Mon.Sep 29, 2014

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How Leaders Can Guard Against Unethical Behavior

Michael Lee Stallard

'When leaders behave in ways that violate ethical norms and harm customers, it has a devastating effect on connection and employee engagement. A quick glance at business news headlines shows the extent to which unethical behavior has become a problem today. Many of these unethical practices seem to defy common sense, such as the restaurant owner in China who made headlines for lacing food with opium in an effort to get customers to return.

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How to Keep the Negative Attitudes of Others From Impacting You

Kevin Eikenberry

'It is a proven fact – the attitude of those around you is contagious. This fact is great, when the attitude we are infected with is a positive one. But that isn’t the purpose of this article. Since negative attitudes are just as contagious as positive ones, if you are like me, you’d like to […]. The post How to Keep the Negative Attitudes of Others From Impacting You appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Monday Quote:

General Leadership

'Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you cant do is ignore them. Because they change things.

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Hey CEO, Are You Killing Yourself At Work?

Rich Gee Group

'You work hard. You come in early, stay late, and work over the weekends. Of course. you’re the CEO (or the President, CFO, CMO, CIO, you get the idea). You constantly think about work, even in your sleep. But you have the primo position, the unbelievable pay, the power to move mountains, and your future already written in stone. But it’s not enough.

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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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Dealing with the Slacker Employee

Great Leadership By Dan

'When one employee is not pulling their weight, it can have a devastating impact on productivity, customer service, or sales. Today’s lean organizations can no longer tolerate anything less than 100% effort from all of their employees. However, the most negative impact a “slacker” employee can have isn’t necessary organizational results – it’s the impact on that employee’s coworkers that have to work extra hard to cover for their coworker.

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3 Areas You Might Find Your Focus

Joseph Lalonde

'F ocus. Everyone wants focus. Focus helps you to niche down and become intent on accomplishing one specific goal. And that’s what we need as leaders. We need to be able to narrow our vision and focus in on the next steps we need to take. But how do we do this? How do we find focus and go for it? Image by Ben Smith. John Lee Dumas over at Entrepreneur On Fire has a great acronym for focus.

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She Found Her Power

Leadership Freak

'She felt blindsided and unprepared when she finally heard about a festering issue on the team. Why was she the last to know? Being new to supervision made it even worse.

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Mindful Mondays: How Mindful Road Warriors Stay Connected

Next Level Blog

'So, you might be thinking, “Any 21st century road warrior worth their salt knows how to stay connected. You’ve got your smartphone (maybe two), your tablet, your laptop. How hard is it to stay connected?” Yeah, with all of the tools we have it’s not that hard. But that’s not what I’m talking about. The topic of today’s installment in my mini-series on the Mindful Road Warrior is how to stay connected with people (the three dimensional kind, not the faceless pixels on a screen kind) when you’re

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Craft Workplace Inspiration With an Organizational Constitution

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

'Guest post by S. Chris Edmonds. How is your team or department performing today? I’ll bet you think you know how your team is performing. Most likely you have dashboards that indicate production, error rates, profitability, sales, market share, and more. You probably also have customer service metrics at your fingertips – tools that indicate service ratings, customer satisfaction, customer churn, and the like.

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Why Your Boss Is a Lousy Coach

Marshall Goldsmith

'Your boss is a lousy coach. It culminates in your boss not helping you grow. There are three key reasons: You are smart. You know more than the boss: You are a knowledge worker, who already knows ten times more about what you are doing than the executive does. Your boss is too busy. Your boss may avoid coaching is that she is too busy and she thinks you are busy too!

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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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Craft Workplace Inspiration With an Organizational Constitution

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

'Guest post by S. Chris Edmonds. How is your team or department performing today? I’ll bet you think you know how your team is performing. Most likely you have dashboards that indicate production, error rates, profitability, sales, market share, and more. You probably also have customer service metrics at your fingertips – tools that indicate service ratings, customer satisfaction, customer churn, and the like.

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0520 | Dorie Clark

LDRLB

'Dorie Clark is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future. She is a former presidential campaign spokeswoman, a former divinity student, a faculty member at Duke University, and a contributor to Harvard Business Review , Forbes , and the American Management Association’s publications. In this interview, we talk about how to rebrand yourself for future leadership roles.

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Start – Stop – Keep (Continue) – A Valuable Leadership Team Meeting Exercise

First Friday Book Synopsis

'There are a lot of meetings that waste a lot of time. And they feel like a waste of time. And, maybe they are, because little is accomplished in far too many meetings. But, the evidence is clear – effective meetings can really lead to progress. So… what to do? There are a lot of “approaches” […].

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The Hardest Words I’ve Ever Said

Deep Imprints

'Some people hate to say “I’m sorry” or “I was wrong” Those aren’t my thing. It is easy for me to admit fault in those ways. However, even typing this next sentence is emotionally trying. I hate to say “I don’t know.” And, I’m married to a very inquisitive man. He asks questions – usually […].

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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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Meet Jenna Woodul, the First Chief Community Officer

Managing Communities

'Please Update Your ManagingCommunities.com RSS Feed Subscription This feed has moved to: [link] I apologize for the trouble. For more details, please read my post on the matter. Thank you.

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10 Must-Ask Questions For Every Business Leader

Eric Jacobson

'Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees?

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Should You Reveal Your Secret Sauce?

David A Fields

'A question I was asked: Is it possible to provide too much information in an article so that prospects feel that they can do it themselves? 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 Relationships adding value benefits closing fees Marketing positioning.

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To the Pastor Considering an Extramarital Affair

Ron Edmondson

'This is a guest post by my friend Dr. Jennifer Degler. Jennifer pulls no punches. But, she’s a difference maker in the Kingdom. I’m thankful for her influence. Dear Pastor, If you are a pastor considering or engaging in an affair, may I offer you points to ponder from a psychologist who has been honored to work with hurting people on all sides of an affair?

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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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A Better Way to START your SMART GOAL process

Let's Grow Leaders

'If you’re really stuck in the creative process, your heart is telling you something. Listen to it. I did, and found myself backward mapping my entrepreneurial journey and found the START before SMART goal process. The Start of START. I was recently asked to give a workshop for the National Speakers Association on SMART goals to help entrepreneurs launch their businesses.

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The Unexpected Consequences of Success

Harvard Business Review

'Everybody loves a winner, right? No, unfortunately, not always. In my coaching practice, many executives and entrepreneurs vent their frustrations with the unexpected negative consequences of their success — such as their anxiety over being able to maintain their winning streak, the fear that they will be set up to fail, and the envy others feel toward them for their good fortune.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

'Although many business executives sat through one, or perhaps several, courses in economics while in school, most probably took away little more than the supply and demand graphs to which they were introduced early in their first course. Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”.

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The Ways Big Cities Think About Large-Scale Change

Harvard Business Review

'Change on a grand scale requires people to come together in new and different ways, and to reimagine what’s possible. This kind of change is hard, but it’s not impossible. In 2010, Living Cities, a long-standing collaborative of 22 of the world’s leading foundations and financial institutions, created the Integration Initiative to accelerate the pace of change in U.S. cities.

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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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Repeated Texting Can Thicken the Tendons in Your Thumbs

Harvard Business Review

'The tendon that extends to the tip of the thumb showed significant thickening in research subjects who were frequent texters and who repeatedly flexed the interphalangeal joint, which is closest to the thumbnail, while texting, according to a medical study reported by the Wall Street Journal. The greater the number of texts, the thicker the tendon.

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Beware the Analytics Bottleneck

Harvard Business Review

'Within the next three years there will be over 20 billion connected devices (e.g. oil pipelines, smart cities, connected homes and businesses, etc.) which can empower the digital enterprise — or intimidate them. With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses.

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The Bash Bug Is a Wake-Up Call

Harvard Business Review

'By now we’ve all heard about the immediate threat posed by the Bash bug, which a security researcher discovered last week. Also known as the Shellshock bug, the software flaw exploits a vulnerability in a standard piece of software code called the Bash Shell, whose functions give users command over computer systems that are based on Linux and Unix.

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Beware the Analytics Bottleneck

Harvard Business Review

Within the next three years there will be over 20 billion connected devices (e.g. oil pipelines, smart cities, connected homes and businesses, etc.) which can empower the digital enterprise — or intimidate them. With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses.

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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.

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How Companies Can Learn to Make Faster Decisions

Harvard Business Review

'SpaceX had a problem. Managers at the aerospace manufacturer wanted to make faster decisions for one of their big clients — NASA — by finding alternatives to the high volume of meetings and cumbersome spreadsheets used for tracking projects. Initially, NASA sent a fax (yes, a fax) whenever they had a query, which SpaceX added to a list of outstanding questions.

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Sales Data Only Matters If It Helps You Take Action

Harvard Business Review

'In sales, as everywhere else in business, there is a buzz about big data and analytics. Vendors hype tools and mobile applications to help sales forces make sense of it all, while touting case studies that generated impressive improvements in sales force effectiveness. Companies are anxious to capitalize on the opportunity. While some jump in, many are reluctant to move forward.