Fri.Oct 23, 2015

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Strategic Professionalism Series

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Leadership is a way of life. From the way you dress, to your demeanor, to the organization with whom you spend more of your life than you do with your family. From the action you deliberately take to the reactions you subconsciously display.

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Is Grumbling Your First Response To Cutbacks?

Lead Change Blog

If senior management cuts your budget, says no to replacing broken equipment, or reduces your headcount, what is the first feeling that wells up inside you? Irritation? Anger? Panic? A sense of unfairness? Probably not gratitude. A situation on the home front recently triggered my thinking on this topic. When I opened my refrigerator a few weeks ago, the typical chill was absent.

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Strategic Professionalism Series

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Leadership is a way of life. From the way you dress, to your demeanor, to the organization with whom you spend more of your life than you do with your family. From the action you deliberately take to the reactions you subconsciously display.

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The World Keeps Changing

Joseph Lalonde

O nly a few things are guaranteed in this life of ours. We are guaranteed that one day we will day. And we are guaranteed there will be change. Image via Creative Commons. Change Comes In Many Different Forms. You never know where change will come from. It seems like it was out of left field. Sometimes the change will hit you like a train wreck. Over the last couple of years, Pam and I have seen 2 youth pastors leave the church we were attending, we’ve left a church I’ve attended for

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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How Sincere Leaders Sabotage Organizations

Leadership Freak

You are engaged in harmful behaviors that don’t serve you or your organization well. “I meant well,” points to sincere behaviors that backfired.

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Coaching and Mentoring – The Need For Accountability

CoachStation

To genuinely succeed in business, leaders must know their role, continuously develop their skills and be constantly supported to achieve the best they can as a leader and employee. Finding your own development pathway takes ownership, effort and clarity. However, it is not something you need to do on your own. Whether it is developing yourself or your team, coaching and mentoring can be a powerful tool to enable change and growth, both personally and professionally.

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Weekly Round-Up: 3 Habits of Motivational Leaders, 15 Employee Engagement Truths & Qualities of Strong Mentors

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog. This week you’ll read 15 employee engagement truths employers ignore, how generosity is the key to getting ahead and 3 habits of motivational leaders.

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Nancy Falls: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Nancy Falls, CEO of The Concinnity Company, helps companies succeed by transforming the way boards and leadership teams work together. She has spent more than thirty years in and around the C-suite and the boardroom, having held executive roles in both public and private companies, from early stage to Fortune 1000, served on numerous boards,… Read More Nancy Falls: An interview by Bob Morris.

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An Important Parenting Concept: Especially for Parents of Young Children

Ron Edmondson

I have a theory about parenting. It’s a reality which only came to me when my boys were nearly grown I had observed it for years — we practiced it — but I only formulated my thoughts around the concept in the teenage years of our parenting. Here’s the observation. Many parents try to control less when children are younger and more when they are older.

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Fun Friday – Corporate wellness – weekly office cartoon #332 #ff

Rapid BI

“In the next phase of our corporate wellness campaign, all office machines shall be lubricated with omega-3 fish oil” Fun Friday – Corporate wellness – weekly office cartoon #332 #ff Office cartoons Office based cartoons, funnies and 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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The Billion-Dollar Opportunity in Single-Serve Food

Harvard Business Review

Imagine being able to buy one medallion of Kobe steak. Or perhaps two single servings of pasta, because you like angel hair and your significant other likes rigatoni? As consumers, we want what we want, when we want it and how we want it — fueling the demand for personalization and customization. To our credit, we’re willing to pay a premium for it.

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The 5 Key Pieces Of Your Digital Marketing Puzzle. Are You Missing One?

Strategy Driven

Digital marketing is a vast and complicated web of interlinking strategies. A full marketing plan should incorporate many different elements, and ensure they work together. If it sounds tricky, that’s because it is! On the plus side, it is incredibly effective. Digital marketing gives you unprecedented access to your customers. It’s an opportunity to connect with them in ways that traditional marketing simply didn’t allow.

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What to Do and Say After a Tough Reorganization

Harvard Business Review

Surviving a corporate reorg can be tough. There is often a lot of confusion and uncertainty, and if colleagues were laid off , people might also be sad or angry. How can you make the situation easier for yourself and your colleagues? What steps should you take to protect your job? How do you stay positive? And how do you know when it’s time to move on?

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When Upbeat Commercials Backfire

Harvard Business Review

The television advertising landscape has never been more challenging for marketers. Once captive, television viewers now have a variety of tools that allow them to tune out commercials, including remote controls, DVRs and alternative screens on smartphones and tablets. Perhaps in the hope of capturing viewers’ attention in this competitive environment, television commercials have become increasingly high-energy — colorful, noisy, and often upbeat with enthusiastic narrators and spoke

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Firms Are Wasting Millions Recruiting on Only a Few Campuses

Harvard Business Review

Going to college matters. And while the refrain, in both popular and scholarly discourse, is that going to any college matters, the real answer is that it depends on where you want to head after graduation. It’s not just that certain schools are known for excellence in a given field or offer coursework and training relevant to a specific career path.

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A Guide to Selecting an Analytics Vendor

Harvard Business Review

Business managers have traditionally relied on a centralized IT organization to provide the analytic systems required to answer critical business questions. The broad constituencies and use cases IT was required to support led them to architect massive, general-purpose solutions, capable of answering anything but optimized for nothing. These solutions resulted in tremendous frustration for the business manager in need of answers.

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Health Care Providers Should Publish Physician Ratings

Harvard Business Review

HBR STAFF. Early efforts to publish performance data about doctors and hospitals usually required a strong external force, such as pressure from a state department of health. But that’s changing. Some leading health care systems are now publishing ratings of their physicians on their own websites, not just ceding that activity to consumer outlets.