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Time Machine Tuesday: Be the First Penguin – 5 Questions To Ask About Taking Risks

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 30 January 2013. Following the herd is a sure way to mediocrity. Patti Wilson. Not long ago I had the opportunity to don a penguin costume and jump into a pool of icy-cold water, all in the name of supporting a good cause.

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Fathers Who Lead

Lead Change Blog

We recently celebrated Father’s Day. As we look back on that day of celebration, let’s hear it for our Father and salute those Fathers who are not only fathers but leaders. Yes, leaders of the pack. I see more and more as an adult the importance of a father who leads. You have heard the saying, “It takes a real man to…… [insert choice of responsibilities here].” It takes a real man to be a father who is also a leader.

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LeadershipNow 140: June 2015 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from June 2015 that you might have missed: Reconsidering the Charismatic CEO by Eric McNulty. Leadership is Not Something We Accomplish by @StrategicMonk. From @WallyBock Becoming a great boss: where to start. From @JohnBaldoni LeBron James: Confidence Does Not Negate Humility. The Inner Game of Leading by @artpetty. Leadership Success: Think Balance Beam Not Mountain Top by @KateNasser.

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Bringing Out The Best In Those You Lead

Tanveer Naseer

Image © Wharton Magazine Of all the seasons of the year, summer is without question my favourite. From attending the various outdoor festivals that Montreal has become renowned for, to the annual summer vacation breaks with my family, there’s no question that summer is a time for renewal and rejuvenation. Of course, renewal and rejuvenation is something that summer has also brought to my garden which, after several years of trying to grow various flowers and shrubs, is finally the kind of

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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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11 Quick Tips to Increase Sales

Women on Business

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How to Set the Right Goals and Make Them Work for You

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Are you starting to lose focus on your goals? If so, you’re not alone. This is the time of year a lot of people lose their focus. The problem is that annual goal-setting doesn’t work. You can’t plan an entire year and know in advance all the goals you will need to achieve. It’s likely that many of your goals are no longer motivating and many no longer make sense.

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A “Survival of the Fittest” Approach to Leadership Development Produces Cockroach Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Read my latest post about the dangers of using a survival of the fittest approach to grooming emerging leaders over at About.com Management and Leadership: How to Groom Rising Leaders and not Burn Them Out.

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7 Team Building Games You Can Lead with Hula Hoops

Lead by Adventure

If I say, “Hula Hoop,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Quick! When you think of hula hoops, you probably don’t necessarily think of team building games. You might think of memories of elementary school PE or recess. You might think of a sibling or neighbor who used to enjoy playing with them. As for me, a number of team activities come to mind!

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If You take “No” for an Answer too Easily, You May Need to Make a Change – Insight from Elon Musk

First Friday Book Synopsis

There’s always a fine line. You’ve got stubborn people, obnoxious people, and then people with genuine resolve who simply will not give up. Their actual behaviors may look about the same. But, when the motivation is not stubbornness, or plain old obnoxiousness, then true persistence and resolve can be a wonder to behold. Ashlee Vance […].

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Team Building Emotional Bonds

Coaching Tip

Love is one of our most powerful primal feelings. And primal feelings fuel the brain-power that drives the best team performance. One tenet of a "high performance winning formula" places a huge priority on giving a strong voice about running the organization through the teams who play such a major role in getting results. Author Jackie Barretta has known about this winning team formula for a long time and has now included these scientific concepts in her book, "Primal Teams: Harnessing the po

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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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Guest Blogger: Simon Sproule on Picking an Industry Based on Personal Passion #NoCapeNeeded

leaderCommunicator

In the coming weeks before the launch of my next book, “No Cape Needed: The Simplest, Smartest, Fastest Steps to Improve How You Communicate by Leaps and Bounds,” we will publish a few leadership advice pieces that are featured throughout the book. These posts offer the best advice industry leaders have received in their careers and are a must-read for those wanting to elevate their own performance at work.

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How to Deal With Resistance to Change

Change Starts Here

Do you ever feel like you have to drag people through the mud by their hair to get them to change? That’s the opening line of my recent TEDx GeorgiaStateU talk on the topic of “How to Deal With Resistance to Change.” Watch to hear a little bit of my story, learn how to spot resistance to change, find out how you can better respond to it, and look underneath the surface to understand the true nature of resistance – all in less than 11 minutes!

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5 Reminders When You are the Community’s Pastor

Ron Edmondson

There are times when a pastor is launched into the role of being a community pastor. At this point, it doesn’t matter the size of the church or the notoriety of the pastor. The community is looking for the pastor to lead. Here are a few examples: An influential person in the community — or a popular youth dies — and you are asked to do what a very large funeral.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Common LinkedIn Profile-Building Questions

Rapid BI

So you have a LinkedIn profile, and there are many common LinkedIn profile-building questions that this article seeks to address. Networking is the primary way to go about looking for a new job. Spread your net far enough, and you will eventually catch something. LinkedIn is the premiere job networking social media site. It enables […]. The post A Comprehensive Guide to Common LinkedIn Profile-Building Questions appeared first on.

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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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Reward Your Best Teams, Not Just Star Players

Harvard Business Review

Yes, there is an “I” in team. But it stands for incentives. Discussing teamwork without identifying its incentives is akin to debating effective diets while ignoring willpower: the most important ingredient may be missing. Whether working in teams, groups or as individuals, people respond to incentives. They also respond to the absence of incentives.

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An Animated Look at Scientific Illustration

Mills Scofield

No matter what your profession or passion, design is a part of it, even the most STEM'y ones. Allison Chen , RISD '15, believes that scientific illustration is a definition of STEAM. and she's right! It's Science, Technology, Engineering (how the body works in the case of biological systems) and Math. and Art! This great post, from her STEAM Stories project (please follow it!

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The History and Future of Operations

Harvard Business Review

It’s time to rethink what we mean when talk about “operations.” Operations is not only about manufacturing. Operations is and has always been what gives an organization the power to act : to create value for its customers; to capture value for its shareholders; and to share value with its ecosystem. In the era of ubiquitous digital technologies, operations empowers an increasing variety of organizations, ever more modular, connected, and distributed, ever more centered on softw

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An Animated Look at Scientific Illustration

Mills Scofield

No matter what your profession or passion, design is a part of it, even the most STEM'y ones. Allison Chen , RISD '15, believes that scientific illustration is a definition of STEAM. and she's right! It's Science, Technology, Engineering (how the body works in the case of biological systems) and Math. and Art! This great post, from her STEAM Stories project (please follow it!

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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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Using Data to Increase Patient Engagement in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The English grandmaster Nigel Short recently declared that computers are stripping chess of its mystery; by crunching reams of data, computers can deconstruct once-obscure board positions in a matter of seconds and reveal the optimal move. Something similar is just starting to happen in health care. Take my company, athenahealth. Our cloud-based software platform captures clinical and financial performance data in near real time from more than 65,000 medical providers across the U.S.

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Have LinkedIn and Medium Killed the Old-Fashioned Blog?

Harvard Business Review

I didn’t start my business: my blog did. When I started blogging in 2004, I had just finished graduate school and I was trying to figure out what I was going to be when I grew up. I knew I wasn’t going to pursue a traditional academic career, but I wasn’t sure what else a Ph.D. had prepared me for. But the emergence of the social web meant there was an ever-expanding set of websites and tools that were driven by the same kind of online participation I’d researched for my

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Breathing Is the Key to Persuasive Public Speaking

Harvard Business Review

Have you ever wondered why two people can say exactly the same thing in a meeting, but only one of them gets credit for it? Many times it’s the way we sound that makes the difference between whether or not we are actually heard. We all know when someone sounds nervous or confident. Think about the following phrase hesitantly uttered, “I have something to say?