Fri.Feb 07, 2014

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3 Listening Lessons We Can All Use From Political Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

'A Guest Post from Rose Fass, CEO, fassforward Many leaders talk a good game. Some have even managed to talk their way to the top. But ironically, there’s one leadership quality that often gets the silent treatment. It’s listening to how the message was received. Politicians are masters of message discipline. They speak in sound […] The post 3 Listening Lessons We Can All Use From Political Leadership appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Positive Change: Yesterday Is Interesting But Irrelevant

General Leadership

'“By changing nothing, nothing changes.” Tony Robbins. Yesterday is interesting but irrelevant. This simple phrase defines a strategy to spark exponential growth and efficiency in any organization. For me, it was the opening line of my first speech as a new Air Force Fighter Squadron commander. It encompasses a mentality of limitless positive change and endless possibility.

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Is Your Brilliance Hiding in Plain Sight?

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Self Leadership You have your own way of getting work done through others. As a manager, your own inherent values and ideas of how the world works (and should work) drive how you handle issues with the human beings in your charge. Something I notice with my clients and myself is that we often suppress our initial [.] Author information Mary C Schaefer President at Artemis Path, Inc.

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Break The Mold

Joseph Lalonde

'I look back on my life and think about the heroes I had growing up. As a kid, it was superheroes. Wolverine , Batman, Duke from GI Joe, or some other super-powered hero. Or my father. Growing older, I began to realize there were others out there. Michael Hyatt. Dan Miller. My former youth pastor Rick South. An old English teacher Mr. Gibner. And still my father.

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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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When Emotions Run Strong in the Boardroom

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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How to Avoid Irrelevance, Guaranteed!

Leadership Freak

'You may be the world’s best pickle packer. But, if the world doesn’t value perfectly packed pickles, you are tragically irrelevant. Value: Customers determine value, not you. Spend as much time understanding the people you serve as you spend understanding yourself. Leaders who don’t understand others become irrelevant. 10 things to understand about others: Pain […].

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Heart Based Leadership Interview

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

'What is one characteristic every leader should possess? What do you think is the biggest challenge facing leaders today? These are some of the interview questions I was asked. I was honored when Lolly Daskal, a leadership expert I highly respect, asked to interview me for her Huffington Post series. Lolly is featuring 12 leaders she believes are role models for achieving success through heart based leadership.

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D. H. Lawrence on Are You Willing to be Sponged Out?

Tony Mayo

'Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, canceled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change. D. H. Lawrence Phoenix quoted in Holotropic Mind.

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Get Their Attention, THEN Start Your Speech – Your Speaking Tip for Today

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. Mark Antony, in the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare ——————– One of my prized posessions is the book by William Safire, Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History. I read speeches – plenty of speeches. But the title (and the quote from Mark Antony that is […].

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What about change? How can I notice positive changes and is it a choice?

Mike Cardus

'If we truly believe that change is inevitable, then it has important implications for our work. Since clients will change anyway, whether positive or in a negative direction, our task becomes helping clients to be on the lookout for positive changes so that they can continue in that direction. ‘Brief Coaching for Lasting Solutions’ page 14. There is a part of me that holds a healthy skepticism about the notion of The future is both created and negotiable.

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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 Build Accountability Into Your Organization

Six Disciplines

'Many of the top-performing organizations we work with every day - have expressed a real need to build accountability into their organization. Take a quick minute – and consider the following key questions: Does each of your team members understand exactly what they are responsible for? Does your leadership team set consistent expectations for accountability?

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“Jump Start Your Brain” – “Increase Your Idea Flow” – It May Not Matter How You Do It, But it Matters That You Do It

First Friday Book Synopsis

'“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” Socrates ——————– Recently, I received an e-mail from a man who had heard one of my book presentations. These are called “Book Briefings,” and/or “Book Synopses.” They are expanded versions of what I present at the First Friday Book Synopsis.

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Weekly Round-Up: On Leadership Development & Being Strategic

leaderCommunicator

'Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. Each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays pull some of the best together here on my blog. So in case you’ve missed them, here is this week’s round-up of top posts. They’ll provide you with tips, strategies and thought-starters from many of the smart folks in my network.

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Customer Service: Credit where Credit is Due – and an Observation/Lesson or Three

First Friday Book Synopsis

'I have recently had some really ghastly experiences with some customer service experiences (make that “lack-of-customer-service experiences”) – with a bank; and with a cable company. (Don’t get me started!). But, I’ve also had some terrific experiences. And, I realized that maybe I should be a little more energetic about praising great customer service when […].

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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 flexible is your job description?

Chartered Management Institute

'A lot of our behaviours in the workplace originate from the job descriptions we’re given when we join a company. These descriptions often form the basis of both our pay, our bonuses and of course our performance reviews.

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Andy Ambraziejus on “Why Bookstores Matter”

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Here is an excerpt from an article by Andy Ambraziejus, Managing Editor of AMACOM Books. He shares his thoughts about the important role of bookstores as physical spaces for book lovers and readers. To read the complete article at the AMACOM website and check out all the other resources, please click here. Photos courtesy of […].

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Embrace Change To Grow

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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RapidBI Daily Cartoon #10

Rapid BI

'I have a note from my doctor. I’m allergic to criticism! This of course is just one version of what could have been going on. I would love to here what you think they were saying, add your one liner below!

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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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Develop Strategic Thinkers Throughout Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

'In study after study, strategic thinkers are found to be among the most highly effective leaders. And while there is an abundance of courses, books, articles and opinions on the process of strategic planning, the focus is typically on an isolated process that might happen once or twice per year. In contrast, a true strategic leader thinks and acts strategically every day.

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The Big Picture of Business – Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future

Strategy Driven

'This Annual Report issue celebrates the year, as basis for helping business people to prepare for the future. People are interesting combinations of the old, the new, the tried and the true. Individuals and organizations are more resilient than they tend to believe. They’ve changed more than they wish to acknowledge. They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions.

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What Does Your Brand Sound Like?

Harvard Business Review

'Branding is one of the top concerns of CEOs and CMOs, and smart firms are investing as much as ever on branding initiatives — even online. For instance, back in August, eMarketer reported that in the digital area alone, U.S. advertisers will spend approximately “$17.46 billion on branding, or 41.6% of total digital spend. By 2017, [the online] branding spend is expected to grow to $29.33 billion, or a 48.5% share.”.

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Are you a People Pleasing Pastor with your Board?

Ron Edmondson

'This is a guest post by my pastor friend Charles Stone. Charles is lead pastor of West Park Church in London, Ontario, Canada. His recent book People Pleasing Pastors: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Approval Motivated Leadership is a must read for pastors struggling with this issue or who want to lead growing churches. Are you a People Pleasing Pastor with your Board?

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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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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

'Along with a bunch of other, more headline -grabbing numbers , the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning that 14.4 million Americans were self-employed in January. Of those, 9.2 million were unincorporated self-employed workers and another 5.2 million were incorporated. That’s interesting, given that back in January 2000 (which is as far as the BLS tally of the incorporated self-employed goes), the number of self-employed was … 14.4 million.

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Most Desired Trait by Companies Seeking Senior Executives

Great Leadership By Dan

'I don''t often publish press releases, but this one from executive search firm IIC caught my attention and I thought it was worth sharing. It supports what I''ve been saying for years: It’s the Soft Stuff That’s Really the Hard Stuff and Why Do Businesses and Leaders Fail? Most Desired Trait by Companies Seeking Senior Executives is Ability to Motivate and Lead Others By 3:1 Margin, Motivational Skills Trump Performance "Price of Entry to Corner Office is Competence, But Measure of Success is I

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CVS’s Lesson: Carpe Diem

Harvard Business Review

'When CVS/Caremark announced that it would forego some $2 billion in sales of tobacco and related products recently, CEO Larry J. Merlo stated that: “We came to the decision that providing health care and selling cigarettes just don’t go together in the same setting.” What he did not say, however, is how that laser-like focus on the company’s strategy also turned reputational risk into an opportunity.

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Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less

Harvard Business Review

'Huggy Rao and I like to refer to scaling challenges as the “ Problem of More ” because they always involve getting some existing seed of excellence to take root in more people and more places. The language of “more” pervades discussions of the topic. Ask any group of executives or nonprofit leaders about scaling, run a web search on “scaling” or “taking to scale,” pore over articles, cases, or research on the topic, you’ll find the dominant words and phrases have to do with addition and multipl

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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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Bosses: Are People Laughing with You or at You?

Harvard Business Review

'Everyone's a Critic Office Humor Business Strategy Review Good news, all you talented office comics. New research out of the London Business School confirms what you’ve likely thought: When you tell very funny jokes, your staff thinks more of highly of you, and employees are motivated to work harder. They also feel they have a brighter future in the company.

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Comfortable Music Makes You Dream of Comfort

Harvard Business Review

'Research participants who browsed tourist accommodations online were 16 times more likely to prefer a hotel room if they were listening to jazz rather than to West African djembe drumming; those who had heard the drums were more likely to choose campsites or youth hostels, according to research reported in the Wall Street Journal. Jazz may stimulate thoughts of comfort, while drumming may trigger visions of the countryside and adventure, the researchers say.

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