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Frontline Festival: Leaders share about favorite apps, technology, and productivity hacks

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival gives tips about favorite tools and technology. 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 how to take a complete break from work (i.e. for vacation.) 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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Leaders: Stop Being a Role Model

Lead Change Blog

There are a lot of really cool advantages to being first born. I liked getting to “be responsible” for my younger sister and brother. It likely made me a high achiever. I like that I gained a “gift of gab” by being the only (for a while) child, conversing with my parents before my sister came along. It sure helped prepare for a career as a keynote speaker and trainer.

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Stop Being A Consumer

Joseph Lalonde

H ere’s a hard truth we all have to swallow. WE HAVE TOO MANY CONSUMERS. What’s A Consumer? Typically, the term consumer is bandied about in the retail world. A consumer is someone who consumes a product or service. They’re paying, sure. But all they’re doing is consuming. They take the product. Use the product. Return for more.

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Why the Rules of the Entrepreneurial Game Are Changing

Leading Blog

T HERE WAS A TIME when AOL was how most Americans got online. Co-founded by Steve Case, American Online at its peak handled nearly half of U.S. Internet traffic and was the first Internet IPO. From his unique vantage point, Case shares his playbook for the future in The Third Wave. Case believes we are now entering the Third Wave of the Internet. The First Wave was building the Internet.

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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 Peril of Meaning Well But Doing Harm

Leadership Freak

It’s tragic when you mean well but do harm. 4 ways to mean well but do harm: #1. Allow nagging issues to persist. You’re responsible if there’s a well-worn path around recurring problems.

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What will you read this summer? – Here are some current suggestions, and one relatively modern “classic”

First Friday Book Synopsis

People apparently like the idea of a summer reading list. I know I do… Maybe some of what we read should be for fun, and escape. But summer is also a chance to catch up on some “serious” reading. Recently, J. P. Morgan released its recommending reading list compiled for its top, wealthiest clients. I read… Read More What will you read this summer?

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Is Your Business a Commodity or a Resource?

Strategy Driven

How are your services and the people providing them viewed by your clients? Are you a commodity readily available anywhere? Or are you a resource where skill, judgement, and critical thinking are valued and rewarded? The difference is important to your business future. The corner gas station offers a commodity. It is entirely a transaction-based relationship.

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New Video: 3 Ideas to Help Jump-Start Your Strategy Process

Management Excellence

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Infographics and facts from #HRSS16 and #RECEX16 Olympia @cleanviz @cipd

Rapid BI

Having spend 2 days at Olympia, here is my roundup of facts and mini-infographics that were created and posted on the day. Graphics created by @cleanviz, @cipd @martincouzins or @rapidbi Where it all began – The West Hall Olympia Not sure who this troublesome 2 are! The @CIPD social media gurus Stocking up ready […]. The post Infographics and facts from #HRSS16 and #RECEX16 Olympia @cleanviz @cipd appeared first on RapidBi.

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How to Negotiate for Yourself When People Don’t Expect You To

Harvard Business Review

When managers negotiate in organizations, with their bosses or colleagues, they do so in the context of how (or whether) they have negotiated before. They fall back into the roles they’ve traditionally played, and their counterparts expect that they will act as they have in the past. In the leadership development programs that we run with for female executives at leading corporations, we use the term “Velcro” to describe these patterns of behavior , because like the sticky fabr

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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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Swivel chair chats with @MartinCouzins & @RapidBI at #HRSS16 & #RECEX16

Rapid BI

This week we have been that the HR Software show and Recruitment Exhibition run by the CIPD. These are exhibitions that provide showcases for people looking to buy enterprise HR software and to recruit people into their organisations. The HR Software Show is a well-established event, which has been running for over 15 years. It helps hundreds […].

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Growth Needs to Come from the Entire Company

Harvard Business Review

Organizations, whether businesses or nonprofits, almost universally pursue growth. In fact, 94% of the senior executives who responded to a recent global survey conducted by our firm, Strategy&, said that growth was a priority for their companies. Thirty percent said that growth was more important than anything else. But the goal of sustained growth remains elusive.

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Five Tips For Writing Company Policies

Eric Jacobson

Keep these five tips in mind when you craft your next company policy: Keep the policy short and simple. Get rid of two old policies for every new policy you implement. Make sure that your organization's policy and procedures are written to serve your employees and customers--not just your organization. Don't write a policy in reaction to a single incident.

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How to Talk About Office Politics with a New Colleague

Harvard Business Review

John was just a few days into a new job when he found himself on a 40-minute car ride to an off-site meeting with one of his new colleagues, Chris (names have been changed). As the newbie, John was eager to make a good impression and worried about maintaining chit-chat. Chris, who had been at the company for over a decade, not so much. For nearly the entire ride, Chris gave John his unfettered opinion of everyone in the office. “I mean everyone — from the secretaries to the top leade

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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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A Deep Look Inside Apple Pay’s Matchmaker Economics

Harvard Business Review

Standing on stage on September 9, 2014 at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), Tim Cook announced, “We’ve created an entirely new payment process, and we called it Apple Pay.” Cook displayed a video of a woman who held her iPhone 6, the company’s upcoming upgrade, near a payment terminal. She paid in the blink of any eye. “That’s it,” Cook said, exclaiming twice over “just how fast and just how easy” the new payment me

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Don’t Get Surprised by Burnout

Harvard Business Review

Coming back to the UK after an intensive, three-day consulting trip, I was on the edge of a panic attack. For a few seconds, I had a vivid “day-mare” of myself in the hospital, surrounded by doctors, with no way to cope or communicate coherently. As the vision passed, I became aware, for the first time in a long time, of a great heaviness and tiredness in my body.

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Why Companies Are Becoming B Corporations

Harvard Business Review

From the New York Public Library. The landscape of American corporations is changing. Since the financialization of the economy in the late 1970s, corporate governance practices have tightly linked the purpose of business with maximizing shareholder value. However, as the 21 st century pushes on, there has been an increased emphasis on other stakeholder values, particularly social and environmental concerns.

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