Fri.Sep 12, 2014

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Does The HR Profession Need To Embrace Technology?

Women on Business

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The Shattering Of Trust

Joseph Lalonde

'I t’s confession time. As a young person, I used to love comics. Like seriously love comic books. Every Tuesday I would head to the local comic shops: Homerun Comics, Lange’s Sports Connection, Campus Sports, and one other comic book store I can’t recall the name of (But I can recall the owners, the location, and even the smell of the store).

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Top 7 Challenges for Public Company Director Candidates

Women on Business

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12 Ways to End Fear and Inspire Boldness

Leadership Freak

'You just walked out of your boss’s office and you feel small and anxious. You work for a small boss. Small, fearful leaders make others feel small and afraid.

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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 NFL Shows That Culture Change (Or the Lack of It) Starts at the Top

Next Level Blog

'In the annals of interesting timing, it doesn’t get much better than an article that ran in the Financial Times this past Monday morning. It was a piece titled, “The HR Guy Cleaning Up NFL Locker Rooms” and described how the League’s new head of HR is on a mission to get rid of bullying, homophobia and racist language in the workplaces of the NFL’s 32 teams.

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Weekly Round-Up: On 7 Acts of Generosity That Help Leaders Grow Business, 4 Steps for Getting Honest Feedback & Leading With a Light Touch

leaderCommunicator

'Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. Each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays I pull some of the best together here on my blog. So in case you’ve missed them, here is this week’s round-up of top posts. They’ll provide you with tips, strategies and thought-starters from many of the smart folks in my network.

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How to Leverage Your Book into Business

David A Fields

'A question I was asked: I just wrote a book, how can I leverage it to generate more income? 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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Be a Great Leader. A Great – Servant – Leader

Ron Edmondson

'Jesus defined what it means to be great in His Kingdom. The greatest among you must be a servant. Matthew 23:11. What He didn’t say in that passage is important too. He didn’t say that one who is great because they are a servant couldn’t also be a leader. I think we give leadership a bad connotation sometimes. In fact, I’ve known people who wouldn’t take the role of leader because they felt it was the more “pious” thing to do.

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Darwin the Evolved Consultant – Getting Butts in Seats

David A Fields

'All images and text are the copyright of David A. Fields. (c) 2014 David A. Fields. All rights reserved.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #166

Rapid BI

'“Don’t think of me as a 54 year old job applicant. Think of it as getting two 27 year olds for the price of one!” Office based cartoons, funnies or humor can help to communicate important messages or tips in a non threatening way. see more office humor.

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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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Ray Rice: Defective NFL Product?

The Idolbuster

'I’m on my home from the latest workshop by my coach Steve Harrison. Had a chance to meet Jack Canfield, author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Wow, what an amazing experience. It was an interesting experience learning how better to serve people through writing and coaching against the backdrop of the Ray […]. The post Ray Rice: Defective NFL Product?

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Who’s Influencing Your Leadership?

Let's Grow Leaders

'In the world of music, composers and performers are influenced by each other every day. I was recently reminded of this tendency when I enjoyed a performance by pianist Richard Rubin. He showed how Andrew Lloyd Weber, the Broadway composer behind “The Phantom of the Opera” and other works, liberally borrowed from musical works. In some cases, it is clear who influenced Weber’s work.

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How Being Filmed Changes Employee Behavior

Harvard Business Review

'Since Michael Brown’s shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, more than 154,000 people have signed a “ We the People ” petition to the White House to “require all state, county, and local police to wear a camera” to curb misconduct. The Ferguson police force was recently given about 50 cameras , following a national trend toward tech-enabled transparency. The public may expect cameras to remove bias from interpretation of police behavior.

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Get Your Team to Stop Second-Guessing Decisions

Harvard Business Review

'Not long ago, the division head of a multinational manufacturing company had a problem. After receiving an aggressive 12% annual growth target, she met with her team, and after a lot of research, meetings, and debates, they built a strategic plan around 17 key initiatives ranging from the overhaul of a production facility in Nebraska to fully integrating a new distributor in Nigeria.

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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 Business Schools Can Help Reduce Inequality

Harvard Business Review

'No institution is more responsible for educating the CEOs of American corporations than Harvard Business School – inculcating in them a set of ideas and principles that have resulted in a pay gap between CEOs and ordinary workers that’s gone from 20-to-1 fifty years ago to almost 300-to-1 today. A survey , released on September 6, of 1,947 Harvard Business School alumni showed them far more hopeful about the future competitiveness of American firms than about the future of American workers.

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Another Reason to Take More Breaks

Harvard Business Review

'Working long hours, while taking only short breaks or no breaks at all, can have negative consequences. Take medical workers. Researchers have found that staff members wash their hands less frequently at the end of their shifts than at the start. And they’re even more neglectful if they’ve been engaged in intense tasks. This is a big problem, especially in hospitals, where germs and bacteria can lead to infections, but it’s not unique to doctors and nurses.

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To Close a Deal, Find a Champion

Harvard Business Review

'In Greek mythology, Charon is the ferryman who guides souls across the river Styx to the underworld. Those who do not employ his services are forced to wander the shores—lost for a hundred years. Dealmakers who try to “go it alone” can expect to suffer a similar fate. Closing a major deal with a Fortune 2000 company is seldom straightforward. Large organizations are so complicated and diffuse that frequently even the people working there are unclear about what is required to make something of c

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Your Well-Being Declines When Others Are Unemployed, and Not Because of Empathy

Harvard Business Review

'A 1 percentage point increase in local unemployment depresses still-working people’s well-being to a degree that’s roughly equivalent to a 4% decline in household income, according to John F. Helliwell of the University of British Columbia and Haifang Huang of the University of Alberta, both in Canada. The apparent reason has nothing to do with workers’ feeling badly for the unemployed; instead, rising unemployment leads people to fear they’ll lose their own jobs, the researchers sa

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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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Why the Apple Watch Is a Gift to the Swiss Watch Industry

Harvard Business Review

'The launch of the Apple Watch this week has raised questions about its impact on the Swiss watch industry. Contrary to Apple designer Jony Ive’s remarks that the Swiss watch could be in trouble, there are several reasons why the Swiss have nothing to fear from Apple’s success. First, the Apple Watch makes wearing a watch relevant to a new generation of future watch collectors.

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The Economic Advantages of an Independent Scotland

Harvard Business Review

'If its voters choose independence next week, Scotland will join the ranks of the world’s small, affluent countries. Over the past couple of decades, that’s been a good club to belong to. As Gideon Rachman put it in the FT in 2007 : This is the age of the small state. Look at almost any league table of national welfare and small countries dominate. Things have gotten a little more complicated since then. ( Rachman in 2009 : “Big is beautiful again.

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Your Company’s Energy Data Is an Untapped Resource

Harvard Business Review

Most companies are unprepared for the emerging revolution in predictive energy analytics. In fact, many readers’ eyes will have already glazed over at the preceding sentence, with the natural initial reaction that energy-related data isn’t relevant to their jobs. But what happens when every single light fixture in all of your company’s facilities becomes a networked mini-computer with an array of sensors?

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Your Company’s Energy Data Is an Untapped Resource

Harvard Business Review

'Most companies are unprepared for the emerging revolution in predictive energy analytics. In fact, many readers’ eyes will have already glazed over at the preceding sentence, with the natural initial reaction that energy-related data isn’t relevant to their jobs. But what happens when every single light fixture in all of your company’s facilities becomes a networked mini-computer with an array of sensors?

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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 Your Brain Hates Performance Reviews

Harvard Business Review

'Your Brain Will Thank You Kill Your Performance Ratings strategy+business No one likes performance reviews, and one reason is that we''ve seemingly locked ourselves into a doctrine of numerical rankings. Your company might not be as extreme as Jack Welch’s GE, which famously relied on forced rankings to cull weaker managers (a system still in use by more than half of Fortune 500 firms as of 2012), but chances are your company has given you a number that puts you in a specific spot on the employ

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3 Reasons to Kill Influencer Marketing

Harvard Business Review

'Marketers like to repeat the quote, “I know I waste half of my ad budget, I just don’t know which half.” No one knows who first said it—it’s been attributed to a number of people—but the fact that it gets repeated so often is testament to how strongly it resonates. So it shouldn’t be surprising that marketers like the idea of “influentials,” seemingly ordinary people who determine what others think, do and buy.