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Check Out Today???s ???200-Second Soundbite?????? Podcast!

General Leadership

'Cruise over to PodBean to hear our latest 200-Second Soundbite entitled Life Lesson From a Farmer or subscribe to our PodCast directly via iTunes at the following link. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn. AssociateCurator and GeneralLeadership.com CGO, Col Chris R. Stricklin shares a life lesson learned from a corn farmer. by. … Read the rest.

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A humblebrag isn???t the answer

Lead Change Blog

'Many individuals, especially women, struggle with achieving equilibrium between confidence and humilityanother one of those life, love and leadership challenges of getting it just right by avoiding too much or too little of the extremes. Self-promotion advice I recently read in a leadership enews post zoomed right past confidence and into hubris.

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Designing Moments of Impact

Leading Blog

'In a world of adaptive challenge smessy, open-ended, and ill-definedyour garden variety meeting isnt going to cut it. What you need is a strategic conversation. But these kinds of conversations dont just happenthey need to be designed. Moments of Impact by Chris Ertel and Lisa Kay Solomon will help you to do just that. A moment of impact is created at the intersection of design, strategy and conversation.

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How to Manage Your Boss So Your Boss Won't Micro-Manage You

Great Leadership By Dan

'What is managing up and why is it so important? Managing up means establishing and maintaining a positive and productive relationship with you manager so that your managers needs are met and you get what you need from your manager. Read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership to find out how to manage up.

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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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Organizational Change Can Start Wherever You Are

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

'Do you wish senior leaders would make some changes in your organization? Instead of waiting and wishing for someone from above to provide leadership, you can make a significant impact no matter what your role is. According to Steven Covey said, “Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore dont see themselves as leaders.” The assumption that organizational change has to start at the top is wrong.

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7 Habits that Defeat Distraction and Find Focus

Leadership Freak

'Frantic leaders lack focus. Nothing meaningful gets done without focus. Unfocused leaders: Allow trivialities to become urgencies. Persistent drama suggests lack of focus. Start too much and finish too little.

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Remarkable TV: When a Leader Should Address Conflict

Kevin Eikenberry

'For leaders, it’s a delicate balance to handle conflict situations: getting involved too soon or too late both have consequences. Watch this short video for tips on when and how to address conflict for maximum success! Leaders know when to step in and help resolve conflict – not too soon, and definitely not too late! […]. The post Remarkable TV: When a Leader Should Address Conflict appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Women on Business Welcomes Contributor Asavari Sharma

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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Thomas Edison

Joseph Lalonde

'O ur greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. The post Thomas Edison appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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Make A Difference: Lead With A Noble Heart

Lead from Within

'Many of us lead, but not many of us lead with a noble heart. There is a well-known anecdote related by Tom Peters about a hospital in the US that treats cancer. During a series of staff interviews, an interviewer asked the housekeeper what her job entailed. She responded, “I help to cure cancer.” Somewhere in that hospital, a leader had connected the dots for this individual and made her feel that she was an integral part of the hospital’s mission.

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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 Science of the Good Life

Tony Mayo

'The founder and driving force of “Positive Psychology” has summarized his lifetime of research in this accessible book for the lay reader. Though padded with the usual flab of today’s nonfiction–refutations of criticisms most readers have never encountered, tangential personal anecdotes, and repetition–the substance of his findings are practical and enlivening.

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How to Communicate with a Left-Brained Leader

leaderCommunicator

'One of the things thats key to communicating with leaders is considering that persons leadership style. From experience working with leaders across the globe, Ive noticed that the majority of senior leaders today are left-brained. They think in words (vs. images). They are highly analytical. They focus on logic (as opposed to emotion). They do a lot of advanced planning (they dont wing it).

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Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May – A few thoughts on Depression

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Depression is the aloneness within us made manifest, and it destroys not only connection to others but also the ability to be peacefully alone with oneself. Depression cannot be wiped out so long as we are creatures conscious of our own selves. It can at best be contained  and containing it is all that […].

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Three Reasons Why Business Leaders Fail to Use Their Bully Pulpits

CO2

'by Gary Cohen. A “bully pulpit” is simply an excellent platform from which to share an important (and often moral) message. You don’t need an actual pulpit in a church or chapel to be in possession of one. President Theodore Roosevelt, who coined the term, used the White House as his bully pulpit. Today’s business leaders have bully pulpits, but they’re less likely to use them than politicians or religious leaders.

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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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The Tyranny of the Current – Thoughts from Warren Bennis, Richard Donkin (Blood Sweat & Tears) and John Brooks (Business Adventures)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'A few thoughts Im reading Business Adventuresby John Brooksfor the next First Friday Book Synopsis. First published in 1969, now reissued, these are not current stories. Im reading about innovation then, not innovation now. New products then, not now. Xerox; the Edsel Im reading about criminal activities, and ethical blind spots, then, not now.

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The Irresistible Change Guide is now available with more tips and templates to help you influence change at work!

Change Starts Here

'Today’s the last day to get FREE registration. for the Define Your Change webinar. when you order your Irresistible Change Guide toolkit. Two years ago, I introduced the Irresistible Change Guide  as an easy-to-use change management toolkit to help people with the essential yet often elusive components of implementing change. Since then, it’s helped scores of change agents design and influence change at work.

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Can lucid dreaming improve dreamers' abilities when they're awake?

Coaching Tip

'Psychologists at the University of Lincoln in England found in a June study that people with frequent lucid dreams are better at cognitive tasks that involve insight, like problem-solving. Other researchers have shown that people who dream of practicing a routine can improve their abilities in that activity in real life. Early evidence also suggests that lucid dreaming may help improve depressive symptoms and mental health in general, perhaps by giving people a greater sense of self-control.

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Three Reasons Why Business Leaders Fail to Use Their Bully Pulpits

CO2

A “bully pulpit” is simply an excellent platform from which to share an important (and often moral) message. You don’t need an actual pulpit in a church or chapel to be in possession of one. President Theodore Roosevelt, who coined the term, used the White House as his bully pulpit. Today’s business leaders have bully pulpits, but they’re less likely to use them than politicians or religious leaders.

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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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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #143

Rapid BI

'“I’m inviting you to my seminar on Improving Your Communication Skills. If you’d like to attend, grunt one for yes or twice for no.” Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. see more office humor.

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One CEO???s Reflections On Measuring Impact And Purpose

Tanveer Naseer

'The following is a guest piece by Daniel Patrick Forrester. Over the last ten years I have seen a movement happening within for-profit organizations. They are moving towards including a social impact agenda within their purpose as a company. Which is groundbreaking for society! I can think of no greater time in history to advance our society then by for-profit social impact investing.

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Don Draper Is Replaceable; Joan Holloway Isn???t

Harvard Business Review

'In season three of Mad Men , Sterling Coopers rainmakers — including Don Draper and Roger Sterling — are planning to leave the ad agency and to take as many clients as possible with them. Theyre in the firms Manhattan offices on a Sunday morning, plotting their exit, when the knowledge dawns: they dont know where the client files are.

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The Immediate Need to Create a Lasting Legacy

Ron Edmondson

'Succession has been a hot topic in a whole lot of church circles lately. I visited with my friend William Vanderbloemen who just wrote a book on the subject called Next: Pastoral Succession That Works , which is a church leaders comprehensive guidebook to understanding what you can do now to prepare for the day your church faces a leadership transition.

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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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How to Get Ideological Opponents to Work with You

Harvard Business Review

'How do you encourage someone whose deeply held beliefs are at odds with yours to support and collaborate with you  or, at least, not obstruct you? Obviously, directly challenging their convictions will backfire. My research suggests some effective strategies. Negotiations 101 teaches us to find something that is valuable to our opponents yet not costly for us to concede in order to encourage concessions from our opponent.

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Internal Entrepreneurs Don???t Have to Be Lonely

Harvard Business Review

'Recent research confirms that entrepreneurs inside large, established organizations(which we’ll abbreviate to EIs) largely follow the same act-learn-build logic as new venture entrepreneurs, but with some significant differences. One of the biggest difficulties reported by EIs is that they have few colleagues (and sometimes no one) to talk to, explore ideas with, or gain emotional support from.

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Why You Shouldn???t Try to Win Over a Candidate During the Job Interview

Harvard Business Review

'The more a job interviewer tries to sell a candidate on working at the company, the less able he or she is to judge the candidates worthiness, according to a series of experiments by Jennifer Carson Marr of Georgia Institute of Technology and Dan M. Cable of London Business School. Making the job seem appealing becomes a distraction that gets in the way of accurate judgments.

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Why Western-Russian Sanctions Don???t Matter (Yet)

Harvard Business Review

'Concerns about political risk have heightened in the light of tit-for-tat sanctions between Russia and the West. Many observers seem genuinely shocked at the scale of the Russian reaction to three sets of Western sanctions imposed since the annexation of the Crimea earlier this year. But will these sanctions really bite? The details suggest not. The first two rounds of Western sanctions followed the conventional post-9/11 wisdom, namely, that financial and individual sanctions workso those c

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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 Condensed September 2014 Issue

Harvard Business Review

'Amy Bernstein , editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features. For more, see the September 2014 issue of HBR. Download this podcast.

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