Thu.May 21, 2015

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Positive Leadership Toward Reinventing Organizations

Lead Change Blog

Positive Leadership , based on positive psychology, makes a tremendous difference in any workplace no matter how hierarchical its structure may be, or how plain the tasks at hand. Recently, some great books have been published about “new organizations” for the 21-st century, such as “Reinventing Organizations” by Frederic Laloux and “My Steam Engine is Broken” by Mark Powell and Jonathan Gifford.

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6 Ways to Earn & Maintain Your Staff’s Respect

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Rosalinda Randall : “ You can’t lead anyone else any further than you have gone yourself.” –Unknown Can’t get your staff to do what you tell them to do? Do you live by the old adage, “Do as I say, not as I do?” Leading a team or staff of one is not an easy task. Providing guidelines, policies, and sometimes frequent reminders is helpful.

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5 Steps for Going from Concept to Creation

Women on Business

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The Answer is Who

Leadership Freak

Short-sighted leaders are consumed with results. Real leaders are consumed with people. The answer is who. Traditional leaders: Solve problems. Prevent failure. Create systems. Measure results. Traditional leadership is essential.

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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 Get Your New Team Off to a Strong Start

Next Level Blog

If you’re a leader in your organization, there will be multiple times in your career when you have to get a new team off to a strong start. One of the critical steps in that process is when you bring the team members together for the first time. That’s a rare opportunity to define the purpose, build trust, establish the ground rules and set the priorities.

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Whether People (Your Employees) Trust You Is Up to You

leaderCommunicator

Author Stephen Covey defines trust in a simple and clear way—the “confidence born of two dimensions: character and competence.” He describes having low trust as a “hidden tax” on every interaction and transaction, which gets in the way of results and raises costs. As a leader, trust starts—or stops—with you. Trust is contagious. When you trust others and demonstrate that you can be trusted, it sets into motion an expectation and opportunity for others to trust and be worthy of trust in return.

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Your attitude is showing!

Deep Imprints

Let’s face it. Sometimes we don’t feel "nice". In fact, we are downright grumpy. Sometimes it feels like every word that others speak is a scrub brush on an open wound. And as you know, hurting people hurt people. Yet, we still have to progress through the day. How do you have a good attitude […].

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5 Signs You're Creating Cultural Hierarchy & 5 Signs Your Team Feels It.

Anese Cavanaugh

In my work with business leaders and their organizations, the majority of them want to avoid "hierarchy" in the organization in as many ways as possible. Many of them are highly successful at doing so. They set structures in place to create more of a "flat" organization, they get clear on organizational values, and they get very intentional about the culture they want to create.

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Rodd Wagner: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Rodd Wagner is the New York Times bestselling author of the book Widgets: The 12 New Rules for Managing Your Employees As If They’re Real People, published by McGraw-Hill (April 2015). He is one of the foremost authorities on employee engagement and collaboration. Wagner’s books, speeches, and thought leadership focus on how human nature affects […].

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The Biggest Thing I Took Away from My First Community Role

Managing Communities

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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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7 Habits of a Successful Leader

Ron Edmondson

I’m a student of leadership. I am consistently talking to, interviewing, and learning from leaders I believe have been successful — regardless of their vocational field. If they have honorable intentions (which I believe is necessary to be considered successful anyway), then I can learn from them. I’ve observed a few common habits that successful leaders have that may, in my opinion, separate them from less successful leaders.

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Find Quotes by W. Edwards Deming (Including the Source)

Deming Institute

We have added a new web application for quotes by W. Edwards Deming. We hope this will be of use to people searching for quotes by Dr. Deming. The quotes are viewable by category , such as: leadership , managing people , systems thinking and data. We provide the source for the quotes, when we have sources. For some of the quotes, we also provide comments and links to further information on the topic of the quote.

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Are You Too Nice?

The Idolbuster

I’m feeling really good about the event I organized last Sunday. We had over 60 people at An Afternoon of Mussar, almost half of whom had never explored Mussar before. 60 is quite extraordinary for a first time event. We ended the day in a giant circle with our arms around each other doing a very simple chant. When I shared this with David Dotson, who is running a leadership workshop I will be attending in a few weeks, he asked me a simple question: “so what is that feeling inspiring

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Is Rooftop Solar Finally Good Enough to Disrupt the Grid?

Harvard Business Review

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay.

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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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Your Presentation Needs a Punch Line

Harvard Business Review

It was late Saturday night on Chicago’s North Side, and the historic Green Mill jazz club was buzzing with nervous energy. So was I. Pacing on the edge of the tiny stage, I gave my notes one final glance, exterminated the butterflies in my stomach, and stepped into the blinding spotlight. “Welcome to the inaugural edition of Mortified Chicago!

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Signs That You’re Being Too Stubborn

Harvard Business Review

They’re hardheaded. They dig their heels in. You know the type — people who are way too stubborn for their own good. While it’s easy to point the finger at others who exhibit this behavior, it can be hard to recognize this trait in yourself. Here are the signs that you’re being too inflexible: You keep at an idea or plan, or insist on making your point, even when you know you’re wrong.

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Health Care Transparency Should Be About Strategy, Not Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Health care organizations need to re-think their concept of strategy to thrive in a marketplace driven by competition on value – how well they improve patient outcomes and reduce costs. That re-thinking begins with clarifying what the organizations are truly trying to accomplish, and for what “customers,” and how they are going to distinguish themselves from competitors and offer a unique value proposition.

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Let’s Stop Arguing About Whether Disruption Is Good or Bad

Harvard Business Review

Kenneth Andersson. The idea of disruption excites some people and terrifies others. Consider the recent case of The New Republic , in which a new, disruptive CEO came in and vowed to “break s**t.” The company’s top journalists balked, the brand was sullied, and the business still struggles. And all that for what? That was the essence of Jill Lepore’s essay last year in The New Yorker about the “disruption machine,” in which she argued that, “disruptive i

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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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Measure Your Team’s Intellectual Diversity

Harvard Business Review

Inventive thinking in a team setting is fueled by a blend of talents, skills, and traits that rarely all exist in a single person—such as an ability to see problems through fresh eyes, a knack for understanding a frustrated customer’s complaints, or a flair for turning a creative idea into a profitable innova­tion. This kind of intellectual diversity is more likely to be present when individuals on the team come from different disciplines, backgrounds, and areas of e