Wed.May 04, 2016

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Is Your Mom a Winning Well Leader?

Let's Grow Leaders

Moms are full of wisdom, aren’t they? Many leaders credit their moms for their influence, such as: Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. ~ Stevie Wonder. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~ Abraham Lincoln.

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Tune-In Tonight – 9pm Eastern – SiriusXM Radio Ch125

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Turn your radio dials to SiriusXM Channel 125 tonight at 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific) for the #GeneralLeadership Hour on the David Webb Show! On the first Wednesday of every month, we strive to bring you the opportunity to engage with our team and our guests virtually and on-the-air with the radio program and live Twitter stream.

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The Leader’s Opportunity

Lead Change Blog

If you were to boil “effective leadership” down to three core concepts, what would they be? As I engage with senior leaders to learn how they view leadership, the concepts they provide are almost exclusively financial metrics. The most popular responses include “hit the numbers,” “exceed budgeted nets,” and “deliver what our customers need, profitably.” Those are all good things.

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3 Habits That Make You Dumb, Regardless of Your IQ

Leadership Freak

Intelligence and talent aren’t the core components of remarkable leadership. Smart leaders do dumb things. Cocky talent relies too heavily on abilities. 3 habits that make you dumb, regardless of your IQ: Resent the success of others. Nothing makes leaders smaller than hating the success of others. Hang on to offenses, failures, and disappointments.

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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 Mistakes of the Hero Leader

Lead Change Blog

This post is a part of our 2016 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. Today we are pleased to introduce you to Dan Forbes from Lead With Giants. When I was a kid I would fasten a bath towel to the back of my shirt and pretend to be Superman. I would run as fast as I could while pretending to fly. Visions of heroically saving the day filled my mind.

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Dealing With Disputes Biblically With Josh Andrews – Answers From Leadership Episode 11

Joseph Lalonde

T oday’s podcast guest is Josh Andrews. Josh is a business lawyer who helps small business owners and entrepreneurs develop a clear legal plan to protect their business as it grows. He podcasts, blogs, and spends his time giving entrepreneurs a clear path to legal protection. With that, I’m excited to share with you Josh’s insights into handling disputes biblically as a leader.

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The Value Myth & Why Consultants Should Focus on Cost

David A Fields

Years ago Shark Tank featured an enterprising young man pitching his sales training program. Daymon John handed the entrepreneur his pen and demanded, “Sell this to me.” The sales guy bombed. His defensive stance didn’t help, but the salesman’s real problem was his focus on the value and benefits of the pen. That’s a mistake many consultants make too.

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Effective Decision Making

Coaching Tip

FRAMEWORKS OF REFERENCE. Frameworks of reference are ways to describe our brains’ processes when making a decision: knowing those frameworks allows us to shift our focus on the process we need the most or to quickly identify what tool can give us the best results and why. Knowing those frameworks will not make your decisions better. It will help you use your decision-making skills at their best to get you to your goal.

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What is “Agile?” – Charles Duhigg gives a clear description in Smarter Faster Better

First Friday Book Synopsis

Agile – adjective able to move quickly and easily
 quick, smart, and clever ——————– If I were to write a blog post on each of the useful pieces of information in Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business, the new book by Charles Duhigg, well… that might take a while. One… Read More What is “Agile?

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No Shortcuts WIll Get You There

Leading in Context

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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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Three Keys to Getting Leaders to Lead Change and Not Expect You to Do It

Change Starts Here

It happens all the time. Leaders assign responsibility for implementing change, and then expect that you’ll take care of it without much involvement from them. Or they approve your project without doing much to support it after that. Because you’re driving everything forward, you end up being seen as the person who is leading the change, with leaders being observers and participants.

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No Shortcuts WIll Get You There

Leading in Context

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Unlocking the Mystery Of Successfully Managing Organizational Change

Strategy Driven

A few years ago when shipping giant United Parcel Service (UPS) adopted the clever marketing slogan “Moving At The Speed Of Business,” it resonated well with the public because keeping up with the pace of change can be incredibly tough. Customers change, supply lines change, companies grow, they contract and that can all happen within the first quarter!

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Open-Ended Questions To Ask During A Getting-To-Know-You Conversation

Eric Jacobson

To help you bring out the best in your team, you need to get close and understand their skills, abilities, and motivations. So, the authors of the book, Your First Leadership Job , recommend you hold getting-to-know-you conversations with each of your direct reports. Ask these open-ended questions. Let each team member know the purpose of the meeting in advance.

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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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The Value of Connecting People and 7 Common Connecting Points

Ron Edmondson

One thing which has always come naturally to me and I love doing is connecting people with similar interests. I believe this is one of the best ways within the Body of Christ where “iron sharpens iron” From a strategic, discipleship standpoint, I know people are more likely to be connected to the church if they are connected to other people at deeper levels than simply attending the same church.

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10 More Ways To Be A Better Leader

Eric Jacobson

Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully. Take an interest in your employees and their personal milestone events. Give feedback in a timely manner and make it individualized and specific. Be willing to change your decisions. End every meeting with a follow-up To Do list.

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PEST or PESTLE Analysis

Rapid BI

The PEST or PESTLE Analysis. Originally designed as a business environmental scan, the PEST or PESTLE analysis is an analysis of the external macro environment (big picture) in which a business operates. These are often factors which are beyond the control or influence of a business, however are important to be aware of when doing product development, business or strategy planning.

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Improve Your Resume by Turning Bullet Points into Stories

Harvard Business Review

You’re searching for a new job. Updating your LinkedIn profile and resume. Describing your accomplishments in two- to three-line bullet points that start with powerful action verbs and end with quantifiable results. You know the standard advice. But for the most part, recruiters aren’t calling. And on the rare occasions when you do land an interview, you stumble over questions about what you’d bring to the hiring company and why you’re the perfect fit.

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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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A Cognitive Trick for Solving Problems Creatively

Harvard Business Review

Many experts argue that creative thinking requires people to challenge their preconceptions and assumptions about the way the world works. One common claim, for example, is that the mental shortcuts we all rely on to solve problems get in the way of creative thinking. How can you innovate if your thinking is anchored in past experience? But I’m not sure that questioning biases from your past experience and assumptions is the best path to creative problem solving — it simply does not

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Pay Fairness Isn’t Just About Teaching Employees to Negotiate

Harvard Business Review

After I published new data revealing that the top reason women around the age of 30 are leaving organizations is not for flexibility or work-life balance but because they want to earn higher salaries, I heard many stories like these from women: “I left my first job because my male colleagues who had been there the same amount of time as me and who had the same responsibilities were suddenly given raises that amounted to about a third of what our salaries were.

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What FDR Knew About Managing Fear in Times of Change

Harvard Business Review

In our work with leaders we’ve found that managing successful transformational change has a lot to do with managing fear. This includes fear of the unknown, fear of failure, fear of change, or even fear of fear itself. This is especially true when making bold changes — the kind of change that could take an organization to a whole new level of performance, or, out of a paralyzing tailspin.

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Tracking the Trends in Bringing Our Own Devices to Work

Harvard Business Review

For the last five years or so, one of the major discussions in the corporate IT world has been around the related issues of the consumerization of IT and employees who bring their personal devices to work (the so-called BYO movement, for “bring your own”). I explored the BYO movement, looking at official policies and real-life practices for BYOD (bring your own device), BYOPC (bring your own computer) and BYOA (bring your own application, including using the public cloud).

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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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How Digital Is Your Industry?

Harvard Business Review

Research shows some sectors are outpacing others.

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Why Winner-Takes-All Thinking Doesn’t Apply to Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

Yahoo’s core business is worth next to nothing, and buyers are struggling to see if there’s any there there. Twitter’s market cap just plummeted after a bad earnings report. Given that news, it seems that businesses that have dominated their markets are learning that the magic elixir of network effects and winner-takes-all advantages are about as reliable as cures for baldness.