?

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Killer Gamification: Targeting the Drives That Make People Want to Engage

Engaging Leader

'Employee Gamification: the use of game-inspired tactics to engage employees. The tech research firm Gartner made headlines in late 2012 when it predicted that 80% of current gamified applications would fail to meet business objectives — due to poor design, ineffective communication, or ill-defined business objectives. Even so, Gartner also predicted that by 2015, 40% […].

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0504 | William Cohen

LDRLB

'Dr. William Cohen is the president of the California Institute of Advanced Management and the first graduate of Peter Drucker’s executive PhD program. He is the author of The Practical Drucker: Applying the Wisdom of the World’s Greatest Management Thinker. In this interview, we talk about rules for engagement, how to promote the right people, and how Peter Drucker was pretty much right about everything.

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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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Is It Worth It

Marshall Goldsmith

'Reflections for Leaders during a War. by Marshall Goldsmith. In many ways war can be seen as a metaphor for much of what happens in daily business life. In fact, ten different versions of The Art of War by Sun Tzu are currently listed in the top 1% of all books on Amazon.com. Corporate leaders, not military people, are the major buyers of these books.As organizational leaders reflect upon the ongoing war in Iraq, it might be a good time to look for learnings from combat that we can all apply i

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0503 | William Cohen

LDRLB

'Dr. William Cohen is the president of the California Institute of Advanced Management and the first graduate of Peter Drucker’s executive PhD program. He is the author of The Practical Drucker: Applying the Wisdom of the World’s Greatest Management Thinker. In this interview, we talk about rules for engagement, how to promote the right people, and how Peter Drucker was pretty much right about everything.

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Questions for Leadership Team Members – Can You Answer all of These?

First Friday Book Synopsis

'I’m generally not a fan of just a list of questions. You know – “here are the 15 questions you should be able to answer right now… “ I tend to think “visually” more than in lists. But, sometimes, a list is just right. So, if you are on an executive team – at or near […].

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How to Choose a Ropes Course for Your Next Team Event

Lead by Adventure

'A couple of summers ago, I was working with a youth leadership camp and we had everything set: date, time, location, programming. Or so we thought. It was a very dry summer and the Friday before the camp started on Monday, the camp we had scheduled had a major fire. It burned part of the camp, but also burned their ropes course facility. They ended up shutting down the camp because of dangerous hot spots.

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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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Communication Is Not A Fairy-Tale

Mills Scofield

'" Once upon a time, NYFM (Not-Your-Father’s-Manufacturer), a very old, established company, decided they needed to drastically change in order to grow and be around many more decades. So, they created a highly disruptive ‘bet-your-career’ strategic plan. And they lived happily ever after." Believe that? Maybe Fairy Tales do come true.

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The Work Itself as a Source of Reward and Punishment on the Job

Mike Cardus

'Through a series of workshops & 1 on 1 coaching & development with a management team. A decision was made to agree that recognition of achievement was the strongest motivator for success & that each manager had to work on the system itself to reinforce what should happen. This forced us to face the work in theory vs. the work in practice and reveal evidence that many of the managers still believed in the KITA Kick In The Ass method.

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With Charity for All, With Firmness in the Right; Let Us Begin; Let us Strive On – Words from some of our Presidents on President’s Day

First Friday Book Synopsis

'On President’s Day, let’s read a few words from a few of our Presidents. Two included, Washington and Lincoln, are the “official” presidents remembered on President’s Day. I chose an important excerpt from LBJ, and my favoirite portion of Kennedy’s inaugural. And, then, the Gettysburg Address in its entirety. Abraham Lincoln With malice toward none, […].

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Effective Meeting Models

CO2

'by Gary Cohen. In Death by Meeting , Patrick Lencioni provides an effective meeting model, but it doesn’t work for all organizations or every type of meeting. A restaurant might benefit from a quick standing meeting with employees, for instance, to go over that day’s roles and responsibilities (as well as new menu items). At a commercial real estate company, however, a daily check-in might feel more onerous than necessary.

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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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The Rule of 5 – Read Five Books, Then You’ll Know Enough to “Get Started” on the Path to Understanding

First Friday Book Synopsis

'I remember my first couple of weeks of my last level of graduate school days. This was in pursuit of a PhD in Communication: Rhetoric and Public Address (to my regret, I never finished my dissertation, thus never got that degree), at the University of Southern California. Two weeks in, and I was lost. I […].

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How to Love and Appreciate Your Online Community, a #CMGRHangout Conversation (Video)

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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Why It Pays to Be an Optimist

Your Voice of Encouragement

'I used to work with someone who had a habit of saying, “If anything can go wrong, it will.” Whenever he experienced any kind of setback, he interpreted it as confirmation that things always turned out badly for him. He honestly believed that he was destined to have awful things happen to him and that he had no control over the outcomes. ALL of us experience unexpected, negative events in our lives.

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7 Ways the Leader Sets the Bar

Ron Edmondson

'The leader sets the bar for the organization. If you are a leader of an organization then you have the awesome responsibility of establishing the parameters by which your organization will be successful. Now, as I feel the need in every post like this, Jesus sets the bar. Period. He is our standard. But, it would be foolish to ignore the fact that God allows people to lead, even in the church.

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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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The role of money in collaboration

Chartered Management Institute

'Achieving collaboration requires a fundamental shift in how employees are typically encouraged to behave. Traditionally, our organizations are setup to promote the ideal of individual performance, with salaries and promotions governed by the performance of each of us as individuals. What’s more, constructions such as org charts deepen the sense that we are not one collective, but rather a series of distinct teams (or siloes if you like), with clear demarcations between each team.

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Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Are you the BEST salesperson of them all?

Strategy Driven

'What makes a ‘top performer’ a top performer? If you hold interviews with the most successful salespeople in the world, and ask them “why are you successful?” they’ll give you their take on it, but it will not be the right answer. They will give you symptomatic responses like, “I get up early in the morning” or “I work hard every day” or “I’m willing to do what other people are not willing to do” or “I ask a lot of questions” or “I put my customers first.”.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #16

Rapid BI

' ”The computer says I need to upgrade my brain to be compatible with the new software.” This of course is just one version of what could have been going on. I would love to here what you think they were saying, add your one liner below!

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Why One Executive Quit Business Travel Cold Turkey

Harvard Business Review

'If you’d like to have an in-person meeting with venture capitalist Brad Feld , there’s only one place where you can do it: Boulder, Colorado. Last year Feld, who is managing director at Foundry Group and co-founder of TechStars, announced he would no longer travel for business. He equipped his Boulder offices with state-of-the-art video conferencing systems, and now holds meetings using this technology or asks business partners to travel to see him.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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The Other Factor that Makes an Idea Spread

Harvard Business Review

'How do ideas spread? Previous research has focused on what happens to the sharers of an idea: what emotions they feel, what types of content inspire them to share (practical, funny, “sticky” and so on). And it is true that from memetics to mirror neurons to social contagion, it is likely that for any given idea, multiple factors are involved. And yet the role of content seems to get all of the focus.

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Three Decisions that Defined George Washington’s Leadership Legacy

Harvard Business Review

'A cynic might conclude that George Washington, the first president of the United States, owes his legacy to his towering physical stature and other superficial characteristics. The man looks like a leader, and perhaps that made him a convenient figurehead on which we hang idealized virtues. But the cynic would be mistaken. Here are three counter-intuitive decisions Washington made that show what an exceptional leader he truly was. 1.

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Russia’s Business Future Lies With the Boys (and Girls) in Batman T-Shirts

Harvard Business Review

'The Sochi Olympics have focused the world’s attention on Russia’s ability to get things done. Or inability — in the leadup to the games, almost all the attention was on the massive cost of the games and the fact that lots of journalists were staying in troubled hotels (with weird toilets ). Things have turned more positive since the opening ceremonies , but there are still lots of questions about how prepared Russia really is to compete and thrive in the global economy.

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You Might Give a Wrong Answer Just to Demonstrate Your Truthfulness

Harvard Business Review

'When research participants were asked to publicly identify words shown on a screen, those whose vision had been blocked nevertheless sometimes disagreed with those who had been able to see the screen–in fact, they disagreed at least 27% of the time, says a team led by Bert H. Hodges of Gordon College and the University of Connecticut. Why did they intentionally make statements that everyone knew to be wrong?

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.