General Leadership
MAY 25, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.” Harold S. Green. You’re a leader of a team and you’ve invested a lot of time working through the kinks that come with making the members play nice together in the sandbox.
Joseph Lalonde
MAY 25, 2016
W e’ve all experienced a bad manager or two. Some of us have even experienced toxic leaders. Today, I want to share with you an awesome inforgraphic that shows 8 types of toxic managers and what you can do to deal with these toxic people. Infographic Courtesy of GetVoip. Don’t be a toxic leader. Rise above this type of poor leadership. You have it in you.
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Lead Change Blog
MAY 25, 2016
There’s a company out there — in every corner of every town — that prides itself on being a great place to work. Customers are greeted with vigor and felicitous wishes. The lights are bright and appealing in the space, lending a favorable glow to the interactions and products within the room. This company has it all together – or so it seems on the outside.
Leading Blog
MAY 25, 2016
I N A TIME when change is not just inevitable, but must be encouraged and led, Robert Gates’ A Passion for Leadership is a must read. Gates has led and continues to lead in a wide variety of organizations and organizational cultures. His collected wisdom serves to inspire us to lead others where they don’t often want to go and improve people’s lives.
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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
MAY 25, 2016
The news these days is filled with disturbing accounts of bad leadership behavior. The current U.S. elections have been particularly contentious… with attacks on the personal instead of the issues… reinforcing fear instead of articulating a vision for the country. This is not True Leadership. Leadership is about going somewhere. If you don’t have a […].
Leadership Freak
MAY 25, 2016
It’s deadly to fall in love with your own voice, but the higher you go, the more you need to talk effectively. Brevity with clarity is gold in a frenetic world.
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CoachStation
MAY 25, 2016
As a leader, you are required to clearly set expectations and standards for your team and each individual employee. We continue to see that this is an area within organisations that is not as effectively applied as it should be. In our short video you will learn why setting expectations is more important than ever to ensure that your team members are not only aware of but understand what is required and expected of them in [.
Leading in Context
MAY 25, 2016
By Linda Fisher Thornton There is no place for disrespectful behavior in a "good" society. We can disagree calmly in ways that help us solve problems together, or we can show our stripes by using aggressive behavior under the banner of "with all due respect." Whichever approach we use, how we interpret respect impacts the people around us.
LDRLB
MAY 25, 2016
Anders Ericsson is the world’s foremost expert on expertise and the author of Peak: Secrets From The New Science of Expertise. He is a Conradi Eminent Scholar and professor or psychology at Florida State University. His work has been written about in great books like Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers and bestsellers like Moonwalking with Einstein and How Children Succeed.
First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 25, 2016
Technological inventions have always arisen from necessity… As needs present themselves, solutions are found. Mark Kulansky, Paper: Paging through History ——————– So, this morning, I pricked my finger and registered my blood sugar level, as I do every morning. I then entered the reading into an app on my iPhone.
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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
leaderCommunicator
MAY 25, 2016
One of my favorite articles in Harvard Business Review is from Chris Anderson, curator of TED. It’s entitled “How to Give a Killer Presentation,” and it draws from 30 years of learnings since the first TED conference. TED speakers have run the gamut from political figures, musicians and TV celebrities to less familiar figures from academia and scientific circles.
First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 25, 2016
The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future Steve Case Simon & Schuster (April 2016) A compelling personal account of an inclusive and explosive digital revolution from one of those who launched it It was Alvin Toffler who introduced the concept of multiple “waves” of socioeconomic development in his classic work, The Third Wave… Read More The Third Wave: A book review by Bob Morris.
Management Excellence
MAY 25, 2016
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David A Fields
MAY 25, 2016
Consultants often want to know what resources I recommend to build a thriving practice. In addition to chocolate. Below are 10.5 resources I recommend. 10.5 Resources to Help Consulting Firms Thrive (in no particular order) Are there other resources you’ve found invaluable? Let me know in the comments below. Text and images are © 2016 David A. Fields, all rights reserved.
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From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.
Curious Cat
MAY 25, 2016
When you act without theory you can find yourself beating your head against the wall, in ways similar to this woodpecker bangs its head against this sign. This bird may have copied the pecking behavior without understanding the theory. Pecking steel won’t lead to it uncovering insects to eat. Alternatively, it may be pecking to make noise and attract a mate or tell other woodpeckers this territory is claimed.
Eric Jacobson
MAY 25, 2016
"Organizations will pay significant consequences if they don't work openly, honestly and proactively with government and society. In order to survive over the long term and gain competitive advantage, companies must learn how to connect profoundly with the world around them -- not only with customers and stakeholders, but also with employees, local communities, politicians, and the environment itself.
Rapid BI
MAY 25, 2016
The stop start continue change management model is a useful 'quick and dirty' tool for looking at service improvement and feedback techniques. The post Stop Start Continue Change Management Model appeared first on RapidBi.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 25, 2016
Organizations are typically encouraged to take a hard stand against employees’ unethical behaviors. After all, scandals at Enron, Arthur Anderson, and AIG have shown that unethical behaviors can tarnish an organization’s reputation, lead to considerable monetary losses, and even result in legal prosecutions and corporate shutdowns. So we’re told to make sure codes of conduct are actionable and go beyond window dressing.
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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.
Strategy Driven
MAY 25, 2016
If you knew you could improve your company’s revenue with one single strategy, would you do it? If you heard there was a way to enhance your business profits, would you want to know what it is? Most leaders would likely answer “yes.” Yet every day in corporate America, business leaders neglect to take the steps that would give them a competitive edge.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 25, 2016
Sales reps are most effective when they have the right amount of support staff, but exactly how much support staff does a company need, and how should it be structured? Call it a Goldilocks quandary: Too little support, and your sales people can’t do their jobs well; too much, and you’re wasting money. But get it just right and your sales efforts can drive productivity and growth.
Ron Edmondson
MAY 25, 2016
Being a leader isn’t easy. With every decision a leader makes someone is happy – and someone is not. And, one often misunderstood reason leadership is challenging is the tension every leader feels when making decisions. And, every leader experiences some of this tension – every single day. In fact, learning to balance the tensions of leadership may determine the level of success a leader can sustain.
First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 25, 2016
At the age of 11 Martin Lindstrom opened the doors to his own Legoland, optimistically anticipating hoards of visitors from near and far. Not a single person showed up. Aware that something more than mere brilliant design was needed to attract visitors, young Martin suddenly had a flash of inspiration: he would advertise! He promptly… Read More Martin Lindstrom on “Small Data”: An interview by Bob Morris.
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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.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 25, 2016
HBR STAFF. “What do you think?” I ask this question a lot. My team knows that when they come to me with a question, this is likely the question I’ll come back with first. Sometimes I even preface it with, “I don’t know.” As leaders in our organizations, it’s up to us to coach colleagues and our employees through finding that answer.
Coaching Tip
MAY 25, 2016
Leading a business transition through a cultural change, to deliver dramatically increased value, is a tough assignment. Getting the people side right can make all the difference. Business transitions are times of heightened emotion where perceptions, feelings and hunches trump logic. Everyone's decision making is emotional, not rational.subconsciously under the control of their emotional brain (limbic system), not their analytical (neocortical) brain.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 25, 2016
ANDREW NGUYEN/HBR STAFF. For the better part of my career, I’ve worked in the United States and Latin America, where I went first as a missionary, then as an investment banker, and eventually as an equity analyst for Merrill Lynch. Going to and from there for work is now second nature for me. But over the past few months I’ve found myself doing more consulting in other places, including Turkey and Germany, and planning speaking trips in Singapore, Mauritius, and Australia.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 25, 2016
vincent tsui FOR HBR. The big data revolution is upon us. Firms are scrambling to hire a new brand of analysts dubbed “data scientists,” and universities have responded to this demand by introducing data science courses into degrees ranging from computer science to business. Survey-based reports find that firms are currently spending an estimated $36 billion on storage and infrastructure, and that is expected to double by 2020.
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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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