Wed.Apr 23, 2014

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5 Reasons Your Great Idea Isn’t Working

Let's Grow Leaders

'When you’re running full speed ahead with a great idea, be sure to look back over your shoulder to see who’s with you. A Great Idea My staff team had a great idea. They were buzzing with excitement. We needed some fun recognition to inspire call center reps to provide great customer service. “Let’s give […]. The post 5 Reasons Your Great Idea Isn’t Working appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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What Jail Taught Me About Leadership

Lead Change Blog

'I spent a little over two years of my life in jail … as an employee. One of the aspects of this responsibility years ago was oversight of the food production in our county correctional facility. It was a valuable experience for me and my team as we experienced a side of society that few [.] Author information Paul LaRue Author at The UPwards Leader Paul LaRue is the creator of the leadership blog The UPwards Leader and an account executive for a national broadline food distributor.

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How to Find Leadership Blindspots

Leading Blog

'Blindspots. Those problems that are right in front of us that we fail to see. We all have them not because we can’t find them, but because we don’t look very hard. In Leadership Blindspots , author Robert Shaw make this important observation: “ Leadership strengths are often found in close proximity to blindspots. An overpowering strength, in particular, usually has an associated blindspot.

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5 Leadership Development Priorities

Leading in Context

'By Linda Fisher Thornton The recent post "It''s Not About Us" was the most popular post of all time on the Leading in Context Blog. It described how our understanding of leadership has moved beyond a focus on the leader to a focus on creating shared value 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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Top 50 Companies for Diversity in 2014

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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You Can be a Tough Leader and not be an S.O.B.

Great Leadership By Dan

'Have you ever heard this said about a manager: "Well, he gets results, but leaves a trail of bodies in his wake" The thing that drives me crazy is way too many organizations (and people) accept this as OK. You know, you can get results and treat people with respect - the two are not mutually exclusive! Here''s another Great Leadership 2x2 model to sum up the relationship between results and respect as they apply to leadership: The great leaders are visionary and set extraordinary goals for them

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Don’t Get Ignored

Leadership Freak

'Long emails get pushed aside or ignored. “One of the worst things in people’s careers is to be ignored.” Joseph McCormack, author of, “Brief: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less.

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It’s Time For A Leadership PEP Talk

Joseph Lalonde

'I n many schools you’ll find a pep squad. The goal of the pep squad is to raise the school spirit and make people proud of their school. You may also have had pep talks growing up. Someone shares a few words of wisdom with you, hoping to raise your spirits. I don’t know when your last pep talk was but I think it’s time for a leadership P.E.P. talk today.

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The Power of Mythos, the Shared Story – A Powerful Tool for Persuasion

First Friday Book Synopsis

'This is profound – a key lesson for speakers, and for all who craft messages of any kind. When I teach speech, I go over the classic arguments describing the available means of persuasion’s three primary elements (all from Aristotle): logos (the logical argument), ethos (the ethical argument – the credibility of the speaker), and pathos […].

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Reference Books for Executives

Coaching Tip

'Today''s business world is extremely complex and challenging. It''s easy for even the most seasoned executive to make a mistake or overlook a detail that can lead to utter failure for his or her business. We have entered a new commercial age. The business models from the past that relied heavily on size and leverage will no longer deliver returns.

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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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Get to the Point – Be Brief (insight from Joseph McCormack’s book, brief)

First Friday Book Synopsis

'The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that’s already in the verb, every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what – […].

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What/Why Submit a Context Document?

David A Fields

'A question I was asked… What exactly is a Context Document and why do I need one?… See my response in the Solo Consultant’s Network. The post What/Why Submit a Context Document? appeared first on David A. Fields. Agreements Consultants Context Discussion Creating Value Fees Positioning Proposals Relationships adding value Consultative selling context discussions Context Document positioning.

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Jason Fried on “Why work doesn’t happen at work”

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Richard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until 2005, it remained a once-a-year conference: four days of programs, 50 speakers, 18-minute presentations. Anderson […].

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How To Make Your Written Communication Shorter And More Appealing

Eric Jacobson

'Author Joseph McCormack offers these six tips for ways of making your written communication shorter and more appealing: Deliver a strong title or subject line that''s your invitation. Limit your email to the original window. Make sure there is white space and balance throughout the text. Call out key ideas by calling them out in bold type. Start each bullet point with a strong word or catchy phrase.

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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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I Say This In Love…

Ron Edmondson

'“I say this in love…” You can injure a lot of people with that term. “I say this in love” has caused a lot of damage over the years. In marriage…. In church relationships…. In work situations…. In families…. It can be in person or online. It’s often the start of some of the “best” gossip — or unfair judging.

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RapidBI Daily Business Cartoon #64

Rapid BI

' ”How long have I been working here? Since I heard you walking towards my desk!

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Creating a Strategy for Limitless Success

General Leadership

'“ A goal without a plan is just a wish.”. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Growing up, one of my favorite television series was Mission: Impossible. The immensely popular program chronicles the adventures of the Impossible Missions Force (IMF), a team of government spies and specialists who are regularly offered “impossible missions” (should they decide to accept them).

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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

'We are all lean now — or soon will be. As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making. GE has responded to this drive for speed and need to align more closely with customers’ needs by using a new technique called “FastWorks.

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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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Think Differently About Protecting Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

'Licensing can generate big business for brands. The top 150 global licensors accounted in total for almost $230 billion , according to License! Global. Disney alone reported $39.3 billion in retail sales of licensed merchandise worldwide in 2012, fueled by the popularity of its Marvel Comics properties. Brands in categories from apparel to automotive to sporting goods to spirits are licensed.

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To Enhance Your Learning, Take a Few Minutes to Think About What You’ve Learned

Harvard Business Review

'Research participants who did an arithmetic brain-teaser and then reflected on their strategies for solving it went on to do 18% better in a second round than their peers who hadn’t set aside time to reflect, according to Giada Di Stefano of HEC Paris, Francesca Gino and Gary Pisano of Harvard Business School, and Bradley Staats of the University of North Carolina.

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Think Beyond “Mobile” vs. “Desktop” Shoppers

Harvard Business Review

'We all know the story of mobility’s meteoric rise in the last several years. From flip-phones to smartphones to an expanding galaxy of different connected screens and devices, we can safely say that access to the world’s information on-demand will be part of our lives now, and for the foreseeable future. We’re at the end of the beginning. At Google, I meet with companies of all sizes to discuss how connectivity has changed consumer behavior, and what this means for their business.

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Facebook’s Unbundling Strategy Makes Perfect Sense

Harvard Business Review

'Can a company built on the ideas of scale and network effects unbundle its offering into multiple brands and still thrive? Facebook is about to find out. Unbundling has a compelling strategic and competitive rationale for Facebook. It has implications that extend far beyond the company’s stated goal to design single-purpose apps that fit mobile usage and the bottleneck of screen mobile device real estate.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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The Right Colors Make Data Easier To Read

Harvard Business Review

'What is the color of money? Of love? Of the ocean? In the United States, most people respond that money is green, love is red and the ocean is blue. Many concepts evoke related colors — whether due to physical appearance, common metaphors, or cultural conventions. When colors are paired with the concepts that evoke them, we call these “semantically resonant color choices.” Artists and designers regularly use semantically resonant colors in their work.