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Quick Decisions Take Time

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing” Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States.

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One Common Interviewing Mistake That Will Cost You the Job

Let's Grow Leaders

My phone rang. Colin was exasperated. “Karin, I thought I NAILED the interview. The owner seemed pleased with all my answers, and I had great stories for all his behavior-based interview questions. But I just got an email from him saying that although I was qualified, he was worried about my passion for training!!! You KNOW how passionate I am about training– it’s my life!

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How 3 Leadership Styles Contribute to or Undermine Your Success

Michael Lee Stallard

Connection is a bond based on shared identity, empathy and understanding that moves individuals toward group-centered membership. It’s an essential attribute of successful teams, departments and organizations. Groups with a high degree of connection have an assertive communication and leadership style. Being assertive means you speak and act in ways that reflect honesty and integrity, i.e. you say and do what you mean and don’t try to manipulate others by moving against them or moving away from

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Can Small Businesses Use Remote Teams Effectively?

Lead Change Blog

Back in June 2014, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) discovered that there was a record number of Brits working from home. The figure was huge – 4.2 million – and neatly demonstrated that the traditional office environment was fast becoming a distant memory for many. The rise of the freelancer and increasingly convenient channels by which we all communicate in this digital age have made home workers a common fixture in teams of all sizes.

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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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5 Ways Incompetent Leaders Dis-Empower Good People

Leadership Freak

Don’t expect bold performance from dis-empowered people. You drain, discourage, and demotivate, if your goal is conformity. An egotistical need for control – in those with positional authority – dis-empowers others.

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How to Manage Yourself so Your Boss Won’t Have to

Great Leadership By Dan

What’s the difference between an employee that can’t seem to tie their own shoes without asking “mother may I” and one that can perform with a high level of autonomy and accountability? It comes down to three things: 1. The employee must have a high degree of competence and confidence. 2. The employee needs to understand the mission and goals of the organization ( clarity ). 3.

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Best Practices to Help Your Startup Business Take Off (Part 1 of 2)

Women on Business

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15 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Warcraft The Movie

Joseph Lalonde

W arcraft is the latest video game to movie adaptation. The basis for the movie? Orcs invade the world of humans and chaos breaks out. Having been a big gamer, I was excited to see the Warcraft movie. This adaptation brought feelings of nostalgia for my video game days. With that, I know there are people who may be confused in seeing Warcraft. This movie is based on the original 1994 Warcraft video game, not the more recent World Of Warcraft MMORPG.

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How digital trends affect SMBs

Lead on Purpose

The pace of change in digital technology continues to increase. How do you take advantage without letting it overwhelm you? What should you focus on?

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What it Means to Be a Professional

Kevin Eikenberry

Professional. I hear leaders talk about this often, as in “I want my team to be professionals” or “Why can’t they be more professional?” Stated in conversation, others will knowingly nod in agreement. I typically ask a question like. “What do you mean by professional?” To which I typically get stumbling answers […]. The post What it Means to Be a Professional appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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What Do You Do When You’re Stuck in a Job You Hate?

Marshall Goldsmith

This is a dilemma most of us have faced at one time or another, some of you might even be facing it right now. What do you do when you are in a job that you really don’t like? Perhaps it’s an issue with your boss or co-workers, or the responsibilities and focus of the position just doesn’t thrill you like you thought it would when you took the job. And, now, for whatever reason(s) you just aren’t able to leave.

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Quoted at Jobjet on managing your organization’s brand to recruit top talent

ReImagine Work

Do your job candidates and new hires feel welcome? What are you communicating to them with your brand? From Jobjet, May 31, 2016: Recruiting with Glassdoor is a recruitment strategy topic we’ve explored at length for the last few weeks here at the Runway. After finding some great recruiting best practices and HR insights , it’s been a really educational experience… Before wrapping up our Glassdoor series next week, we wanted to condense some of the “floating” pieces of information that has

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0724 | How The Work Place Affects Work with Leigh Stringer

LDRLB

Leigh Stringer is a workplace strategist who blends her master’s in architecture with her MBA and a passion for research with practical application. She works for EYP, an architecture, engineering and building technology firm. She is also author of The Healthy Workplace. In this interview, we discuss how the workplace affects the well-being of employees…and a company’s bottom line. [ Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ].

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The Effects of a Disengaged Workforce

leaderCommunicator

Not sure if it’s worth it to communicate key pieces of information to people in your company? Consider the following liabilities that stem from a disengaged workforce:¹.

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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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An Entrepreneurial Culture

Coaching Tip

Whether it relates to a start-up or a corporate venture, fostering and nurturing an entrepreneurial organizational culture is a common thread in virtually all entrepreneurship theories. Every organizational culture is distinct and largely unique, but there are some models that managers can use as guides for adjusting or revamping an organization to drive an entrepreneurial spirit.

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A Quote for the Day from Jamie Merisotis (CEO, Lumina Foundation), America Needs Talent

First Friday Book Synopsis

A Quote for the day: Charity still matters a great deal. But it’s not enough—and charity is not philanthropy. At its core, charity is about help, about meeting urgent needs. Philanthropy, though, is about change. Philanthropy is focused not on symptoms, but on root causes. It is systemic, not episodic; proactive rather than reactive. In… Read More A Quote for the Day from Jamie Merisotis (CEO, Lumina Foundation), America Needs Talent.

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Quit Outsourcing the Work of Finding and Developing Talent

Management Excellence

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Don’t “close the sale” – all you have to do is ask for it.

Strategy Driven

Seems too simple. Just ask. In most cases to get the sale – at some point you must ask for it. “Yes, Jeffrey,” you say, “but when do you ask? What’s the perfect time to ask?”. How do I know? No one knows that except you. I can only tell you it’s a delicate combination of the prospect’s buying signals, and your gut feeling. How and what to ask are easier to define than when.

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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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7 Things Pastor Tell Me Kept Them from Leading Well

Ron Edmondson

In my talks with pastors and ministry leaders, I hear some repeated themes. One common theme is they have a story of a failed leadership experience. Their first church. The church experience that went bad. Or, many times their current ministry and the reason for our conversation. When they have recovered from the experience, looking back, they wish they had known then what they know now.

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3 Ways to Stop Yourself from Being Passive-Aggressive

Harvard Business Review

HBR STAFF. When I walked into our small apartment-building gym at 7:30am Monday morning, there was a yoga mat and foam roller lying in the only open space where I was planning to do my workout. Mary* was running on the treadmill. “Hi Mary. Is this yoga mat yours?” I asked her. “Yes,” She replied, “I’ll use it soon.” So I began my workout in the small space squeezed between two posts.

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7 Ways Microsoft Can Make LinkedIn Worth $26 Billion

Harvard Business Review

Microsoft just bought LinkedIn for $26 billion dollars, or $196 per LinkedIn share, a 50% premium to the Friday market closing price of $131. Microsoft is known for overpaying for its acquisitions, including Skype , Nokia’s handset business , aQuantive , and the attempted deal for Yahoo. So how can it avoid repeating its past mistakes? Twenty-six billion is a steep price, but there is plenty of potential value in LinkedIn.

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The Hidden Benefits of Short-Term Business Travel

Harvard Business Review

Much has been written about long-term expatriate assignments , but for many of us, a more common “assignment” is the short-term business trip — that four-day jaunt to Dubai or the there-and-back trip to Buenos Aires. Too often, these whirlwind treks leave us numb. As we move from one hotel chain to another and order the same Starbucks drink in London that we do in Shanghai or Tokyo, it can feel like just another business trip as opposed to a personally meaningful cross-cultural

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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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One Big Reason There’s So Little Competition Among U.S. Banks

Harvard Business Review

A century ago, J.P. Morgan made a fortune by buying up shares of competing railroad companies with other people’s money. He used cash from savers and financiers to buy shares in competitors. Then Morgan forced those competitors to cooperate. Similarly, Gilded Age “voting trusts” pooled money from individuals to buy shares in competing companies.

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The One Question That Matters in Microsoft’s Acquisition of LinkedIn

Harvard Business Review

Most acquisitions don’t work out. “M&A is a mug’s game,” Roger Martin writes in the June issue of HBR , “in which typically 70%–90% of acquisitions are abysmal failures.” Is there any reason to think Microsoft’s $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn , announced this morning, will beat the odds? It’s hard to know, but Martin’s article offers a simple rule of thumb: “Companies that focus on what they are going to get from an acqui

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Fixing Pharma’s Incentives Problem in the Wake of the U.S. Opioid Crisis

Harvard Business Review

No matter how you look at it, there have been terrible, unintended outcomes from the introduction and marketing of next-generation prescription opioids. Since 1999, three years after OxyContin was unveiled by Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the rate of drug overdoses in the U.S. has quadrupled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Machine Intelligence Will Let Us All Work Like CEOs

Harvard Business Review

When I started my career I was astounded by how superhuman some Fortune 500 executives were. It seemed they were magicians. Every time they answered an impromptu question, the response was refined. Every email they sent was worded perfectly, every decision they made based on deep market knowledge and up-to-date information. How did they do it? Sure, they’re smart people , but they also have a secret weapon: their support staff.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.