Wed.Nov 25, 2015

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A Thanksgiving Challenge

Let's Grow Leaders

I cried as I read his note. I’ve been wrestling with how to share this with you ever since. I thought about writing about it generically but that fell flat. I couldn’t write it in a way that kept the impact. So here’s my pre-apology. This is not a “look what I did, follow my lead” post. It’s a “look what HE did, and OMG do we need more of that in this world” post.

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Being Thankful is a Virtue

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Cicero's quote reminds us that before we can act on the important virtues that create a just society, we must see the world with a thankful heart.

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A Lesson for Team Leaders from the Ship of Theseus

Lead Change Blog

If you are leading a team in any industry, you are likely constantly in search of actionable ideas that will help you to strengthen your culture and inspire better teamwork among your staff. I would like to share an idea from nearly 2,000 years ago that has surprising relevance today. The Greek philosopher Plutarch, somewhere around 100 AD, described the mythical “Ship of Theseus” in his writings this way: “The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and

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Happy Thanksgiving from GeneralLeadership.com

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 the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.” Meister Eckhart. In 1863, in the midst of a Civil War that had been raging for more than two years and shortly following the Union victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation to Americans: “Set apart a

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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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A Dog’s Advice: Listening Matters

Women on Business

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Be a leader worth following.

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Thursday Thoughts: Be a leader worth following. People follow leaders by choice. Otherwise at best, you get mindless compliance. Read ➤ How to Be a Leader People Want to Follow. * * * * * * * * * * * * * *. In addition to my regular leadership blog, I offer “Thursday Thoughts” – simple truths for reflection and food for thought. The post Be a leader worth following. appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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What Does Etiquette have to do with Nursing Leadership?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Kathleen Pagana : Anyone committed to career advancement faces the challenge of interacting well in business and social settings. By using the guiding principles of kindness, consideration and commonsense, professional etiquette can help you initiate new relationships and enhance established ones. Etiquette is about relationships. It can guide you in unfamiliar situations and help you know what to expect from others.

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10 Ways to Help Your Team Be More Thankful

Lead by Adventure

‘Tis the season to be grateful. There are lots of things to be thankful for; however, we can often get busy (especially during this time of the year) and become consumed with all that we have to get done before the end of the year. Here are ten ways to help re-direct your team (and even yourself) to think about others during the holidays and get the focus off of everything you have to do.

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Business Book Includes Thanks to Authors’ Executive Coach

Tony Mayo

Tony Mayo Executive Coach. I am pleased and flattered that my clients, Chris Haddon and Jason Balin, gave specific, detailed credit to me and some of my techniques in their new book, The Whiteboard: Go From Blank Canvas to a Productive, Leveraged and Highly-Profitable Business. Here is just one paragraph. We sought out our executive coach, Tony, to show […].

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The Unexpected, Business Benefits of Gratitude

David A Fields

Each Friday I pause to consider everything I have to be grateful for. Family, friends, a thriving business, homemade banana-chocolate cream pie. Some wise folks do this exercise every day. Others limit their gratitude to a day here or there such as Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) or when they exchange gifts. Terrific. Warm and fluffy as rabbit fur. But how does gratitude help consultants’ businesses?

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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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Time for Public Companies to Evolve

Tony Mayo

Tony Mayo Executive Coach. Does your job trigger primitive survival instincts? My book presents alternatives. Those best equipped to compete mercilessly for food, ward off any threat, dominate territory, and seek safety naturally passed along their genes, so these self-centered impulses could only intensify. But sometime after mammals appeared, they evolved what neuroscientists call the limbic system, perhaps about […].

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Thanksgiving: Did you already know?

First Friday Book Synopsis

Bill Bryson is one of my favorite writers. Here is a brief excerpt from Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (1998). “When a celebration was deemed in order, the Puritans were delighted to let their hair down. The first Thanksgiving feast went on for three full days… Read More Thanksgiving: Did you already know?

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Strategizing for Success: Keys for Planning Annual Sales & Marketing Goals, part 1 of 2

Strategy Driven

Each fourth quarter as the New Year approaches, it’s prudent to prepare a profitability plan for the coming year, especially with respect to your sales and marketing endeavors. Doing so can give you a notable competitive edge, particularly given the extraordinary number of professionals that don’t bother producing this strategic tool. But, whether developed before or after the start of the New Year, the importance of creating a tactical plan for sales and marketing success cannot be overstated.

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Eight Essentials of Good Speaking – A Speech Primer

First Friday Book Synopsis

StoryTelling is currently big. At other times, other elements of speechmaking have been big. Currently, storytelling is big. Not just stories are big. Storytelling is big. There are books, and articles, and blogs on storytelling. Like other aspects of speaking, there are TED Talks and seminars to help you get better at the storytelling aspect… Read More Eight Essentials of Good Speaking – A Speech Primer.

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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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When You’re The Pastor But Not The Leader

Ron Edmondson

I was talking with a 25 year old pastor recently. He is frustrated with the church where he serves. He was brought to the church because they wanted him to help the church grow again — or so the search committee convinced him — but they see him as too young to make decisions on his own. They won’t take his suggestions, voting them down at business meetings.

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Top tips for you on getting the most out of LinkedIn for Graduates

Rapid BI

Are you getting the most out of LinkedIn? Are you a recent graduate or job hunter? New to the world of work? Here are some top tips to help you get the most out of LinkedIn Getting the most out of LinkedIn can be hard and sometimes scary. You do have a profile on Linkedin…right? […]. The post Top tips for you on getting the most out of LinkedIn for Graduates appeared first on.

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How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation

Harvard Business Review

DAVE WHEELER FOR HBR. In a recent strategy meeting we attended with the leaders of a Fortune-500 company, the word “culture” came up 27 times in 90 minutes. Business leaders believe a strong organizational culture is critical to success, yet culture tends to feel like some magic force that few know how to control. So most executives manage it according to their intuition.

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“Joinership” is the new Leadership

Strategy Driven

It’s no secret that most companies value leadership over just about anything else. It’s an attitude reflected in our culture and on the surface, it appears to be the key to success. However, in my experience, there’s another component more important than strong leadership—an element that rarely gets the spotlight, because it’s all about not stepping into the spotlight.

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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 Problem-Solving Process That Prevents Groupthink

Harvard Business Review

There are two reasons most of us aren’t very good at creative problem solving. First, few people get training in how to be creative in their education. Second, few people understand group dynamics well enough to harness their power to help groups maximize their creativity. Resolving the first issue requires getting your employees to learn more about the way they think… a tall order for managers.

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4 Types of Conflict and How to Manage Them

Harvard Business Review

Amy Gallo , author of the HBR Guide to Managing Conflict at Work , explains the options. Download this podcast.

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I’m a Female Author, So Why Did I Want a Man to Narrate My Audiobook?

Harvard Business Review

HBR STAFF. I have been very public in my advocacy for women and girls. In 2012, I published a book titled Dare, Dream, Do with the express purpose of inspiring women to dream — to believe that it is our birthright. In 2013, I co-founded Forty Women OVER 40 to Watch in order to spotlight women who are reinventing and disrupting. Then in 2014, I co-founded the Springboard Fund to invest in women-led businesses.

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How a Food-Ordering App Broke into a Crowded Market

Harvard Business Review

It’s not easy to find companies that genuinely do things differently. But for the founders of the takeout-ordering app Eat24 , doing things differently is what allowed them to build up their company into an attractive acquisition target – they recently completed a $134 million deal with Yelp. The idea for the business came to Nadav Sharon, a former Israeli Navy cook living in San Francisco and managing a small family pizzeria, when he realized how much time he was wasting taking endl

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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.