Tue.May 19, 2015

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Time Machine Tuesday: Work is Honorable

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 2 July 2013. “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Top 10 Clear Signs It’s Time To Quit Your Job.

Rich Gee Group

I answered this question on the website Quora a few weeks ago. Here’s my Top 10 (in no real order of importance) list why you should probably quit your current position and move on: You start looking forward to the weekend on Wednesday (or even worse, Monday). This is the typical, “I can’t stand my job and I love my weekends behavior” Face it, you are going to spend a LOT more time at work during the week — start enjoying that environment too.

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3 Reasons Your Team Won’t Follow You

Lead Change Blog

Is Your Team Stuck? On a recent trip to the mountains, one of my daughter’s friends drove his car into a ditch. To be fair, there was nearly two feet of snow on top of slick mud. He slid right into the ditch and his wheels sunk as he tried to back out. It was time for a tow. Fortunately, he had a tow cable and my SUV has low ratio four-wheel drive. We secured the cable to both vehicles and then he asked what would happen next.

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What’s The Truth About Your Leadership?

Tanveer Naseer

In my previous piece, I looked at an underlying theme found among the numerous issues leaders in every industry face today and what this tells us about how we can be more successful in bringing out the best in those we lead. The enthusiastic reaction to the ideas I shared in that article got me thinking about the other piece of this puzzle. Namely, that in addition to our responsibility to protect those we lead to do the work they’re meant to do, we also need to have a keen self-awareness

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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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How to Find your Niche as a Potential Entrepreneur

Women on Business

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Leadership “Moment of Truth” for FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi

Michael Lee Stallard

A few moments of truth often capture the essence of a leader’s character and define his legacy. One such moment for Carles Puyol, former center back and club captain of FC Barcelona, occurred in 2011 when he led the team to the Champions League title. As club captain, Puyol was expected to celebrate by raising the cup on behalf of the team. Instead, he passed both his captain armband and the trophy to defender Éric Abidal, who, just weeks earlier, had undergone a liver transplant as part of trea

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Half the Team Doesn’t Trust the Boss

Leadership Freak

Over 50% of employees don’t trust their boss.* 5 reasons leaders seem dishonest: Pretending things are better than they are. Holding your nose in the air. Arrogant leaders sacrifice others to protect their image. Remaining isolated.

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Remarkable TV: What to Do When Deadlines Are Missed

Kevin Eikenberry

Important deadlines often cause leaders to make these coaching mistakes. Check out today’s Remarkable TV to learn how you can avoid them! The deadline comes and goes…. Multiple times. Often the leaders respond by checking up regularly, daily, hourly. And become a pest/micro manager. How can we assure deadlines are reached and not be a […].

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Retain Winning Talent With Internal Promotion

Chart Your Course

Internal Promotions Help Retain Top Talent. Did you know that 85% of the global workforce considers themselves to be on the job market? According to LinkedIn’s Talent Trends 2014 study, these candidates are either actively searching for or passively open to the prospect of leaving their current job in the dust. What does that mean for your team members today?

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Top Leaders Communicate Authority Through Body Language.

The Empowered Buisness

Are You? Can your body language …. Make a difference in commanding leadership authority? Create trust or mistrust within an organization? Change your emotions after a stressful day? Absolutely!! Leadership authority is a by-product of 2 related aspects of yourself – your physiology and your emotional state. Call them the yin and yang of leadership authority.

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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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Focus On The Things You Can Do Something About

Lead from Within

Two frogs were playing together when suddenly they fell together into a bucket of cream. One frog quickly realized he didn’t have any way to gain his footing to get out, so shortly afterwards he accepted his fate and slipped under the surface and drowned. Horrified, the second frog watched his friend give up and die. But he was determined not to go himself without putting up a fight.

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Why Language Matters for Everything

Mills Scofield

How many languages do you speak? Only 7% of American college kids study a language. Think this is a problem? It is a huge socio-economic-global-geopolitical-security one! Amelia Friedman didn't set out to start a business learning languages from her peers - like Bengali, Thai, Tamil. but she has. We need to communicate like never before - and language is how.

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We Need Better Communication Skills – A Slight Rant

First Friday Book Synopsis

I teach speech at the community college level. I read business books. I speak to business groups. Can I just have the ear of some business leaders for a minute, please. In one of my classes, a student is taking my Public Speaking course in between finishing his B.S. and starting his Masters program. In […].

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Realizing Leadership: Top-Notch Online Magazine Exclusive for Leaders

The Empowered Buisness

Recommended Resource for Top Leadership Advice. It’s rare that I recommend products unless I am convinced that my readers will receive top-notch value and content. That is the case with Realizing Leadership. Realizing Leadership magazine focuses on bringing high-quality leadership articles that offer actionable suggestions and ideas to enhance your leadership skills.

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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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Interview: How to Deal With Difficult People

Change Starts Here

This month’s guest, Dee Daley, is a business leader with a 20-plus year record of leading organizational change initiatives for corporations including GE Healthcare, GE Capital and Office Depot. She recently presented on the topic of How to Deal With Difficult People at the ACMP Change Management 2015 Global Conference. As change management professionals our success often depends upon our ability to influence without authority and to influence “difficult” people.

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Why Language Matters for Everything

Mills Scofield

How many languages do you speak? Only 7% of American college kids study a language. Think this is a problem? It is a huge socio-economic-global-geopolitical-security one! Amelia Friedman didn't set out to start a business learning languages from her peers - like Bengali, Thai, Tamil. but she has. We need to communicate like never before - and language is how.

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How To Embrace Change

Eric Jacobson

Change is inevitable. Change is good. Help your employees and team learn to embrace change. Here are some solid insights from Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan 's (Liberty, Missouri) book, Change-friendly Leadership -- How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance : The kind of behavior change that results in lasting (sustainable) change must accommodate people's feelings--feelings that involve trust, confidence, passion, and all those other intangible but very real things that make us human.

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4 Ways to Get a Grip on Email

Ron Edmondson

This is a guest post by Jonathan Pearson : Email. It’s a necessary evil. Well, it’s not always evil, it can actually provide some great opportunities to communicate with people that we may not have any other way to communicate with. It saves us from having lengthy meetings and it helps us send quick messages to anyone around the world. But, As I talk to people, leaders especially, it seems like almost everyone is overwhelmed by it.

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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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Hidden Strengths by Thuy Sindell & Milo Sindell

Rapid BI

Hidden Strengths: Unleashing the Crucial Leadership Skills You Already Have is a book by authors Thuy Sindell and Milo Sindell. The book starts with the premise that to survive in the modern world we need to be agile and adaptive. This book and the associated website set out to provide tools to help readers become […]. The post Hidden Strengths by Thuy Sindell & Milo Sindell appeared first on.

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Teaching Teenagers to Develop Their Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

If the U.S. is going to remain competitive in an increasingly global business environment, we need a future workforce that’s prepared. But the reality is that the youth who will be tomorrow’s innovators, educators, politicians, and business professionals aren’t ready to meet such competitive expectations — not so much because they’re untrained, but because they’re unequipped emotionally.

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Tesla’s New Strategy Is Over 100 Years Old

Harvard Business Review

Contrary to popular belief, Thomas Edison did not invent the lightbulb. Twenty or so inventors and labs had already come up with similar designs when he patented his in 1879. What Edison really invented was affordable and accessible electric light. Edison’s breakthrough was guided by a fundamental insight: any given product is only as powerful as the system in which it is deployed.

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When to Offer Fewer Customer Service Channels

Harvard Business Review

A co-worker recently came to work complaining about a broken microwave oven – or more accurately, about the company behind it. Finding it not functioning, she had the obvious questions: Was it covered under warranty? And if not, would it make more sense to try to have it repaired or just to buy a new oven? She went to the manufacturer’s website, but was not successful in finding answers.

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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.

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Making Sense of Zappos’ War on Managers

Harvard Business Review

In the early 1980s, Ralph Stayer sent a long memo and a $200 check to every employee of his family business. Since taking over as CEO, sales had increased fifteen-fold. Profits were up 150%. Headcount was growing. Regional expansion was underway. But Stayer wasn’t happy. Product quality and employees morale weren’t as high as he wanted. Everything, he had resolved, had to change.

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The Revolution Will Be Managed

Harvard Business Review

On September 17, 2011, Occupy Wall Street took over Zuccotti Park, in the heart of the financial district in Lower Manhattan. Declaring, “We are the 99%” and vilifying corporate leaders, they captured the attention of the nation. Within a few months, however, the park was cleared and the protesters went home, achieving little, if anything.

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Does Having Grandchildren Persuade Women to Retire Early?

Harvard Business Review

I am a grandmother. I don’t just admit it, I am proud of it. My first grandchild was born when I was fifty five, which is relatively young for American professional women, but I had four children by age 30. I also run an investment firm. You can imagine, then, how interested I might be in a study published last month called, “ Retirement Timing of Women and the Role of Care Responsibilities for Grandchildren.” Authors Lumsdaine and Vermeer analyzed longitudinal data from over 4

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3D Printing Will Revive Conglomerates

Harvard Business Review

Conglomerates, at least in the United States, have a checkered history. Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. The discipline they brought to these often loosely-run businesses drove much of the post-war productivity boom. Their job done, they fell out of favor in the ‘80s and ‘90s as focus came into fashion.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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Understand the 4 Components of Influence

Harvard Business Review

We’ve all encountered people who say less but what they say matters more; people who know how to use silence to dominate an exchange. So having influence means more than just doing all the talking; it’s about taking charge and understanding the roles that positional power, emotion, expertise, and nonverbal signals play. These four aspects of influence are essential to master if you want to succeed as a leader.