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Frontline Festival: Leaders Share Ideas about How to Take a Break

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival gives tips about taking a break from work. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Frontline Festival is all about productivity-enhancing workspaces. There are two ways to participate…either submit a blog post on the topic, or your 1-2 sentence answer to the question.

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Three Things I Learned About Leadership From A Book Jacket Blurb

N2Growth Blog

Think well. Write well. Do well. Those three words distill S.C. Gwynne’s book jacket endorsement of Sebastian Junger’s newest book, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging. Gwynne advises us to read Tribe for three reasons: “the clarity of (Junger’s) thought, the elegance of his prose, and the provocativeness of this chosen subject.”. As one who has written more than his fair share of book blurbs, I can attest that when it comes to insight I typically look inside a book rather than to its back jacket

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Introducing The Remarkable Leadership Podcast

Lead Change Blog

We are thrilled to have Kevin Eikenberry of the Kevin Eikenberry Group as our Lead Change Group sponsor for July! One way to learn more about Kevin and take advantage of his leadership wisdom is to subscribe to The Remarkable Leadership Podcast, which he and his team have just launched. We’ve learned a lot in getting to this point and we are excited to continue developing exceptional products and services to help leaders become truly remarkable, both personally and professionally. ~ Kevin Eiken

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From Startup to Standout: Funding Your Women-Owned Businesses

Women on Business

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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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2016 ConantLeadership Award

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

I was honored to receive the 2016 ConantLeadership Award Click here to read about the award and my response to their questions: 1. Top tips you would give to a leader who is looking to deliver results in a quality way? 2. A lesson you learned from a crucible moment in your career that might help 21st century leaders? The post 2016 ConantLeadership Award appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Chasing Stray Cats and Other Ways to Talk Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

An email I just received has a fascinating line in it. “Let me know what questions you might ask of someone in my situation….

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Empowering Women Leaders

Strategy Driven

Women leaders need to work harder, longer and smarter to achieve the same or similar objectives as their male peers – seriously? We hear this same refrain over and over to the point that many women actually believe it. There is no data to support this premise. Girls and boys are born with similar intelligence. Society has delivered these differences.

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What do you listen to in your car? – Consider our 15minutebusinessbooks.com book synopses

First Friday Book Synopsis

I had lunch with someone who regularly attends our First Friday Book Synopsis. He likes our event, gains value from our synopses, and then decides to read some of the books by listening to the audio versions during his daily commute. Yes, he “reads” books by listening to them. Well, here’s a suggestion. You can… Read More What do you listen to in your car?

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A Sobering Reality for Pastors and Leaders

Ron Edmondson

There is a sobering reality every pastor and leader needs to understand. Knowing this one can protect your career – help keep you from burning out – and guard your heart. I see this impact leaders from all generations – but, I must be honest – I probably see it even more in our youngest generation of leaders entering the workforce.

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Costly Leakages – Leadership ROI Quantified and the Role of Leadership Redefined

Reality-Based Leadership

After spending more than 20 years working with the Reality-Based philosophy and honing Reality-Based tools in hundreds of organizations, I’m excited to finally have current research data that quantifies the cost of Emotional Waste. Organizations are losing billions of dollars annually. They lose money in two ways. First, they’re investing money and organizational energy in employee engagement surveys, HR initiatives, and Learning-and-Development programs that actually exacerbate the problems the

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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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What Great Listeners Actually Do

Harvard Business Review

Laura Schneider for HBR. Chances are you think you’re a good listener. People’s appraisal of their listening ability is much like their assessment of their driving skills , in that the great bulk of adults think they’re above average. In our experience, most people think good listening comes down to doing three things: Not talking when others are speaking.

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Welcome to a Revolutionary New Leadership Philosophy – Reality-Based Leadership

Reality-Based Leadership

My entry into Reality-Based Leadership started with the Open-Door Policy. After several years as a family therapist, I got a promotion in my organization. For the first time, I would be leading a team, which got me a free ticket to the Human Resources boot camp for managers. Designed to prepare me for my new organizational role, it was basically a crash course in the current conventional wisdom around leadership.

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Pokémon Go, Amazon Dash, and the Future of User Interaction

Harvard Business Review

Sustainable success requires the right touch; sustainable digital success requires the right touchpoints. Already the fastest-growing mobile game in US history, Pokémon Go’s astonishing popularity highlights how profoundly touchpoints — any interaction between your customer and your offer — define and design user experience. Much of Go’s global appeal comes from an augmented reality sensibility that literally and figuratively transforms real-world environments into d

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Why You Should Always Go Off-Script in a Job Interview

Harvard Business Review

You’ve just landed an interview for your dream job. If you’re like most people, you’ll spend hours, perhaps days, preparing for that interview. You’ll research the company and industry, anticipate the questions you’ll be asked, and rehearse the perfect answers. You’ve probably followed all the interviewing best practices: be yourself, dress appropriately, focus on your strengths, don’t interrupt, and prepare questions in advance.

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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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To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations

Harvard Business Review

There are three types of identities we all have as human beings. Identities of origin we are given at birth: gender, race, or religion among others. Later, we form identities of growth, those in which we seek to satisfy our emotional needs, based on our likes and dislikes. Finally, as we become more independent, we often look to make a contribution to society through our identities of aspiration.

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7 Questions to Ask Before Your Next Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Although digital investment is almost unquestionably the right course of action for most firms, organizations still struggle to create the desired results. Estimates of digital transformation failures range from 66% to 84%. Such a high failure rate isn’t surprising, as leaders are trying to create entirely new competencies and wedge them into an organization with strong legacy cultures and operating models.

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We Can’t Work All the Time

Harvard Business Review

Anne-Marie Slaughter on (finally) bringing sanity to the work/life struggle. Download this podcast.

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The Best Companies Aren’t Afraid to Replace Their Most Profitable Products

Harvard Business Review

For a long time, the Silicon Valley funding model has been hailed as a powerful alternative to the stifling way corporate America works. Many are betting on the new generation of technology firms to unsettle the old guard. Today the number of unicorns—startups that valued at $1 billion or greater—is staggering. Fortune counted more than 170 of the mythical creatures , with an average of one unicorn born every week during 2015.

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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 Psychological Underpinnings of This Strange Political Summer

Harvard Business Review

Neils Bohr, the eminent quantum physicist, once noted that it is very difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. The last few months have seen many failed political predictions on both sides of the Atlantic, from the Brexit referendum to the rise of Donald Trump. Perhaps leadership pundits should be looking to psychology rather than to political science in order to make sense of these events.

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3 Things to Watch as the Digital Side of the U.S. Presidential Campaigns Unfold

Harvard Business Review

HBR STAFF. For the 2008 presidential race, Barack Obama hired one of Facebook’s early employees, Chris Hughes, to drive the campaign’s technology strategy. Hughes created social tools that saved the campaign millions of dollars and months of grassroots community building, some of which are described in the book Barack, Inc. Back then however, Hughes’s contribution helped mobilize a relatively small portion of volunteers, those already familiar with social media — mainly y

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