Fri.Jul 24, 2015

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A Legacy that Matters

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. If you want to leave a legacy, invest in people, and encourage those you develop to pass on everything they learn from you to others who will do the same. – John Maxwell. A leader owes it to his organization to lead in a way that will benefit the organization in the future.

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How Conflict Makes Us Better

Lead Change Blog

Conflict. The very word sends negative and fearful thoughts through even the most hardy leaders. None of us like conflict. If we had our way, each one of us would steer away from it and navigate towards the less painful, smoother waters. However, where would any one of us be if we avoided conflict altogether? We must admit that while uncomfortable, and even painful, conflict helps us become better leaders.

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You Can’t Lead If You’re in the Weeds

Leading Blog

Leaders work on a spectrum of effectiveness and the continuum varies with the ups and downs of your work’s natural rhythms. When you are in a good place, with available margin to deal with your load, you take a balanced approach to meeting your demands, use your strengths wisely, and sustain the capacity to manage well against the challenges of the day.

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Root Causes of Working IN Your Business, Not ON Your Business

Women on Business

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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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Finding Joy In Life

Joseph Lalonde

W alking around town, you may notice many people lack something in their lives. The people you crossed paths with had scowls on their face. They were rushed. They were missing something. That something? These people were missing joy. Image via Creative Commons. Joy is an amazing thing. Joy doesn’t require good things to happen to us. Joy doesn’t require you to be rich.

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How to Create Dissatisfaction that Energizes

Leadership Freak

Most leaders are too quick to rush to solutions. Begin with the nightmare not the dream. Dissatisfaction that energizes begins with an unacceptable present.

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The Biggest Problem in Business (Summarized)

Six Disciplines

What most business leaders think their greatest challenge is, isn’t. And whatever their problems are today, they’ll be different tomorrow and they will be bigger too. There is one business problem that if solved, will make solving all other problems easier. This foundational challenge is executing strategy. In other words, building an organization that has the ability to plan and execute, while at the same time, overcoming the inevitable surprises in business.

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Complacency; Loss of Focus – Lessons from Elon Musk and a SpaceX Catastrophe, and a Prison Escape in New York State

First Friday Book Synopsis

Complacent: marked by self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies The good news on attention comes from neuroscience labs and school classrooms, where the findings point to ways we can strengthen this vital muscle of the mind. Attention works much like a muscle—use it poorly and it can wither; work it […].

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Weekly Round-Up: Why Happy Employees Are More Productive, Deepening the Workplace Bond & Inspiring Quotes for Today’s Top Leaders

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog. This week you’ll see articles on the true impact of employee engagement on business performance, why email still reigns for engaging millennials and why happy employees are 12% more productive.

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7 False Assumptions Made About Introverts

Ron Edmondson

I am an introvert. Some people can question whether they are or not. I don’t. I’m certified in Myers Briggs, so I know the language well. I’ve studied the concept. It didn’t require much study though for me. I’m in the camp. It means Sundays I’m more tired when I go home. It means I avoid certain crowds unless I have a clear purpose for being there.

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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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Friday Leadership Ideas to Help You Finish Strong for July 24, 2015

Management Excellence

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Fun Friday – weekly office cartoon #293 #ff

Rapid BI

Some office fun for a Friday afternoon Fun Friday – weekly office cartoon #293 Not Our Worse Employee “Just the same, it’s nice to get an award.” Office cartoons Office based cartoons, funnies and humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. See more office humor Take […]. The post Fun Friday – weekly office cartoon #293 #ff appeared first on.

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Leading through Influence: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our July Festival is all about leading through influence. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Festival is all about Effective Communication. New contributors welcome. Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seeds of either success or failure in the mind of another. – Napoleon Hill.

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To Hold Women Back, Keep Treating Them Like Men

Harvard Business Review

Are men and women different? While almost every executive I have ever met, anywhere in the world, says yes, most diversity policies are designed as if the answer were no. Last week, the Global Head of Diversity of a leading professional services firm told me that she “didn’t want to be treated differently.” That, I answered, is why most professional services firms are still hovering well below the 20% female partner level.

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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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People Offer Better Ideas When They Can’t See What Others Suggest

Harvard Business Review

Companies from BMW to Kraft have invested a good deal in soliciting “open innovation” ideas from consumers, but the results have been underwhelming: Of the more than 23,000 ideas gathered by Dell’s Idea Storm site, only 2% have been put to use, and Starbucks has implemented an even smaller fraction of the 200,000 suggestions submitted to My Starbucks Idea (including 6,000 for new varieties of Frappuccino).

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Harper Lee and Dr. Seuss Won’t Save Publishing

Harvard Business Review

The hottest trend right now in publishing is…things that were written more than a half-century ago. This month, publishers have enjoyed an unexpected bonanza from the vault, starting with the release of Harper Lee’s late 1950s creation Go Set a Watchman , which sold more than 1.1 million copies in North America during its first week on sale and now has a whopping 3.3 million copies in print.

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The Essential Guide to Crafting a Work Email

Harvard Business Review

You, like me, probably rattle off emails quickly, all day ( and sometimes all night ) long. And that means the people receiving your emails are doing exactly the same thing. Whether this is good or bad for us, generally speaking, is an open question. But until we all get better at dealing with email overflow , how do you make sure the ones you send get noticed – and for reasons other than an unfortunate Freudian typo?