Mon.Jul 21, 2014

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Why Courage Is A Skill

General Leadership

'“Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.”. Winston Churchill. Richard Branson’s first business venture was a mail-order company started with funding accumulated by handing out leaflets outside of concerts. A 15-year old Bill Gates ditched school in Seattle to develop a traffic-measurement program called Traf-O-Data, netting $20k for himself and fellow student, Paul Allen.

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5 Things A Leader Should Pray For

Joseph Lalonde

'F aith plays a major role in my life. According to my reader survey, faith also plays a major role in your life as well. That’s cool! It’s exciting to see other leaders living out their faith as well. Image by C. Jill Reed. Being leaders of faith, I must raise the question: Are you praying daily in your leadership roles? If not, why not?

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How to “Coach an Employee Out of a Job"

Great Leadership By Dan

'There is an alternative way to address an employee performance problem without having to go through a long, drawn out formal disciplinary process, and avoids the stigma of having been fired from a job. It’s called “coaching someone out of a job”. Read my latest article at About.com Management and Leadership to find out how.

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Are Staff Meetings a Waste of Time?

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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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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10 Ways to Create a Sense of Ownership

Leadership Freak

'“Act like you own the place,” is a silly slogan when people are treated like expendable cogs in machines. Hypocritical leaders expect people to act like owners while being treated like employees.

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Your Success Depends on This Skill

Kevin Eikenberry

'My hope is that this headline makes you wonder. Perhaps you are guessing what the skill is. Perhaps you are thinking I am pretty presumptuous to suggest I know the most important skill you need, after all, I don’t know you, your experience or what you do for a living. This skill is so ubiquitous […].

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Mindful Mondays Don’t Burn Your Calendar at Both Ends

Next Level Blog

'Perhaps you think I meant to use the word candle rather than calendar in the title of this post. Nope, calendar was what I meant but the idea came from a brain blip I had recently. I was conducting interviews with about a dozen colleagues and friends of a new executive coaching client. One of my questions was, “What do you hope he gets out of this coaching engagement?

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3 Common Business Words That Should be Shot

Modern Servant Leader

'“I need to manage my resources.” When referring to a team, this sentence should make our stomaches churn. Yet this phrase is uttered every day, by thousands of business executives, everywhere. Below are the three words that should be dragged out behind the woodshed and shot. My / Mine. Unless you are a sole-proprietor with no investors, you own very little – if anything – in your organization.

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Your Success Depends on This Skill

Kevin Eikenberry

'My hope is that this headline makes you wonder. Perhaps you are guessing what the skill is. Perhaps you are thinking I am pretty presumptuous to suggest I know the most important skill you need, after all, I don’t know you, your experience or what you do for a living. This skill is so ubiquitous […]. The post Your Success Depends on This Skill appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Great Leaders SERVE

Nathan Magnuson

'I had the chance to travel to Greece and Bulgaria recently and give a series of leadership presentations to several university groups with a small team of business professionals. The sights, food and people were reward enough, but getting to share our leadership presentations with the future leaders of two countries added a special sense of purpose to the trip.

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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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Two Magic Words – Thank You!

Marshall Goldsmith

'Thanking works because it expresses one of our most basic emotions: gratitude. Not an abstraction, gratitude is a genuine emotion. It cannot be exacted or forced. You either feel it or you don’t. Yet, when someone does something nice for you, they expect gratitude and they think less of you for withholding it. Think about the last time you gave someone a gift.

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0515 | Dean Schroeder

LDRLB

'Dean Schroeder is co-author (with Alan Robinson) of The Idea-Driven Organization. As an educator, Dean is the Herbert and Agnes Schulz Professor of Management at Valparaiso University. As a consultant and speaker, he has worked with many types of companies and organizations in North America, Europe, and Asia. In this interview, we discuss how to leverage the entire organization and benefit from the power of bottom-up ideas.

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The Co-Working Trend for the Growing Working Alone Segment

First Friday Book Synopsis

'For most of America, people who work still have a traditional job. They go to work; they work in a workplace alongside other workers. They have an office, or a cubicle, or work in a factory, and they have fellow workers, and get to know their fellow workers. And, when you read all the articles about employee engagement, and employment […].

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45 Years of Leadership in Outer Space

Coaching Tip

'The concern of Americans effectively began with the Soviet launch of the Sputnik 1 artificial satellite on 4 October 1957 and kicked off the strained relations between the USSR and the U.S. . Due to the U.S. public''s concern of USSR domination of America through its control of outer space, engineering college attendance expanded throughout America.while America searched for a leader in the presidential election of 1960. . .

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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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Key Takeaways from How CNN and The New York Times Moderate Comments

Managing Communities

'Please Update Your ManagingCommunities.com RSS Feed Subscription This feed has moved to: [link] I apologize for the trouble. For more details, please read my post on the matter. Thank you.

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4 Questions To Ask To Ensure You Are Always Innovating

Eric Jacobson

'I''m a big fan of the magazine, Experience Life. Particularly the monthly Perspective column by Bahram Akradi , the founder and CEO of Life Time Fitness. Akradi tackled self-reflection in a recent issue of the publication. He firmly believes the business model that if you aren''t innovating you are dying. And, to innovate, you have to regularly fine-tune both your business and your life.

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The NEW TRUTH about closing the sale.

Strategy Driven

'Every salesperson is looking for the fastest way, the best way, and the easiest way to ‘close’ a sale. More than human nature, for salespeople, closing the sale is both a desire and a need. And the results are totally measurable. Either you win, or you lose. There is no second place in sales. Many people think that ‘closing the sale’ is the fulcrum point of the process.

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7 Examples of Lazy Leadership Practices

Ron Edmondson

'Laziness is a sin. Whoever is lazy regarding his work is also a brother to the master of destruction. Proverbs 18:9. It’s also annoying. And, ineffective in leadership. The fact is, however, that many of us have some lazy tendencies when it comes to leadership. I do at times. This is as much an inward reflecting post as an outward teaching. Please understand, I’m not calling a leader lazy who defaults to any of these leadership practices listed.

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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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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #127

Rapid BI

'“Welcome to the Ego Repair Hotline! Press 1 for ‘Hey, you look great today!’ Press 2 for ‘How did you get to be so smart?’ Press 3 for ‘I wish I was more like you!

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Keep Time and Emotion from Killing a Negotiation

Harvard Business Review

'Time and emotion — these are the two things most often wasted during a negotiation. We simply spend too much time on items that don’t really matter, because we let our emotions override any semblance of logic. It is a natural human response to act negatively, reactively, and emotionally to any negotiation points that are counter to one’s pre-disposed positions.

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5 Ways to Lead More Authentically

Let's Grow Leaders

'How would you answer the question: Do most leaders lead with true authenticity? Sadly, if you’re like my MBA students, the majority of you will likely vote no. You’d share stories of strategic ambiguity, or leaders letting greed and stock price trump once solid values. One student shared, “I honestly think most leaders start out being authentic, but after a while with all the pressures it’s just too hard to maintain.” When everyone’s playing a guarded game,

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Resentment, Jealousy, Feuds: A Look at Intel’s Founding Team

Harvard Business Review

'Over the course of a month I have published one book and completed another. The published book is a history of Intel Corporation, largely told through its three famous founders. The finished book, co-authored with an old friend (and current publisher of Forbes ), deals with the emerging science of team-building and management. And at the intersection of the two lies an interesting – and I think illuminating — story.

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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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The Right Way to Present Your Business Case

Harvard Business Review

'You’ve already put a great deal of work into preparing a solid business case for your project or idea. But when it comes to the critical presentation phase, how do you earn the support of decision makers in the room? How do you present your case so that it’s clear and straightforward while also persuasive? What the Experts Say. Without a winning delivery, even the best-laid business plans are at a disadvantage.

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A Better Way to Bridge the Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

'For a long time now, business leaders have been saying that the American workforce lacks sufficient skills to fill 21 st century jobs. Those of us at the frontlines of social services — doing the work of preparing low-income young people — share these concerns and hear you loud and clear. The education gap is holding back not just workers but businesses and our whole economy.

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Teams Are More Comfortable with Ambiguity than Individuals Are

Harvard Business Review

'In a series of experiments on choices between sure amounts of money and various kinds of gambles, researchers found that three-person groups are both less averse to ambiguity and less inclined to seek it — in other words, are more neutral about ambiguity — than are individuals. A possible reason is that individuals’ extreme attitudes toward ambiguity, either negative or positive, tend to be softened by persuasive arguments from other group members, says a team led by Steffen Keck of Insead.

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Reinventing the Chief Marketing Officer: An Interview with Unilever CMO Keith Weed

Harvard Business Review

'A marketing revolution is under way and nowhere is that more visible than in the CMO’s transforming role. Unilever CMO Keith Weed embodies this new order as an architect and leader of the firm’s plan to double revenue while halving its environmental impact. In this edited interview, Weed describes a new breed of marketing organization, and the CMO’s increasingly strategic role.

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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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Hobby Lobby and the Separation of Church and Business

Harvard Business Review

'Could the recent Hobby Lobby decision by the US Supreme Court threaten the economy? Yes, it could. Much of the attention around the decision has focused on implications for women’s health care – which is indeed a crucial issue. But in order to understand the deeply troubling implications for business and the economy, we need to go back — all the way back to the legal origins of the corporation.