A Simple Strategy to Re-Energize Others
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'I thought I knew him pretty well. Maybe that’s the problem. I thought I knew him. I’m disappointed in myself. I should have known him better.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'I thought I knew him pretty well. Maybe that’s the problem. I thought I knew him. I’m disappointed in myself. I should have known him better.
Kevin Eikenberry
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'Pigs are more than just bacon and ham and coconuts are more than just vehicles for pina coladas. And what does this have to do with coaching? Check out today’s Remarkable TV episode below to learn more. The best coaches see people for what they can become, rather than what they are today. @KevinEikenberry (Tweet […]. The post Remarkable TV: Pigs and Coconuts appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
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Lead from Within
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'Everyone makes mistakes; that is a given. But not everyone knows how to make the most out of them. Often people are quick to blame others and make excuses, and when that happens, nothing really changes. What differentiates true leaders from blamers is the willingness to acknowledge they have made a mistake and to say they’re sorry (and mean it!). The best leaders know that it’s possible to turn a mistake into a valuable moment of leadership.
leaderCommunicator
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'We can talk all day about the importance of employees with stellar communication skills but it sure is nice when an outside group – and one not even connected to the communications field – takes up the case for us. That happened this year when the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) released its Corporate Recruiters Survey report. The annual survey by this well-respected group gauges the demand for MBA graduates among Fortune 100 companies and offers insight into hiring practices and t
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Lead by Adventure
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'Have you ever had someone tell you that you made their day? I did, in fact, just today. It wasn’t that hard, and it didn’t take that much time. Here are just a few simple ways to make someone’s day that are quick and easy, but will be sure to leave both you and those around you feeling special. . 1. Be courteous. In my opinion, there really is no excuse for being discourteous to other people, especially those of us in people-focused industries.
Joseph Lalonde
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'I ’d like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order. The post Truett Cathy appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.
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CO2
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'by Gary Cohen Sammi Cohen Illustration . Many of you have learned that that providing feedback to others should be given in the following sequence: Good | Bad | Good. The first “Good” is a positive affirmation and is used to demonstrate trust and confidence in your reports. Next you raise the issue that is of most concern to you about their performance or behavior.
Ron Edmondson
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'In previous posts I shared about the way people respond to change. One post share the “ Absolute Most Common Objection to Change “ Another post share “ 7 Common Emotions to Change “ And, there were actually 8 emotions. With each post I was asked for some feedback on how to address those reactions. Here are 8 ways to react to the emotions of change: Fear.
CO2
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Sammi Cohen Illustration . Many of you have learned that that providing feedback to others should be given in the following sequence: Good | Bad | Good. The first “Good” is a positive affirmation and is used to demonstrate trust and confidence in your reports. Next you raise the issue that is of most concern to you about their performance or behavior.
Eric Jacobson
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'According to author Micah Solomon , to ensure you have customer-facing employees , help them to: Display simple human kindness Sense what another person is feeling Have an inclination toward teamwork Be detail oriented, including having the ability and willingness to follow through to completion Bounce back and do not internalize challenges.
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Rapid BI
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'“I pruned a tree once, so technically I’m allowed to put ‘branch manager’ on my resume.” Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. see more office humor.
Tanveer Naseer
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'Continuing the month-long celebration of the release of my first leadership book (which will be available in bookstores and online next Tuesday), “ Leadership Vertigo ”, co-written with S. Max Brown, I’m delighted to welcome best-selling author, leadership researcher, and former Oracle executive Liz Wiseman. In this special guest piece written for this celebratory leadership series, Liz looks at how making ourselves vulnerable can help us to build our competency, which is the 2nd leadersh
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'Although a man’s educational level has no impact on his own happiness, a woman married to a man with at least a college degree is about 5% more likely to be very happy with her marriage, according to an analysis of the General Social Survey, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. “There seems to be an inherent quality of a man having a college degree that makes a woman happier in marriage,” write economists Bruce T.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'72% of all new products don’t meet their revenue targets. And a quarter of companies, according to the same survey, confess that not one of their new offerings met its profitability goals. This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'Any company’s decisions lie on a spectrum. On one end are the small, everyday decisions that add up to a lot of value over time. Amazon, Capital One, and others have already figured out how to automate many of these, like whether to recommend product B to a customer who buys product A or what spending limit is appropriate for customers with certain characteristics.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'All of our companies are digital now – or quickly becoming that way. Almost any enterprise you can think of, no matter the industry or sector, is trying (or being pressured by competitors) to use new technology to harness the vast new oceans of data being generated by smartphones, sensors, digital cameras, GPS devices, and myriad other sources of information originating from customers and markets.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'Most senior managers agree that taking risks is important for innovation, but in far too many cases, they don’t act like they believe this. For example, one global organization, where one of us conducted a culture survey several years ago, considered itself to be highly supportive of developing new products, services, and practices. Yet when several hundred professionals were asked what would happen if they developed and tried “new and untested ideas,” only 17% said that such behavior wou
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'Any mention of the Sixties elicits an immediate response: hippies, Vietnam protests, Woodstock, sexual freedom, and psychedelic drugs. But along with all of that something quite dramatic happened to corporate America as well, and it started showing up in the data in 1960. It was the first salvo in an economic revolution, one that was largely in keeping with the above phenomena: the rise of talent.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'How should Uber go about conquering the world? Currently, it seems to operate on the “invade first, ask questions later” model. This became a problem for the company last week, when the taxi-hailing company found its app blocked by a German court due to a violation of the country’s Passenger Transportation Act. While the decision is only temporary until a full hearing takes place, the case highlights Uber’s mounting legal difficulties in Europe.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Any company’s decisions lie on a spectrum. On one end are the small, everyday decisions that add up to a lot of value over time. Amazon, Capital One, and others have already figured out how to automate many of these, like whether to recommend product B to a customer who buys product A or what spending limit is appropriate for customers with certain characteristics.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'Amy Bernstein , editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features. For more, see the October 2014 issue of HBR. Download this podcast.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'In a past life, I used to be required to participate in quarterly sales meetings. These meetings followed a typical format: fly everyone in the company to an amazing destination, then lock them inside a hotel ballroom for 10 hours a day and force them to listen to speeches from sales leadership, as well as marketing, research, and legal departments (usually with a motivational speaker to close it all out).
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
'Few things can be as jarring for marketers as losing trust in your metrics. There are many sources of marketers’ trust issues with their data, but the one I hear cited more than any other is conflicting or competing data sources. Perhaps the numbers are emerging from two different reporting systems or third-party publishers, or maybe it’s a case of misattributed engagement, but all too often marketers slap down side-by-sides that simply don’t add up.
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