Thu.Apr 03, 2014

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The Secret of Motivating Your People (Hint: It’s Not Exactly Up to You)

Lead Change Blog

'If you’ve been in a leadership position for very long, you’ve probably struggled with the challenge of motivating your people. Perhaps you’ve tried various techniques like the carrot and stick, the inspirational speech, or annual bonuses. Maybe you’ve even read books on motivation like Dan Pink’s Drive or perused some of the academic literature on [.

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Do Nice Guys (and Leaders) Really Finish Last?

Terry Starbucker

'Today I’m revisiting a word that has vexed me for many, many years: “Nice” I remember how being called “nice” didn’t exactly work to my advantage, especially in the dating arena. “ Oh, you are such a nice guy ” was NOT what I wanted to hear from the object of my affection. Then there is the famous expression, “ nice guys always finish last ” – heck, there was even a movie made with that title.

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The question every great leader asks

Lead Change Blog

'Sara leaned back, crossed her arms, and sighed. “It’s not right! My VP expects me to hit these numbers, but customers want updates, and research is focused on new products and won’t give me the time of day.” She shook her head. “I guess I’ll go down to R&D and tell them they’ve got to [.] Author information David M. Dye President at Trailblaze, Inc David works with leaders, managers, and supervisors who want to get more done, build teams that care, and achieve results.

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False Positives

Great Leadership By Dan

'Guest post by David Small : I’ve been coaching elite athletes and soldiers for the more than a decade now, and recently I learned a lesson about false positives. I’d like to give you four tips to serve your team with honesty, even when it’s uncomfortable. For two years I worked with a professional ice hockey club in Europe. In my first year with the club we won a championship and everyone really believed that every player gave their all to win.

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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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3 Ways For Women To Sound Like Leaders

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 Any Leader Can Learn from Common Executive Succession Planning Mistakes

Next Level Blog

'Ever wonder how smart people make bad decisions? That can happen in lots of situations including conversations around the board of directors table about who the next CEO is going to be. In a recent conversation with Scott Saslow of the Institute of Executive Development, I got an inside look at some of the common mistakes boards of directors make on executive succession planning.

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Under the Weather

Leadership Freak

'I’m calling in sick today with a slight case of the flu. I’m starting to feel better already. I should be back in rhythm very soon.

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Change Your Face, Change Your Impact.

Anese Cavanaugh

'I get phone calls almost every week from people who are brilliant, in high positions, making great money, super talented, awesome … but … They’re not quite having the impact they want to have. For some reason, it’s just not happening. Either they’re not where they want to be yet. Their team isn’t “following” and engaging like they want them to.

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The Cure for CEO Disease

Coaching Tip

'At big companies, bad news travels fast. . General Motors CEO Mary Barra acknowledged as much in testimony on Capitol Hill this week as congressional investigators sought to find out exactly when GM executives knew that faulty ignition switches in some cars were linked to fatal accidents. "I cannot tell you why it took years for a safety defect to be announced in that program," Ms.

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Favorite Quotes from ACMP’s 2014 Conference

Change Starts Here

'This week I attended the Association of Change Management Professionals’ 2014 Global Conference. While I’m still processing everything I learned, I thought I’d share a few of the great quotes I heard. “If you haven’t cried on the floor of your office, you’re not doing your job.” Dean Anderson. “Start with ‘D’ ‘D’ is the key to change management. ‘D’ stands for ‘DONUTS’ ” Levi Nieminen. “

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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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An Important Lesson, or Two, from a Mayor’s Botched Communication

First Friday Book Synopsis

'We’ve got a little drama playing out here in Dallas, and one major cause may be unclear and botched communication from our Mayor, Mike Rawlings. The issue is a community discussion and consideration of a “home rule” effort re. the local school system. I’m not entering into the political discussion with this post. But I’m writing this […].

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Progress Leadership Requires Tension

CO2

'by Gary Cohen. Progress leadership examines the ways leaders use and diffuse tension to get coworkers to progress from their current position to their goals. David Emerald uses a rubber band as a metaphor to explain the tension created between one’s expected goal and the current position. The gap created is the metaphorical tension from the feeling of the unmet need or desire.

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Management Futures: An ethical dilemma, and a dilemma of ethics

Chartered Management Institute

'Shortly after the banking crisis, commentator Umair Haque observed in a Harvard Business Review blog that: ‘Every financial collapse is really just an ethical collapse that happened a few years earlier.’ For example, the honourable principle of holding debt to maturity was replaced by looser rules to allow debt to be parcelled up and traded, leading to ‘a chain of invisible intermediaries who were buying and reselling the most toxic of stuff’.

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How To Be A More Effective Listener

Eric Jacobson

'Being a good listener is absolutely essential to being an effective leader. When you really listen, you : Remember names and facts correctly. Hear "between the lines." Show respect. Learn more about what''s going on within your workplace. Here are 10 tips on how to be a better listener : Look at the person who''s speaking to you. Maintain eye contact.

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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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April Fools’ Day 2014 on My Online Community

Managing Communities

'Please Update Your ManagingCommunities.com RSS Feed Subscription This feed has moved to: [link] I apologize for the trouble. For more details, please read my post on the matter. Thank you.

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Is free time sufficient reward at work?

Chartered Management Institute

'I’ve been thinking recently about how to encourage collaborative behaviours in the workplace. The standard carrots and sticks of workplace motivation have revolved around financial rewards and punishments. The rise of behavioural economics however suggested many other, more intrinsic methods of motivation. Indeed, they went as far as to suggest that sometimes financial rewards can make us less motivated to perform well.

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6 Proven Tactics to Design an Effective Executive Healthcare Resume

Strategy Driven

'Crafting and writing a branded healthcare executive resume, that differs from the traditional medical resume, can make a significant difference in your executive job search results and improve the opportunities to land that next-level position in pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. The best Healthcare Executive Resumes outline human capital management, profitability successes, market share increases in addition to their impressive academic and association credentials that wil

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The crowdsourced customer journey

Chartered Management Institute

'Whilst you probably have a very good relationship with your employees (hopefully anyway), when you outsource the production of ideas and insights to the crowd, you’re inevitably interacting largely with strangers.

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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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The Delivery Truck Principle of Leadership

Ron Edmondson

'When I was in business, I once owned of a small manufacturing company. Most of my time was spent in an office or on the road somewhere, but when I had time I loved to hang out in the factory, especially when delivery trucks dropped off merchandise. For me it meant that we were receiving materials, we could make something, and then — eventually — we could bill someone.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #49

Rapid BI

' ”I hired a District Sales Manager, Senior Sales Manager, Regional Sales Manager, National Sales Manager, Vice Senior Sales Manager, Executive Vice Senior Sales Manager, Associate International Sales Manager, Assistant Associate Sales Manger and Junior Associate Sale Manager. Now all we need is something to sell.

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Are You a Holistic or a Specific Thinker?

Harvard Business Review

'It was Friday afternoon in Paris and I had spent the morning teaching a group of Chinese CEOs how to work effectively with Europeans. I asked the class: “What steps should the team leader in this case study take to manage different attitudes towards confrontation on the team?”. Lilly Li, a bird-like woman with a pleasant smile, who had been running operations in Hungary for two years, raised her hand: “Trust has been a big challenge for us, as Hungarians do not take the same time to build perso

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083: How to Sleep Better for Improved Leadership, Productivity, and Innovation

Engaging Leader

'It happened again. Jesse recently had a stretch of several weeks where sleep problems caused him to get insufficient sleep … and the effect on his creativity, productivity, and influence was obvious. It’s a common problem that pops up from time to time for many leaders, and Jesse has successfully solved it in his own […]. The post 083: How to Sleep Better for Improved Leadership, Productivity, and Innovation appeared first on Engaging Leader.

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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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Stop Trying to Control People or Make Them Happy

Harvard Business Review

'Whether you’ve heard of them or not, two gurus from the early 20 th century still dominate management thinking and practice — to our detriment. It has been more than 100 years since Frederick Taylor, an American engineer working in the steel business, published his seminal work on the principles of scientific management. And it has been more than 80 years ago since Elton Mayo, an Australian-born Harvard academic, produced his pioneering studies on human relations in the workplace.

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How Old Are Silicon Valley’s Top Founders? Here’s the Data

Harvard Business Review

'Last week, The New Republic published a lengthy exploration of ageism in Silicon Valley , the idea that venture capitalists discriminate against older entrepreneurs and that start-ups discriminate against older job applicants. The central evidence was largely anecdotal: several well-worn quotes by prominent techies talking up the innovative nature of younger founders, the struggles of a “fortysomething” entrepreneur in Boston, the thesis of an angel investor betting on older, overlo

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Why Facebook Should Worry About Tencent

Harvard Business Review

'From the moment Facebook announced in February 2014 that it had bought the mobile messaging service WhatsApp, everyone’s been talking about the price that CEO Mark Zuckenberg parted with for the acquisition. Nineteen billion dollars (albeit $4 billion in cash and the rest in Facebook shares) is one of the largest sums ever paid for a venture-capital-backed start-up that is just five years old.

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High Frequency Trading: Threat or Menace?

Harvard Business Review

'There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become. Schwall goes into his backyard with a cigar, a chair, and an iPad, and Googles “front-running,” “Wall Street,” and “scandal.

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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.

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Are You Future Oriented? Your Language Tells the Tale

Harvard Business Review

'The structure of the language spoken by a company’s top team affects the firm’s planning for the future, according to doctoral student Hao Liang, Christopher Marquis of Harvard Business School, and two colleagues. If the language is English, Spanish, or one of many others that use mainly grammar, rather than context, to distinguish present from future (“It is raining,” “It will rain”), people tend to focus less on the future, presumably because it seems more distant.

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How Unusual CEOs Drive Value

Harvard Business Review

'William Thorndike , investor and author of The Outsiders , looks at some less-known but more effective executives. Download this podcast.

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Case Study: Career Choices When Life Is Short

Harvard Business Review

'The leaders of MedPath didn’t typically shed tears in their weekly meetings, but this was an exception. Gil Lehner, one of the start-up’s four founders, had just told the others about his diagnosis: He had small cell lung cancer, and while he planned to fight it with his trademark tenacity, his chance of surviving longer than five years was only about 18%.