Fri.Apr 08, 2016

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How did that person get to be a leader?

Lead Change Blog

As an HR manager, it’s amazing what people will tell you. Sometimes when a promotion notice was posted, employees would seek me out and ask, “How did that happen???”. It was particularly perplexing when the person in question was observed to be more talk than action. Or they were unreliable in making good on commitments. Maybe they were known for creating more work than necessary.

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Insights on Becoming an Effective Learner

QAspire

We learn the most from that which challenges us the most. I remember having learned server side scripting many years back completely on my own. I had no special resources, no advanced tools and no external guidance – just a lot of willingness to pick up the skill. It wasn’t easy and that made it all the more interesting. But as we grow in our career and life, we avoid the discomfort involved in learning new things, which eventually slows down the process of learning.

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What Will You Leave Behind?

Joseph Lalonde

T his is a question every leader should be asking himself. What will I leave behind? Leadership is not a permanent position. You will transition out of leadership. And one of the greatest things people can say is that you transitioned out well and left something behind. Your leadership will impact various aspects of the organization you lead. From the staff to high-level leadership to customers, your ability to lead impacts all of these areas.

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The Answer to Losing Weight

Leadership Freak

The answer to losing weight isn’t eating less. I’m a stress eater. My answer to losing weight is about stress, not food. The gift of craving: Stress sneaks in unnoticed.

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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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Expertise, the 10,000 hour rule and a simple reminder – you don’t get better at what you don’t work at…

First Friday Book Synopsis

I heard an interview on Think with Krys Boyd yesterday : What Makes An Expert? Anders Ericsson has spent the last 30 years studying virtuoso musicians, champion athletes and other exceptional performers to learn how they became great. This hour, we’ll talk with him about what it takes to make it from average to excellent,… Read More Expertise, the 10,000 hour rule and a simple reminder – you don’t get better at what you don’t work at….

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Middle Management – The Leverage Point for Performance Improvement

Strategy Driven

Over 30 years of management consulting has made clear that the locus for a breakdown in performance improvement lies in middle management. Organizations focus on building executive teams with mixed records of success. First-line working groups tend to naturally coalesce as teams as they are doing the same work, share the same view of the organization, their customers, etc.

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The Right Way to Cut People Off in Meetings

Harvard Business Review

You’ve spent hours preparing for the meeting. The objectives are clear. The agenda is tight. Relevant material was distributed to attendees in advance. Smartphones are put away, and your team seems focused and ready to work. The conversation begins, but after 10 minutes of good discussion on the first agenda item, someone goes off on a tangent that, while interesting, is only marginally related to the designated topic.

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What’s Worse than a Difficult Conversation? Avoiding One.

Harvard Business Review

As a leader, how can you confront the truth about a situation without fearing rejection, or disagree with someone clearly and cleanly without obsessing about causing offense? I have been an executive with major corporations, including PepsiCo, Shell, and BBC Worldwide, as well as a change consultant. I’ve learned that in leadership roles the most important work often happens in the least comfortable spaces.

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Why Platform Disruption Is So Much Bigger than Product Disruption

Harvard Business Review

How does disruptive innovation differ when it’s applied to a product versus a platform? For the sake of clarity, let’s call a product “a platform that is used for one or very few products” and a platform “a structure upon which many variations of products are built.” These definitions recognize that product vs. platform isn’t black-and-white, but let’s use them for practical purposes.

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Why the Future of E-Commerce Depends on Better Roads

Harvard Business Review

In the cavernous basement of the Olympic Building, a line of boxy, dark brown delivery trucks rolls out to the early-morning streets of downtown Los Angeles, a chorus of tires squeaking across smooth concrete. Five floors up, in the UPS district president’s office, Noel Massie allows himself a brief moment of contentment as he feels the building vibrate around him and then fall still with the last of his fleet’s departures.

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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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Israel Isn’t the Only Country That Thinks CEOs Should Earn Less

Harvard Business Review

“Everyone complains about the weather,” Mark Twain is supposed to have said, “but no one does anything about it.” The same has been true of executive pay in recent years. Although both the amount of money executives earn and the way exec compensation is structured have come under fire from everyone from Occupy protesters to Harvard Business School professors to the occasional CEO , very little has actually changed.

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Facebook Live Is the Company’s Newest Strategic Weapon

Harvard Business Review

HBR STAFF. Facebook is Live. Will it get livelier? This week, Facebook rolled out its newest product, Facebook Live. Actually, “tool” is probably a better word. What it does is allow anybody to stream a video from their smartphone and have it broadcast live. The result is then stored, like any other post, in your newsfeed. As an example, here is what I did the other day.

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What Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand About Negotiation

Harvard Business Review

The next president of the United States will need to be an extremely effective negotiator. Armed conflict, political deadlock, and diplomatic crises abound. The president will be called upon to resolve the war in Syria, manage complex relationships with Russia and Iran, handle hot spots such as North Korea, Libya, and Ukraine, navigate competitive tensions with China, and revive a modicum of bipartisanship in Congress.