Sat.May 28, 2011 - Fri.Jun 03, 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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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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4 Lessons from the Toyota Crisis

Leading Blog

“Crisis response must start by building a strong culture long before the crisis hits,” say Jeffrey Liker and Tim Ogden, authors of Toyota Under Fire. Turning crisis into opportunity is all about culture. It’s not about PR strategies, or charismatic leadership, or vision, or any specific action by any individual. It’s not about policies or procedures or risk mitigation processes.

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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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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 Most Efficient Product Enhancement Strategy Ever Devised

Terry Starbucker

“Thank you for your business – we really appreciate it&#. That is a very valuable string of words. That is, if you say them to your customers. How do I know they are valuable? I did a little experiment at my company a few years ago. We called folks 7 days after a transaction and said those words (from a real human being, not a robo-caller).

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A Balanced Life – Does It Make For a Better Leader?

Lead Change Blog

A few weeks ago, one of my clients – a business owner, parent (of four) and wife – sent me an email crying out for help in dealing with the overwhelm enveloping her from all directions. There is NO balance in her life, and she is desperate for the breathing room that a balanced life [.] Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Are You a Compassionate Leader?

Persuasive Powerhouse

I have enjoyed a friendship with Julie Hliboki, today’s guest author, for several years. She is a leader in a very different sort than the type we normally consider in the corporate world, following her heart and soul in a transformational journey captured in The Breath of God, Thirty-Three Invitations to Embody Holy Wisdom [.

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Leadership and Feminism

Women on Business

In our recent GUTSY WOMEN LEADERS retreat I showed a video of Isabel Allende when she was a presenter at a TED conference. She is one of my favorite authors; her novels are filled with the depth of what life is all about; love, sorrow, misunderstandings, and the courage to change. She mentions a conversation she had with her daughter who stated emphatically that feminism is old, stale, and no longer valid.

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Coaching an Employee to Change a Bad Habit

Lead Change Blog

One of your employees has a career-limiting habit. As a manager, your job is to hold up a mirror to create awareness of the behavior and its consequences—and to help your employee through the change process. Here’s a conversation framework to improve your chances of securing the desired new behavior. Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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LeadershipNow 140: May 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from May 2011: @Jim_Kouzes: If you want to be more creative, think outside of yourself. Read more @PsyBlog. @stevefarber: Make a list of your constraints. Now, boldly and blatantly disregard that list. @_robin_sharma: 17 Tips to Double Your Productivity in 14 Days. Tackling the Multitasking Myth by @DPForrester. Vaynerchuk: We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.

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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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Three Danger Signals That Your Integrity is at Risk

Next Level Blog

Some recent news stories, one in particular, have caused me to pull out my dictionary to look up the word, integrity. (I like to use the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language because. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Employee Motivation Tips: Their DISC Behavior Style

The Recovering Engineer

In previous posts, I have written about a model for understanding what motivates behavior and three clues you can use to find what motivates another person. Today, I’ll share some quick insights about what motivates people based on their DISC behavioral style. A person who has outgoing and task-oriented (Dominant) traits is often motivated by: Solving problems.

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Leadership on Purpose – Beginning

Lead Change Blog

The reality is forces exist to malign your leadership to mediocrity. Steven Pressfield and Seth Godin call it Resistance. And Resistance is alive in the endless chatter in our heads. Mediocrity is also what we achieve when we go with what’s popular despite every inch of our soul screaming to go to unexplored, lesser-known paths. [.] Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Can You Be Successful In Your Business’s Culture?

Women on Business

Are you having a difficult time excelling in your business’s corporate culture? Are you in an environment where you can succeed? Whether you work for a Fortune 500, small business, or a start-up, the question remains the same. This question is about much more than fitting in. I’m not talking about getting along with others and doing what you need to do get your job done.

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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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Thrive on Pressure and Better Under Pressure

CEO Blog

I was going to write a blog entry on how we create our own pressure - like the pressure to do a blog post. In reality it would make no difference if I skipped it. But then I tried to come up with the idea on what are the "must dos" and found that even those were choices created by our values. For example, I was going to suggest that there was a need to work out.

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Track it, change it

Jason Womack

Knowing what you're going to do with time (attend a meeting, travel by plane, work on a document, take a class) is very different than knowing what you did with time. Recently, I met with 12 managing directors of a global investment firm. In each conversation, we discussed this combination of planning and tracking. If you thought about it, or if we talked about it, how would you compare your own balancing act between what you say you'll do.and what you actually do?

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Sacrifice and Service

Lead Change Blog

On US Memorial Day, I’d like to take a minute again this year and thank the families of those who fell in service to our country. In prosperous times, it’s tempting to think of leaders as those who make the most money, who are “in charge,&# or who have the most authority. The Lead Change [.] Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Redesigning Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Redesigning Leadership: Design, Technology, Business, Life John Maeda with Becky Bermont The MIT Press (2011) “Ue ni wa ue ga aru” is a Japanese aphorism that epitomizes the nature of excellence: “Above up, there is something even higher above up.&# The same can express John Maeda’s opinion of leadership as a never-ending “work-in-progress.&# Those who [.].

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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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Open Innovation and Crowd Sourcing

CEO Blog

There is a great HBR article on how habits and rituals are the way successful people succeed - not will power. It talks about the limits of willpower just like Chip and Dan Heaths book Switch talks about. Ran a 5 K race today. Oppressively hot and humid (for me). Discouraging time (24:02) Garden is doing well. Asparagus, chives and sorrel are all done for the season.

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3 ways to use “Building Your Personal Excellence”

Jason Womack

Jason's 70-minute CD, "Building Your Personal Excellence," gives you 11 more valuable workplace performance and personal excellence perspectives. Here are three ways to use this CD and more than your money’s worth right away: 1. Listen to it. Each track is less than 9 minutes long (we did that on purpose). For example, “Debrief your projects, events and the week” is just over 5 minutes and gives you solid advice on how to learn from this week, and go into next week prepared and ready to succeed.

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Video Book Club: You Are Not Your Brain

Next Level Blog

It’s conference season which means free books and authors talking about their books. Heard and started to read a good one this week. It’s You Are Not Your Brain by Jeffrey Schwartz and Rebecca. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Where Have All The Jobs Gone? – Automation Has Replaced Them One By One

First Friday Book Synopsis

So, the problem is a serious problem. Not for most of those with college degrees, and not for those, with or without a degree, who are creative, innovative, serious self-starters. But our society will not thrive if those are the only people with work to do and money to spend. Here is the passage that [.].

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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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Thought-full Thursday: Finding Truth

Persuasive Powerhouse

Every Thursday, we provide you with a thoughtful way to coach yourself – something all leaders need to do. So take five and enjoy the inspirational quotes and reflect on the questions that follow. Your comments, thoughts, and responses to the questions are most welcome! We must love them both – those whose opinions [.

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Wait…what?

Women on Business

Guest Post by Amber Little. Listening seems like a pretty basic skill that doesn’t take much thought. If we can hear, we can listen, right? Wrong. Hearing and listening are two very different things. What gets me about listening is that we’ve had very little formal instruction on effective listening, yet we spend plenty of time training to effectively read, write and speak… and it’s one of the most important skills you will need to be successful.

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Leadership and…the Cascade Stress Effect

Leading in Context

If we use fear-based leadership, bullying, command-and-control leadership, belittling, sabotage or other forms of psychological violence, or allow them to be used by others in our organizations, we create the opposite of a supportive, productive learning organization. We create an environment of toxic stress that harms people and the organization. LeadinginContext.com.

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The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

Happy Memorial Day! I hope you had a wonderful holiday and were able to spend the day with friends and family as we pay tribute to all those who have served our great country and those currently fighting to keep us safe and free. I like to kick off each work week with five recent blog posts that I found to be especially good reading. Without further ado, here you go!

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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 15 Universal Attributes Of Winners – Insight From Win by Frank Luntz

First Friday Book Synopsis

In Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary, the third book I have read and presented (after Friday) by Frank Luntz, we read his “conclusions&# at the very beginning of the book. Here they are: • The 15 universal attributes of winners (Luntz’s summary of his “conclusions”)… 1) the ability to grasp the [.].

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Beautiful Barriers

Tony Mayo

I encountered today a wonderful expression of the same insight that I shared in my video, Roadwork for Enduring Success. You may recall that in 2003 the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude created in New York’s Central Park a huge art installation called The Gates. You may not know that they began seeking permission for this [.].

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5 Behavioral Values Expected of People & Leaders

Mike Cardus

People on teams are powerful at creating self-sanctioning actions for maladaptive behaviors. High Functioning Teams and the people in these teams have general shared values which lead to a commitment to great work and achievement. The Managerial Leader must play a requisite role in developing solution steps for continued positive behaviors and must also properly handle maladaptive behaviors in the same manner as dealing with under-performance with a task assignment.

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Possibility Maximizer: It's Everybody's Business with Jack and Suzy Welch - Now on CNBC!

Sales Wolf Blog

Happy Friday - I hope you have had a wonderful week! Each Friday I like to highlight a resource that I feel can help you and your organization to Maximize Possibility. Today I am excited to share an exciting new resource from one of my favorite business leaders: Jack Welch. Enjoy! The Resource: It's Everybody's Business with Jack and Suzy Welch on CNBC What It Is: It's Everybody's Business started as a web series featuring Jack and Suzy Welch as they work with large national companies to tackle

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How to Write OKRs: 45 Effective Examples

Discover how to align everyday employee priorities with company goals. Many companies are embracing objectives and key results (OKRs) as the best practice for committing to goals and following through. Objectives are outcomes that reflect current company priorities. Each employee should write OKRs that roll up to larger company goals. Show employees how they contribute to the larger mission.