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An Anatomy of the “User” Manager

Let's Grow Leaders

If you only care about next week’s results, bring in a User Manager. He’ll get it done. But watch out for the aftermath. You know the type– the kind of manager who works to win at all costs. The guy who’s “all business” or the woman who’s “got no time for that crap (meaning connection and understanding).” They’ve got their teams spinning, scared to under-perform.

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Special Feature Pt1of2: The Heat

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. The following short story is part 1 of a special 2-part series sponsored by General John E. Michel related to veteran’s stories and others-centered leadership. This particular story was written by USMC Sgt John Preston, who will be a guest on our Wednesday evening radio program tomorrow evening.

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Do You Ask Enough Questions?

Lead Change Blog

Recently, while looking for a document on an archive drive, I stumbled across an unfinished draft from 2001. It features a “23-month-old son,” who today is almost 17. Ahhhh, the lessons we learn from little ones… “Wha’zat? Wha’dis? Wha’zat? Wha’dis?” my 23-month-old son repeatedly asked on the way home today. Like water torture. “What’s what?

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How I Learned About the Power of Authenticity

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

What happens when you have to admit you don’t know what you’re doing? Sometimes the power of authenticity is the key to turning things around. So I learned in my first job out of college. I had landed a prestigious job as a demonstration teacher at New Mexico State University. The classroom was housed in the school of education, surrounded by one-way mirrors.

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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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Creating Intentional Impact That Brings People With You

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Inc. columnist Anese Cavanaugh. We’re well into 2016 now. Recaps, core lessons, results, learning, and themes of 2015 have likely been captured; solutions, goals, intentions, planning, and strategy for 2016 is likely in action… Now what? How do you make sure that this year stays intentional, awake, and that you lead yourself and your team into a new level of impact?

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5 Things to Consider When Using Freelancers

Women on Business

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Leadership at the Movies: Inside Out

Leadership Freak

Dark emotion is stronger than bright. It’s more challenging to deal with sadness, anger, or bitterness than joy. The way leaders deal with dark emotion determines the direction of their leadership.

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Why Every Leader Should Use the DiSC Assessment with Their Team

Lead by Adventure

I first used the DiSC assessment years ago when I was working at a church in Phoenix, Arizona. Our church hosted a workshop and one of the speakers led us in this personality assessment. Since then, I have used it multiple times and with multiple teams to help me discover more about who I’m working with and how to lead and/or worth with others best.

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Remarkable TV: Learning From Our Mistakes

Kevin Eikenberry

We’ve shot over 100 episodes of Remarkable TV and while I wish that we shot each one in only one take, that’s simply not the case. But what that means is that you can laugh at some silly bloopers in today’s video PLUS learn how we as leaders can learn from the mistakes that we […]. The post Remarkable TV: Learning From Our Mistakes appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Originals Learn Change for the Sake of Getting Better at Change – A lesson from Adam Grant’s Originals

First Friday Book Synopsis

I’m typing this on my iMac, and normally would load this into my blog using Safari. It turns that that may be a mistake. You see, Safari is my default browser. It came as the default browser on my iMac,, and my iMac before this one. I really don’t remember how many years I’ve been… Read More Originals Learn Change for the Sake of Getting Better at Change – A lesson from Adam Grant’s Originals.

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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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Seven Steps To Sales Force Transformation

Eric Jacobson

A successful sales force transformation can mean increased revenue, increased sales productivity, and reduced cost of sales. But, up to seventy-five percent of attempted transformations fail, according to the authors of the new book, 7 Steps To Sales Transformation - Driving Sustainable Change In Your Organization. Transformation failures are often a result of an organization that neglects to address the human factor (skepticism, resistance, avoidance).

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5 Ways for a Christian to Rebuke or Correct a Friend

Ron Edmondson

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity. Proverbs 17:17. Wounds from a friend can be trusted… Proverbs 27:6. rebuke |riˈbyoōk|verb express sharp disapproval or criticism of (someone) because of their behavior or actions. Years ago in high school, I had a friend tell me I was hanging out with the wrong people.

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The Antidote to HiPPOs: Crowd Voting

Harvard Business Review

In most organizations, authority for the most important strategic decisions is left to the highest-paid person’s opinion (HiPPO). But all too often, the HiPPO can prove to be wrong. A HiPPO drove the strategy for JC Penny’s disastrous move to go upmarket and abandon its thrifty customer base. HiPPOs are also responsible for misreading consumer trends at the Gap , Banana Republic , Nokia , and Blackberry.

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Risk Management – Protocols for Responding to Unexpected, Catastrophic Black Swan Events

Strategy Driven

Black Swans events are rare (low probability), catastrophic (high impact) incidents that are seemingly unpredictable, go unrecognized, or are deemed so unlikely as to not reasonably warrant expensive preventive measures. There characteristics include: Occur unpredictably or unexpectedly. Are significant in scale and broad in scope. Develop rapidly with effects continuing for days, weeks, and even months.

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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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LGBT-Inclusive Companies Are Better at 3 Big Things

Harvard Business Review

For the first time in the history of Davos, LGBT rights made the official agenda at the World Economic Forum. Business leaders including Beth Brooke-Marciniak, the global vice chair for public policy at EY, and Shamina Singh, the executive director of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, spoke at length about the unparalleled opportunity businesses have to make a difference in the lives of LGBT individuals around the world. “Multinational companies have enormous economies and employ

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0705 | Creating an Environment That Energizes Everyone with Shawn Murphy

LDRLB

Shawn Murphy is CEO and founder of Switch & Shift, an organization dedicated to the advancement of human-centered organizational practices and leadership. He is the author of The Optimistic Workplace. In this interview, Shawn and I discuss why our best work is the product of a positive environment and how to build that environment. Listen in iTunes Listen on Stitcher.

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Fixing Performance Appraisal Is About More than Ditching Annual Reviews

Harvard Business Review

The trend is on: performance appraisals are off — and, for many, on their way out. Adobe, for instance, has abandoned the traditional performance reviews used to assess its 11,000 employees. It calculated that the annual process required 80,000 hours of time from its 2,000 managers, the equivalent of 40 full-time staff. The monumental effort invariably produced deleterious results, with internal surveys showing that staff felt less inspired and motivated after the appraisal episodes.

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Apple’s Shrinking Impact in the Smartphone Industry

Harvard Business Review

Apple is the poster child for how to make a disruption strategy successful over time. Back in 2007, when it launched the iPhone, Apple took functions that few mobile devices had previously provided and made them accessible to millions of consumers. Subsequent versions of the iPhone further enhanced the apps available: the iPhone 4 introduced Apple’s multitasking system (designed especially for apps); the iPhone 5 provided apps using other coding languages such as Xcode and iOS SDK; and in

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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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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Harvard Business Review

Most companies struggle to differentiate themselves. The few that succeed are those which stand apart because of their distinctive capabilities: the things they excel at doing, time and time again. In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can ca

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The Difference Between Purpose and Mission - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DISNEY INSTITUTE

Harvard Business Review

By Bruce Jones, Programming Director, Disney Institute. What is the difference between an organization’s mission and its common purpose? People frequently ask the Disney Institute team this important question. To answer it, we must define “mission.” Most organizations think of a mission as a way to align everyone in the organization to the same focus.