Wed.Aug 06, 2014

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10 Questions Your Team Is Afraid to Ask

Let's Grow Leaders

'You team has questions they’re afraid to ask. They’ve got limited information, but they figure if you wanted to tell them you would. They worry that raising the issue will look like insubordination, or somehow make them look less in your eyes. Maybe you can share, maybe you can’t. But that doesn’t make the questions go away.

Team 491
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Tonight – 9pmEST – SiriusXM Ch125!

General Leadership

'Join us tonight – LIVE — at 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific) on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 & the David Webb Show ! Tonight we will be debuting “The 12 Talents” with the first in a new series which will take us through this year. Join us on the air by calling into the show at 866-957-2874. You can also follow along on Twitter @GenLeadBlog and @davidwebbshow with hashtags: # GeneralLeadership #12Talents.

Education 419
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How to Accelerate Lerning and Change Lives

Leading Blog

'Teachers are the builders of the future. In a book written for teachers, we find a valuable book for all leaders because leaders are teachers. Leaders are educators. In The Best Teacher in You , you will find the thinking and approaches behind highly effective teachers who accelerate learning and change lives. There are two kinds of change that individuals experience: incremental change and deep change.

Quinn 284
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Performance or Potential

General Leadership

'Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future. Marilyn Fergusen. Leadership matters! Most people at least implicitly understand this concept and people that have studied and practiced leadership understand this concept at a deeper level. As an example, General Stanley McChrystal’s main takeaway from 34 years of service in the United States Army as a commander and leader, as he describes in his book, “ My Share of the Task ” is that leadership matters.

Maturity 417
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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 Reasons Ethical Culture Doesn’t Just Happen

Leading in Context

'By Linda Fisher Thornton Don''t assume that an ethical culture will just happen in your workplace. Even if you are a good leader, ethical culture is a delicate thing, requiring intentional positive leadership and daily tending. It requires more than good leadership, more than trust building, and more than good hiring. Why does building an ethical culture require so much more than good leadership?

Ethics 277
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Tips to be an Effective Team Leader: Lessons from West Point

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].

Team 244

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12 Powerful A’s for Leaders

Leadership Freak

'Add: Increase. “She added to our fulfillment by scheduling round-table conversations with satisfied customers.” Abandon: Unreserved dedication to people, mission, and vision. “He fully committed to making his team successful.

Power 204
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Four Features to Look For in a Change Management Methodology

Change Starts Here

'When you embark on implementing change at work, a change management methodology provides a way to organize your activities, focus your attention, and engage others in a common approach. There are many frameworks to choose from – five levers, eight steps, five phases, three stages – so how do you know which methodology to use? The easy answer is that you should use the one that makes sense in your situation, a methodology you feel comfortable using and one that will work in your organization.

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Understand the “Place This in its Historical Narrative” Context – Striving to Understand in an Increasingly Complex World

First Friday Book Synopsis

'I don’t know how much you know. But I do know that I do not know enough. Not enough to understand the story behind the story of news item after news development. In the VUCA world we live in, “Complexity” demands that we understand things better. And we need some help to do that! I remember […].

Blog 102
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What to do with a God-sized problem

Deep Imprints

'When you have a problem, are you able to forge ahead in confidence? Some people just have a lot of confidence. You can see it dripping from them – like when they walk in the room and all the energy gravitates towards them. There is a different confidence that really intrigues me. We find this […].

Energy 101
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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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James M. Kerr: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'James M. Kerr is a management consultant and organizational behaviorist. He specializes in strategic planning, corporate transformation and project & program development. For over 20 years, Jim has forged a different type of consulting practice – one that does its engagements “with” its clients, instead of “to” them.

Senge 90
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What Is Your Pecking Order?

CO2

'by Gary Cohen. Pecking Order. The term “pecking order” was introduced by Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe in 1921 under the German terms Hackordnung or Hackliste, and brought into English in 1927. Schjelderup-Ebbe studied chickens and how they express dominance via pecking. He found that chickens typically have a pecking order that runs 15 deep.

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Minnows vs. Whales

David A Fields

'A question I was asked: I heard you mention something about having a mixture of minnows and whales as clients. Can you explain more? What is the ideal mix of different types of clients? What would your suggestion be to this consultant? What has worked for you? Post your suggestion by using the ‘Leave a Comment’ box below. Consultants Context Discussion Creating Value Fees Positioning Proposals Relationships adding value agreements Consultative selling consulting fees Marketing posit

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What Is Your Pecking Order?

CO2

Pecking Order. The term “pecking order” was introduced by Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe in 1921 under the German terms Hackordnung or Hackliste, and brought into English in 1927. Schjelderup-Ebbe studied chickens and how they express dominance via pecking. He found that chickens typically have a pecking order that runs 15 deep. This pecking order allows for a more effective use of energy and resources when they are scarce, and reduces risk of injury–since the predetermined hie

Energy 60
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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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The Amazing Unprecedented Plumber

Building Personal Strength

'Moving into our new home, we discovered that many aspects of it had been neglected during the previous owners'' eight-year residence. One area was the bathroom sinks and toilets. As one of our final upgrades, we called the plumber to clear the sink drains and replace old hardware in the toilets. I assisted by getting rid of the gunk that had accumulated on the stoppers and in the drain pipes.

Power 67
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What Do You Do When You Don’t Know What To Do?

Ron Edmondson

'What do you do when you don’t know what to do? Wow! How many times do I hear people asking a question like that? It seems to be a daily occurrence. Or maybe not just like that, but they want to know what to do — and they don’t know what to do. So they ask a question about what to do. (Are you following? ). Unfortunately, knowing the right thing to do is not an exact science.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #139

Rapid BI

'“If I walk past your desk without stopping to criticize your work, that counts as a compliment.

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Save Your Next Staff Meeting From Itself

Harvard Business Review

'While many leaders see staff meetings as vital to the success of their organization, most employees see them as a painful waste of time. As a result, employees arrive or leave whenever they wish; check their emails; doodle; or use the time to make to-do lists of all the things they’re not getting done in your meeting. The outcome is a lethargic downward spiral.

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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 Poverty Minded Leader

Joseph Lalonde

'T he thought of poverty stirs up many images in my mind. The homeless man sitting outside of the local Wal-Mart. Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol. The single mother working two jobs and still not making it work. And lately my mind has wandered to leaders who are in poverty. Not monetary poverty but a mindset of poverty. Ever met a poverty minded leader?

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The Question to Ask Before Hiring a Data Scientist

Harvard Business Review

'When hiring data scientists, there’s nothing more frustrating than making the wrong hire. Data scientists are in notoriously high demand , hard to attract, and command large salaries — compounding the cost of a mistake. At The Data Incubator, we’ve talked to dozens of employers looking to hire data scientists from our training program, from large corporates like Pfizer and JPMorgan Chase to smaller tech startups like Foursquare and Upstart.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

'Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. Sue Decker, Yahoo’s former president, describes how the deal came about and what Yahoo learned from doing business in China.

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Corn Ethanol Helps Create Boom Times for Midwestern Farmland

Harvard Business Review

'After bottoming out in the late 1980s, the value of farmland in the Midwestern U.S. has risen dramatically. For example, the value of high-quality Iowa farmland has increased 12.5% annually, on average, since 2000. The increase has been driven in part by higher world demand for grain, say Jeffrey R. Stokes and Arthur T. Cox of the University of Northern Iowa; past research has found that farmland values are highest near plants that convert corn into ethanol for fuel.

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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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4 Mistakes Marketers Make When Trying to Go “Viral”

Harvard Business Review

'Can we agree to kill the word “viral” – unless it’s referring to something that leads you to call a doctor, or download a security patch? The problem with this term is that it suggests there’s something inherent in the content itself that makes it travel. The virus, once released into the wild oceans of social media, preys on its victims. In fact, quite the opposite is the case: unlike viruses, people actively choose to engage with marketing messages and to share them (or not) with friends.