Wed.Jul 22, 2015

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Checking Your Moral Azimuth

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. President Ronald Reagan. “The character that takes command in moments of crucial choices has already been determined. It has been determined by a thousand other choices made earlier in seemingly unimportant moments.

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Simple Steps to Embrace Ambiguity and Lead Significant Change

Lead Change Blog

“Let’s wait until we know the outcome of the executive meeting in two weeks.”. This is a common and logical statement many leaders make when considering actions and decisions. It can be tempting to push pause on project implementation by falling into the thinking trap of, “This will probably change again tomorrow anyway.” That trap is a common symptom of a larger problem – embracing ambiguity.

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Just Say No To 10 Behaviors That Kill Competence

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton On the lifelong quest to become our best selves, we must S-T-R-E-T-C-H and grow and learn from our mistakes. Being a flexible and willing learner, we can more easily stay competent as the world changes.

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4 Tips to Grow Your Business Using YouTube

Women on Business

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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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How To Keep Quality Volunteers In Your Church Or Organization

Joseph Lalonde

I f you ask any leader of a non-profit or church what one of the hardest things to do is, you’ll most likely hear they have trouble finding quality volunteers to help out. They ask and ask but receive no response. If they do receive responses, those responses are subpar. The end result is finding quality volunteers is hard. Image via Creative Commons.

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5 Ways to Face the Challenges of Coaching Teammates

Leadership Freak

The challenge of coaching teammates is technical skill. You know how to do their job the “right” way, if you’ve been promoted up the ranks. Or, at least you think you know.

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WHE25: For Stronger Motivation, Promote Energy – Not Just Good Health | with Tom Rath

Engaging Leader

Making the connection between better health decisions and daily energy levels does far more to change employee behavior than telling them about longer-term health consequences. At most organizations, a workforce health strategy includes communication and education to motivate and equip employees and their families to reduce health risks, improve wellbeing, and prevent the development of […] Making the connection between better health decisions and daily energy levels does far more to chang

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Time Management Strategies for Small Businesses

Coaching Tip

By Guest Author John Oechsle, CEO/President of Swiftpage. As a small business owner, you have a lot on your plate. There’s a lot on your mind and the minds of your employees, too. Some days, it feels like nine a.m. becomes five p.m. in a heartbeat. At times like this, you spend most of your time just trying to keep the ship afloat. Professional success is largely a mental game, after all.

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Time Spent Getting Ready for the Next Challenge is Successful Work – a Lesson from President Obama, with a slight quibble with Jim Collins

First Friday Book Synopsis

“A lot of the work that we did early starts bearing fruit, late,” the president told Stewart, before joking that you get better as “you get experience.” President Barack Obama, on his last appearance on The Daily Show ——————– This is worth pondering. We seem to live and die by the progress and success […].

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Leadership, Life And Business Quotes From Brian Solis' Book, What's The Future Of Business

Eric Jacobson

In addition to learning a lot about the ways businesses are creating experiences for their customers in Brian Solis' book, What's The Future of Business , you'll be treated to dozens of compelling leadership, life and business quotes, such as these: "People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves." -- Paulo Coelho "We live in a time where brands are people and people are brands." -- Brian Solis "In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat

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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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Get the Yes: Winning Funding, RFPs, and Grants

Strategy Driven

When we seek funding or respond to an RFP, our proposals meet the criteria requested, presenting well-positioned information to persuade the decision makers to choose us. But winners are chosen by some mysterious set of criteria not only unknown to us, but often unknown to them. I began thinking about this when a friend told me she was writing a grant proposal.

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5 Wrong Ways to Respond to Criticism

Ron Edmondson

Criticism accompanies leadership. Every leader knows this. Make any decision and some will agree and some won’t. The only way to avoid criticism as a leader is to do nothing. If a leader is taking an organization somewhere, and really even if he or she isn’t, someone will criticize his or her efforts. That said, the way a leader responds to criticism says much about the maturity of the leader and the quality of his or her leadership.

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The Power of A Second Chance

Let's Grow Leaders

The planners of the 2015 National Speaker’s Association Influence conference had every reason to believe he was up to the challenge. After all “Sam” had just received the coveted CSP (certified meeting professional) certification (proving he was a seasoned speaking master). But as Sam took the stage in front of 1700 of his speaking peers for his 5 minutes of NSA fame, he went blank.

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A Quick Guide to Avoiding Common Writing Errors

Harvard Business Review

You’re looking at an e-mail you just wrote, and you’re not sure whether you have the right word: Do you want affect or effect ? Further or farther ? Gray or grey ? Getting it wrong can make you look bad — people do judge you by the way you write — but you also don’t have all day to look up words. It helps to have an easy reference for the basics, bookmark some resources, and learn how to choose your battles.

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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 to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. People are also being asked by their bosses or HR to attend conferences, read case studies, watch videos, and try their hand at simulations, all with the goal of picking up new ideas and techniques.

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The More Experience You Have, the Worse You Are at Bootstrapping

Harvard Business Review

If a company wants to generate the most revenue from its resources, it should put its most experienced leaders in charge of those resources. Sounds logical, right? After all, who else would best know how to use them? But a new study on Hollywood producers in the Strategic Management Journal reminds us that it’s not that simple. Academics have been writing about the Resource-Based View (RBV) — a theory of how companies can gain competitive advantage from their unique and valuable reso

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Business Competition Has Not Gotten Fiercer

Harvard Business Review

It’s become part of the conventional wisdom. The internet and globalization have combined to render almost every company vulnerable to greater competition than ever. Barriers to entry are withering, innovations are easily copied, and disruption is everywhere. To take an extreme example, Rita McGrath told strategists in an HBR article to just give up on sustainable advantage altogether and work on gaining only temporary boosts.

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4 Strategies for Reaching the Chinese Consumer

Harvard Business Review

Slowing Chinese economic growth coupled with confidence-sapping tumult on the stock market have set alarm bells ringing at companies about their future growth prospects in China. But they should not simply sit back and wait to see what happens next. Consumer-facing businesses have an important role to play as the Chinese government nudges its economy from an investment-led to a consumption-led model.

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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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The Problems with Jet.com’s Pricing Model

Harvard Business Review

On Tuesday, online retailer Jet.com opened its virtual doors to the public. Even before its launch, the start-up was reportedly in negotiations with investors for cash infusions that would value the company at a startling $3 billion. So what’s unique about Jet that’s led to such this hefty valuation, the backing of prominent investors (including Goldman Sachs and Google), and the flashy media blitz the web retailer is currently enjoying?

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Case Study: Is a Promotion Worth Hiding Who You Are?

Harvard Business Review

Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF. “I have some news,” David Lee told his team member Mark Brown. David was the president of the U.S. division of the Korean conglomerate Hanguk Industries, where Mark, a vice president of technology, reported to him. “Good news?” Mark asked. “That depends, I guess,” David said, looking a little tentative. “They want you for the Seoul job.