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5 New Leadership and Management Books You Can Read on a Plane

Women on Business

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Three Ways to Protect Success

Leadership Freak

'Letting down destroys you. Maintaining and sustaining success is harder than achieving it. Humility is your companion on the way up. Arrogance trips you at the top. Three ways to protect success: #1.

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The 21st Century Leader

Coaching Tip

' . Changes in the world of work are imposing new challenges on leaders, the most significant of which are: Innovation: the challenge is to create an innovative and entreprenurial culture that meets ever-increasing customer needs. Talent management: this involves not only attracting exceptional individuals, but also developing and retaining them. Communication: the 21st Century knowledge economy poses both threats and opportunities for leaders.

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The Eyes of Madison Bumgarner’s Coach – A Lesson in World-Class Coaching from Dave Righetti, the Coach of the World Series MVP

First Friday Book Synopsis

'What does the best coach do? First, I think the best coach notices what the person being coached is doing right – and what the person is doing wrong. Which means, the best coach knows what to look for. If the person being coached does things right, then all is well. If the person being […].

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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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Removing Weaknesses & Building Strengths

CO2

'by Gary Cohen. Leaders want themselves, their coworkers, and their organizations to be stronger. To get stronger, they tend to take one of two approaches: removing weaknesses or building strengths. Both approaches work. But to be happy and achieve the most success, you must do both. You must remove weaknesses and build strengths. In the U.S., we tend to focus heavily on one or the other: deficits or strengths.

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What is Your Plan When You Mess Up? – You will Probably Need One at Some Point

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Plan noun a detailed proposal for doing or achieving something an intention or decision about what one is going to do.”I have no plans to retire” blueprint Plan verb decide on and arrange in advance ——————– You know the accepted wisdom. Like: “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” And, you know that […].

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Karl M. Kapp: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Karl M. Kapp, Ed.D., CFPIM, CIRM, is a scholar, writer and expert on the convergence of learning, technology and business operations. He is a graduate professor of instructional technology at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA. where he teaches courses in instructional game design and gamification and is the Director of the acclaimed Institute for Interactive […].

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Challenging High-Potential Managers To Become Great Leaders

Eric Jacobson

'When I read business books, I turn the corner of every page that has something I really like, want to remember and easily reference in the future. Halfway into the 300-page book, Leadership Conversations , I had turned the corners of nearly every fifth pages. So, you can see why I believe this is such a good book. There is so much to learn from Leadership Conversations.

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Karl M. Kapp: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Karl M. Kapp, Ed.D., CFPIM, CIRM, is a scholar, writer and expert on the convergence of learning, technology and business operations. He is a graduate professor of instructional technology at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA. where he teaches courses in instructional game design and gamification and is the Director of the acclaimed Institute for Interactive […].

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How Compensation Studies Help Underpaid Community Managers

Managing Communities

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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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What is Your Plan When You Mess Up? – You will Probably Need One at Some Point

First Friday Book Synopsis

'Plan noun a detailed proposal for doing or achieving something an intention or decision about what one is going to do.”I have no plans to retire” blueprint Plan verb decide on and arrange in advance ——————– You know the accepted wisdom. Like: “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” And, you know that […].

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Removing Weaknesses & Building Strengths

CO2

Leaders want themselves, their coworkers, and their organizations to be stronger. To get stronger, they tend to take one of two approaches: removing weaknesses or building strengths. Both approaches work. But to be happy and achieve the most success, you must do both. You must remove weaknesses and build strengths. In the U.S., we tend to focus heavily on one or the other: deficits or strengths.

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The Eyes of Madison Bumgarner’s Coach – A Lesson in World-Class Coaching from Dave Righetti, the Coach of the World Series MVP

First Friday Book Synopsis

'What does the best coach do? First, I think the best coach notices what the person being coached is doing right – and what the person is doing wrong. Which means, the best coach knows what to look for. If the person being coached does things right, then all is well. If the person being […].

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5 Suggestions When the Senior Leader is Unpopular

Ron Edmondson

'Making the right decision isn’t always appreciated. If a leader is going to do anything of value, it will involve risks and be subject to the opinions of others. There will be days, weeks and seasons where it feels as if everyone is against you — even though you know, because of insight you have — that others don’t have or because of a calling of God — that you are doing the best thing for the organization.

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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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Why Tim Cook’s Coming Out Matters for Apple, and Business

Harvard Business Review

'Ellen. Anderson Cooper. Michael Sam. All three broke barriers by coming out in their respective industries – comedy, television news, and football. Now they’re joined by Apple CEO Tim Cook, who just announced that he’s “ proud to be gay ” and, in the process, became the first Fortune 500 CEO to come out. Earlier this year, two CEOs of publicly traded – yet much smaller – firms came out.

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Put the “and” Back in “Sales and Marketing”

Harvard Business Review

'Nowhere else in the executive suite of a typical corporation are two functions as closely intertwined as sales and marketing. Yet for all the shared responsibility, the marketing and sales relationship has often been a contentious and lopsided one, with sales dominating in B2B sectors while marketing leads in B2C ones. The joint challenge today for CMOs and heads of sales (or CSOs – Chief Sales Officers) is how they can work together to discover insights that matter, design the right offers and

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More Data Won’t Turn Employees into High-Performing Machines

Harvard Business Review

'In much of the industrialized world, work has changed dramatically in the past 100 years. We have come a long way since the early days of assembly lines and Fordism. Today, we talk about giving employees a consumer-like experience: not “jobs,” but meaningful careers; not “roles”, but a sense of purpose. At least in our narrative, engagement has replaced productivity — work should be rewarding and fun, colleagues should be friends, and work-life balance has been replaced by work-life integration

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Communication Tips for Global Virtual Teams

Harvard Business Review

'One of my designers lives in Turkmenistan. Every day, he wakes up to email and assignments to create beautiful front-end designs from our commercial team in New York and San Francisco. When he’s done, he sends them to a developer in Ukraine to implement. Throughout the day they work on various projects, and when they go to bed our design and development teams in New York take over.

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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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Imagining Productivity Apps for the Apple Watch

Harvard Business Review

'App developers from Stockholm to San Francisco are anxiously counting down the days til the November release of the Apple Watch SDK (or “Software Development Kit”), which will give them the tools to begin building their own concepts. I’d argue that these developers stand at a crossroads for the Internet of Things (IoT). Following one path, they can design the familiar types of apps that we already see on tablets and phones, simply scaled-down for a smaller screen.

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Is the Corporate Campus Dying?

Harvard Business Review

'Jennifer Magnolfi , Founder & Principal Investigator at Programmable Habitats LLC, on how digital work, and the Internet of Things will fundamentally change the how we use the buildings and neighborhoods we work in. For more, read the article Workspaces That Move People. Download this podcast.

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When Real-Time Intel Still Isn’t Fast Enough

Harvard Business Review

'We now live in a world where both man and machine can access data on almost any topic at any moment. Documentation of our world happens in real time, through a constant, autonomous torrent of ones and zeroes — and research and recall of that information have been reduced to mere mouse clicks. With all data available at all times, opportunities — and adversaries — can also move in real time.