Tue.Jan 17, 2017

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Stop This Terrible Habit You Don’t Even Know You Have

Let's Grow Leaders

How do I know you have it? Because I have it too. Most high-performers do. It’s a sneaky little bugger, because on the surface it really feels like you’re doing the right thing. And on most levels you are. It’s a Winning Well core competency taken to extremes. But if you go too far, the stress will crush your spirit and undermine your confidence.

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Stop Playing In The Kiddie Pool.

Rich Gee Group

How serious are you about your business? . What are you willing to do to make it to the next level? . How would you like to add another $100k a month to your business? It’s not impossible — many people do it. But they have to be SERIOUS, COMMITTED, & FEARLESS in themselves and their business. You need to be SERIOUS — are you willing to work 60-70-80 hours a week to make things happen?

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Stop Unwanted Beliefs From Sabotaging Your Self-Improvement

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Inc. columnist and NYU Adjunct Professor Joshua Spodek. We’re approaching February and gyms are starting to empty as people drop their resolutions. Maybe you know the pattern: you felt so resolved in December to get fit, start a new venture, or whatever your resolution. For most of us, by Valentines Day that resolve has gone.

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Getting a Good Start

Lead Change Blog

Last December, I did my post on Reflection. As we start the year, it is appropriate to touch on the topic of starting the year right. As a leader, it is important to close the year strong. However, it is even more important to start the new year strong. A good start creates momentum that can help you sustain a level of performance for the year. In reviewing your year-end plan, if you’re working with your team, it is important to communicate the plan and highlight the milestones.

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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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4 Ways to Get Real with Weaknesses so You can Hire the Best People and Maximize Strengths

Leadership Freak

Everyone who’s remarkable at something is really lousy at many things. Don’t let this stop you from attempting great things, but keep it in mind the next time you’re frustrated with teammates. Highly technical people may be socially awkward. Leaders who deliver great results may be impatient and rude.

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Four ways to move beyond berating yourself

Persuasive Powerhouse

Good, kind, empathetic leaders (yes, they’re out there!) are especially vulnerable to having negative self-talk. This can take the form of ruminating and spinning about things they inadvertently did or didn’t do to others. Does this sound like you? Berating yourself for something you’ve done in the past can’t help you to move forward.

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No Car, No Phone, No Clue: 10 Life Lessons from a Treasure Hunt

RapidStart Leadership

It was anything but a normal way to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. But despite many unexpected trials, it was also one of the best days we’d had together in a while. Here’s the very unusual way we spent our anniversary, and ten Life Lessons we’ll be sure to keep mind for the next 25 years (and beyond!). It all started […].

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What Great Teams Are Made Of (It’s Not What You Might Expect)

leaderCommunicator

Chances are, you’ve had the experience at least once of being on a great team. Whether it was through work, a sports team, or another outside activity, the group just jelled and -- most importantly -- got things done. Fascinated by the question of what makes for an effective work team, Google recently studied hundreds of its own teams to determine why some performed better than others.

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The Problem with Familiarity

Kevin Eikenberry

It might sound strange to say that there is a problem with familiarity – after all, establishing this helps us to work better together as a team, communicate better and have fewer conflicts. And yet…in the video below, I’m discussing how we have to be aware of familiarity and the pitfalls that we can fall […]. The post The Problem with Familiarity appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Leadership Secrets of Hamilton

Coaching Tip

On April 30, 1789, George Washington took office as the nation's first president. The man who would one day be eulogized as "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen" faced monumental problems as the executive of a fledgling nation. Of Washington's many troubles, America's economy loomed the largest. The United States of America had no international credit, a worthless national currency, and no definitive means of taxation or raising revenue.

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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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Most Popular Management and Leadership Quotes on Our Site in 2016

Curious Cat

These were the most popular quotes on the Curious Cat Management and Leadership Quotes web site in 2016 (based on page views). Follow the link on the quote text for the source and more information on the quote. Having no problems is the biggest problem of all. – Taiichi Ohno. Performance appraisal is that occasion when once a year you find out who claims sovereignty over you. – Peter Block.

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Leadership Caffeine™—Turning Ambiguity into Advantage

Management Excellence

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Better Productivity: When Lethal Work Drives People Berserk

Strategy Driven

In a world which demands more and more of us on both a personal and a business-based level, it’s no wonder that stress levels are so high and health issues are arising in numbers we’ve never encountered before. The problem is that we try to function into a mechanical and robotic way within business, but the machinery on which we depend is very much alive and very much human.

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This Week's Three Tips For Leaders

Eric Jacobson

Be Decisive A manager who can't make a decision or who can't make a timely decision will frustrate his/her employees. Equally bad, a lack of decision will impede the progress of the manager's team. Some managers make endless requests for data as a way to postpone their having to make a decision. Employees end up spinning in circles, slicing and dicing the information far beyond what is truly needed for the manager to make a decision.

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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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Internet Marketing Failing? Let’s Take a Look at What You’re Doing Wrong

Strategy Driven

Photo courtesy of Image4Free. Even the strongest businesses in the world have had their weak moments. Maybe things aren’t going so well with your business at the moment. Perhaps it’s just one factor of your business that isn’t performing as well as it should be. If we look at the most common elements that come into play when things aren’t going amazingly for any given business, it quite often has to do with poor Internet marketing.

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7 Ways Introversion Works Well for Me as a Senior Leader

Ron Edmondson

As a pastor too. I remember several years ago reading an article, which suggested the majority of senior leaders think extroversion is necessary to be an effective as a senior leader. Obviously – and hopeful I am correct – I disagree. And, I think we’ve come a long way in our thinking. Thankfully. In fact, I see benefits in being an introverted senior leader.

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Why Innovators Should Study the Rise and Fall of the Venetian Empire

Harvard Business Review

Most organizations would be happy to last for centuries, as the Venetian Republic did. From 697 to 1797 AD, Venice’s technological acumen, geographic position, and unconventionality were interlocking advantages that allowed the Most Serene Republic to flourish. But when change comes suddenly, it can turn strengths into weaknesses and sweep away even thousand-year success stories.

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How to Deliver Criticism So Employees Pay Attention

Harvard Business Review

In my college days I ranked among the top 10 women divers in the United States. I got that far not just because I worked hard — practicing every day in four-to-six-hour sessions — but also because I had an extremely tough coach who routinely offered both caring support and sharp criticism. Early in our relationship he explained how it would work: “When I stop yelling is when you’d better start to worry.” And I understood: Because he believed in me, he would push me

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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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What Matters More to Your Workforce than Money

Harvard Business Review

Economists have long argued that money doesn’t buy happiness. But compensation is still a major factor for us when we’re considering where to work. What do we know about how more pay influences employees’ motivations? That slice of information can be the difference between a workforce that is satisfied and productive and one that isn’t — costing the business money in the long run.

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How Managers Can Make Group Projects More Efficient

Harvard Business Review

We may have hit a saturation point when it comes to collaboration. Consider the following: Research out of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce shows that time spent by managers and employees in collaborative activities has ballooned by 50% or more over the last two decades.

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