Sat.Jun 18, 2011 - Fri.Jun 24, 2011

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Failing to Communicate

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . Are you guilty of having a failure to communicate? Here’s the thing - who cares if you possess excellent communication skills if you don’t use them properly. If your command of vocabulary and the elocution of your presentation are impeccable, but they don’t advance your vision, develop your team, or otherwise add value to your stakeholders, then I would suggest your well honed skills are not as refined as you may think.

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The Leadership Lesson That’s The Hardest to Learn, AND to Practice

Terry Starbucker

Your way isn’t the only way. That’s a tough one. Because even when we realize it, AND we know that perspective must be a part of great leadership, we still find it very difficult to practice it. I know, because I “learned&# it way back in my teenage years, when I was the editor-in-chief of our high school newspaper. I knew EXACTLY what I wanted in that paper, and when I couldn’t convince the other staff to agree with me, I took matters into my own hands, and practically d

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Pass It On: The Imperative to Lead

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership We get off the plane in Chicago, my daughters and I, enroute to South Carolina. With a 3 hour layover ahead of us, we take our time. We check the monitors for our connecting gate: A 11. I look up: we stand at gate B-15. It’s a long walk through Midway airport, past all the [.] Pass It On: The Imperative to Lead.

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You Can Be Legal and Still Be Wrong

Leading Blog

It’s not uncommon to find a big difference between what’s legal and what’s right. Our preoccupation with “what’s legal” insures more legal problems. If we paid more attention to what’s right, we would take our relationships to a new level. And it’s all about relationships. Legal is about what I can get away with. Ethics is about what is right. Legal requires less thought than ethics.

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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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What Can You Do with a Ten Minute Break

Next Level Blog

Today's post is short and sweet as I have about 10 minutes before they shut the door on my plane. Which raises the question, "What can you do with a 10 minute break?" That question is on my mind. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Link between low birth weights and obesity later in life: Altering hormone levels changes cellular development in the brain

Tanveer Naseer

Researchers found altering the levels of two common hormones, insulin and leptin, in utero changes the cellular development in the region of the brain that regulates appetite.

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The Essential Ingredient for Executing Your Vision

Leading Blog

If you don’t build a framework of values around your vision, it will fall short of the goal. And those values must be clearly understood by everyone on the team if the initiative is to succeed, for a couple of basic reasons. A vision is what could be , but it is grounded and guided by—or even sent off-course by—your most deeply held values— what is.

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29 Fortune 500 Companies Have No Women on Boards

Women on Business

In a new ranking of public companies without women in top leadership from Bloomberg Businessweek.com, it was revealed that 5.8% of the companies in the S&P 500, “remain all male in decision-making roles, with no women on the board of directors or among the company’s top five highest-paid officers.&#. Perhaps the most surprising company on this list is Discovery Communications, the company that produces Animal Planet and the Oprah Winfrey Network.

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Learning From the Struggle

Persuasive Powerhouse

Last summer I spent three days at a workshop that was advertised for “experienced coaches&#. Even though I wanted to go to the workshop, travelling across the country to be there, I realized later that I went with the subconscious belief that I already knew all I needed to know already about how to [.

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Sustainable Leadership vs. Effective Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development A while back, I wrote a post titled Good Leadership vs. Effective Leadership about the difference between a good leader and an effective leader. The premise of that post was that an effective leader was one who got others to do what that leader wanted. A good leader was one who got others to achieve [.] Sustainable Leadership vs.

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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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Does Your Wellbeing Need a Boost?

Leading Blog

Gallup scientists have determined that there are five universal and interdependent elements of wellbeing that differentiate a thriving life from one spent suffering: Career : liking what you do every day (Tip: Every day, use your strengths.). Social : having strong relationships (Tip: Spend six hours a day socializing—face-to-face, phone, e-mail.). Financial : a well managed economic life (Tip: Spend on others instead of solely on material possessions.).

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Discover How You Can Benefit from Content Marketing

Women on Business

Following is an edited excerpt from my latest book, Content Marketing for Dummies , which teaches individuals and business owners how to create and publish online content that can help you reach your goals. The primary benefits of content marketing are building brand awareness and developing relationships with your target consumer audience and online influencers.

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Pardon Me Your Ego is Showing

Persuasive Powerhouse

I watched a CNN show the other day where the news anchor rattled off the names of all of the recent indiscretions made by public leaders lately. Although I’d heard of all of them, over time, they became a little diluted in my mind. When I heard the anchor list them, I was shocked [.

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“Respect Must Be Earned” – Leaders, Are You Comfortable Being Held to a Higher Standard?

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Best of Blogs Series Leadership Development Bosses, no, I really don’t intend on making you a target of disrespect. Earlier this year I expounded on how much this phrase, “respect must be earned,&# bugs me, in the context of a manager to employee relationship — mainly because it can be misinterpreted and give license to immature or unscrupulous managers to treat [.] “Respect Must Be Earned&# – Leaders, Are You Comfortable Being Held to a Higher Standard?

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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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Leading Views: Keep Dissenters Close to Provide Perspective

Leading Blog

Decade of Change is a collection of articles from the Gallup Management Journal designed to provide a roadmap for moving forward into an uncertain future. In an interview with retired Lieutenant General Russel Honoré , he advises that leaders should keep dissenters close to provide perspective. This point cannot be stressed enough because although we all know it, most of us rarely encourage it.

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E-Book and Good News

Michael Lee Stallard

Today I’m teaching a two-hour webinar entitled “Outstanding Individual Contributors&# for Executive Development Partner’s and its client McKesson Corporation. As part of the webinar, I’m offering a free download of the digital version of Fired Up or Burned Out. You can access the digital version (a pdf file), save and print it at this link.

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Leadership in Action at the CDC

Next Level Blog

Yesterday, I had the good fortune to follow Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control, as a speaker to the leadership fellows of his agency. His remarks were so fascinating that. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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The Art of Disruption

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development What do these things have in common? Fire; the wheel; the plow. Electricity; the internet; the iPhone. Galileo; Newton; Einstein. Martin Luther King Jr.; Gandhi; Jesus. Each of these items or individuals caused an irreversible disruption in the course of human history. Their influence is so tightly woven into the fabric of our daily lives that [.

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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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Thought-full Thursday: Two Kinds of Power

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! Power is of two kinds. One is obtained [.

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Learn How to Pitch Your Company to the Federal Government – Free Webinar

Women on Business

I just learned about a free webinar hosted by American Express OPEN and Women Impacting Public Policy that might be very helpful to some WomenOnBusiness.com readers. The details are below! Did you know there is roughly $27 billion in contracts set aside specifically for women business owners? Thanks to the Small Business Administration’s Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Program, which went into effect on February 4, women business owners have a greater chance to win government contracts.

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What I’ve Learned About Leadership From My Wife

Next Level Blog

Today is my 24th wedding anniversary. You can accuse me of bias (and you might be right), but my wife, Diane, is one of the best leaders I know. She may not be famous (although she’s increasingly. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Key to Potential

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential ~ Winston Churchill Key to Potential.

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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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People-Based “Ethics”: The Mindset Behind it

Leading in Context

The Trouble With Using Only People-Based "Ethics" Being concerned about people is a very important aspect of ethical leadership. The trouble with using only a people-based definition of "ethics" is that by using the impact on people as the only way to make decisions we may be ignoring these other variables: The impact of our business operations on the planet The long-term unintended consequences of our choices The changing consumer mindset toward sustainable business and avoiding harm.

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Possibility Maximizer: Leadership Development Roundtable Challenge

Sales Wolf Blog

I like to cap off each week by sharing a resource that I feel will help you to Maximize Possibility in your organizational and professional life. Today I am excited to feature an all new resource from one of my favorite bloggers in the leadership development community. Enjoy! The Resource: Leadership Development Roundtable Challenge What It Is: The Leadership Development Rountable Challenge is a new monthly feature on Dan McCarthy's Great Leadership blog.

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The ABC’s of Life: Forgive

The Recovering Engineer

While forgiving often seems like something that you do for others, it is, in reality, something you do for yourself. Forgiving benefits the person who receives forgiveness, and it benefits the person who forgives even more. Many times, the person that has not received forgiveness has forgotten the event while the person who refuses to forgive continues to harbor anger and bitterness.

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Change Leaders Revisited

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Self Leadership [link] Here’s an interesting post and story by Mark Sturgell (@pdncoach) related to the post I wrote a couple of weeks ago entitled Change Leaders or Change Leaders? Check out Mark’s post and leave him a comment if you appreciate his story. Change Leaders Revisited.

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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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Leadership Lessons: When Truth is Discounted

Women on Business

In my new book in process, “ GUTSY: How Women Leaders Make Change ” I had to stop writing and take the temperature of my own “GUTSINESS”. Here is the story: I have always been a rebel, rebel who wants to see positive change and is willing to stand and be counted. I have done this in many instances when the risk has been to my career, reputation, and even the financial bottom line.

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The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

Happy Monday! I like to start off each week by featuring five posts from the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogosphere that I found to be particularly good reading. Here are my picks for the week of June 13th - 19th, 2011. Enjoy! Mary Jo Asmus, Aspire Leadership Solutions: 30 Overlooked Acts of Leadership Courage - Ask anyone and they will tell you that effective and authentic leadership requires strength and courage.

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Steve Jobs, The Market Of One – His Opinion Is The Only One That Matters

First Friday Book Synopsis

I was listening to an interview with Peter Sims on Think, hosted by Krys Boyd. (You can listen to the interview here). Sims is the author of Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries. The discussion moved into a conversation about the brilliance of Steve Jobs. Specifically, just how does Apple decide to [.].

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Toyota Under Fire

CEO Blog

I ran the Shelter Bay 10K yesterday. Hot day. 5:30 start. Slow time (54:58) put me right at 50% of the men that ran. At least I ran a reverse split (last half faster than the first). And my daughter Beth likes my garden report. Peas are just awesome now. Basil and currants are coming on. Lettuce continues to be plentiful. And this is me next to the parsnips which I am allowing to go to seed.

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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.