Fri.Jan 22, 2016

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Got a Complaint? Make a Request!

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” Doris Day. We have all been there. Someone does not do something we asked him or her to do and we get fired up. We are the leader after all, shouldn’t our team or followers do what we asked?

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Frontline Festival: January 2016 DRAFT

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is all about Vision and Strategy. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month, we turn our focus to Building Productive Workplace Relationships. Submissions due February 12th– new participants always welcome, please us this form.

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10 Unique WordPress Themes for Your Design Business

Women on Business

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Are You Anchored In Your Convictions?

Joseph Lalonde

I n a world that tells us that we need to be tolerant, standing firm in your convictions is difficult. By voicing your opinion on a matter, you’ll face public criticism. You’ll hear people cry out against you. You’ll be called a bigot or they’ll say you’re intolerant. Maybe even worse. Image via Creative Commons. Convictions Are Crucial.

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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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The 10 Practices of Coaching-Leaders Pt. 2

Leadership Freak

You’re a jerk-leader if you aren’t passionate about developing people. Develop your coaching skills in order to effectively develop people. The ten practices of coaching-leaders pt. 2: Part one. #4. Cling to forward-facing curiosity.

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Martin Luther King’s Book of Sermons, Strength to Love – 5 Lessons and Takeaways

First Friday Book Synopsis

The selection for this week’s Urban Engagement Book Club (sponsored by CitySquare) was the classic book of sermons by Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love. First published in 1963, there are some devotees of Dr. King’s work that call this his most important book. Here’s what Coretta Scott King wrote in her foreword: If… Read More Martin Luther King’s Book of Sermons, Strength to Love – 5 Lessons and Takeaways.

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How to Raise Revenue for an Entrepreneurial Start-Up

Strategy Driven

The first step in raising revenue for an entrepreneurial start-up is to outline a detailed marketing strategy. It is important for start-up entrepreneurs to test their assumptions as soon as they can. A big reason for the success of established companies is that they never invest large capital or significant time on any project unless they have determined that it has an overwhelming probability of success.

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Never Say These Words To A Customer

Eric Jacobson

Author Harvey MacKay wrote the following spot-on advice in his column in the Kansas City Business Journal a few years ago. He wisely points out that all employees at every level should never use these four words in front of a client/customer for both obvious and perhaps not so obvious reasons: Can't -- As in, "We can't do that." "We can't meet that deadline.

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Why have a Risk Management Program?

Strategy Driven

Most people think of risk management as an insurance policy, the price paid to help prevent potentially negative outcomes from being realized by their company. Such a view leads to the conclusion that risk management is a business expense with a highly subjective value proposition. We at StrategyDriven would suggest the insurance view of risk management is far too narrow.

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6 Tips for Happier, Healthier Relationships when the Relationship has been Injured

Ron Edmondson

Do you have any injured relationships in your life? Broken hearts, hurt feelings, or grudges from the past are common among relationships. At some point we all have relationships, which have gone from bad to worst. In fact, sometimes the people we have to be around, by default – blood relatives, in-laws, or co-workers – are people we wouldn’t choose to be around unless we had to be.

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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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Why I Challenged My Kids to Start Companies Before College

Harvard Business Review

When our two daughters finished their high school studies, my wife and I made them a deal: we would pay for college, but first they each had to run their own business for at least a year. In our view, this was an important entrepreneurial track to their education. They needed to know how the world works before they could know what they wanted from college.

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Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes

Leading Blog

Black Box Thinking is about how success happens. Progress hinges on how we react to failure. In two of the most safety-critical industries – aviation and health care – the approach to failure is very different. And the results highlight the problem. For commercial aviation on Western-built jets, they have only one accident per 2.4 million flights. In health care the equivalent of two jumbo jets are falling out of the sky every twenty-four hours making preventable medical error in hospitals the t

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To Get Your Company to Change, Focus on One Thing at a Time

Harvard Business Review

We need to focus as much on how we drive change as what change we drive. Research we conducted at the London School of Economics suggests that resistance to change stems often from a negative experience of change leadership, rather than resistance to the change itself. We know that for change to be successful, we as leaders need to communicate and engage with our teams.

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Rethinking The “Ideal” Employee

Lead Change Blog

We seek a motivated go-getter to join our team. Workaholic. Has no life. Has no relationships. Available by cell phone 24-7. Glad to work evenings, weekends, holidays, and at the beach. Willing to return early from vacations to handle fires. Our competitive pay is inversely proportional to hours worked. Add your heart and soul to our growing pile—um, I mean enterprise.

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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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Lessons from Boston’s Experiment with The One Fund

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to innovation in cities, people often think of building clusters and innovation districts to attract new businesses and shift policies to favor entrepreneurship. These goals are all important to focus on. But some of the most crucial future opportunities for innovation will come from how cities respond to crisis and adversity, from climate change to economic volatility — and even to terrorism.

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How the Over-Networked Can Manage Their Contacts

Harvard Business Review

With success comes many things — including a greater number of relationships and more requests for help. The day I declared that I was hosting an angel investment network was the day my circle of relationships seemed to grow exponentially. Suddenly there was a new swath of people who were “friendly” toward me. It’s nice to feel useful, though there is a point at which the number of relationships and requests becomes overwhelming.

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Quiz: Do You Know What It Takes to Be Original?

Harvard Business Review