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The 2 Business Basics A Leader Should Never Forget

Terry Starbucker

'It’s always interesting to me when I read an article about a company whose fortunes had taken a turn for the worse, because invariably the leader will talk about going “back to the basics” How many times have you seen that one? A company loses their way, and their profits, and then suddenly has an epiphany – “ Jeepers, we need to get back to the basics!

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Daring Millennial Leader: Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky

Lead Change Blog

'In Jon Mertz’s chat with Adam Poswolsky, readers are introduced to the difference between simply work to pay the bills and meaningful work. Poswolsky encourages us to leap to find new purpose and skills, and to focus on maximizing our personal impact instead of our personal paycheck. Read more… Continue reading. 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 Business by

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10 Things Young Leaders Need to Succeed

Leadership Freak

'The Success of young leaders is the future of organizations. Old leaders, who cling to leadership, limit their legacy. Act like you’ll be gone next year. Rigor: Call for commitment.

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The Three Human Capital Management Concerns Keeping U.S. CEOs Up At Night

Great Leadership By Dan

'Guest post from Bhushan Sethi: Most US CEOs say technological advances will transform their businesses within the next five years. But almost three quarters say they’re worried about the skills gap in their organizations. After surveying 1,344 CEOs in 68 countries, we found that 70% of US CEOs are concerned about the skills gap. And 86% say technology advances are going to transform their businesses within the next five years.

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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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Accomplishment Guilt

CEO Blog

'I suffer from accomplishment guilt - or perhaps better said - lack of accomplishment guilt. I feel bad if I do not get enough done. Some of this is good - it can drive great things. It helps my self discipline. It helps my productivity and efficiency since I know I need to be efficient to accomplish things. Part of it is bad - it can lead to feeling unsettled and stressed.

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Guest Blogger Meg Breslin: The Simplest, Most Underrated Communication Device for Today: “Look Up.”

leaderCommunicator

'I was playing Frisbee with my 6-year-old daughter the other day. Actually, I was playing multi-task Frisbee, the kind where your phone is in your pocket and you text and answer calls between the flicks of your wrist. Just one problem: Maeve was having none of it. After I picked up the second call, she frowned, then sulked across the yard, shoulders in a dramatic dip.

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Art of Managing—When People Develop at Their Pace, Not Yours

Management Excellence

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How to Write Stuff People Want to Read

David A Fields

'Malcolm Gladwell has five books on Amazon.com’s top-sellers chart (which seems to update by the minute), each of which has been there for at least three years (I guess the minute-by-minute updating doesn’t matter). Obviously, a lot of people like to read his books. What about your writing? Is anyone reading it? Would you like […]. The post How to Write Stuff People Want to Read appeared first on David A.

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Community Management Professionals: Don’t Sell Yourselves (or Your Careers) Short

Managing Communities

'Please Update Your ManagingCommunities.com RSS Feed Subscription This feed has moved to: [link] I apologize for the trouble. For more details, please read my post on the matter. Thank you.

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7 Hints You’re About to Make a Bad Leadership Decision

Ron Edmondson

'I’ve made many bad decisions in my leadership. Thankfully, the longer I lead, the more I develop warning signs I’m about to make another. I think these may apply to all leaders. These aren’t full proof. They don’t mean you are definitely making a bad decision. But, they are hints you might and worth considering before you make the decision — especially major decisions.

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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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Avoid These Three Things When Delivering Your Next Speech

Eric Jacobson

'If you don''t want to get your speech off to a bad start, the communications experts at Speechworks suggest you: Don''t apologize (particularly about your anxiety or lack of preparation. Apologies put your audience on the defensive. Don''t start by telling a joke (which may not be all that funny, or is irrelevant, or that may even be offensive to someone in your audience).

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Do Words Impact Your Self-Beliefs?

Your Voice of Encouragement

'Have you ever become discouraged by someone’s thoughtless comment about your abilities, performance, or appearance? While it’s true you have the power to reject such negative input, if the remark came from a person you respect or admire, it’s not so easy to dismiss. One unfortunate side-effect of allowing these comments to penetrate your consciousness is that you can start believing that these words are true and say something about your value as a human being.

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5 Pitfalls of Marketing Waterfalls

Strategy Driven

'As data-driven marketers are taking full advantage of collecting, organizing, and analyzing demand management, many are adopting the classic marketing waterfall model from leading experts such as Sirius Decisions. I am first to applaud marketers who essentially created a grassroots adoption effort to create a quasi-standard for taxonomy, nomenclature, definitions, and a weighted value across the marketing waterfall.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #95

Rapid BI

'dd “I don’t know if it’s burnout, but I set off the smoke alarm six times today!

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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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High Frequency Trading and Finance’s Race to Irrelevance

Harvard Business Review

'John Maynard Keynes very famously proposed that the actions of rational agents in a market were akin to a fictional newspaper contest , where entrants were asked to pick who, out of a set of six women, was most beautiful. Those who successfully picked the most popular face would be eligible to win a prize. Keynes asserted that a naive strategy in such a game would be for an entrant to pick based on their own personal opinion of beauty; and that a much more sophisticated strategy would be to mak

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Special Leadership Savings at Amazon.com

Coaching Tip

'When facing a new challenge and becoming stuck, you may seek the services of a personal coach or refer to a self-coaching reference guide. Once this decision is made, you begin to experience a different, more hopeful, world as your perceptions evolve in meeting the challenge. As powerful and effective as professional coaching can be , it is only affordable to less than one percent of the workforce.

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Diversity Is Useless Without Inclusivity

Harvard Business Review

'Over the past decade, organizations have worked hard to create diversity within their workforce. Diversity can bring many organizational benefits, including greater customer satisfaction, better market position, successful decision-making, an enhanced ability to reach strategic goals, improved organizational outcomes , and a stronger bottom line. However, while many organizations are better about creating diversity, many have not yet figured out how to make the environment inclusive—that is, cr

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How to Repair a Damaged Professional Relationship

Harvard Business Review

'If you’ve spent enough time in the workforce, you almost certainly have a trail of damaged professional relationships behind you. That doesn’t mean you’re a bad manager or employee; it’s simply a fact that some people don’t get along, and when we have to rely on each other (to finish the report, to execute the campaign, to close the deal), there are bound to be crossed wires and disappointments.

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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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The First Robot Commencement Address

Harvard Business Review

'The first-ever cyber-commencement address given by “ Rossum ” — a machine intelligence running a $22 billion hedge fund—to the graduating class of a top-tier technical university somewhere in America before the year 2030. . It’s a distinct honor and a privilege to be the first non-human intelligence to give a commencement address at an American university.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

'Something reassuring happened Monday after EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy unveiled the Obama administration’s proposed Clean Power Plan , arguably the most important step the U.S. has taken in the fight against global climate change: The S&P 500 and Dow Jones stock indexes rose to record highs. I’ll take that as a sign investors aren’t buying the old scare tactic that federal climate action is bad for the economy.

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The Innovation Strategy Big Companies Should Pursue

Harvard Business Review

'The inability of established firms to come up with breakthrough innovations is a truism today. It wasn’t always so. Joseph Schumpeter, the 20 th century economist known for heralding the role of innovation in the evolution of society, argued that established firms were best positioned to innovate because of the resources available to them. Edith Penrose, one of the most prominent management thinkers of the 20 th century, agreed.

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Can GM Make it Safe for Employees to Speak Up?

Harvard Business Review

'In early April, following the news of faulty ignition switches and recall of more than 6 million cars, GM CEO Mary Barra announced a “Speak Up for Safety” program. “GM must embrace a culture where safety and quality come first,” Barra said at a company town hall meeting. “GM employees should raise safety concerns quickly and forcefully, and be recognized for doing so.

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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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Young People Earn More at Young Companies

Harvard Business Review

'Although average wages tend to be lower at younger companies in the U.S., workers aged 25–34 earn 3.1% more at firms that are five years old or younger than at well-established firms, say Paige Ouimet of the University of North Carolina and Rebecca Zarutskie of the Federal Reserve Board. One reason may be that youthful workers possess the cutting-edge technical skills that startups are seeking and are willing to pay for, the researchers say. 25-to-34-year-old employees make up 27% of the workf

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Beware the “Smooth” CEO Succession

Harvard Business Review

'CEO succession is an inherently bumpy process. Even when the outgoing leader has performed well and seems ready to retire, the transfer of power is fraught with sensitivities. It’s hard for anyone who thrives in the all-consuming job of a CEO to hand over the reins. So it’s no surprise that many boards work hard to make succession as painless as possible.

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The Secret History of White-Collar Offices

Harvard Business Review

'Nikil Saval , editor at n+1, on how gender, politics, and unions have affected the American workplace since the Civil War. For more, read his book, Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace. Download this podcast.

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Our Economic Malaise Is Fueling Political Extremism

Harvard Business Review

'The head of the fourth biggest and fastest rising political party in the world’s second most powerful economy is a racist. An aide to the Prime Minister of one of the world’s most promising societies is caught on camera kicking a protestor to the ground. The world’s largest democracy proudly elects a man who rode a wave of religious extremism.

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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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Asian Leaders Value Creativity and Intuition More than Europeans Do

Harvard Business Review

'Do leadership styles differ around the world? This is one of the questions explored by our recent International Business Report. We asked 3,400 business leaders working in 45 economies to tell us how important they believe certain attributes are to good leadership. Patterns in their responses point to some intriguing cultural differences. While the top traits – integrity, communication, and a positive attitude – are almost universally agreed upon by respondents (and confidence and the ability t