Fri.Apr 29, 2016

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Followership: Secret to Military Leadership

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “It is the men behind who make the man ahead.”. Merle Crowell. Leadership is a continual journey through actions and growth, not merely a journey’s end for a resume. Search your favorite online bookstore for ‘leadership’ and you will find in excess of 22,000 books.

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Feedback is Good (Even When it Feels So Bad)

Lead Change Blog

What does “Performance Feedback” mean to you? A painful waste of time, or a great opportunity? Both have been said about the same experience. How? I’ve learned it is possible to find value in even the most poorly delivered evaluation, no matter where it comes from. We can all process feedback so we can benefit from it rather than reject critical comments.

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Attitude Impacts Everything

Joseph Lalonde

D id you know that you have the ability to determine how your day will go? It’s true. While we can’t make people do what we want. And we can’t change how others treat us. We can make sure we have a good day. You may be wondering how this could be. It’s simple, yet difficult, to implement. We have control over the biggest influence of how our day goes.

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How to Become a Light in the Fog

Leadership Freak

I’ve heard managers complain, “These people just don’t get it.” Poor management is the reason people inside organizations are in the fog. Impose the job of creating clarity on yourself.

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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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Weekly Round-Up: What Great Leadership Looks Like, Why Leadership Isn't Soft, Authentic Leadership Fails & More

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog.

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Put Time on Your Team

Strategy Driven

The sales cycles can be long and drawn out when selling to large enterprise organizations. Months, and even years, may pass in a significant opportunity with a large account: And as time adds up in pursuits, doubt, uncertainty, risks, and costs do as well. The commitment of finances, organizational energy, and resources – human and otherwise – can be daunting.

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Run Meetings That Are Fair to Introverts, Women, and Remote Workers

Harvard Business Review

In the ideal meeting, all attendees participate, contributing diverse points of view and thinking together to reach new insights. But few meetings live up to this ideal, in large part because not everyone is able to effectively contribute. We recently asked employees at a large global bank a question: “When you have a contribution to make in a meeting, how often are you able to do so?

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Research: Vague Feedback Is Holding Women Back

Harvard Business Review

laura schneider FOR HBR. Although companies have invested heavily in programs to advance women leaders, the number of women in executive roles has not changed significantly in the last decade. Even if women are well represented as middle managers, their numbers drop off when making the jump to VP-level executives. Why are women not rising to executive ranks?

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The Internet of Things Needs Design, Not Just Technology

Harvard Business Review

Gartner Research predicts that the typical family home will contain as many as 500 networked devices by 2020. Similarly, Ericsson forecasts 50 billion connected “things” by the same date. Reaching these lofty projections over the next four years, however, will require a fundamental reorientation in the way that technologists and product designers work together to create successful “connected” personal devices and home appliance products.

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Corporate Ethics Can’t Be Reduced to Compliance

Harvard Business Review

At companies across the globe, the layers of compliance mechanisms are growing. At first blush this seems to make sense: Perhaps the most obviously straightforward method of preventing unethical or damaging behavior is increasing the number of rules designed to curtail it. However, one of the more unsettling and unintended consequences of a singular focus on ethics-as-compliance is a checkbox mentality that gives the illusion of reducing risk without really doing so.

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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