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Are You A Leader or Boss?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss … The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” Theodore Roosevelt. Many times when I am called in by an organization it is to “fix” an employee who is not meeting the expectations of the boss and the organization.

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Frontline Festival: February 2016

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is all about building productive workplace relationships. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month, we turn our focus to fresh perspectives for leaders. Give us your best fresh insight! Submissions due March 11th– new participants always welcome, please use this form.

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Why Your Employee Engagement Programs Fail

Lead Change Blog

That Won’t Work! “David, I’ve tried that. It doesn’t work.”. Roger was isolated, burned out, and frustrated. His team had turned against him, his boss was done waiting, and Roger knew his job was on the line if he didn’t produce results. We had discussed tools he could use to have a better relationship with his team and to help them achieve results.

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Small Business and Sustainability

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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9 Ways We Sabotage Ourselves

Leading Blog

F ROM PEOPLE whose job it is to sabotage the efforts of others, we can take a lesson or two. In Simple Sabotage , authors Robert Galford, Bob Frisch and Cary Greene explain that in January 1944 the OSS (Office of Strategic Services—predecessor of the CIA) published the Simple Sabotage Field Manual to train resistance members in the art of sabotage. “The Manual detailed easy ways to disrupt and demoralize the enemy’s institutions without being detected.

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Seven Ways to Not-Know Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

Pretending you know, when you don’t, makes you intentionally ignorant. Confusion is the point of opportunity, if you have the courage to not-know. Four dangers for all knowing leaders: Pretending you know is an act of self-sabotage. Lost credibility. Smoke-blowers become obvious with time.

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George E. L. Barbee: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

George E. L. Barbee is one of the original Batten Fellow faculty members (along with Jim Collins, Malcolm Gladwell and Jim Gilmore) at top-ranked University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and has been teaching innovation for the past 15 years to over 500 MBA students and senior executives. Barbee’s 45-year business career has taken… Read More George E.

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Weekly Round-Up: Things Great Leaders Do Differently, Building a Passionate Company, Bridging Communication Gaps and Saying Thank You to Employees

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.

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The Conditions for Resistance-Free Change

Change Starts Here

As I sat on a plane yesterday on my way to facilitate a client workshop, I remembered the saying about how a plane has to take off against the wind. Rather than ponder the nature of aerodynamics while flying, instead I wondered – could there be change with no resistance? As a fun exercise, I tried to envision what the conditions would be for a resistance-free change.

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What Defines You?

Deep Imprints

What would you say is your identity? Joseph might have thought he was an administrator, and probably an attractor of problem people. His people saw a leader. I suspect Peter thought of himself as a fisherman. Those around him saw someone who would go first, someone who asked the 'dumb' questions, a champion and a […].

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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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Have You Found Your Passion that Pays?

Strategy Driven

What are you deeply passionate about? At what can you be the very best in the world? What drives your business’s economic engine? Many people know what their passions are, but that’s as far as they go. They have many passions, are generalists about all of them, and don’t strongly commit to one or two. As a result, they never become really exceptional at anything – and this holds true for their businesses, as well.

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Every Company Needs a Growth Manager

Harvard Business Review

Growing revenue and profits is a core objective of most companies, and it is the responsibility of every function to contribute to the pursuit of this goal. Yet, in recent years technology startups have embraced a new role, Growth Manager — alternatively Growth Hacker, Growth PM, or Head of Growth — that focuses on it exclusively. By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their ap

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How Leaderless Groups End Up with Leaders

Harvard Business Review

HBR STAFF. We’ve always known that communication is an important leadership skill. But most leadership research and advice is centered on what leaders say and how they say it, not on the underlying neural processes that govern communication between people. A new finding in brain science reveals a curious dynamic — a neural synchronization — during communication between leaders and followers: the brain activity of leaders and followers is more highly synchronized than the brain

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Interview Techniques That Get Beyond Canned Responses

Harvard Business Review

jennifer maravillas FOR HBR. According to Elon Musk, a good way to tell if a candidate is fibbing about his or her qualifications is whether they can use a personal story to illustrate a particularly telling experience. “If someone was really the person that solved a problem, they’ll be able to answer the question on multiple levels,” he says. “Anyone who really solves a problem never forgets it.” Whether it’s because they’re hiding something, or because

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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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How Having an MBA vs. a Law Degree Shapes Your Network

Harvard Business Review

You’ve probably heard the expression “It’s not what you know, but who you know, that matters.” The sentiment is rather demotivating. After all, why go the extra mile if success is just determined by connections? It’s true that networks influence the resources, support, and advocacy you get during the course of your career, but networks can form in many different ways.

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The Elements of an Effective Cause Marketing Campaign

Harvard Business Review

What makes a great cause campaign? How do you get people to stop bad habits, adopt good ones, or do something about a societal or health issue that may not even be on their radar? In developing the strategy for a recent cause campaign, we took a three-step approach to considering our options for tone, appeal/approach, and the most effective elements.

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The Perils of Overmonitoring Your Behavior and Goals

Harvard Business Review

Some people are pretty oblivious to time. They work crazy late, but they can’t remember what they did, they forget to eat, and they go through life in a bit of a haze. For people in this category, the current trend of self-monitoring, whether through time trackers like Toggl or fitness trackers like Fitbit , plays a critical role in helping them take ownership of their time and live happier, healthier lives.

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The Condensed March 2016 Issue

Harvard Business Review

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features. Download this podcast.

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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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Apple vs. the FBI Is Really, Really Complicated

Harvard Business Review

HBR STAFF. Apple’s Tim Cook appears to be mad as hell. His open letter to customers — in which he scoffed at a court order that would compel Apple (under a 227-year-old law) to write code to help unlock a phone that’s part of a terrorist investigation — put the internet’s hot take machine into overdrive. Depending on the take, either the government wants to set a precedent that would allow it to get master keys to all our devices, or Apple supports terrorists becaus

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The Benefits of Peer-to-Peer Praise at Work

Harvard Business Review

In The Happiness Advantage , I describe an experience with a leader at a Fortune 100 company who told me, “We don’t need a happiness program, we pay people to be engaged.” This is a surprisingly common refrain from unenlightened leaders, an assumption based upon the belief that pay equals engagement. However, a meta-analysis of the relationship between pay and job satisfaction shows that there is only a small correlation between the two, and that there is much more to the high

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