Tue.Aug 23, 2016

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Being present may be enough

Persuasive Powerhouse

I’ve been roaming our property daily since early June looking for natural things that are small, beautiful, and great subjects for camera close ups and macro shots. It’s been a profound experience in learning to be present as I look for flowers, insects, and fungi. With my camera in hand, I see all kinds of things I didn’t notice before: flowers my husband (our resident landscaper) planted years ago, beautiful mushrooms as small as ¼ inch across and tiny insects that are new to me.

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What to Do When You Exceed Your Leadership Limits

Lead from Within

Sooner or later, we all hit a wall. Do you know what you need to know to get through when you run up against the limits of your leadership? As leaders, we know what we know. We have skills that we’ve mastered, talents we’ve cultivated, wisdom we’ve accumulated. But what happens when the issues you face exceed the capacity of your skills, talent and wisdom?

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Kiss the Fool

Leadership Freak

Court jesters occasionally spoke truths and delivered bad news with humor. Modern comedians often make us laugh about injustice or social ills. Kiss the fool who speaks the truth.

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Remarkable TV: On the Art of Asking

Kevin Eikenberry

A conversation obviously requires two participants, but there are a few tips that you can employ to improve your chances of having a better, more effective and more interesting conversation. Check them out in today’s video! Tweet it out: If you want to master the art of conversation, start with the art of questions. @KevinEikenberry […].

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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 Bare Minimum is not gong to cut it in the much-more-than-the bare-minimum world of 2016

First Friday Book Synopsis

bare minimum The smallest possible quantity or the least fulfilling, but still adequate, condition that is required, acceptable, or suitable for some purpose. —– Unless your talent and skills absolutely dwarf those of your competition, the deep workers among them will outproduce you. Cal Newport, Deep Work ——————————- I teach Speech at the community college… Read More The Bare Minimum is not gong to cut it in the much-

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87 Most Popular Candy Bars & Top Candy On The Planet

Miles Anthony Smith

The 87 Best Candy Bars & Other Candies in the World via GIPHY Do you find yourself falling asleep during the workday? ​I hope it doesn't include drool like Homer Simpson, does it? And if it does, I hope your job isn't as critical as working at a nuclear power plant ! When it comes to sugar-laced concoctions, I do not discriminate. Sugar, in general, is one of my weaknesses.

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Corporate Cultures – Identifying Your Organization’s Real Values

Strategy Driven

While many organizations publish value statements, they tend to be rather general and lofty, indistinguishable for those of most other organizations. Other organizations have no values statement at all. Either circumstance makes it difficult for cultural analysts to divine where on the each value’s spectrum the organization resides and to ascertain the alignment between individual organizational groups to the values because of this lack of definition specificity.

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Ten Important Questions Business Leaders Should Ask

Eric Jacobson

Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge , authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees?

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Applying Toyota Kata to Agile Retrospectives

Curious Cat

Håkan Forss , King (interactive entertainment games), presentation at the GOTO Copenhagen 2015 conference. A good book on Toyota Kata is by Mike Rother. I strongly recommend this book. Description from Workshop description “The Toyota Kata Experience” Kata means pattern, routine, habits or way of doing things. Kata is about creating a fast “muscle memory” of how to take action instantaneously in a situation without having to go through a slower logical procedure.

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7 Guarantees in Leadership

Ron Edmondson

I once had a leader who was an emphatic talker. He made statements with no reservation in them about things – honestly – I simply didn’t believe. He would say stuff such as, “There is no way this would ever work.” Really? No way? Maybe the chance is limited, but no way? He impressed upon me enough I’ve always been hesitant about emphatic statements – unless they are Biblical truths, of course.

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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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A WUP Upside The Head: Part 1.1

Steve Farber

Chapter 1. I live in the Mission Beach area of San Diego, California. It’s a bit different from Michigan, especially in the wintertime, and I was desperately trying to get back there after my conference with the Jims. There are no direct flights from Grand Rapids to San Diego International Airport, unless you had enough cake to hire your own personal jet, which, of course, I didn’t.

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Putting a Price on People Problems at Work

Harvard Business Review

In our work as business school professors and consultants, we’ve met countless managers who fail to achieve their goals. They come up against problems that refuse to budge no matter how hard they push. Indeed, such problems may even get worse the harder they try to solve them. At the heart of most of these apparently intractable issues at work, we usually find people problems: interpersonal conflict, miscommunication, poor decision-making, and more.

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Winning Teammates Talk Others Through Blind Spots

Lead Change Blog

As a speaker who used to be a basketball coach, I realize that basketball provides a number of lessons that apply to life and business. One of the most important lessons is found in a simple phrase like, “screen left.”. If you have ever watched a basketball game, live or on television, you will notice that the single most common play in the screen and roll – where the ball-handler gets a screen from a teammate so he can turn the corner and score or pass to the screener.

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What Not to Say to a Stressed-Out Colleague

Harvard Business Review

I was recently stressed out and sleepless because I had to tell a difficult senior colleague something he was not going to want to hear — and I always dreaded his angry, high-volume pushback when it was directed at me. An acquaintance listened to me, nodded quietly, and said, “People have yelled at me for far less.” His manner and his words shifted my perspective by normalizing the conversation that lay ahead.

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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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Winning Teammates Respect The Clock And The Calendar

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by fellow author Sean Glaze. One of the lessons in my upcoming book, “ The 10 Commandments of Winning Teammates ”, is that winning teammates respect the clock and the calendar. In the book, which is a parable, the lesson the main character learns in this particular chapter is that respecting the clock is not only about respecting others’ time and being early to meetings.

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How Low-Paying Retailers Can Adapt to Higher Minimum Wages

Harvard Business Review

Fifteen states have increased their minimum wage this year, with more on the way. In Seattle, for example, large employers will have to pay a $15 minimum wage by January 2017. These increases will seriously affect low-wage employers such as retailers and restaurants, which means investors should be asking some tough questions to see which low-wage employers in their portfolios will benefit from the wage hikes and which will lose: How are you increasing your labor productivity?

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How One Company Used Data to Rethink the Customer Journey

Harvard Business Review

Just how personal do customers want their experience to be with a company when making a purchase? A few years ago, customers might have said that a company’s attempts to offer a unique and personalized experience felt too much like stalking. Now, with so much time spent online, those expectations have changed. Customers know that the companies they purchase from have access to their interests and behaviors.

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Why Do So Many Women Who Study Engineering Leave the Field?

Harvard Business Review

Engineering is the most male-dominated field in STEM. It may perhaps be the most male-dominated profession in the U.S., with women making up only 13% of the engineering workforce. For decades, to attract more women to the field, engineering educators have focused on curriculum reform (e.g., by promoting girls’ interest in math and science). While these efforts have brought in more women to study engineering, the problem is that many quit during and after school.

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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 Talk About Racial Bias Companies Should Be Having

Harvard Business Review

On his deathbed, my father made a perplexing comment to me. He was an 82-year old, African-American U.S. Air Force veteran, dying of emphysema and Alzheimer’s disease after too many years of smoking and work-related stress. He was weak, and ready to go, but still thoughtful. “I don’t know how you did it.” Not quite understanding, I asked him, “Did what, Dad?

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7 Charts Show How Political Affiliation Shapes U.S. Boards

Harvard Business Review

Are corporate boards as polarized politically as the general population? That’s one of the questions we asked ourselves as we conducted a survey of directors of public and private companies headquartered in the United States. We and our research partners found that Republicans are more highly represented on boards than in the general population: they were 50% Republicans, 24% Democrats, and 26% Independents, while the American public, according to Gallup , is 28% Republicans, 31% Democrats