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8 Tips to Set Up Your Own Home Office

Women on Business

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The Leader within Us – Developing Our Self-Leader

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Stanley Ross: The paucity of effective leaders is only because in general organizations aren’t good at developing leaders. The expectation is that individuals can jump from being a non-manager to become a leader type manager. This expectation is an illusion with everyone suffering the consequences. A non-manager needs to develop their ability to learn how to successfully lead themselves first.

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7 Ways to Sniff the Stink

Leadership Freak

Success hinges on dealing with things others turn from. Plug your nose when something stinks, if you want to fail. Ignore anger. Reject worry. Tell yourself everything will work out on it’s own. Medicate organizational anxiety. Dance around challenges. Discuss comfortable topics – avoid uncomfortable. Affirm the mediocre. Tolerate backstabbers.

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3 Steps to That Unplugged, Peace-of-Mind Vacation People Talk About

Jason Womack

Because you ONLY get so much vacation every year, here are 3 Steps to That Unplugged, Peace-of-Mind Vacation People Talk About. Please share in the comment are below the ONE step you know you're going to take this week!

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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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“The better you get, the better you’d better get!” says David Allen, Getting Things Done

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here’s how David Allen put it (in Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity): One of my favorite sayings is, “The better you get, the better you’d better get!” On the one hand, Getting Things Done is all about getting much better at doing the work you have to do, so things will be… Read More “The better you get, the better you’d better get!

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How to Save $1,500 on Leadership Books

Management Excellence

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Listening Biases: how we restrict opportunity

Strategy Driven

I got to the gym yesterday only to find that my regular treadmill had been replaced by a new-fangled computer machine thing. I asked the young woman next to me how to start the damn thing as it wasn’t obvious. Here was the conversation: SDM: Where’s the start button on this thing? Woman: Over there. You’ll want to start on 2.3 miles and… SDM: Thanks for showing me.

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How To Listen And Learn As A Leader

Eric Jacobson

In John Baldoni's book , The Leader's Guide to Speaking with Presence , he provides these tips for listening as a leader and learning as a leader: When Listening As A Leader : Look at people when they are speaking to you. Make eye contact. Ask open-ended questions, such as "Tell me about." or "Could you explain this?" Consider the "what if" question: "What if we looked at the situation like this?

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What to Ask When Choosing Collaboration Software

Strategy Driven

As a modern and forward thinking business, no doubt that if you don’t already use cloud based collaboration software, you’re embedded in the process of discovering what options are out there for you and what they could offer. While taking advantage of free trials of various software is a great way to identify what really works for your business, by ensure you choose exceptional products in the first place you can find a quicker path to enjoying the productivity gains these platforms can deliver.

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Ten Questions To Help Drive Engagement

Eric Jacobson

"The challenge for the organizational architect is to systematically create the blueprint for an organization that consciously connects everything to purpose ," explains author Clive Wilson , in his new book, Designing the Purposeful Organization. "The product of doing this are measurable results and, importantly, a felt sense of success. Wilson's book is packed with case studies and activities that help you put to practice in your organization the learnings from the book.

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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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10 Ways to Have a Reproducing Culture

Ron Edmondson

You can’t recruit leaders – at least not effectively – if you never develop a culture to do so. Reproducing cultures reproduce leaders. Finding new leaders is critical to the successful growth of any church or organization. Kingdom growth is greatly impacted by the numbers of leaders we can recruit. Therefore, we must strive to recruit more leaders and we do so by having a culture of reproduction.

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How To Infuse Your Organization With Entrepreneurial Energy

Eric Jacobson

This month brought the release of the new book, Achieving Longevity: How Great Firms Prosper Through Entrepreneurial Thinking , by Jim Dewald. "I wrote this book because I am concerned that businesses in general, and business leaders in particular, have lost touch with the all-important entrepreneurial spirit that drove growth and prosperity in the past," says Dewald.

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The Best Companies Invest Aggressively in These 3 Areas

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to investments, here’s a general truth: the larger a company gets, the smaller it thinks. The process is insidious, and companies must always be on the lookout for signs that it is setting in. If you want your business to grow sustainably at scale, you need to figure out how to make big investments that will best differentiate you in your core.

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How To Be A Good Coach

Eric Jacobson

Former Verizon Wireless CEO, Denny F. Strigl offers these tips for how to be a good coach to an employee. He explains that good coaches help performers by: Keeping them focused. Giving them objective, helpful feedback. Acting as a sounding board for new approaches. Identifying blind spots that may be holding the performer back. Reinforcing key values, principles, and behaviors that improve performance.

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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 a Flex-Time Program at MIT Improved Productivity, Resilience, and Trust

Harvard Business Review

Laura Schneider for HBR. In today’s increasingly competitive hiring market, organizations need to think differently about how to attract new employees and retain existing ones. Unfortunately, many of the obvious solutions require a financial investment: increasing salaries, bonuses, medical benefits, or vacation days. And if your “competitive advantage” in hiring simply boils down to throwing money at the problem, your hires are quite possibly going to jump ship when a higher o

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3 Critical Components of a Shared Mental Model

Lead Change Blog

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit with the C-Suite team of a highly-successful $7B business. The topic of discussion: The Questionable Future of the Company. Why? They were internationally recognized as an entrepreneurial giant, noted for their “Pirate” mentality consistently causing beneficial market disruption which yielded revolutionary advancements.

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The Fine Line Between a Collaborative Employee and One Who Doesn’t Get Enough Done

Harvard Business Review

Tony was baffled. His direct report, Susan , was enormously productive. Her team clearly loved working with her, and she was considered a high potential in the organization. Yet she always seemed pulled in a dozen directions rather than focused on the areas that Tony had indicated as strategic priorities. While he admired her attention to detail and ability to multitask, Tony saw the flip side of these strengths as a tendency to get bogged down in the minutia of a project and an inability to del

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

This list includes books that have been selected because they are either extremely popular, frequently referred to, or groundbreaking in business literature. Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. Listed in no particular order. 1. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989).

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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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Zero-Based Budgeting Is Not a Wonder Diet for Companies

Harvard Business Review

Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) is elegantly logical: Expenses must be justified for each new budget period based on demonstrable needs and costs, as opposed to the more common method of using last year’s budget as your starting point, then adjusting up or down. ZBB is a straightforward, intuitively simple way to aggressively strip out costs that cannot be rationally justified.

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LeadershipNow 140: June 2016 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from June 2016 that you might have missed: The Power of a Safety Net by @KevinEikenberry. How to Silence Your Itty Bitty Committee by @scotteblin. Decisions and the Least Bad Option by @ArtPetty. Caught in Team Drift? Consider Honorable Closure by @JesseLynStoner. Why Deception Is Probably the Single Most Important Leadership Skill by @JeffreyPfeffer via @FortuneMagazine. 3 Critical Components of a Shared Mental Model by Chris Stricklin.

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Tronc vs. the Right Way for Publishers to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Last week I wrote an article about Tribune Publishing’s reincarnation as Tronc and the poorly thought-out video that the company released, describing its efforts. As best I could tell, the article was well received and many people, even those employed at Tronc, seemed to think I got it right. My basic point was that the notion that you can transform a failing media company — or any company in any industry, for that matter — by infusing it with data and algorithms is terribly mi

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Business Lessons from the 2016 Primary Elections

Women on Business

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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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Brexit and the Leadership Equivalent of Empty Calories

Harvard Business Review

Mark Blyth of Brown University and Gianpiero Petriglieri of INSEAD discuss Britain’s vote to leave the European Union. Download this podcast.

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The Explainer: Reverse Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Start with developing markets, and then work your way backward.