Tue.Jul 02, 2013

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How to Start a Start-Up: Podcast with Sqwiggle Co-Founder Matt Boyd

Let's Grow Leaders

'Got a great start-up idea, but don’t know where to start? Take some advice from Sqwiggle co-founder Matt Boyd. Sqwiggle is new online workroom for remote teams. Listen to our interview by clicking on the podcast. Matt Boyd Interview How to Start a Start-Up Podcast Highlights Find others who share your passion: “We’ve all been [.

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Perfectionism vs. Persistence

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Development Leaders have a great deal riding on them. Their employees, bosses, customers, and organizations need and expect a lot. For many, this breeds an intense experience of pressure. A belief that there’s no room for error. That everything’s got to be perfect. That they must get it right. For many, this transforms healthy persistence into [.].

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Not The Same Old Garden Path – How We Can Literally Think Differently

Tanveer Naseer

'The following is a guest piece by William A. Donius. As we age, neuroscientists tell us, our thoughts and patterns become more ingrained. The way our brains process, sort and ultimately respond to questions is akin to taking the same path through the garden over and over. We get to know the path very well, and it becomes familiar to us. As long as the problems we face are familiar, so are our approaches to solving these problems.

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Who Are My Heroes? Young Millennial Leaders

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Light Your World Partnerships Self Leadership [link] I bet you’re asking yourself if I’m nuts. I am. And I’m happily addicted to these kids too! The stereotype of Gen-Y/Millennials is one of entitlement. There certainly are those who fall into this category and I’d submit there are plenty of Baby Boomers too (hum…look at Washington DC’s problem openly discussing Medicare and Medicaid!).

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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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In Marketing, the “C” Word Cannot Exist

In the CEO Afterlife

'Many years ago I read Theodore Levitt’s The Marketing Imagination. In the book, the renowned marketing professor said there was no such thing as a commodity, only people who think like commodities. Suddenly, a light went on in the corner of my mind. After that, as a matter of principle, I stopped using the “C” word. This served me well as a branded coffee marketer.

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The Bad B’s of Leadership

Leadership Freak

'Bad leadership feels safe like baggy jeans and broken-in sneakers. Bad leadership has a baffling capacity to walk comfortable paths while the world changes. Bold leadership, on the other hand, feels dangerous like learning to walk. Bold leadership feels like almost falling. The difference between safe and dangerous, bad and bold is: Declaring hopes.

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Do I Have to Come up With All The Great Ideas!? Why this belief means you suck as a manager.

Mike Cardus

'I’ve seen this happen many times: Employee to Manager: I’ve got a great idea and think that by doing x we will get y,z and extra outcomes. Manager Responds: Yes that is good, and if you would just do p, q, and r we would achieve y, z and more outcomes. It seems rather obvious, don’t you think? Employee to Manager: Yeah I see I will do it that way. Of course the manager has a better idea!

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New Gallup Study: Most Americans unhappy at work

First Friday Book Synopsis

'The State of the American Workplace: Employee Engagement Insights for U.S. Business Leaders report highlights findings from Gallup’s ongoing study of the American workplace from 2010 through 2012. This is a continuation of Gallup’s previous report on the U.S. workplace covering 2008 through 2010. This latest report provides insights into what leaders can do to […].

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Waiting to Go On

CO2

'by Gary Cohen This morning I woke up and went for a run with my wife Chris. When I sat down and dusted off the piles of mail and musings on my unkempt desk (enjoying the beginnings of summer), I saw this poem that could only have found its way to my desk by my lovely wife. It is from a favorite poet and philosopher that both Chris and I enjoy, David Whyte.

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For Team Members, It’s the “Informal” Roles That Will Save You – or, Nearly Kill You

First Friday Book Synopsis

'When you put together a team, you think first and primarily of the “formal-official” roles. Who will be the Team Leader? What “job” will each member fill? But, it is the “informal-unofficial” roles that might save you. Or, sadly, that might do you in. Every team needs a “cheerleader.

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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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When To Be A Coach. When To Be A Counselor

Eric Jacobson

'A good manager is both a coach and a counselor. Generally, coaching should precede counseling. As a coach , a manager: identifies an employee''s need for instruction and direction and this need is usually directly related to his or her performance or career goals. Coaching is collaborative. It relies on mutual, progressive goal-setting, personal feedback, and an ongoing, supportive relationship.

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What the Dog Saw: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books (2009) Note: I recently re-read this book while preparing for an interview and found the essays in this volume even more interesting now than I did five years ago. What Malcolm learned… One man’s opinion, Malcolm Gladwell is at his best when writing […].

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New Leader Tuesday—4 Ideas to Improve Front-Line Management and Team Performance

Management Excellence

'When it comes to sub-par performance on teams and between a supervisor and his or her department members, communication is almost always an issue, but rarely the root cause of the problem.

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Twin Cities Business Book Authors Speak July 24th

CO2

'by Gary Cohen. A Business Book Bonanza of Minnesota Based Authors. In January, the Business Book Breakfast began— and groups of 25-50 exciting, high energy, curious and fun people have gathered at 6:45 AM the 4th Wednesday of every month, to share thoughts and ideas about five very amazing books. It was decided to make this more relaxing for the last, hazy days of summer, so the group is now meeting from 4:30-6pm (with a cash bar, lovely passed hors d’ouevres, plus FREE parking).

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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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Risk Management Best Practice 4 – Risk Quantification

Strategy Driven

'Each organization faces a unique set of risks challenging the continuity of its operations. All risks, however, are not equal. In order for an organization’s leaders to economically manage their business’s risks, they must first understand each risk’s inherent and residual value. Failure to quantify the organization’s risks produces a less meaningful set of potentially adverse events; lacking relevance, priority, and return on investment information and often resulting in the application of eit

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7 Steps to be a Game Changer in the Lives of People

Rajesh Setty

'First, a quick definition of game changer. According to the dictionary, it is. A newly introduced element or factor that changes an existing situation or activity in a significant way. So if you want to be a game changer in the lives of others, you have to be that “element” that will change their life situation in a significant way. To keep things simple, let us assume that significant way is something positive and one way to do that is by expanding the space of possibilities for th

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7 Personal Development Benefits of Saying No (Repost)

Ron Edmondson

'(I’m on vacation this coming week, and so for the next couple weeks I’m posting again some of my most read posts, but also ones I think are actually helpful. These are my “favorite top posts” Some posts had more hits, but they simply do well in the search engines. I’m actually proud of these. None of these were posted this year.

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Richie Norton on The Power of Starting Something Stupid

Rajesh Setty

'It was great way to start the second half of 2013 with a phone conversation with Richie Norton , the author of The Power of Starting Something Stupid. This is Richie’s second book (after Resumes are Dead and What to Do About It ). Richie shared with me that the book was the result of his quest to find out what makes some people successful. The answer surprisingly was that there was a pattern that was common for most successful people – they all started something stupid (or at least what p

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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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Using Language to Build Trust

My Own Coach

'It won''t come as any surprise to you that our thinking consists of images, sounds, feelings and, to a lesser extent, tastes and smells. Quite literally, the entirety of our experiences have been recreated using all of our senses. We picture ourselves lying on an idyllic beach, hear the laughter coming from kids splashing in the sea, feel the warmth of the sun as it beats down, taste the sand in the soggy sandwiches we brought for lunch and smell the surf as it rides in on a breeze.

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How to Ace an Internal Interview

Harvard Business Review

'You''ve put your hat in the ring for a new position at your company and you just got word that you''ve been selected for an interview. What could be easier than chatting with managers you already know? Piece of cake, right? Wrong. Internal interviews require the same rigor as interviews with an external company. They also pose a unique set of challenges.

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Why Managers are Catalysts in Managing and Developing Talent?

QAspire

'Most businesses today are talent driven businesses – skills and competence of people developing products and providing services is at the core of an organization’s differentiation strategy. Talent management and people development should be at the top of an organization’s strategic agenda given the need to improve productivity and effectiveness. Everyone agrees that people development is important, yet clear ownership of doing so is often missing.

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Know Your Team's Motivational Mindset

Harvard Business Review

'Heidi Grant Halvorson , author of Nine Things Successful People Do Differently , urges leaders to look at the psychological factors that influence behavior at work in order to propel teams to success.

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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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10 Employee Conversations That Managers Hate to Have

Great Leadership By Dan

'This post was just published in SmartBlog on Leadership and generated a lot of Twitter traffic: Being a manager means never having to say you’re sorry. No wait, that’s some dumb line from a horrible 1970s movie. However, there may be some truth in that statement. Sometimes, as a manager, you have to have difficult conversations with employees that are guaranteed to make them defensive, angry, and not want to hang out with you after work anymore.

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Attacking the Sleep Conspiracy

Harvard Business Review

'An interview with Russell Sanna , executive director of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Download this podcast. A written transcript will be available by July 10.

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The Hidden Danger of Being Risk-Averse

Harvard Business Review

'People are generally not all that happy about risk. As Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman has written, "For most people, the fear of losing $100 is more intense than the hope of gaining $150. [Amos Tversky and I] concluded from many such observations that ''losses loom larger than gains'' and that people are loss averse.". While the phenomenon of loss aversion has been well-documented, it''s worth noting that Kahneman himself refers to "most people" — not all — when de

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Why Women Are Better than Men at Recognizing Faces

Harvard Business Review

'When women were shown images of unfamiliar people, eye-tracking technology showed that they fixed upon the faces 10% to 40% more times than men did, suggesting that women''s ability to gather more visual information is what gives them a better memory for faces, says a team from McMaster University in Canada led by Jennifer J. Heisz. In learning new faces, females seem more likely to direct their gaze to highly informative regions, such as the eyes.

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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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At Last, a New Business Model for Tesla

Harvard Business Review

'On Friday, Tesla Motors, the company behind the Tesla Model S, arguably the most promising all-electric challenger to the century-long domination of fossil-fuel cars, announced an innovative switching station based infrastructure that would bring its flagship product one step closer to being the first all-electric no-compromises luxury sedan. We were delighted to hear of this latest move by Tesla.

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If You're Out to Change the World, How Do You Know When to Move On?

Harvard Business Review

'A certain phrase has gained currency in my world lately: the notion that a social enterprise must have an "exit strategy." Social enterprises, of course, are organizations designed primarily to yield social versus financial value. But here the community is borrowing a term from traditional venture capitalists, who know that a big part of maximizing returns is having a plan for when and how to end one''s involvement in a venture and invest resources elsewhere.

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It's OK to Give Shareholders Access to Outside Directors

Harvard Business Review

'I recently participated in a stimulating roundtable discussion on how U.S. boards of directors should engage with their companies'' shareholders. While it is common in Western Europe for non-executive directors to meet with shareholders to discuss strategy, governance, executive compensation, risk, and other matters within the board''s purview, U.S. firms have historically given the CEO and other management members exclusive responsibility for communicating with investors.

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Greece in the Balance

Harvard Business Review

'Greece is back in the news, and it''s not all bad. The country hasn''t crashed out of the euro and there''s even talk of " Grecovery ". Major funds, including Third Point LLC , are poised to invest billions of euros in the country. Chinese giant Cosco has announced big investments in Greece''s major port, Pireaus. Approval has been granted to build a new gas pipeline , which will pass from Azerbaijan through Greece.

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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.