Mon.Feb 24, 2014

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5 Reasons Your Great Boss is Hurting Your Career

Let's Grow Leaders

'Like other good things in life, a great boss relationship, taken to extremes, can wreak havoc with your career. I’ve seen otherwise smart and talented people lose credibility by over-aligning with a great boss. Be sure to diversify your relationship investments. Perhaps you’ll recognize these career-derailing characters. Avoid these common traps.

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Motivating, Mentoring and Measuring – Leading Unfamiliar Organizations

General Leadership

'“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” General George S. Patton, Jr. In my mind, I was the best fighter pilot in the world, but as soon as I took command that no longer mattered. I was in charge of an unfamiliar organization, one in whose mission I was not well versed.

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7 Ways to Get Your Company to the Top (And Stay There)

Lead Change Blog

'Everyone wants to be the best in their field, but it’s not easy to achieve when there are hundreds of companies battling for the same position. Who doesn’t want to be number 1? When you’re on top, you set yourself apart, putting a demarcation line between the best and the rest. It simply means that [.] Author information Eunisse De Leon Eunisse De Leon is a writer aiming to help businesses become successful through strengthening the team behind it.

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The Socialnomics of Hiring

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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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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Social Influence and Your Brand: Connecting the Dots [Webinar]

Lead Change Blog

'“Don’t try to invent a tribe. Show up to lead one that exists.” –Seth Godin Today’s hyper-connected digital world has opened the door to a whole new era in brand development. Employers, HR professionals and job hunters, alike, are rapidly embracing digital channels to elevate their market presence and amplify their share of voice. With [.] Author information Meghan M.

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Fostering humility

Persuasive Powerhouse

' . Humility is an important trait for leaders because it opens their hearts to learning new things and lessens a natural tendency to judge others harshly. I believe that leaders who are humble open-hearted learners to are most likely to be successful in their leadership. Yet I’ve always wondered where the line is between being humble and having low self-esteem or (on the other side of the spectrum) being arrogant.

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Leaders Are Called To Thrive

Joseph Lalonde

'T hrive (verb) – grow vigorously; make steady progress. A few years back, I found myself stuck in a rut. It wasn’t that I was living destructively, nor was I unhappy. But I was just drifting. And the thing about drifting is we don’t just sit there, we go backward not forward. Image by Andrew Storms. When you shut off the engine of a boat in the middle of a lake, the boat drifts – and it usually drifts away from your destination.

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Six Limits Leaders Need to Challenge

Kevin Eikenberry

'We all have limits – the boundaries beyond which we just don’t go. After all, it wouldn’t be safe. It wouldn’t be prudent. It wouldn’t be easy. We set limits for safety purposes, for logical purposes and sometimes as excuses. Limits are a part of life. But as leaders, we must be in the business […].

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Mindful Mondays: What’s Your Organizing Principle?

Next Level Blog

'Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve spent a lot of time reading through the transcripts of interviews I’ve been conducting for my new book. It’s been a fun process because I’ve had the great good fortune of speaking with some very compelling leaders who take a mindful approach to their work and life. Two of those interviews were with Kaye Foster-Cheek and Danae Ringelmann.

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New Supervisor Skills – People Must Feel Empowered to Act Empowered

The Recovering Engineer

'Empowerment is a great thing. Empowered employees show greater commitment, stay more engaged, and create better results. Empowered employees take more initiative and get more done than employees who work in a fear-based, command-and-control environment. As a new supervisor, you hear and read about these organizational performance results, and you decide that you want to empower your employees.

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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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Leaders Make Values Visible

Marshall Goldsmith

'The corporate credo. Companies have wasted millions of dollars and countless hours of employees’ time agonizing over the wording of statements that are inscribed on plaques and hung on walls. There is a clear assumption that people’s behavior will change because the pronouncements on plaques are “inspirational” or certain words “integrate our strategy and values.” There is an implicit hope that when people – especially managers – hear great words,

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Leadership Evolution

Coaching Tip

'There has probably been more written over the ages about leadership than any other subject in the business arena. The fundamental aspects of leadership are critical for building a better world, which are the same principles necessary to build an enduring successful business. There are three broad types of leadership. The first is Leadership via Fear and Threat.

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Some Speakers, as well as Some Businesses – May Need an Empathy Intervention

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Empathy noun the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another. Wasted adjective done to no avail; useless: wasted efforts ——————– Two “introductions” to this blog post. Introduction #1 – If you have read anything in business lately, anything at all, then you know that “design thinking” is the […].

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Are You Living a BIG, FULL Life?

Your Voice of Encouragement

'I was sitting in one of the church pews with my husband, daughter Alison and son-in-law. We were attending the funeral of a good friend, the father of one of Alison’s best friends. His death had come as a shock. Just two weeks before, he’d been admitted into the hospital for a medical problem…and now he was gone. The church was packed with family, friends, church members, and patients from his dental practice.

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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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If You Retweet Someone’s Praise, Is That the Same as Thanking Them?

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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7 Ways Parents Injure a Child — Without Even Knowing It

Ron Edmondson

'A couple recent posts struck interest with readers beyond my normal audience. Both posts dealt with ways one spouse injures another. You can read the husband’s post HERE and the wife’s post HERE. One suggestion I had multiple times was to consider a similar post for parents. It’s true. We often injure our children unknowingly. No parent sets out to injure a child.

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The role of competition in a social business

Chartered Management Institute

'There can be a sense that competition is bad for a social business, and not without some justification. It’s easy for most of us to imagine after all a scenario where heightened competition encourages individuals to look out purely for themselves, hoarding information in the hope that it will secure them the promotion or the pay-rise they believe they’re due.

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Don't Hire Jerks, No Matter How Talented

Eric Jacobson

'"Don''t Hire Jerks, No Matter How Talented," said Michael Lebowitz a couple years ago in a interview for The New York Times. Lebowitz is the CEO of Big Spaceship , a marketing and communications agency. He claims, and I agree, that no matter how talented the person may be, if he/she can''t fit into the company culture and work effectively with co-workers, it doesn''t matter how talented he/she is.

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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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How is a cup of coffee like a sale? When it’s with a customer!

Strategy Driven

'I like coffee. Dark, black coffee. Espresso. No cream. No sugar. Just dark, black coffee. You? But I look at coffee differently than you do. I don’t “wake up and drink it.” I venture out to a coffee shop and an early morning meeting, and oh, by the way , I have coffee. My goal each day is to have an early morning cup of coffee with someone that can help me enhance relationships, make connections, build value, and make sales.

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Teach An Employee Something New Today

Eric Jacobson

'Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Nearly everyone likes to learn and is capable of tackling a new challenge. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date. Teach him a skill that uses new technology.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #21

Rapid BI

' ”I’m not disabled or differently-abled or specially-abled or exceptionally-abled. I’m an accountant in a wheelchair.” This of course is just one version of what could have been going on. I would love to here what you think they were saying, add your one liner below!

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The Best Way to Defuse Your Stress

Harvard Business Review

'I knew that I probably shouldn’t send the email I had just written. I wrote it in anger and frustration, and we all know that sending an email written in anger and frustration is, well, dumb. Still, I really wanted to send it. So I forwarded it to a friend, who knew the situation, with the subject line: Should I send this? She responded almost immediately: Don’t send it tonight.

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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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0504 | William Cohen: Full Transcript

LDRLB

'This is a full transcript of LDRLB podcast episode 0504, an interview with William Cohen. DAVID: So who are you and what do you do? WILLIAM: Well sometimes I wonder myself, but I am the president of a startup university, we’re about two years old now, by the name of California Institute of Advanced Management.

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Understand the Sacrifices Before Launching a Start-Up

Harvard Business Review

'Making the decision to found your own business is a life-altering experience. Of course, it’s what comes after that breakthrough moment – how unique the idea, how quickly you move, how you continue to innovate – that ultimately separates the wheat from the chaff. . And whether you’re in the culinary arts, book publishing or cloud technology, when you become an entrepreneur, work-life balance becomes a thing of the past.

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Abuse of Authority

CO2

'by Gary Cohen. “The dilemma of authority in our time, the particular fear it inspires, is that we feel attracted to strong figures we do not believe to be legitimate.” –Richard Sennett, Authority. Power begets power. Power also begets followers, who presume the power will be used appropriately and for their mutual benefit. Unfortunately, power occasionally begets abuse of power.

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How to Get Over Your Inaction on Big Data

Harvard Business Review

'It’s common to see surveys, polls, and reports showing that “most” organizations are embracing big data. For instance, a 2013 Gartner survey found that 64% of enterprises were deploying or planning big data projects, up from 58% the year before. But I find these numbers hard to believe, for three reasons. First, they contradict what I’m seeing in the field.

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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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New Research: A Supportive Culture Buffers Women from the Negative Effects of Long Hours

Harvard Business Review

'As women continue to grapple with the new imperative to “lean in,” courtesy of the mega-bestseller of that title by Facebook powerhouse Sheryl Sandberg, much of the pushback is coming from those who question the wisdom of nonstop professional overdrive. Yes, the billionaire COO famously leaves work at 5:30 to have dinner with her kids, but that much-publicized factoid obscures the true demands of her job.

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Why Is an App Worth as Much as a Small Oil Field?

Harvard Business Review

'Since Facebook’s acquisition of Whatsapp, commentators have debated whether the app was worth it or not. What if I suggested that the best place to look for answers could be the shale oil fields of North Dakota? While on the surface, the dirty business of fossil fuels is nothing like Silicon Valley, many in the oil business have moved beyond the standard net present value (NPV) model for assessing the merit of investments.

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Rich Incentives for Innovation Yield a Flood of Mediocre Ideas

Harvard Business Review

'Offering employees equity stakes and other lucrative incentives to spur innovation raises their output of mediocre ideas but does nothing to stimulate real breakthroughs, which are stubbornly rare, say Oliver Baumann of the University of Southern Denmark and Nils Stieglitz of the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management in Germany. For example, a policy increasing employees’ share of innovations’ profit from 10% to 90% would more than double the flow of incremental suggestions, creating a tor

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The “40-Year-Old Intern” Goes to Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

'In mid-September 2013, 10 professionals returning from multi-year career breaks walked into 270 Park Avenue in New York City to begin the J.P. Morgan ReEntry Program. Elsewhere on Wall Street, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse have recently initiated internship programs for return-to-work professionals. The Onramp Fellowship for returning lawyers, backed by four major law firms in 15 cities, opened for applications last month, and MetLife just announced a similar program to commence this spring.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.