Tue.Dec 22, 2015

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Where Do We Go From Here?

Tanveer Naseer

As 2015 begins to wind down, many of us – myself included – are understandably eager to wrap up the remaining work threads of this year so we can shift our focus to what we’d like to achieve and move forward with in the New Year. Indeed, researchers at Wharton University have found that moments that stir notions of a fresh start or a new beginning are aligned with that internal motivation we all have to strive to do better, to be better than we are today.

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How To Lay A Successful Foundation One Day At A Time

Lead Change Blog

Have you ever had one of those “Aha” moments? One of those that you look back and know you should have noticed a long time ago? I had one this week while watching my four stepkids in their weekly karate sessions. Over the past year, I have seen the progression of them learning the basics as they attained their yellow, then their orange belt in two different age levels.

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7 Coaching Skills that You Need as a Leader

Leading Blog

Whether you like it or not – if you are a leader, you are a coach. —Joseph Grenny. Coaching exerts enormous leverage. People struggle at work and at home. No one leaves their problems at the door when they come to work. And it affects their performance. Coaching is critical. Developing people is or should be a top priority of leaders. Coaching doesn’t mean fixing people.

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7 Basic Things Every Great Leader Should Know

Lead from Within

To rediscover great leadership, we must return to the basics of leading. In a recent survey, only 3 percent said they have confidence in corporate executives. The news was equally dismal for others: 3 percent reported having confidence in government officials, 5 percent in reporters and journalists, 8 percent in small business owners, and only 11 percent in ministers and clergy.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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The solstice reminds us it is time to pause, and do nothing.

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

This is a lovely moment – the winter solstice. The darkest day of the darkest week of the year. when the movement of descent into darkness pauses. when the rhythm of the sun pauses before it changes from decrease to increase. when the dominance of night pauses before light overtakes darkness. If you pay close attention, you can feel it – the pause before the shift.

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3 Lessons from Giving Away my Wife’s Money

Leadership Freak

I cashed my wife’s $48 check and determined to give it away. A few days later we fine ourselves in line behind a young couple in a department store.

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Entrepreneurs Operating System (EOS) Lacks Traction

CO2

It has become a source is frustration to me working with Entrepreneurs and hearing those three letters together E.O.S. (Entrepreneurs Operating System). The marking the Gina has done is worthy of a Harvard Case Study. From filling the bloggers, like me, with positive book reviews for Traction his book. Then a training model to develop consultants nation wide to deliver the product.

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Why Efficiency in Your Personal Life Matters

Strategy Driven

Have you ever had a day where you go to bed saying to yourself, “I worked so hard, but I didn’t get anything done?” I hate when that happens, whether it be at work or at home. In this scattered culture, it is increasingly easy to lose focus on the most important things in life. There are two primary strategies I can credit for giving me a giant boost in my daily productivity.

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EOS Lacks Traction

CO2

It has become a source is frustration to me working with Entrepreneurs and hearing those three letters together E.O.S. (Entrepreneurs Operating System). The marking the Gina has done is worthy of a Harvard Case Study. From filling the bloggers, like me, with positive book reviews for Traction his book. Then a training model to develop consultants nation wide to deliver the product.

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Influence Change at Work Radio Show – 2015 Episodes

Change Starts Here

This year on the Influence Change at Work radio show, fantastic guests joined me to share their wisdom, experience and tips. Here’s the list of topics we discussed. Click through to listen to each episode, visit the radio show page , or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Thank you to all my guests for sharing their time and insights. And thank you for listening!

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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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How to Optimize Your Maintenance Spare Parts Inventory

Strategy Driven

Economic demands place increasing pressure on executives and managers to reduce costs while maintaining high levels of operational safety and reliability. For Work Management and Supply Chain leaders, areas of potential savings lie with: optimizing inventory levels while reducing associated carrying costs, minimizing or eliminating expediting costs, and. eliminating losses incurred as parts become obsolete in the warehouse. … while providing the highest level of parts availability.

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Mission Statements Are Not All About Money

Eric Jacobson

From the book, Light A Fire Under Your Business : A clear and concise mission statement defines, in the simplest terms, your organization's core reason for being, and it had better not be all about money. Money is definitely important to most of society, and it is a motivator. But many people aspire to be part of something more meaningful than just a paycheck.

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Leadership Lessons from the United States Naval Academy – Prioritization: Knowing that you can’t do it all

Strategy Driven

United States Naval Academy midshipmen are under never ending pressure to learn and develop, to become the finest military officers in the world. Each midshipman is assigned a full undergraduate workload to be completed in no more than four years. Hi there! This article is available to StrategyDriven Personal Business Advisor Remote Access and Dedicated Advisor clients and those who subscribe to one of the article's related categories.

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Calming Your Brain During Conflict

Harvard Business Review

Conflict wreaks havoc on our brains. We are groomed by evolution to protect ourselves whenever we sense a threat. In our modern context, we don’t fight like a badger with a coyote, or run away like a rabbit from a fox. But our basic impulse to protect ourselves is automatic and unconscious. We have two amygdala, one on each side of the brain, behind the eyes and the optical nerves.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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5 Ways to Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap

Harvard Business Review

In an ongoing global survey of senior executives , more than half of the respondents said they didn’t think their company had a winning strategy, and two-thirds said they didn’t think their organization had the right capabilities to execute its strategy. Baffled by these findings, we set out to find and study examples of extraordinary companies that close the gap between strategy and execution — companies such as Amazon, Apple, CEMEX, Danaher, Frito-Lay (the snacks enterprise w

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No, the Best Science Students Aren’t Becoming Financiers

Harvard Business Review

A lot of people are worried about the career choices of today’s most talented science and engineering students. And not just their parents. Since the 2008 financial crisis, policy makers, professors, politicians, and others have expressed concern over America’s best and brightest minds electing to work in finance instead of pursuing potentially more socially valuable careers in science, medicine, and engineering.

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Engaging Medical Specialists in Improving Health Care Value

Harvard Business Review

Over the past decade, patients, payers, government, and others have increasingly scrutinized the care physicians deliver. Pay-for-performance programs have enabled payers to hold providers accountable for performance on quality measures. Public reporting has made quality and safety data more transparent. More and more providers are now being held accountable for the cost of care in addition to quality.