Wed.Nov 11, 2015

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Veterans Day – Solemnly Remember

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Armistice Day parade – 1929 – Boston (Source: Boston Public Library). “…solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom.”.

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How to Build a High-Performing Team- despite a stack-ranked performance management system

Let's Grow Leaders

Bell curves bring out the worst in your best. Rewarding individual performance drives individual behavior. Yet most performance management systems do just that. Of course unless you’re running HR, you’re can’t change the system, but you can build great teams within it. In this video I share 6 ways to encourage true teamwork and collaboration.

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Resolving Conflict While Maintaining Your Composure – Part 2

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”. William James. Over the course of your professional career you’re going to experience conflict in the workplace.

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What is Ethical Thinking?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Today I'm taking you inside the mind of the ethical leader to explore ethical thinking. Inside the Mind of an Ethical Leader “I make decisions based on values, not money pressures.” “I need to constantly learn in order to stay ethical.”.

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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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It’s Time To Have That Hard Conversation

Joseph Lalonde

W e put them off. We hold back when we have them. We pass the buck to someone else to be the one to deliver them. What are these things? It’s the hard conversations we know we MUST have but are unwilling to have. Image Via Creative Commons. Why Hard Conversations Suck. We put off hard conversations because, well, they’re hard. Bringing faults or poor performance to someone you are leading hurts.

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Great Stay-at-Home Jobs for Moms

Women on Business

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Grandma Elsie’s Organic Apple-Raisin Granola

leaderCommunicator

As we continue to celebrate Grandma Elsie and our Thanksgiving tradition , here is another one of her tasty recipes: Organic Apple-Raisin Granola. This perfect-for-fall recipe works for breakfast and as a mid-day snack. And if you’re new to the blog and are curious about who Grandma Elsie is, or want to learn more about our Thanksgiving tradition at The Grossman Group , you can do that here.

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Four Key Thoughts from Extreme Ownership, the new book on Leadership from two Navy SEALs

First Friday Book Synopsis

I’ve just begun reading Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin, for my synopsis for the December 4 First Friday Book Synopsis. Here are three key quotes from early in the book: As SEALs, we operate as a team of high-caliber, multitalented individuals who have been through perhaps… Read More Four Key Thoughts from Extreme Ownership, the new book on Leadership from two Navy SEALs.

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Can You Really Turn a Hobby into a Business? part 2 of 3

Strategy Driven

Business Is Both Fun and Dull All The Time. Fun is a small word with a huge impact on our lives, so it makes sense that we’d prioritize injecting fun into our business lives whenever possible. And, if you’re thinking about becoming your own boss, the ability to capitalize on fun is definitely one of the advantages: you can wear whatever you want, play music while you work, control the tone and presentation of your product—you’ll be in control of a lot of fun, new components of your business.

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Playing it Safe — Not My Style — And, Often Not God’s Plan

Ron Edmondson

A few years ago, I observed a characteristic in me I hope is not permanent. After our boys moved out of the house, we moved to a downtown condo. The condo sat on a hill, overlooking the river district of our community. We loved the view, but it presented a problem on windy days. We had to weatherize our front porch every time we suspected a storm, turning over the furniture and making sure everything was secure.

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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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StrategyDriven Releases a Turnkey Business Performance Assessment Program

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven’s turnkey Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program provides business leaders with an immediately implementable process for performing in-depth evaluations of organizational performance. StrategyDriven released its Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program providing business leaders with an immediately implementable process for performing in-depth evaluations of organizational performance.

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[FREE CALCULATOR] The Exactly Right Target Size for Your Consulting Firm to Succeed

David A Fields

Text and images are © 2015 David A. Fields, all rights reserved. .

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Honoring Our Veterans

Strategy Driven

Our StrategyDriven Team and I extend our thanks to our veterans for their military service and the sacrifices they and their loved ones made to protect our way of life. We know that without them and the brave men and women in uniform today, the freedoms we enjoy as Americans would not exist. StrategyDriven is proud to employ veterans, disabled veterans, and their family members.

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Marissa Mayer Was Right to Ask Executives to Commit to Staying at Yahoo

Harvard Business Review

Kara Swisher reported in Re/code this week that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer asked her top executives to make explicit commitments to stay at Yahoo – that they take a “pledge.” Swisher writes: “That move seems to have backfired a bit, resulting in several major departures recently, including European boss Dawn Airey, marketing and media head Kathy Savitt, development chief Jackie Reses and many others to other jobs.” (Mayer herself had earlier claimed on Yahoo’s th

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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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A Framework of Organizational Tensions

Leading Blog

T ENSIONS are objectives that seem to be in conflict. They are values that seem to be in opposition. We often treat them as either/or choices when they should be treated as both/and dynamics. Each value or characteristic supports and even makes possible the competing value. Robert Quinn has produced a valuable tool for understanding this concept in his book The Positive Organization.

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Purpose Matters for Business Travel, Too

Harvard Business Review

Why do we travel? Some 60,000 years ago we humans began to journey out of the ecological niche we shared with our primate cousins in Africa to explore the unknown. Our curiosity led us from the savanna to coasts, deserts, forests, valleys, mountains, and ice caps. Evolution made us ever more curious, and so we traveled to learn more. On a to-do list written by Leonardo da Vinci around 1490, most of the tasks he wanted to accomplish involved visiting various masters in their fields.

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Case Study: When Tragedy Strikes Your Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

Laura Cronenberg, the CEO of Tots & Teens, sipped her black tea in the lounge of Shahjalal International Airport and took some time to collect herself before her flight departed. The past few days had been a whirlwind, and she was still trying to make sense of how her work life had transitioned so abruptly from celebration to crisis. Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers.

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How Upworthy Gets Its Staff to Bond

Harvard Business Review

What keeps most corporate leaders up at night? Not disruption. Not speed to market. Not customer data. The number one issue on their minds is employee engagement and culture, according to a global survey of 3,300 business and HR leaders by Deloitte Consulting. Indeed, a laissez-faire approach to employee engagement can now more than ever put a company at a distinct competitive disadvantage, especially in finding and retaining talent.

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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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Customers Aren’t Very Good at Judging Product Sizing

Harvard Business Review

People aren’t very good at judging changes in size. For example, I’ve found in my research with colleagues that when you make something bigger, people routinely underestimate how much bigger it is. This happens because, when estimating the volume of objects, we visually add instead of multiplying the changes in height, width, and length.

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What Separates High-Performing Leaders from Average Ones

Harvard Business Review

Research shows that employees dislike their jobs , don’t trust their leaders , and aren’t engaged. If you’re a leader — or aspiring to be one — you should be frightened. Are organizations in the modern world built for leaders to fail? Or can you overcome these leadership challenges, and if so, how? How can you become a better leader, if not a great one, in this environment?