Tue.May 13, 2014

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Leaders Take Action

N2Growth Blog

'By Grant Wattie. President, N2Growth Australia. Leadership is nothing without action. Every leader needs to identify what they are good at and act on it! With the amount of people being added to today’s marketplaces, you can’t afford to sit back and watch them work with your competition. At N2Growth, we would love the opportunity to help identify your strong areas and come up with a strategy as to how to make the most of our growing world.

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Would You Rather Follow a Tested Leader or an Inspiring Leader?

Lead Change Blog

'This question has been on my mind lately. Which is better – a tested leader or an inspiring leader? So we put the question to our Lead Change community on Google+ and highlighted below are snapshots into their perspectives. Tested Leader or Inspiring Leader? Carey Green: No question… a tested leader. I’ve seen too many [.] Author information Jon Mertz Jon is a vice president of marketing in the healthcare software industry and named one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy

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Leadership Impact: Where it Comes From

Leading Blog

'Why do some leaders make an impact, while others flounder after initial success? Tim Irwin says “leadership failures rarely reflect a problem with the leader’s competence. Most often the fall occurs because of a breach of something inside the leader.” This is not surprising because we lead from our core. No matter how polished we become on the outside, eventually what is on the inside comes through.

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The Path to High Performance

Lead Change Blog

'If you want to get on a path to high performance, there is one thing you must first accept: Whatever your current level of performance may be at this moment, if you aspire to something greater or to be better you have a performance gap. Being honest with yourself about your gap is an important [.] Author information Susan Mazza Susan has worked with organizations and individuals around the world for over 25 years in developing relationships that work and producing exceptional results that matte

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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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Planting Seeds For Your Organization’s Growth

Tanveer Naseer

'After enduring the long and at-times extreme weather conditions of this past winter season, many of us are understandably relieved to find ourselves under the welcoming and hospitable conditions that are often associated with Springtime. Of course, with the return of warm weather and sunny skies, there is a strong temptation to rip apart the brown and tired masses in our gardens in order to make room for new plants already in bloom.

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70 Awesome Coaching Questions Using the GROW Model

Great Leadership By Dan

'There are two secrets to learning how to be a great coach: 1. You need a framework, or a model; 2. You need to ask great questions. My new article over at About Management & Leadership gives you both. Please check it out and share it with others!

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5 Ways to Find the Worm

Leadership Freak

'If the people you push felt powerful, they’d reject you. In their hearts they do. Pushing people isn’t leadership. Sometimes people need a swift kick in the pants.

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Remarkable TV: Lessons from a Security Guard

Kevin Eikenberry

'Building relationships starts with this very important and very simple building block. Check out today’s episode to learn more. If you want to build relationships, use the sweetest word in peoples’ world. Their name. @KevinEikenberry Check out our Communicating for Results workshop here. You are Remarkable! p.s. Sign-up here to receive my Leadership Tip […].

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How to Choose the Best Team Building Activities, Part 3

Lead by Adventure

'In the previous two weeks, we have discussed the process for choosing team building activities for your team and how to go about it the best way. When many people consider these kinds of activities, there is little thought that goes into the process of choosing these kinds of exercises. Activities are chosen based on whether or not they seem like fun or if they group will “like” the activity.

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Step Aside And Watch Others Take The Lead

Lead from Within

'A world-famous violinist once said after a successful performance of Beethoven’s violin concerto: “I have a beautiful score, a lovely violin, and a very good bow. When I put these three together I only need to step aside.”. In leadership, when you have a great mission, great purpose, and a great team, all you have to do is step aside and then watch others take the lead.

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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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0510 | Les McKeown

LDRLB

'Les McKeown is the author of Do Lead: Share your vision. Inspire others. Achieve the Impossible. Les McKeown is the President and CEO of Predictable Success, a leading advisor on leadership and organisational development. He has started over 40 companies in his own right, and was the founding partner of an incubation consulting company that advised on the creation and growth of hundreds more organisations worldwide.

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Stevie Wonder

Joseph Lalonde

'W e all have ability. The difference is how we use it. The post Stevie Wonder appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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Managing is all About Actual Interactions with Real People – Insight from Henry Mintzberg’s Managers not MBAs

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Ed Savage is the head of Training and Development in a sizable company relatively near Dallas. He is also smart, and well-read — and, to make me even more envious, he remembers what he reads. And, he regularly attends our First Friday Book Synopsis, and has had both me and my colleague Karl Krayer do […].

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Do you need to sharpen your influence?

Change Starts Here

'Do you need to take on any of the following challenges to implement change in your organization? Enlist the support you need for change. Get people to slow down and consider the impact of the change. Navigate organizational politics to ensure the right decisions are made. Mediate conflicts that the change ignites. Provide feedback when leaders send inconsistent messages.

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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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6 Maxims For Leaders

Eric Jacobson

'I so appreciate this advice from William Arthur Ward , one of America''s most quoted writers of inspirational maxims: Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.

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Wyoming-Based Thriller with an Often-used Title

First Friday Book Synopsis

'I was a late addition to C.J. Box thrillers. My first was The Highway. The most recent is Stone Cold, a novel featuring Joe Pickett, a game warden in the spacious hills and valleys of Wyoming (New York: Putnam, 2014). Before you tell me what I already know, several other authors have used this title. […]. Karl''s blog entries American Sportsman C.J.

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0510 |Les McKeown: Full Transcript

LDRLB

'This is a full transcript of LDRLB episode 0510, an interview with Les McKeown. David: So who are you and what do you do? Les: Well, I’m Les McKeown I’m president and CEO of Predictable Success. Which used to be me basically. It’s now me and my son and what we do is help organizations that reached a stage of stagnant growth.

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The role of social business in improving workplace diversity

Chartered Management Institute

'As regular readers of the blog will appreciate, I think diversity is a critical issue for organisations, but that the diversity has to be along lines that actually matter to decision making, which often tends to exclude the politically motivated diversity campaigns for equality around gender, race and so on.

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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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BRAVE Leadership

Eric Jacobson

'The First-Time Leader book by George Bradt and Gillian Davis begins with a discussion of taking charge of your new team and then tracks through BRAVE leadership components from the outside in. BRAVE is a leadership framework that helps first-time leaders successfully build their team by uniting them around a shared purpose. The term reflects an acronym that stands for behaviors, relationships, attitudes, values and environment.

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One Simple, But HUGE Way to Better Empower a Team

Ron Edmondson

'Leader, let me share one of the best things you can do to better empower your team. And, in full disclosure, I’m the worst at this, but it’s something I’m striving to do better. You want to fully empower your team? Here’s what you do: Release them from responsibility. Whenever you can… Often as leaders we handle a lot of information.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #78

Rapid BI

' “I have a photographic memory, but I can’t figure out how to download the pictures to my computer!

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Your Sense of Moral Purity May Block You from Making Professional Connections

Harvard Business Review

'Research participants who imagined themselves pursuing professional connections at a party felt dirtier afterward, on average, than those who had imagined themselves merely meeting a lot of people at the party and having a good time ( 2.13 versus 1.43 on a five-point dirty-feelings scale), say Tiziana Casciaro of the University of Toronto, Francesca Gino of Harvard Business School, and Maryam Kouchaki of Harvard University.

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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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With Flextime, Bosses Prefer Early Birds to Night Owls

Harvard Business Review

'Flextime programs have never been more popular than they are today. Google allows many employees to set their own hours. At Microsoft, many employees can choose when to start their day, as long as it’s between 9am and 11am. At the “Big Four” auditing firm KPMG, some 70 percent of employees work flexible hours. Employees love these programs because they help them avoid compromises between home and at work.

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The Persuasive Pressure of Peer Rankings

Harvard Business Review

'Introducing a new product is essentially an exercise in persuading people to change their behavior. Many companies try to tackle this challenge by making the functional benefits of the new seem so much more compelling than the old. But this approach rarely works. After all, how many of us as children enjoyed eating our vegetables just because our moms said they were better for us than desert?

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

'GE is an icon of management best practices. Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. But, as befits a company that has been around for 130 years, GE is moving on. While Lean and Six Sigma continue to be important, the company is constantly looking for new ways to get better and faster for their customers.

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Will China Bring Your Firm New Owners, Partners, or Competitors?

Harvard Business Review

'Consumers in the United States are used to buying products that are made in China. American multinational firms are accustomed to selling to Chinese customers within China. But what happens when China goes West? What are the implications for corporate America when Chinese firms begin doing business in the U.S. and other developed markets? You may think this is an issue for tomorrow—when Chinese firms are known for being innovators instead of imitators, and when their overseas investments are no

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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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Is It Better to Be Strategic or Opportunistic?

Harvard Business Review

'I spoke with contributor Don Sull , who teaches strategy at MIT and the London Business School, about the tension between scholars who put sustainable competitive advantage at the center of strategy and those who argue that some industries are changing too quickly to allow for sustained performance. Here’s our edited conversation: Who’s right — the “sustainable advantage” traditionalists or the “transient advantage” challengers?

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Why Twitter Needs India

Harvard Business Review

'Twitter’s numbers show it has a big problem. The platform is attracting fewer and fewer new users in the U.S., and its current users are abandoning it at an increasing rate. Twitter’s managers have tried to fix the problem by changing the look of Twitter profiles. Some observers suggest deeper changes to the platform: making the experience much more user friendly, developing better algorithms for surfacing interesting content, or improving search functionalities.