Wed.Jul 02, 2014

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The Beautiful Journey From Why Me to Why Not Me

Let's Grow Leaders

'Angelle Albright had every reason in the world to say “why me.” Angelle was just 38 years old going through her second round of chemo treatment for the most aggressive form of breast cancer when she had to evacuate her New Orleans home during hurricane Katrina. While cancer was wreaking havoc on her life, the hurricane destroyed many of her family members homes.

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Join Us On The Air Tonight!

General Leadership

'Join us – LIVE Wednesday, 2 July – at 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific) on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 & the David Webb Show ! We’re celebrating together in advance of the Independence Day holiday with a special “Patriotism” themed broadcast. Join us on the air by calling into the show at 866-957-2874. You can also follow along on Twitter @GenLeadBlog and @davidwebbshow with hashtags: #GeneralLeadership #Patriotism.

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The Transaction Of Character

Lead Change Blog

'A design company is hired to set up a cafeteria in a new retirement community. The company doesn’t listen to the needs of the organization, and once the facility is opened, there are equipment failures and design flaws. Calls are repeatedly made to the company to help resolve these punch list issues, but to no [.] Author information Paul LaRue Author at The UPwards Leader Paul LaRue is the creator of the leadership blog The UPwards Leader and an account executive for a national broadline

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Getting Past Murky Uncertainty

Leading in Context

'By Linda Fisher Thornton Workplace issues are complex and opinions vary about the right thing to do in challenging situations. This complexity and uncertainty combine to create a "murky uncertainty" that may keep people from giving us their best, most ethical performance.

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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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How to Cut Your Losses and Move On

Leadership Freak

'Trajectory predicts the future. Minimize the negative impact of laggards by managing them up or out. Give employees on the rise freedom, opportunity, authority, and position.

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An Interview with Jake Jacobs on Real Time Strategic Change

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

'I was delighted to catch up with Jake Jacobs, the creator of Real Time Strategic Change (RTSC), the approach that brings hundreds of people together to make collaborative decisions about their organization in real time, which I described in Try Collaborative Change for a Change. I had an opportunity to ask Jake about how change has changed since he first developed RTSC.

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Persuading the Person Who Won’t Budge

Kevin Eikenberry

'I thought today I would give a short answer to a question I get asked regularly. It gets asked in a variety of forms, but it all comes down to something like this. I have a person on my team that won’t budge. They don’t seem to care – about anything – […].

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Seven Ways to Keep Wizard of Oz Syndrome from Killing Your Organization

Next Level Blog

'Every so often I come in contact with an organization where everyone is on pins and needles. They’re afraid of their own shadows. Everything is on an urgent deadline. The smallest mistakes or surprises are crises. Any sense of humor remaining is solely of the gallows variety. Here’s what everyone of those organizations seems to have in common – the “little people” view the senior leaders as if they’re the great and powerful Oz (and by Oz, I mean the man behind the curtain, not the doctor on TV)

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Persuading the Person Who Won’t Budge

Kevin Eikenberry

'I thought today I would give a short answer to a question I get asked regularly. It gets asked in a variety of forms, but it all comes down to something like this. I have a person on my team that won’t budge. They don’t seem to care – about anything – […]. The post Persuading the Person Who Won’t Budge appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Communicate: Just Communicate – 8 Communication Musts for the Modern Organization

First Friday Book Synopsis

'There is nothing quite as frustrating as not knowing. Especially when the not knowing is not knowing what should have been communicated. In every organization, there are moments when a person hears or reads a piece of information and they say, “how come I did not already know about this?”. Every such moment is a signal […].

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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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The Connected Mobility of the Millennial Generations

Coaching Tip

'By now we are all familiar with the plight of the Gen Y/millennial generation, those born after 1980. They have little or no savings. A third still live with their parents. Those with jobs are often underemployed and underpaid. Not only have they delayed the typical trappings of adulthood--marriage, home, kids--they may be stuck in perpetual adolescence.

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Nancy Andreasen on “Secrets of the Creative Brain”

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Nancy Andreasen for The Atlantic magazine. A leading neuroscientist who has spent decades studying creativity, she shares her research on where genius comes from, whether it is dependent on high IQ—and why it is so often accompanied by mental illness. To read the complete article, check […]. Bob''s blog entries A Midsummer Night’s Dream Anne Sexton Arshile Gorky Diane Arbus Ernest Hemingway Hart Crane Iowa Writers’ Workshop John Berryman John Don

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How to Stick With it

Deep Imprints

'Let’s face it – some days, we just don’t want to stick with our exercise program. In fact, I’d say our “wanter” is broken more often than not. Who wants to go running first thing in the morning? And once you’ve gotten out of your work clothes, hauling yourself out the door for a jog […].

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6 Road Trips Reveal Critical Lessons For Business Success

Eric Jacobson

'If you’re like me, you love road trips. And, if you’re like most everyone, you appreciate hearing a good story. Just imagine how intriguing it would be to hear stories about six road trips. Six road trips across the U.S. that produced dozens of stories about what local small businesses on Main Street’s across America do that can inspire big businesses on Wall Street – or Madison Avenue megabrands, or enterprise of any size -- in today’s economy.

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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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Finding Strengths

David A Fields

'A question I was asked: What is the best way to find your personal strengths? What would your suggestion be to this consultant? What has worked for you? Post your suggestion by using the ‘Leave a Comment’ box below. (I’ll post what I told him in a couple of days.) You can see more discussion of this question by joining the Solo Consultants’ Network on LinkedIn.

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Leadership Quotes From, The Pause Principle

Eric Jacobson

'Today, I share some of my favorite quotes from Kevin Cashman''s new book, The Pause Principle. "What sleep is to the mind and body, pause is to leadership and innovation." "Managers assert drive and control to get things done; leaders pause to discover new ways of being and achieving." "Managers require competency to drive results; leaders embody character to build a compelling, sustainable future.

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Finding Strengths

David A Fields

'A question I was asked: What is the best way to find your personal strengths? What would your suggestion be to this consultant? What has worked for you? Post your suggestion by using the ‘Leave a Comment’ box below. Here is the answer I gave: When it comes to personal strengths (as opposed to your business skills), there are a plethora of terrific tools within easy reach.

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What My Fitbit Taught Me about Myself — and Life

Ron Edmondson

'I’m a Fitbit wearer. It’s a wristband that syncs with an application on my phone to count the number of steps I take each day. It’s set with an automatic goal of 10,000 steps. This is not an advertisement — although if Fitbit wants to endorse this page I’d be open to that — but, I’ve been using it for several months now and it’s taught me a few things.

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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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But it’s only 40 slides – a common training mistake

Rapid BI

'In business it is not only training team members that develop training materials, but local experts and specialists. Often I hear a subject specialist say things like “we need to educate users to do things differently, it wont take long, it is only 40 slides” On its own 40 slides as a framework is not […].

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5 Common Questions Leaders Should Never Ask

Harvard Business Review

'Questioning is undoubtedly a valuable leadership tool. Asking the right questions can help business leaders to anticipate changes, seize opportunities, and move their organizations in new directions. But how you question is critical. Questions can be great for engaging and motivating people , but they can just as easily be used to confront or blame, and can shift the mood from positive to negative.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #114

Rapid BI

'“I haven’t read your proposal yet, but I already have some great ideas on how to improve it!

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Wisdom Is a Slippery Construct

Harvard Business Review

'Are truly wise people wise enough to know that they have a great deal of wisdom? Or does their wisdom make them acutely aware of how little wisdom they really possess? Research by Uwe Redzanowski and Judith Glück of Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria, shows that there is zero correlation between self-assessments and peer ratings of wisdom, so those who think they’re wise are no more likely than anyone else to be judged as wise by their peers.

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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 Advisor’s Corner – How do I deal with those who support me in public and sabotage me in private?

Strategy Driven

'Question : What can I do about people who tell me they support my vision but I’ve heard through the grapevine that they are sabotaging me? StrategyDriven Response : (by Roxi Hewertson, StrategyDriven Principal Contributor). These people are most likely, what I call ‘Termites.’ The term fits them well because they manage to smile and slide their way into the accepted norms and culture, and then wreck havoc just underneath the surface.

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The Hardest Roles to Hire For

Harvard Business Review

'Not all jobs are equally easy to fill. It’s an obvious point, but one that sometimes gets missed in the debate over whether the American economy is suffering from a “skills gap.” Companies complain that there is a shortage of talent, economists counter that if that were true it would be evidenced by rising wages. With wages stagnant, where’s the skills gap?

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The Kind of Work Humans Still Do Better Than Robots

Harvard Business Review

'People and computers are coming together in all kinds of interesting ways these days. The right combination of human and digital smarts in chess will beat the top grandmaster, the best chess supercomputer, and the top grandmaster with the best supercomputer. At least one VC firm is giving an algorithm a formal vote on its investments. And robots (which I consider to be computers with a physical presence) are increasingly working side by side with people on factory and warehouse floors.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

'Having taught at five business schools over several decades and served as Dean of two, I have come to a conclusion: The educational institutions where our future business leaders are being trained must be recalibrated and transformed dramatically. Business education today is anachronistic in both how it is conducted and what its content focuses on.

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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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Learning Collaboration from Tiki-Taka Soccer

Harvard Business Review

'Solo efforts and individual stars used to decide the fate of soccer matches. The 1970s, 1980s, and even the 1990s were dominated by legendary players such as Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, and Diego Maradona, who, thanks to their skill and speed, found empty spaces in midfield, created the time to take the ball to the box, and then decided to pass or shoot at the goal.

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Don’t Propose Marriage to a Customer Who Wants a Fling?

Harvard Business Review

'Most of today’s marketing organizations take what might be called the industrial approach to consumers: snagging demographic data, matching it with purchasing data, and segmenting customers into profitability tiers. But are consumers just resources to be harvested for the next up-selling opportunity? Jill Avery of Harvard Business School, Susan Fournier of Boston University, and John Wittenbraker of the market-research firm GfK argue in the July-August issue that this view misses an important r

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5 Common Questions Leaders Should Never Ask

Harvard Business Review

'Questioning is undoubtedly a valuable leadership tool. Asking the right questions can help business leaders to anticipate changes, seize opportunities, and move their organizations in new directions. But how you question is critical. Questions can be great for engaging and motivating people , but they can just as easily be used to confront or blame, and can shift the mood from positive to negative.

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The Kind of Work Humans Still Do Better Than Robots

Harvard Business Review

'People and computers are coming together in all kinds of interesting ways these days. The right combination of human and digital smarts in chess will beat the top grandmaster, the best chess supercomputer, and the top grandmaster with the best supercomputer. At least one VC firm is giving an algorithm a formal vote on its investments. And robots (which I consider to be computers with a physical presence) are increasingly working side by side with people on factory and warehouse floors.

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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.