Tue.May 03, 2016

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Don’t Settle For Being A Good Leader. Be A Real Leader

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by former Primerica co-CEO John Addison. If you look around the world today, you’ll notice something is lacking: real leadership. That’s not a political statement; it’s an across the board statement. You see it every time a corporate CEO gets indicted, or a teacher gets arrested for inappropriate relationships with students and yes, you see it when politicians start behaving badly.

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Do You Have “Still Face” Managers in Your Organization?

Michael Lee Stallard

Do you have “still face” managers in your organization? By still face managers, I mean supervisors whose lack of emotion makes it difficult for them to connect and to get people fired up. They seem unable to express appropriate emotion when interacting with others. The disconnection the other person experiences can be confusing, discouraging or lead to reaching a wrong conclusion.

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Featured Instigator: Kevin Eikenberry

Lead Change Blog

This month we are featuring Instigator Kevin Eikenberry , Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group, a leadership and learning consulting company that helps organizations, teams and individuals reach their potential. Kevin’s specialties include leadership, teams and teamwork, organizational culture, facilitating change, organizational learning and more.

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Why you need to learn to coach others

Persuasive Powerhouse

The International Coach Federation defines coaching as “Partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential”). ( Full disclosure: I teach coaching skills using this definition to individual leaders and groups ). Leaders who aren’t familiar with coaching often expect it to be something different than it really is.

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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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5 Things You Can Never Get Back as a Leader

Lead from Within

Mistakes happen, and sometimes our mistakes can change things permanently. They might be the truest words ever spoken: Nobody’s perfect but things happen. We all make mistakes. Most of the time we recover and move on, and learn something on the way if we’re paying attention. Especially for someone in a position of leadership, though, there are some mistakes that cause lasting harm.

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When the Garbage Stinks Take it Out

Leadership Freak

There’s a garbage can in your head that’s stinking up your leadership. Garbage is your inclination to pretend you’re less than you are by clinging to old ways of thinking about yourself. Garbage does one thing, and one thing only. It makes you matter less. It’s time to take out the garbage.

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How to Use a Career Page to Positively Show off Culture to Candidates

Chart Your Course

The culture of a business may be the most significant factor in determining a company’s success. The Harvard Business Review reports culture directly impacts employee satisfaction, job performance, business creativity, commitment and loyalty, retention and absenteeism, and — perhaps the most important quality to executives — the bottom line. The best companies in the country know the power of a positive work environment both for their employees and key stakeholders.

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My favourite time management trick - the Pomodoro System

CEO Blog

I have not been able to bring myself to blog since the death of my nephew. Zafer would have wanted us to live life so I am back blogging. I have previously blogged about the Pomodoro system. It is simple. Set the timer for 25 minutes and work all out on the task at hand. No emails or calls. No one is offended if my door is closed for 25 minutes or if I do not get back to them for 25 minutes.

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0718 | Leading in the Social Age with Mark Babbitt

LDRLB

Mark Babbitt is President of SwitchandShift.com, a site and consultancy dedicated to leadership in the Social Age. He is co-author of A World Gone Social. In this interview, we talk about how the world, and the world of work, has changed and how leaders have to adapt to survive. [ Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ]. In This episode, You’ll Learn: Why “flat” is the new black.

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Big Data, Small Data – The More Data, the more we learn that our “Common Sense” may not be all that correct

First Friday Book Synopsis

Jane Aubrey: Do you lose very much? Billy Chapel: I lose. I’ve lost 134 times. Jane Aubrey: You count them? Billy Chapel: We count everything. From the movie, For Love of the Game ——————– There it is , on the front page of this morning’s Dallas Morning News. (I had already seen the article on-line yesterday).… Read More Big Data, Small Data – The More Data, the more we learn that our “Common Sense” may not be all that correc

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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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Does Effective Leadership Require Acting?

leaderCommunicator

A challenge and opportunity to be authentic. I was working with a senior leader recently who’s relatively new in position to help her set the right tone from the top with her leadership team. Her challenge and opportunity was to be authentic on several difficult topics. What she really wanted to say and the harsh language she wanted to use wouldn’t be well received, and she knew that.

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Delegating Remains a Lost Art Skill

First Friday Book Synopsis

One of the joys of managing others is the ability to delegate tasks and activities to others. Yet, many managers express a reluctance to do so. Bring our DELEGATING FOR RESULTS workshop into your organization and learn how to embrace delegation as a means to increase your effectiveness in managing others. Discover a systematic way… Read More Delegating Remains a Lost Art Skill.

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Management Observation Program Best Practice 16 – Don’t Tolerate Substandard Observations

Strategy Driven

People, processes, and technologies are not perfect. And if they were, you’d still have something to write about. 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. If you're already a Remote Access or Dedicated Advisor client or a related category subscriber, please log in to read this article.

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A Leadership Lid You Can Never Avoid

Ron Edmondson

There is a huge leadership lid I have witnessed firsthand. In fact, it’s one that has crippled my leadership in years past. At some point, most leaders will face this one. It’s not insurmountable, but until you overcome it you will stall as a leader. Every time. Here’s the lid you can never avoid: Your ability to respond counterintuitively – when needed – will determine the height of leadership you can sustain or achieve.

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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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Write a Failure Resume to Learn What Makes You Succeed

Harvard Business Review

By any measure, Johannes Haushofer is an astounding success. He graduated with honors from Oxford and has not one but two PhDs, in economics (from the University of Zurich) and neurobiology (from Harvard). Now an assistant professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton, he has published so widely and presented at so many conferences that his academic CV runs a full seven pages.

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4 Factors That Predict Startup Success, and One That Doesn’t

Harvard Business Review

What makes a venture capital investment successful? Some of the most interesting data on this question comes from an analysis published last year by the venture capital firm First Round Capital. The firm’s unique data set comprises information on over 300 companies and nearly 600 founders, including founder characteristics such as age, gender, education, firm location, and prior work and startup experience.

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How to Spot a Liar - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

Executive education students at Harvard Business School. By HBS Working Knowledge. Want to know if someone’s lying to you? Telltale signs may include running of the mouth, an excessive use of third-person pronouns, and an increase in profanity. These are among the findings of a recent study that delves into the language of deception, detailed in the paper Evidence for the Pinocchio Effect: Linguistic Differences Between Lies, Deception by Omissions, and Truths, which was published in the j

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5 Ways Meetings Get Off Track, and How to Prevent Each One

Harvard Business Review

We’ve all been in frustrating meetings where one person keeps going off on tangents. If the team can’t get the person back on track, important decisions get delayed and/or the meeting drags on past the ending time. It’s one of the most common ways that meetings get derailed — and one of the simplest to address. But teams have many ways of getting themselves off track, and they usually do it collaboratively and subtly, with each team member acting in good faith.

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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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Think About Any Risk Like an Investor

Harvard Business Review

Risk is unavoidable. Whether we’re driving in fast-moving traffic, arguing with a colleague in a meeting, or investing our hard-earned money, we are engaging in risk taking. As an investor, I think about financial risk a lot, and I’ve become interested in using the tools of the investor’s trade in managing the large and small risks we face regularly.

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A Hands-Off Approach to Open Innovation Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

In business, winning is often a matter of speed — to new markets with new offerings — rather than slow, steady plodding. And this is precisely the problem that many companies are having in their efforts to collaborate with partners, share resources and knowledge, and create new products and services. For many business leaders — 85%, according to a recent Accenture survey — such open innovation is critical to their strategic plans.

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Developing the Global Leader - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. What skills do today’s executives need to develop to become effective global leaders of tomorrow? And how do corporations teach these skills to their own leaders? “The shift from a country-centric corporation to one that is more global in its outlook will have a radical impact on leadership development,” says Professor of Management Practice William

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How to Brand a Next-Generation Product - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

Executive education students at Harvard Business School. HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. When Apple launched its latest iPad, experts and nonexperts alike expected it to be dubbed “iPad 3,” a natural follow-on to the second-generation iPad 2.

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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 Outside-In Approach to Customer Service - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

Executive education students at Harvard Business School. HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Times are tough for many businesses, yet some are holding their own, even thriving. Best Buy, Cisco, Target, Starbucks, and Jones Lang LaSalle come to mind. How do they do it?

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

Executive education students at Harvard Business School. HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A. Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both.

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How Companies Are Using Machine Learning to Get Faster and More Efficient

Harvard Business Review

Machine-reengineering is a way to automate business processes using machine learning. Although machine-reengineering is new, companies are already seeing striking results with it, particularly in boosts to speed and efficiency. Studying 168 early adopters, we’ve seen speed improvements of two times or more for most business processes — and some organizations are reporting speed improvements of 10 times or more.

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A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

Executive education students at Harvard Business School. HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Companies spend significant sums to acquire customers. Once hooked, marketers protect those investments by attempting to keep patrons happy, engaged, and most of all, loyal.

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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.