Fri.Oct 31, 2014

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Why Costumes Work at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

'As luck would have it, this Halloween finds me in my home office. It hits on a Friday which typically means writing and development… no keynotes, no consulting gigs, no teaching the MBAs… sadly no reason to wear a costume. In fact the next few Halloweens are on weekends– great for kids, terrible for dressing up as your favorite leadership message (yes, that’s me on the left).

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Inclusion: 8 Drivers of Employee Engagement

General Leadership

'“When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.” Joe Paterno. We have all heard the homily “There is no “I” in “Team. ” As any sports coach knows, a team’s results overshadow the individual. You do have to have some top talent on a first class team, but any team is more than the sum of its parts.

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What Is A Leader’s Most Important Role?

Lead Change Blog

'What is a leader’s most important role? Kristin Mackey suggests it’s to be the example. She goes on to say: “Leaders influence the direction of the team by their thoughts and behaviors. The very language a leader chooses to use can make or break the level of talent that surfaces.” Sandra Martinez, Ph.D suggests a leader’s most important role is acting collectively in the present to shape the future. “This means having the capacity to build trust among diverse

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2014 Compilation

Leading Blog

'Here are a selection of tweets from October 2014 that you might have missed: How to Encourage the Lazy and Disengaged by Karin Hurt via @letsgrowleaders. 5 Times When it Pays to Focus on the Negative by @Mark_Sanborn. The best advice in business: 40 execs reveal their secrets to success via @FortuneMagazine. Six Reasons Why Boundaries Help Everyone Be More Successful by @KevinEikenberry.

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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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9 Tips For Giving A Free Consultation

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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How to Get the Most From Irritating People

Leadership Freak

'You don’t want to understand irritating people. You want to control, correct, or eject them. Leaders who don’t understand irritating people resort to authority and miss opportunity.

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Getting Up to Speed on A World Gone Social

Next Level Blog

'Whether you love it, hate it or are somewhere in the middle on it, social media can have a huge impact on your effectiveness as a leader. Whether you''re in the conversation or not, the chances are people are talking about your organization online. Why not search for your organization on Google, Yelp or Glassdoor and see what you find? The results might surprise you.

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Are you annoying your co-workers without even knowing it?

Coaching Tip

'Back in October 1971, an engineer (who I knew when we both went to a small high school in Upstate New York during the late 1950s) named Ray Tomlinson chose the ''@'' symbol for email addresses and wrote software to send the first network email. . . At the time, it must not have seemed very important because Ray didn''t bother to save that first message or even record the exact date.

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Tim Cook Reveals His (Open) Secret – A Moment that Matters

First Friday Book Synopsis

'This is a remarkable moment… There aren’t many such moments. When Walter Cronkite gave his famous Vietnam assessment, on Febraury 27, 1968, it changed the viewpoint of many. He ended with these words: To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, if unsatisfactory conclusion. On the off chance that military and […].

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Weekly Round-Up: On Getting Results from a Flexible Workforce, a Roadmap for Leader Effectiveness & Rediscovering Your Motivation

leaderCommunicator

'Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. Each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays I pull some of the best together here on my blog. So in case you’ve missed them, here is this week’s round-up of top posts. They’ll provide you with tips, strategies and thought-starters from many of the smart folks in my network.

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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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Should You Get a Referral Fee?

David A Fields

'A question I was asked: When I make a referral or introduction, should the person I’m referring pay me in some way or should I make it clear I don’t expect any financial reward? What do you think? Do you expect a financial reward when you give a referral? Does it depend on the circumstances? If you do expect remuneration, how much do you expect? Post your suggestion by using the ‘Leave a Comment’ box below.

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The Leapfrog Opportunity For Executing Strategy (Summarized)

Six Disciplines

'Occasionally, circumstance and progress in seemingly unrelated areas combine to create an opportunity for solving old problems in new and exciting ways. One of those breakthrough periods is upon us now, with regard to strategy execution. This inflection point has developed primarily because large corporations have made huge investments developing best practices for effective management, strong leadership and strategy execution.

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How To Foster Creativity

Eric Jacobson

'Here are some great tips and guiding principles for how a manager and leader can build a culture to foster creativity. Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better. If you don’t strive to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.

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It’s Not HR’s Job to Be Strategic

Harvard Business Review

'Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception. It’s pervasive in organizations — and to make matters worse, HR practitioners have inadvertently played into it.

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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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132 Pages Of Tips For How To Be A Better Leader

Eric Jacobson

'The authors of the above pictured leadership book suggest that readers don''t read their book cover to cover. But, if you''re like me, you''ll read the book that way. That''s because I found, The Little Book of Leadership Development , by Scott J. Allen and Mitchell Kusy, a compelling read, packed with practical tips and techniques for both leading and helping others to learn how to lead effectively.

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Coworkers Should Be Like Neighbors, Not Like Family

Harvard Business Review

'All companies want engaged employees. After all, people who are engaged put in effort that goes above and beyond the minimum that’s required to complete a task. They are less likely to look for another job. And they project positive energy , which improves the mood of other employees and customers. One way to increase engagement is to foster a “neighbor” relationship.

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Identifying the Biases Behind Your Bad Decisions

Harvard Business Review

'By now the message from decades of decision-making research and recent popular books such as Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow should be clear: The irrational manner in which the human brain often works influences people’s decisions in ways that they and others around them fail to anticipate. The resulting errors prevent us from making sound business and personal decisions, even when we’ve accumulated abundant work experience and knowledge.

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How the Market Ruined Twitter

Harvard Business Review

'There was a time when Twitter could be described as “plumbing.” Now the best description might be, “giant bank account with a company attached.” It’s hard not to see this as a big step backwards, and to wonder whether the standard venture-capital-to-public-company trajectory is turning out to be entirely wrong for an enterprise like Twitter. Let me explain, starting with the plumbing.

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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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Governing the Smart, Connected City

Harvard Business Review

'As politics at the federal level becomes increasingly corrosive and polarized, with trust in Congress and the President at historic lows, Americans still celebrate their cities. And cities are where the action is when it comes to using technology to thicken the mesh of civic goods — more and more cities are using data to animate and inform interactions between government and citizens to improve wellbeing.

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The Core Incompetencies of the Corporation

Harvard Business Review

'Large organizations of all types suffer from an assortment of congenital disabilities that no amount of incremental therapy can cure. First, they are inertial. They are frequently caught out by the future and seldom change in the absence of a crisis. Deep change, when it happens, is belated and convulsive, and typically requires an overhaul of the leadership team.