Wed.Nov 18, 2015

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Professional Growth often requires Jumping

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.” Babe Ruth. Comedian Steve Harvey has a video on YouTube where he describes how to take a “jump” and put change into motion in your life.

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You are Necessary (And Insufficient)

Lead Change Blog

Increasing your Collective Leadership Effectiveness will give you a competitive advantage. One Promise of Leadership is this: We shall lead effectively and seek to become more effective. Yet developing leadership effectiveness is rarely a leadership priority. It is often relegated to a staff function that struggles for attention and relevance amid competing priorities.

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3 Reasons to Join Facebook Groups

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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What Are You Talking About (Ethically Speaking)?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton There are many layers of meaning in ethics conversations. How far down are you going? Do you stop at surface messages or do you dig into real problems?

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Individual Development Plan Template

There’s no way around it: sometimes employees need your help. Use this free template to clarify expectations, share resources, and set a timeline. Best case scenario, this process helps them improve. Worst case, your great recordkeeping keeps you compliant even if they move on. Download the template today!

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The 7 Practices of Curious Leaders

Leadership Freak

Lack of curiosity is deadly in changing times. Vision, courage, and energy, without curiosity, turn to exhaustion and irrelevance. Curiosity indicates potential. Leaders who ask questions go further than those who don’t.

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The Stinging Pain Of Leadership

Joseph Lalonde

A nyone who has led for any period of time knows that leadership isn’t easy. In fact, leadership will be the most trying thing you ever attempt to do. Image via Creative Commons. Leadership has a funny way of starting out. You feel a pain. Your heart breaks. You see wrong. And you feel the need to step up and lead. Pain Leads To Leadership. Just the other day, I was stung by a sweat bee, I believe.

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Starting Thought: A New Recipe from Grandma Elsie’s Kitchen - #ButternutSquashSoup

leaderCommunicator

With Thanksgiving officially around the corner, and to continue to share in the spirit of Grandma Elsie , (for those of you who aren't familiar with our tradition and Grandma Elsie please click here ) I want to share with you a final, and new delicious recipe: Grandma Elsie’s Butternut Squash Soup.

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Should Your Marketing be Positive or Negative? Surprising Research Gives the Answer

David A Fields

We know we can assist our clients in two different circumstances: when they have an aspiration (e.g., “they desire an endless supply of chocolate”) or when they suffer with a problem (e.g., “they have run out of chocolate!”) Which scenario should we focus on, and how should we present it in our marketing and proposals? Pretend you’re about to invest $9,000 into equipment for your consulting firm.

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How Not To Be Sidelined When You're Over 50

Eric Jacobson

"It doesn't matter how old you are. Everyone has the same fundamental needs: to enjoy themselves, to be part of something larger than themselves, to confirm their own sense of their abilities, and to demonstrate to others that they've got what it takes," explains author Robert L. Dilenschneider. "And yet, there comes a moment, generally after one turns fifty.when it becomes hard not to worry about being sidelined.

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6 Reasons Why We Should Apply Game Design Approaches to Designing Workplaces

Management Excellence

Imagine a world of work where your colleagues worked tirelessly to complete the hard work that keeps everything moving. They voluntarily stay late and even deprive themselves of sleep to ensure the work is done. Along the way, they collaborate at a moment’s notice to fend off enemies and slay the dragons that arise from unexpected locations, and they’re always working on their own skills development.

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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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7 Signs It’s Not Really A Team

Ron Edmondson

In my world the word team is used almost on a daily basis. Most of us want to be in a team environment. However, in my experience working with churches – and it was true when I was in business also – more people claim to have it than actually do. I still see more control than empowerment. I see more internal silos than I see true cooperation.

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Can You Really Turn a Hobby into a Business? part 3 of 3

Strategy Driven

Your ‘Why’ Should Not Be Because You Hate Commuting. In his book Start with Why?, Simon Sinek challenges what and how thinking. While what and how are the yin and yang of everything, why is the driving force. So why didn’t I start the article with the why? Because the hobby-to-business process is agile rather than step-by-step – you need to consider each of these areas over and over; you can refine your why as you go.

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How to Prepare High School Students for Life

Your Voice of Encouragement

Even though it’s been more than 40 years ago, I can still clearly remember the day my parents dropped me off to start my college career. I had no idea what to expect. They had brought all six of us kids up with a strong moral compass, but I know I wasn’t prepared for all the challenges and choices I’d face in that first year and throughout my college life.

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How Top-Tier Consulting Became Available to Small and Midsize Business Leaders

Strategy Driven

Need expert advice but don’t think you can afford high quality consultants to support your initiative? StrategyDriven is launching a Personal Business Advisor Program ; uniquely providing affordable cutting edge tools and expert advice that until now was typically available to only large company executives and senior managers. StrategyDriven was founded on the principle of making top-tier consulting services affordably available to the leaders of small and midsized businesses and the mid-level m

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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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Conducting a Social Media Audit

Harvard Business Review

Whether marketers like it or not, consumers are now generating over 25% of content that appears in web searches for specific brand names, and consumers often trust those social media messages more than advertising or news articles about the brand. Research has shown that this “electronic word-of-mouth” is seen as reliable by consumers and significantly affects a firm’s perceived value.

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Love Your Ex-Employees and They’ll Love You Back

Harvard Business Review

Much as war is too important to leave to the generals, love is too precious to entrust to the romantics. So don’t. Organizations looking for their people to love them better be pragmatic about their idealism. To do “what it really takes to become a company employees love” requires leaders to ask, “What kind of love do we really want from people?

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Asking for a Raise When You’re Afraid To

Harvard Business Review

Much has been written about how to negotiate for a better salary. But what about when you’re not sure you deserve a raise in the first place? As an executive coach for more than 30 years, I’ve worked with many top leaders who appear extremely successful externally, yet struggle with their self-worth. Michael, an esteemed leader in his company, stands out in particular.

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How Understanding Disruption Helps Strategists

Harvard Business Review

Through the past 15 years my colleagues and I have wrestled with disruption in many contexts. That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard Business Review article with Joseph L. Bower “ Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave ” introduced the idea of disruption to the mainstream market.

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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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A Step-by-Step Guide to Packing for a Complicated Work Trip

Harvard Business Review

Packing for a business trip doesn’t seem all that complicated … until you’re planning for a two-week sojourn through multiple climates and dress codes, and trying to squeeze it all into a carry-on bag. Then it becomes a “capsule-wardrobe-Chinese-puzzle thing,” in the words of Cindy Gallop , founder of IfWeRanTheWorld. To make it easier for yourself, consider this step-by-step packing guide, crowdsourced from some of the fiercest road warriors we know.

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