May, 2011

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10 Principles for The Selfless Leader (From An American Hero)

Terry Starbucker

(From www.majordickwinters.com). “I know plenty of heroes, but I am certainly not one&# – Major Dick Winters , commander, Easy Company, 101st Airborne division, World War II. These words are from a man who led his “Band of Brothers&# from the D-Day landings to the German Surrender, bravely and selflessly. He was often out-manned in the battlefield, but still prevailed with his deft strategies and coolness under fire (in fact, his successful assault on German guns on Utah beach,

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Should Leaders Care About Employee Happiness?

Michael Lee Stallard

Should leaders care about employee happiness or is employee engagement a passing fad? Let me frame this debate in a slightly different way that I believe provides the best answer. As part of creating value, leaders need to be intentional about achieving both task excellence and relationship excellence because our research found that both are necessary to achieve sustainable superior performance i.e.

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Defining Great Leadership

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. With all the attention and emphasis given to leadership, I have a few questions for you: Why is it that so many people refer to themselves as leaders, but truly great leaders are so few in number? How do you measure great leadership? And finally, is there a common thread that distinguishes those viewed as great leaders from the masses of those who hold leadership positions?

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It Takes Courage And Character To Unify People

Lead Change Blog

In the 6th century BC, Aesop told a fable about the Lion and The Four Oxen. A lion used to prowl around a field where four oxen dwelled. Many times he would try to eat them but whenever he approached the four oxen would back their tales up to each other with their bodies pointed [.].

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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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7 Essential Attributes for Picking Good Leaders

Leading Blog

We complain about our leaders. So we eventually get rid of them and we move on to the next one with the hope that it will be different this time. But it’s not. And we’re back where we started. Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran ask Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? “For starters,” they write, “because selecting the right people can be very, very, hard.

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Learning To Appreciate The White Spaces

Tanveer Naseer

A few months ago, I decided to update my office space in response to the growing needs of my business. One of these changes involved rearranging one of the office walls to accommodate a new whiteboard and bulletin board for brainstorming and keeping track of client projects. Although they’ve proven to be welcome additions to my productivity arsenal, they left me with a problem – the best layout for these two items left a very noticeable gap on that wall.

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We are Human Beings, Not Machines

Michael Lee Stallard

If you look closely there are signs that our culture is beginning to recognize that we are human beings, not machines. We have emotions, a conscience, hopes and dreams. A New York Times magazine article entitled “ The Korean Dads’ 12-Step Program &# described a “Father School&# where emotionally challenged Koream fathers learned to connect with their wives and children.

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Managing Up? Use Caution.

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. “ Managing Up &# is a great catch phrase and an interesting concept – it’s also a practice that can get you in deep trouble rather quickly if misunderstood or misapplied. Many people would say the purpose of managing-up is to have the by-product of your efforts enhance the work of those you report to.

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The Value of Being Active in Social Media

Lead Change Blog

Originally posted on LeadSwag, co-Authored by Ron_Marshall. In today’s job market, one must be seen in order to be heard. The most consistent, reputation-building method to be seen is by using social media. The FLinT (Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter) media stack and other current media platforms like Quora and YouTube are used to perpetuate one’s personal brand.

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3 Attributes that Will Help You be Better Under Pressure

Leading Blog

Justin Menkes says that there are no longer periods of calm seas for leaders in any industry. So it’s not a matter of gritting your teeth and riding out the crisis. Leaders must get comfortable in an environment of ongoing stress. They must be Better Under Pressure. To do this a leader must possess a “highly unusual set of attributes that often run counter to natural human behavior.

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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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Learning To Appreciate The White Spaces

Tanveer Naseer

A few months ago, I decided to update my office space in response to the growing needs of my business. One of these changes involved rearranging one of the office walls to accommodate a new whiteboard and bulletin board for brainstorming and keeping track of client projects. Although they’ve proven to be welcome additions to my productivity arsenal, they left me with a problem – the best layout for these two items left a very noticeable gap on that wall.

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7 Keys To Unlocking Your Team’s Potential

Terry Starbucker

Building a great team around you is one of those leadership skills that can make or break you. It’s one thing to get all the “right people on the bus&# (to steal a Jim Collins phrase), but it’s quite another to get the team to create an unstoppable collective force that can achieve greatness. Unfortunately, sometimes it’s just a bus going to nowhere.

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The Fine Art of GSD: How to Get Stuff Done in a Large Organization

Next Level Blog

One of the highest compliments that can be paid in our house is that someone GSD’s. While we have a somewhat colorful definition of what GSD means, the polite way to explain it is that it stands for. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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What’s Your Time Worth? Why Pricing Matters

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Are you shooting yourself in the foot with your pricing strategy? How much is your time worth? What does your pricing say about your personal or corporate brand? Do you have a pricing strategy, or do you set your prices by some ethereal or arbitrary method? Even though I believe issues surrounding pricing decisions are root level drivers to a successful business strategy, I never cease to be amazed at how many corporations and professionals seem

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5 Ways to Improve DE&I in the Workplace

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical for an organization’s success. And companies that take bold action to help ensure an inclusive workplace will win every time. Discover how your company can create a culture that celebrates DE&I while achieving higher revenue and growth.

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Graceful Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Graceful by Seth Godin is the best $3 you will spend this year! I’m serious. The author quickly takes you through a series of ideas created to help you move individually from defensive, zero-sum, factory-style of leadership to a new gift-based, positive-sum, community-style model. Position It used to be that leaders were the people “in [.

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5 Leadership Lessons: Redesigning Leadership

Leading Blog

John Maeda is the president of the Rhode Island School of Design. In Redesigning Leadership , he—with co-author Becky Bermont—pulls the leadership lessons from the ups and downs of his time there. In his transition from MIT to RISD he found that the two words “free pizza” were a powerful motivator to convene large numbers of students. “Making people work together can be fairly challenging, but getting them to eat together is somehow vastly easier.

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Helping Employees Reconnect With Their Sense of Purpose

Tanveer Naseer

Have you ever worked on a team project where you had concerns that the limited efforts being made by some team members was going to negatively impact the final outcome? It’s a situation my younger daughter found herself in a few weeks ago while rehearsing with her skating group for their end-of-season figure skating show. Watching how she ultimately chose to deal with this problem brought to mind an important point leaders should consider when trying to encourage their employees to aid the

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Six Words That Will Save You Time, Effort, and Money – and Preserve Your Sanity

Terry Starbucker

There’s nothing more gut wrenching for a leader than screwing up, but there’s something far worse out there – the consequences of screwing up, if it isn’t handled it the right way. What do I mean by that? A situation where we just can’t bring ourselves to concede that a mistake was made in the first place, which leads to attempts to work around it, ignore it, or plow right ahead.

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No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results

Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.

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Women Executives More than Twice as Likely to Leave Jobs

Women on Business

Female executives are more than twice as likely to leave their jobs as men. This includes both voluntarily and involuntarily departures. Yesterday I was interviewed by a reporter writing for CareerBuilder on negotiating for women in business, and the data from a study by John Becker-Blease of Oregon State University , and his colleagues from Loyola Marymount University and Trinity College , came to mind.

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Not All Research is Valid Research

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. I just finished reading a post by Jennifer Miller that pointed out the benefits of MBWA (Management By Walking Around – classic Tom Peters) where Jennifer provided 8 valuable tips for making walking around more productive. MBWA is both a practical and productive use of time for a CEO. I respect Jennifer’s work and find no flaw whatsoever in her encouragement to CEOs to spend more time with their employees and directors.

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Good Leaders: Tough and Tender

Lead Change Blog

Everyone agreed George was a tough boss. He was demanding, settling for nothing less than one’s best. He was goal-oriented, charismatic and driven. He pushed when outcomes weren’t up to par; he beamed when they were. He challenged when he knew people were capable of more. He offered up praise, appreciation and thanks. He had [.] Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Do You Have a Virus in Your Group?

Leading Blog

It’s not unusual to find in a group, a person that just doesn’t seem to fit in; someone we would rather do without. Often we find them irritating simply because they are coming from a different perspective—a different agenda—than the rest of the group. While this can be annoying, these people provide a very important service to the group. Consider the experience Rhode Island School of Design president John Maeda relates in Redesigning Leadership : Working in a group where there are considerable

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Innovation: Five Signs You Might Be Faking It

Every company wants to be a leader in innovation, but how can you tell if your company is really innovating or just going through the motions? See the 5 signs you might be faking innovation and what to do if you are.

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What Babe Ruth Can Teach Leaders About Facing Today’s Challenges

Tanveer Naseer

Being Canadian, I’m sure it comes as little surprise that I’m not much of a baseball fan (growing up, hockey, football and soccer were the sports I preferred playing). Of course, you don’t have to be a fan of baseball to enjoy or relate to the wonderful stories, both humorous and inspiring, which have become a part of this sport’s history.

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Why Leaders Can’t Ignore The Pride Principle

Terry Starbucker

It’s there. Unless you destroy it. By how you lead. In virtually every workplace, among those who serve the customers, or make the widgets, or support those who do either of these things, is a strong desire to do their jobs to the best of their abilities. I call it the “Pride Principle&#. Humans have a propensity to take satisfaction from doing something well.

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Who Do You Learn From?

Persuasive Powerhouse

All leaders should make an effort to surround themselves with people who stretch their thinking. Those who live out of the box, are different from us, way ahead of us, following the road less travelled, societal outcasts and those who live and work quietly – all are fair game to learn from. Ironically, those who have [.

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Look Me in the Eyes

Next Level Blog

Earlier this week I gave a speech to a couple of hundred managers about how to stay on track with delegation. As part of the talk, I introduced a step by step approach to effective and worry free. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Tough Comp Conversations: A Guide For Doing Them Right

Speaker: Rusty Lindquist, VP Strategic HR Insights at Bamboo HR

Compensation can be tricky, few things carry as much emotional weight as comp. And with the increased transparency in the market, combined with our collective propensity to rate ourselves against others, the frequency of these very difficult conversations is increasing. In this webinar, we will deconstruct some of the psychology around comp. We’ll take an analytic look at comp’s role in the employee experience, and then we’ll get really tactical with guidance on very specific compensation conver

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Cultivating Idea Leadership—Views From an IBM Fellow

Lead Change Blog

Wondering how to rekindle creativity in your workplace? Meet IBM Fellow John Cohn, Ph.D., an idea powerhouse who has been at IBM for 29 years. He shares six observations about how to keep innovators engaged and on board.

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Inc Magazine’s 10 Tips on How to Research Your Competition

Women on Business

Inc. Magazine recently ran a piece titled, “10 Tips on How to Research Your Competition.&# If Tweets, Likes and LinkedIn Shares are any indication, this piece by Darren Dahl, has generated quite an online buzz. Must be a compelling topic… The interest and importance of researching your competition is a no-brainer. Obviously it’s important, no matter what industry you’re in, what you’re selling or who you’re selling to.

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A Simple Workaround to Overcome the Bureaucratic Mindset

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest post by Russell Bishop. Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Russell serves as the Senior Editor-at-Large for the Business and Living sections of The Huffington Post.

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How a Dictionary Tells Us Everything We Need To Know About Leadership

Terry Starbucker

I had my leadership epiphany reading a dictionary. Yep, a good old Webster’s Dictionary. I used to have a bound version at my side at all times – back before the Internet and Google. I loved to look up words I didn’t know. Back when I was struggling to find my ultimate path and purpose, I tried to read various books about management and leadership for inspiration, but nothing really stuck.

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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.