Tue.Jan 07, 2014

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Join General Leadership Tonight on SiriusXM Chan 125 – 9pmEST!

General Leadership

'We hope you enjoyed David Webb’s December broadcast with the troops and General Leadership live from Kabul, Afghanistan. Tonight, you can join us live at 9pm Eastern Time (6pm for you West Coasties!) for our first new show of 2014 as we continue our “ 12 Virtues of Leadership ” series on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 and the David Webb Show with the following special guests: - Ken Wahl (Twitter: @KenWahl1 ) and Shane Barbi (Twitter: @Barbi_Twins ). - Papa Joe Bradford (Twitter

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Alone No Longer: Ten Years Later

Michael Lee Stallard

'Katie Stallard with daughters Elizabeth (left) and Sarah (right). Ten years ago today, my wife’s surgeon told me she had advanced ovarian cancer. Today Katie is cancer free and flourishing in every way. The experience of spending more time with my family and friends during that season of supporting Katie while she underwent treatment opened my eyes to the power of connection.

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Leadership Development Carnival – January 2014

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Leadership Development [link] One of the best ways to improve as a leader is to reflect upon your past experiences, catalog the lessons learned, and apply that information to your future leadership activities. Fortunately for you, 28 of the top thought leaders in the field of leadership have assembled their best blog posts for 2013, effectively serving as a [.

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Leadership Lessons On Listening, Questioning, And Moving Others To Act

Tanveer Naseer

'The following is a guest piece by Sally Helgesen. Communicating effectively, becoming a more accomplished persuader, and helping others achieve their performance goals have long been foundational managerial roles. But as organizations become more diverse and complex, and as everyone is called upon to work more independently, refining these skills has become an imperative.

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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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Strategic success through people

Lead Change Blog

'Posted in Change Management How prepared is your organization to implement your strategic plan and move the necessary change forward? Strategic success requires more than a strategic plan; it requires the right employees with the right skills, in the right place, at the right time. The essence of the Strategic Plan is the set of strategies that will [.

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Biggest Concern for Management – Hiring Top Talent

Women on Business

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Finding Bright

Leadership Freak

'Leave a comment on today’s post to become eligible for 1 of 20 complimentary copies of Simon Sinek’s new book, “Leaders Eat Last.” The gift of darkness is finding bright. Dark days are coming for you. If you haven’t felt the darkness yet, you will. I’m being optimistic. Your response to the dark days […].

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GC23: Using the Gamification User Types in the Real World | with Andrzej Marczewski

Engaging Leader

'The tech research firm Gartner made headlines in late 2012 when it predicted that 80% of current gamified applications would fail to meet business objectives — due to poor design, ineffective communication, or ill-defined business objectives. If poor design is a primary culprit of failed gamification, how can you improve your chances of success? Andrzej […].

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Stop! What Is Not Working

Lead from Within

'Life is always telling us what we need to START doing. But it does not concentrate as much on the things we need to STOP doing. We use all kinds of strategies to stop our life, love, and leadership and we have all kinds of mechanisms that we have cultivated in order to stop moving forward. There are people who will laugh just so they can stop their tears.

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The American Lyric Poet

Tony Mayo

'We never know how high we are, Till we are called to rise. And then, if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies. –Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 American Lyric Poet.

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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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How Charismatic and Incompetent Managerial-Leaders are Destructive

Mike Cardus

'Working for a manager who is at the same or lower level of competence as you is anger producing, uninspiring, unproductive, frustrating, demoralizing and eventually leads to underemployment. If they are “Charismatic” it adds an irritant that only makes things worse. Contact Create-Learning Team Building & Leadership to fix this before it happens.

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The Talent Of A 2 Year Old

Joseph Lalonde

'The post The Talent Of A 2 Year Old appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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“Be” about it. Secrets for making your year, and your impact, right.

Anese Cavanaugh

'Diving into 2014 you likely have some intentions, or goals, or resolutions, or (if you’re really going for it) “resoulutions” set for the New Year. If you’re doing this process holistically, you’ve likely set them for yourself, your family, your team, your health, and your organization. And if you’re doing this like a fully embodied rock star, you’ve likely set a big core set of “being” intentions, followed up with sub-categories of “doing” intentions and goals for what you’re g

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New Leader Tuesday: Teaching is More Powerful than Criticizing

Management Excellence

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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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Self Assessment Program Warning Flag 5 – Identifying Mostly Strengths

Strategy Driven

'All organizations, including the best of the best, have room for improvement and those not improving inevitably find themselves falling behind competitors. Self-critical evaluations are therefore critical to achieving continuous performance improvement and remaining competitive. Evaluations identifying mostly strengths offer little opportunity for organizational growth.

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12 Ways to be a Winner This Year

Ron Edmondson

'It’s not too late to make a resolution. Do you want to be a winner this year? Here are a dozen suggestions: Walk with someone through their personal trial. Share love with someone who did nothing to deserve it. Forgive someone who hurt you the most. Display character when no one is looking. Provide hope to someone who has lost theirs. Embrace courage when fear is dominant.

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If you think training is expensive

Rapid BI

'““If you think training is expensive, try ignorance”. Peter Drucker” Training can be in many forms, on-the-job, off-the-job etc. But not doing that training can have costs that as a manager and business we could be paying for many years. For example, if you have a small team, having one person trained to help and […].

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Making Succession Planning “Real”

Great Leadership By Dan

'I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. Those that get picked for a post will receive a free copy of my eBook. This question from Jen: “How do you make succession planning a ‘real thing’? We use Lominger’s competency modeling and their Learning Agility tools in some robust ways. We ‘9 box’ folks and we have depth charts where names are slotted in to ‘Red (ready in 3-5 years), Yellow (ready in 1-2 years) or Green (ready now)’ slots.

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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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Is Your Boss a Psychopath?

Harvard Business Review

'The debauchery-laden film by Martin Scorsese The Wolf of Wall Street is a prime example of financial corruption, excess, and corporate greed. It’s the rags to riches to rags story of a hotshot, real-life New York stockbroker, Jordan Belfort, who conned his way through life, starting at the bottom of the Wall Street pecking order and by the 1990s making millions selling worthless stocks.

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The 3 Best Leadership & Communication eBooks of 2013

leaderCommunicator

'You voted, and the results are in! Here are the most popular (meaning helpful) eBooks we published in 2013. Number 3: Bosses: Good vs. Bad- 6 Must-Do Strategies to Lead with Your Inner Angel People don’t quit jobs; they quit bosses. Are you leading and inspiring your team, or are you hurting your employees’ careers? Find out whether you’re a good boss guided by your proverbial inner angel or a bad boss listening to your inner devil.

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Hire by Auditions, Not Resumes

Harvard Business Review

'Automattic employs 225 people. We’re located all over the world, in 190 different cities. We have a headquarters in San Francisco and it operates similar to a co-working space. For those who live in the Bay Area, they can work from the office, if they’d like. But in general, the majority of our employees work somewhere other than our home base. To us, this arrangement makes sense — we work in open source software, which is a decentralized product.

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Build a ‘Quick and Nimble’ Culture

Harvard Business Review

'Since 2009, Adam Bryant has interviewed hundreds of CEOs for the “Corner Office” feature in The New York Times. This month he’s publishing his second book based on the interviews: “Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation.” He talked with HBR about why a company’s culture is more important than its strategy — and some of the innovative tactics that CEOs have used to help create a high-performing culture.

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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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Dennis Kozlowski Was Not a Thief

Harvard Business Review

'On January 17, Dennis Kozlowski will be released on parole by the State of New York after serving an 8 1/3 year sentence in the state’s tough prison system. Kozlowski is the former CEO of Tyco International. During the decade he headed the company (1992 – 2002), Tyco grew from a small New Hampshire conglomerate into a global giant operating in more than 100 countries with 250,000 employees and $40 billion in annual revenue.

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Being Underwater on Your Mortgage Reduces Your Earnings

Harvard Business Review

'Why has wage growth been anemic in the current U.S. economic recovery, despite strong productivity gains? One reason may be that many homeowners have owed their banks more than their homes are worth, and being underwater on a mortgage depresses earnings, say Chris Cunningham of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Robert R. Reed of the University of Alabama.

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Why It’s Hard to Be Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

'For many years, I have talked with business executives about the need to reorient their attitudes toward failure. If they want their organizations to generate more good ideas, monetize the best of them, and in general innovate faster, they need to not only tolerate but celebrate the fruitless pilots and instructive flops that are an inevitable part of the process.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

'Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. The collapse of a few financial institutions, the near-collapse of many others, a massive bailout by multiple governments, and the worst economic downturn in three-quarters of a century ensued. Lots of people blamed Greenspan for some or all of this, and the man himself famously allowed, in a Congressional hearing in October 2008, that he had “found a flaw” in his model of

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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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Why the Real World Will Matter More in 2014

Harvard Business Review

'In 2013, three trends gained purchase and this year, they’ll ascend. . The first trend is the democratization of access to the opportunities in the $130 trillion physical economy , which by the way is six time bigger than the digital economy, according to Oxford Economics. The second trend is the historic growth in “ wearables. ” Kleiner Perkins analyst Mary Meeker showed in her influential 2013 D11 address that “wearable computing is coming on strong, faster than the typical 10 year

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