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The Great Leadership Cop Out: Why “That’s Just Who I Am” Is Derailing Your Results

Let's Grow Leaders

Sam knew something was wrong. It just wasn’t fun anymore. The creativity and enthusiasm had drained from the company. Decisions took forever. Managers were finding it harder than ever to recruit and retain talent. Sam had hired me to help him crack the code. As I pulled up to Sam’s office, I knew he’d be unhappy with my recommendation–which involved a serious look in the mirror at his own leadership behaviors.

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Improving Your Personal Brand as an Entrepreneur

Lead Change Blog

In today’s marketplace more and more individuals are calling themselves entrepreneurs. Personal branding is the most important way to set yourself apart from the crowd. A strong brand will deliver several business benefits such as being able to charge higher prices for your services and make it easier to acquire new customers. The question is, what are some concrete steps to improve your brand as an entrepreneur?

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3 Ways To Boost Your Confidence Before Starting Your Day

Women on Business

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10 Performance Conversation Starters

Leadership Freak

You’re a hero when you get hired and a loser during traditional performance reviews. It’s a waste to hire for strength and evaluate for weakness. Replace traditional annual reviews with monthly performance conversations. Better yet, discuss performance in some way, every week. Make it normal, not an exception, to discuss performance.

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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 Bridge the Generation Gap in the Workplace

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Guest post by Dan Negroni The generation gap in the workplace appears daunting. All sorts of reports describe how huge it is. But bridging the generation gap is not as difficult as it might seem. Real leaders already know how to effectively manage millennials. How? Because what millennials want matches up with what successful leaders provide. What Millennials Want 1. […].

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Why September is the New January

Kevin Eikenberry

I don’t know where this type of comparison phrase originated, or even why it has become so popular; but it certainly has. And you have heard it many times: Breakfast is the new lunch. YouTube is the new TV. Sitting is the new smoking. I’ve got a new one for you today. September is the […]. The post Why September is the New January appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Why success is a positive-sum game

Lead on Purpose

In game theory and economic theory, zero-sum describes a situation in which one person’s gain is exactly balanced by another person’s loss. In games like chess, one person wins and the other loses.

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Leadership is About Getting Things Done

Coaching Tip

. Leaders must be mindful of where they want to go and whose support they will need to get there. "Agenda Movers" keep their focus and campaign for their ideas, using their political and managerial competence to get things done. They are leaders who embrace the reality that they can't get there alone. Agenda movers have the skills to analyze the agendas of others and anticipate arguments of resistance.

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Why success is a positive-sum game

Lead on Purpose

In game theory and economic theory, zero-sum describes a situation in which one person’s gain is exactly balanced by another person’s loss. In games like chess, one person wins and the other loses.

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Four Simple Steps to the Life of Your Dreams!

Marshall Goldsmith

My good friend, designer Ayse Birsel, has taught me a wonderful new and fun way to make amazing changes in my life. She calls her process Design the Life You Love. If you’re like me and you really want to change, try her process. It will help you become the person you want to be and design a life you will love! First, a little background, according to Ayse, “Life, just like a design problem, is full of constraints — time, money, age, location, and circumstances.

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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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First you demolish the old; then you make the change toward the new – Insight on Persuasion from Chris Anderson, TED Talks

First Friday Book Synopsis

If explanation is building a brand-new idea inside someone’s mind, persuasion is a little more radical. Before construction, it first requires some demolition. 1240 Persuasion means convincing an audience that the way they currently see the world isn’t quite right. And that means taking down the parts that aren’t working, as well as rebuilding something better. … Read More First you demolish the old; then you make the change toward the new – Insight on Persuasion from Chris Ander

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FREE Webinar 9/1 - Inside Internal Comms Survey 2016 - Emerging Results & Trends

leaderCommunicator

Insights from the 2016 Internal Comms Survey. In May 2016, Newsweaver teamed up with Ragan Communications to gather data on the state of internal communications.

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3 Simple Steps to Immediately Improve Your Business and Life

Strategy Driven

If you want something done right, you do not have to do it yourself. The cliché about this is wrong — unless that something is the thing that you do best. This might sound counterintuitive but DIY can be a trap for small business owners who wear too many hats. The only hat they should wear is the one that focuses on the core of their business. Doing anything else is a waste of time, and time is the most important startup capital small-business owners have.

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Six Tips For How To Solicit The Feedback You Need As A Leader

Eric Jacobson

Getting feedback is an important way to improve performance at work. But sometimes, it can be hard to seek out, and even harder to hear. “Feedback is all around you. Your job is to find it, both through asking directly and observing it,” says David L. Van Rooy, author of the book, Trajectory: 7 Career Strategies to Take You From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.

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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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Break Down Barriers Between Departments

Deming Institute

Some of W. Edwards Deming’s 14 obligations of management have opponents that argue the reverse is wise. Some believe it is good to “motivate” people by making them fearful, for example. Others believe in selecting suppliers for the moment based on whoever gives the cheapest quote today. But some of the 14 obligations don’t really have opponents arguing against them.

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The 10 Characteristics Of High Performing Teams

Eric Jacobson

According to Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese , authors of the book, The Collaboration Imperative , high-performing teams have the following characteristics: People have solid and deep trust in each other and in the team's purpose--they feel free to express feelings and ideas. Everybody is working toward the same goals. Team members are clear on how to work together and how to accomplish tasks.

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An Emotional Connection Matters More than Customer Satisfaction

Harvard Business Review

In the search for profitable organic growth, more and more companies are making major investments in optimizing the end-to-end customer experience – every aspect of how customers interact with the company’s brand, products, promotions, and service offerings, on and offline. But most companies lack a strategic objective that spans the customer journey, can be understood and operationalized across the enterprise, and, most importantly, actually increases customer value.

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How to Manage Managers

Harvard Business Review

When you’re managing managers, your responsibilities are two-fold: you need to make sure they’re producing good work (as with any employee) and that they’re effectively supporting their teams. You might know how to do the former, but how do you do the latter? Do you need to provide training? Coaching? And how do you serve as a good role 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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When Having Too Many Experts on the Board Backfires

Harvard Business Review

Why boards succeed or fail and how to make them better are critical questions for corporate governance. We know that board composition—who the directors are and what backgrounds and perspectives they represent—can influence important outcomes like firm value and sales growth. But the full spectrum of these relationships is far from fully understood.

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Before You Make a Tough Decision, Imagine How You’ll Have to Sell It

Harvard Business Review

Most of the time, the best decisions respect or reinforce the norms and values of your organization. That gets you buy-in and commitment. But how do you raise the odds of doing this? One approach is to run through a simple mental exercise – before you actually make a decision that will affect many parts of your organization. It’s basically testing your options for resonance.

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The Reason So Many Analytics Efforts Fall Short

Harvard Business Review

Given the role analytics has played in reshaping industries and rewarding innovative adopters over the last two decades, it is surprising how frequently we are asked: “Does this analytics stuff really work?” More often than not, the reason for the skepticism is prior efforts that did not produce the expected competitive advantage. Such skepticism led us to study the impact that analytics has had on our clients over the last 20 years.

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