Wed.Feb 10, 2016

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Top Gun Leadership: Butt-Chewing 101 (pt 1 of 3)

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Remember one thing…. you screw up just this much and you’ll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog-doo out of Hong Kong.”. Commander Tom “Stinger” Jordan. For me, one of the best scenes in the whole Top Gun movie is the dressing down that Commander “Stinger” Jordan gives Maverick as he sends him off to Top Gun with the admonition that if he mes

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The Future of Learning Isn’t About “Knowing”

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton If we want to prepare leaders to handle complex challenges, we need to move beyond shallow approaches that focus on knowledge building. We need to help leaders learn to think deeply (beyond symptoms to complex, systemic causes) and broadly across disciplines as they work to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders. To accomplish this, the way we approach learning must change.

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How to Use Critical Thinking to be a More Effective Leader

Lead Change Blog

With January arrived the opportunity to write an impactful blog post. I wanted to begin the year with a meaningful message and not just any concept would do. The content had to be gripping and inspiring. Day after day slipped by and my writing pad remained blank. I was so entangled in the mental trap of creating something significant that I. Wrote. Nothing.

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Leadership Lessons I Learned from My Daughter, the Junior Philanthropist

Lead by Adventure

It’s a lot of fun to watch children grow up as a parent, especially when they start to come into their own as a person. I have two kids and both are pretty amazing in their own ways. My 9-year old son loves sports and works hard at each of them and is very naturally gifted in the athletic arena. My daughter continues to amaze me with both her thoughtfulness and unselfishness and her willingness to sacrifice for others.

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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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Mastering the Art of Creating Accountability

Leadership Freak

Accountability, in traditional environments, is about power. Who has it? How is it used? The teeth in traditional accountability is the power to reward and punish. Accountability as pressure: Short-sighted leaders use accountability to pressure people. The context of pressure is resistance. Dependence on traditional accountability suggests people are already resistant.

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Beating Back Shame With Jacob Sokol – The Answers From Leadership Podcast Episode 5

Joseph Lalonde

T oday’s guest on The Answers From Leadership Podcast is Jacob Sokol. Jacob is an amazing man doing even more amazing things. For years, he worked for an awesome IT company. He made a nice living and enjoyed the cliche things in life. Everything changed in 2009 when he took 5 weeks off from work to backpack throughout Europe, alone! He came back to New York City a changed man and slowly started to figure out how he would alter my life accordingly….

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“While We are Sleeping,” the World Keeps Changing – Insight from a Decade+ Ago from Thomas Friedman

First Friday Book Synopsis

Professionally, the recognition that the world was flat was unnerving because I realized that this flattening had been taking place while I was sleeping, and I had missed it. I wasn’t really sleeping, but I was otherwise engaged. Before 9/11, I was focused on tracking globalization and exploring the tension between the “Lexus” forces of… Read More “While We are Sleeping,” the World Keeps Changing – Insight from a Decade+ Ago from Thomas Friedman.

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What Clients Really Look for When Hiring Consultants

David A Fields

Want to know what consulting clients really want when they’re looking for a consultant, and how they perceive you? I get a regular taste of this by interviewing consultants for my corporate clients. But for a total immersion into your clients’ world, live through the hiring process. That’s what I’ve been doing for the past month, as I once again try to find the perfect person to add to the staff of my little group.

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Fueling Business Process Management with the Automation Engine that Can!

Strategy Driven

Organizations deploy automation technologies as the primary resource in their Business Process Management. Gone are the days were BPO meant Business Process Outsourcing, with Robotic Process Automation technology fueling new millennium enterprises, BPO has taken on a new meaning, Business Process Optimization. In the recent past, businesses had only external, third party vendors to rely on for major projects, operational emergencies, and other labor-intensive initiatives that required resources

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How To Deliver "Knock Your Socks Off" Customer Service

Eric Jacobson

Leading a customer service team? Have the team members use these 9 tips for delivering excellent customer service this holiday shopping season: Rely on winning words and soothing phrases. A simple but sincere “Thanks for your patience” or “I’m listening” can go a long way toward defusing a holiday shopper’s frustration, anxiety, or panic. Develop a repertoire of short, easy to remember phrases around issues that are important to customers.

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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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5 Steps to Recovery from a Failure

Ron Edmondson

You’ve failed. It was huge. Perhaps you did it on purpose. Maybe it was an accident. You may have stumbled into gradually over time or suddenly. Bottom line: You did it. It was wrong. There’s no sense denying it now. What you do next will determine if – and how well – you recover. Here are 5 steps to recovery from a failure: Admit.

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How To Be A Good Coach

Eric Jacobson

Former Verizon Wireless CEO, Denny F. Strigl offers these tips for how to be a good coach to an employee. He explains that good coaches help performers by: Keeping them focused. Giving them objective, helpful feedback. Acting as a sounding board for new approaches. Identifying blind spots that may be holding the performer back. Reinforcing key values, principles, and behaviors that improve performance.

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What Work Email Can Reveal About Performance and Potential

Harvard Business Review

In many offices, using digital tools to chat or collaborate with colleagues is the norm — even with people you sit right next to. Tools like Skype, Slack, and old-fashioned email are convenient and a bit addictive. But while digital collaboration can be useful and engaging, we all know it can also be a mixed blessing. A strategic approach to managing digital networks and collaboration at the company level can help us better understand which types of digital communication are productive, to

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Don’t Let Outdated Management Structures Kill Your Company

Harvard Business Review

dave wheeler FOR HBR. During a consulting engagement at a $50 billion conglomerate, I spoke with a young man who was worried about a potential project overrun. I asked if he had hit a stumbling block. “It really isn’t a big deal — I know we have the in-house expertise to solve this,” he said. “I just need to rope in some colleagues from another team.” “So what’s the problem?

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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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Avoid These Common B2B Content Marketing Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

B2B buyers often have made up their minds about a purchase before a sales rep even gets a foot in the door. It’s no wonder, then, that more than 90% of B2B sellers have turned to content marketing to help regain access to buyers in the early stages of the purchase process. Yet CEB research finds that most of these efforts fall short of expectations.

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The Business Implications of the EU-U.S. “Privacy Shield”

Harvard Business Review

Last week, the U.S. and EU announced a tentative agreement to allow U.S. companies to continue sending and receiving personal information about EU residents across EU borders — everything from an online employee directory for a multinational company to a Facebook profile stored in the cloud. An earlier agreement, known as the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles, which went back 15 years and was relied on by some 4,000 companies, was declared illegal last year based on concerns, highlighted by t

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7 Rules for Job Interview Questions That Result in Great Hires

Harvard Business Review

Some of the long-held ideas about how to conduct interviews are no longer accurate. For example, there’s no such thing as a surprise interview question anymore. With sites like Glassdoor.com , candidates can identify each of your likely interview questions and expected answers ahead of time. With that information, candidates now routinely prepare and video their practice interviews to the point where their responses are universally impressive, if not genuine or accurate.

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