Wed.Oct 08, 2014

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5 Ways Success is Holding You Back

Let's Grow Leaders

'So much is written about learning from failure, but much less of failing from success. This weekend, I had the extraordinary opportunity to speak and attend the National Speakers Association’s Business Accelerator Lab. It was inspiring to get to know Nido Quebein, President of High Point University, along with his concept of Productive Failures and Unproductive Success.

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Train Your Replacement… Not Your Clone!

General Leadership

'An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual. Robert Baden-Powell. The cold hard reality of being a leader is we all have either a physical or organizational shelf-life. This realization, no matter how difficult or painful to grasp, need not be a fatalistic view of your future, but instead the inspiration behind the desire to find the next-generation leader, capable and prepared to spring-board to organizational success from your mentorship and guiding han

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Boss, It’s Just Not Your Job

Lead Change Blog

'Thinking for your employees is not your job. Facilitating their empowerment is. Creating a culture of personal leadership is. Sometimes I hear this from manager clients. It bugs them when their staff agrees to put a new procedure in place and then discover later that everyone has fallen back to old habits. I’ve been there myself. You go into redesigning a process with good intentions.

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Women in Tech are Making Their Mark – Infographic

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].

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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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Developing strong peer relationships

Persuasive Powerhouse

' . Peter, an executive on the CEO’s team, hired me to work with him. Something wasn’t working in his relationships with his peers on the team, and he wanted to figure it out. He felt ignored, dismissed and disrespected by his peers. They seemed to avoid Peter and often went around him to others in his organization for decisions that he should be making.

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The Problem With Always Being Connected

Joseph Lalonde

'T here’s a major problem with leaders in the top organizations today. One many of them are unwilling to face for fear of missing out or fear of being thought of less. That problem? The problem of always being connected. Image by Irina Slutsky. You may think I’m talking of how connected we are with others. The relationships we’ve formed.

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From Great Employee to Lousy Boss

Great Leadership By Dan

'Why do great employees often turn out to be lousy managers? Read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership to find out why.

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How to Deal with Unreasonable Contrarians

Leadership Freak

'A river without banks drifts calmly into oblivion. Constraint makes the river powerful. Tell teams what they can’t do and where they can’t go and they’ll get further, faster.

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Coming Clean

Next Level Blog

'If you''re a regular reader of this blog, you''re undoubtedly aware that I have a new book coming out, Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative. I hope you''ll read it and get a lot of value from it. But before you do, there''s something that I want to share with you, as a regular reader of this blog, that has, for the past five years, been a private issue between me, my family and a few friends.

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Pull Yourself Back from the Brink of Your Caffeine-Driven, Smartphone-Addicted Life

Engaging Leader

'This is a guest post by Scott Eblin, author of the new book Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative, which will release on October 13. Scott shared a draft of the book with me; I loved it, eagerly read it from cover to cover, and enthusiastically recommend it to you. On a summer Sunday night […].

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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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The Law of Reciprocity

Coaching Tip

' Are you putting the Law of Reciprocity to work for you? Reciprocation flows from Divine Law that can neither be ignored or put aside. Perhaps, the most important of these laws is the ''law of love.'' Put simply, "Love is Law, Law is Love. God is Love, Love is God." This amounts to the same thing as "the gift of giving" without the "hope of reward or pay," or serving others.

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Do You Understand Your Target Audience? How to Use an Empathy Map [video transcript]

Engaging Leader

'Link to video: Do You Understand Your Target Audience? How to Use an Empathy Map On Episode 1 of the Engaging Leader podcast, we talked about the seven habits of highly engaging leaders, which of course is based on Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. We looked at each of those habits and […].

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What to do in a freakout

Deep Imprints

'Tonight, I get to share with the Calvary Christian Assembly women for the fifth week. We’ve been looking at the process of change (knowing what you are letting go of and letting go of it, redefining who you are without what you lost, and new direction) alongside Elijah’s life. Tonight we hit 1 Kings 19 […].

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What Pickle Juice Teaches about Mirror Neurons and Empathetic Thinking [video transcript]

Engaging Leader

'Link to video: What Pickle Juice Teaches about Mirror Neurons and Empathetic Thinking I have a jar of dill pickles in my office to help me share about the power of empathy in communicating for influence. My dad tells a story from when he was a kid about going over to his grandmother’s house after […].

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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 We Learn: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where and Why it Happens Benedict Carey Random House (2014) How to take full advantage of a host of techniques that deepen learning that remain largely unknown outside scientific circles As Benedict Carey explains, “this book is not about some golden future. The persistent, annoying, amusing, ear-scratching […].

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One Phone Call That Will Supercharge Your Pipeline

David A Fields

'Let’s make a Yay and Blech list. Raisins, yay; unsweetened cranberries, blech. Netting big dollars on a project, yay. Paying taxes on big dollars, blech. Playing hockey with other old men, yay; Being humiliated on the ice by 25-year olds, less yay. Fielding out-of-the-blue requests for projects, yay; outbound calling to replenish the pipeline, blech.

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How We Learn: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where and Why it Happens Benedict Carey Random House (2014) How to take full advantage of a host of techniques that deepen learning that remain largely unknown outside scientific circles As Benedict Carey explains, “this book is not about some golden future. The persistent, annoying, amusing, ear-scratching […].

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What if the Prospect is Long-Winded (or Unfocused)?

David A Fields

'A question I was asked: What if you have a forty-five-minute minute meeting with a prospect and she spends the whole time talking about her situation and she never get to other parts of the Context Discussion like outcomes, metrics, and parameters? What would your suggestion be to this consultant? What has worked for you? Post your suggestion by using the ‘Leave a Comment’ box below.

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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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Productive People Secrets

Eric Jacobson

'According to entrepreneur and author Margaret Hefferman , as reported recently in Inc. magazine, the secrets of the most productive people are that they do these three things : They take breaks. Breaks refresh the mind and allow you to see new situations. They are great collaborators. They have lives outside work. In fact, the most successful have rich private lives that include interests that hone different skills and that let them think in different ways.

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7 of the Biggest Pitfalls of Being an Introvert as a Pastor

Ron Edmondson

'I am an introvert. From all public appearances on Sunday morning — and with my frequent activity in the community — that surprises people. But in my private life and with those closest to me there is no questioning of that fact. If anything, I have become even more introverted the larger our church has grown. I can wish I was otherwise, but this is how I am wired.

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Lead Like it Matters… Because it Does, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

'We asked Roxi Hewertson about the 8 overarching leadership insights that kick off her new book Lead Like it Matters…Because it Does hitting the stores in just a few weeks. She agreed to share them with us as a four-part series. This is Part 2 of 4. Insight #3: Leadership Is a Discipline, Not an Accident. We know for sure that highly effective leaders get much better results.

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Stop Believing That You Have to Be Perfect

Harvard Business Review

'The value of failure has become a mantra in Silicon Valley, with the rise of events like FailCon , a conference “for startup founders to study their own and others’ failures and prepare for success.” Failure, the thinking goes, is an intense form of hands-on education that — when done right — enables you to learn quickly and grow. Despite the startup world’s enthusiasm, however, there’s often a lingering stigma: it’s less that you’ve tried and failed, and more that you are “a failure.

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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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Why Some Women Negotiate Better Than Others

Harvard Business Review

'Women continue to make less money than men, and be less likely to hold top leadership positions. And whenever a grim new study is released, a news-making essay or book is published, or high-profile woman is criticized for being “too pushy,” it renews the debate over the underlying reasons behind this persistent inequality. One explanation has to do with culturally prescribed gender roles, and the social price one pays — or expects to pay — for violating them.

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A Refresher on Storytelling 101

Harvard Business Review

'At bedtime, I tell stories to my godchildren, Anna and Noah, when their parents invite me to care for them. Their capacity for stories amazes me. They beg for “just one more” and then “just one more.” It seems we are wired to enjoy a well-told story. And as we grow up, we do not lose our thirst for stories. I work with future leaders at Stanford to help them develop compelling stories that achieve their management goals — and I’ve developed a seven-part formula for storytelling success in prese

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Turn the Pressures of Technology into Potential

Harvard Business Review

'Digital technology is full of paradox, yet we often tend to under-emphasize or even ignore the paradoxes — often looking at either technology’s problems or its promises, rarely examining both at the same time. But it’s only when we explore both that we gain new insight into what will truly help us harness technology’s economic value. Let’s start with the core strategic paradox created by digital technology: it represents both a source of mounting performance pressure and a dramatic opportunity

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An Attachment to Cars Gets Out of Hand

Harvard Business Review

'During his five decades running a Chevrolet dealership in Nebraska, Ray Lambrecht held onto his customers’ trade-ins and quite a few new models too, amassing a collection of more than 500 cars, which he parked on a nearby farm. An auction of his collection drew 25,000 people, was filmed for the History channel, and raised $2.8 million ; a 1958 Cameo pickup truck with 1.3 miles on the odometer brought $140,000 , according to The New York Times.

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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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Let Data Ask Questions, Not Just Answer Them

Harvard Business Review

'The bigger the data, the more profitable and productive predictive analytics can be. But that’s conventional wisdom. Innovators more intent on inventing the future than predicting it should look hard at how cutting-edge scientists now computationally massage their big data. “AI” — artificial intelligence — is giving way to “AH” — automated hypothesis.