Fri.Dec 20, 2013

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Expert Advice on Gifts and Giving: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

'Welcome to the Holiday Edition of the Frontline Festival: Expert Advice on Gifts and Giving. In addition to sharing their posts, I invited each thought leader to share their “leadership gift” in one or two words. Engaging a Giving Spirit Jon Mertz, Thin Difference shares The Unboxed Life: Giving To lead more fully, we need to […] The post Expert Advice on Gifts and Giving: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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5 Challenges for Your Living Tombstone

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Self Leadership “What do you want written on your tombstone?” The question has been posed over and over, challenging people to pause and consider what they want their lives and legacy to ultimately be. There are so many things that could be said… “He was a good man… I told you I was sick… She [.] Author information Page Cole Owner, Visiting Angels of Green Country(non-medical homecare franchise).

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The Secrets of Success

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]. Female Entrepreneurs advice for business women better business blogs by women build your business business advice business blog for women business strategy for women business women advice business women conferences female board members female business leaders female business management fema

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Hiking Mountains

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Self Leadership [link] My wife and daughter stayed up past one of their bedtimes to watch the self-proclaimed “TV event of the season” - a live version of the Sound of Music. I admit that I did peek occasionally! I listened to “Climb Every Mountain,” and for whatever reason, the lyrics caught me. I was moved and began [.

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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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Solving the Pathetic Meeting Problem

Leadership Freak

'Orderly leadership meetings are pathetic and useless. Head-nodding sessions are exercises in futility that waste resources, talent, and time. Cancel them and do something productive. The spirit of agreement permeates pointless leadership meetings. When was the last time you saw anything beyond polite disagreement followed by quick head-nodding in a leadership meeting?

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Why You Should Lead Like a Monk

Next Level Blog

'When you think about leadership role models it’s likely that your first thought isn’t a monk. Maybe it should be though. In his new book, "Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks", August Turak explains why. (Audio). Click headline to continue.

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5 Tips for Raising Morale at the Office

Chart Your Course

'Greet each morning with a productive, optimistic workforce or a huge absenteeism rate — as an employer, the choice is yours. It’s the level of morale in your office that decides just how efficient your employees are willing to be. Addressing associate’s wants and needs, even if you can’t immediately fulfill them, goes a long way toward raising the production level, and the morale, of your office staff.

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Victory nor Defeat

Tony Mayo

'The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, if he wins,knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least […].

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Good Business Needs an Angle

CEO Blog

'Some interesting stuff: An article on Medium on the next big thing (s). I enjoy Bob Sutton''s blogs. I am finding the Facebook entry into video ads interesting. And Startup trends. I love my new Fitbit. I always tracked (using paper) the workouts I did. What gets measured, gets done. Despite being a tech guy, I often dislike gadgets but I love this one. ++ I have the good fortune to be involved in a number of businesses so get to see what works.

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The ROI of Performance Excellence Programs

Six Disciplines

'Six Disciplines® is a total performance excellence program. By integrating a proven best-practices methodology and innovative Outlook software, we help you to build an effective culture of continuous improvement, enabling you to achieve predictable and measurable growth. . The desired end result is different for each of our clients, but it''s usually centered around growth, higher productivity, improved profitability and greater overall goal accomplishment. .

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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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Do you believe that to attain anything, control is a necessity?

Coaching Tip

'As a leadership onboarding coach, I know that to achieve anything, the necessity is to show trust. Leaders in new positions often fail for a few common reasons: due to unclear or outsized expectations, a failure to build partnerships with key stakeholders, a failure to learn the company, industry or the job itself fast enough, a failure to determine the process for gaining commitments from direct reports and a failure to recognize and manage the impact of change on people.

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It’s Still Way Too Early for a Book on The Early Days of the Internet

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Many years ago, back in my ministry days, I was a big fan of the author Elton Trueblood. I remember in one of his books he discussed his first working title, which his publisher would not let him use (the publisher thought readers would just assume it was a history book).

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The Three Ways To Be A "Level 5" Leader

Eric Jacobson

'Author and leadership expert Jim Collins defines Level 5 leaders as those who: Pursue goals with the ferocity of lions while displaying the humility of lambs. According to Collins, who has studied leadership for 25 years, this level of leader is a rare breed. This is a leader who: bestows credit generously shoulders blame responsibility puts organization before self.

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As another new year approaches….

First Friday Book Synopsis

'It has been a pleasure as well as a privilege to read and review so many outstanding books and interview those who wrote them, then be able to share this wealth of material with others throughout the world. This will be my last post in 2013…. But I am eager to return online in January, […]. Bob''s blog entries As another new year approaches.

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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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7 Tips for Healthier Marriage Communication

Ron Edmondson

'Marriages are built on communication. Improve communication…improve the marriage. Poor communication…it will be very difficult to have a successful marriage. We could all stand to improve in this area. Here are 7 tips for better communication in marriage: Be a good listener – You can never expect to grow in your communication until you learn to truly hear one another.

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The Secret to Successful Recruiting

Strategy Driven

'Recruitment has always been a tricky business. So many times a candidate can sound like the perfect match on paper, only to prove a disappointment at interview. Then there are the even worse scenarios, where a candidate comes across both in real life and on paper as perfect, only to then not meet the criteria when actually in the job. There must be a way for recruiters to ensure that they hire only the best and most promising candidates, those who are almost guaranteed to perform and stay in a

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A Leader's Guide To Crisis Management

Eric Jacobson

'"From Tylenol''s textbook handling of product tampering to Toyota''s troublesome automobile recalls, how a company recovers from crisis can mean continued business success or bankruptcy," explains author Jim Moorhead. In his book, The Instant Survivor -- Right Ways to Respond When Things Go Wrong , Moorhead presents a four-step, crisis survival kit to show leaders how to weather professional, and personal, crises.

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The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track

Harvard Business Review

'There’s nothing more annoying than a meeting that goes on and on and on. As a manager, it’s your job to make sure people don’t go off on tangents or give endless speeches. But how can you keep people focused without being a taskmaster or squashing creativity? What the Experts Say. The good news is that meeting management isn’t rocket science; you probably already know what you should be doing.

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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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Author Neil Smith On Urgency, Change And Facts

Eric Jacobson

'Here are three helpful leadership tips from author Neil Smith -- from his book, co-authored with Patricia O''Connell, How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things : People say they cannot find the time to do things, yet they always find the time to fix things when they break. Companies need to create that sense of urgency before a problem occurs. People will embrace change if they see the logic behind it.

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The Organization of Your Dreams

Harvard Business Review

'We have known for about 150 years that people who enjoy their work are more productive. That is to say high satisfaction is correlated with high performance. And yet many organizations seem to go out of their way to make work alienating, frustrating, and unpleasant. This is evidenced in the depressingly low rates of employee engagement around the world.

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Algorithms Won’t Replace Managers, But Will Change Everything About What They Do

Harvard Business Review

'The labor market is about to be transformed by machine intelligence, the combination of ubiquitous data and the algorithms that make sense of them. That’s according to economist Tyler Cowen, in an argument spelled out in his recent book Average is Over. As Cowen sees it, your job prospects are directly tied to your ability to successfully augment machine intelligence.

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What Change Agents Value at Work

Harvard Business Review

'When it comes to change management, half the battle is making sure you have the right leaders in place. And that means looking carefully at their competencies, behavioral styles, and values. To help with that challenge, my colleagues and I have created a change-agent profile. In our work assessing people for the right job fit, we’ve collected and analyzed extensive data on Fortune 1000 executives across a wide spectrum of industries.

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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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Guess Who Got Rejected from Top B-Schools?

Harvard Business Review

'A Bunch of Seemingly Smart People Look Who Harvard and Stanford B-Schools Just Rejected Fortune It''s not especially surprising that there''s steep competition to get into these two top business schools. But rejections of accomplished candidates without even an interview can be perplexing — especially for the rejectees. John A. Byrne of Poets and Quants, a web site focused on business education, asked Sandy Kreisberg, an MBA admissions consultant, to analyze why three particular people were lef

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Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the January–February 2014 Issue

Harvard Business Review

'Enjoy these cartoons from the January–February issue of HBR, and test your management wit in the HBR Cartoon Caption Contest at the bottom of this post. If we choose your caption as the winner, you will be featured in next month’s magazine and win a free Harvard Business Review Press book. “Call me old-school, but if I don’t take notes in cuneiform, it goes right out of my head.” Michael Shaw.

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It’s a Good Thing You Waited Until Now to Found Your Start-up

Harvard Business Review

'Cloud computing and other tech developments have drastically cut the cost of founding a company, says Stanford University finance professor Ilya Strebulaev. The new technologies have reduced the expense of building high-tech start-ups by a factor of 10 , a development that has opened up the start-up world to angel investors as never before. Angels, who tend to prefer small deals, are enjoying a growing competitive advantage over traditional venture-capital firms and now supply the overwhelming

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How to Lead During a Data Breach

Harvard Business Review

'In 2007, I wrote a case study for Harvard Business Review , “ Boss, I Think Someone Stole our Customer Data.” Now six years later, an actual event has occurred that is eerily similar to that fictional scenario: a trusted retailer’s point-of-sale system security was breached and a large amount of customer data may be compromised. In the current situation, the retailer is much larger as is the number of accounts affected.

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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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Boards with More Women Pay Less for Acquisitions

Harvard Business Review

'Companies that have more women on their boards of directors make fewer bids for mergers and acquisitions — and pay less for acquired companies. That’s the finding from a new paper ( Levi, Li, and Zhang, 2013 ) by Maurice Levi and Kai Li of the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia and Feng Zhang at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah.