Sat.Sep 03, 2011 - Fri.Sep 09, 2011

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Leadership & Presence

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Can you be a true leader without possessing a command presence? In my experience, very rarely…I’m not referencing the wannabe leaders oozing bravado, false confidence, arrogance, or self-delusion spun as confidence. Nor am I referring to the weak, innocuous or timid, who while viewing themselves as leaders, are perhaps the farthest thing from a leader.

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The Unemployed Leader

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership Value Creation “Can you drive down for a budget meeting?&# my boss asked. Even though it meant a two-and-a-half-hour drive, I wasn’t surprised by the request. I compiled my budget materials accordingly. Walking into my boss’s office, the President/CEO was there. “He’ll be right in,&# he said.

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Managing the Unmanageable

Leading Blog

If we truly want to deal with a difficult or unmanageable person, we have to get at the thinking behind the behavior. Why do they do that? Why are they that way? Instead of going deeper, it’s easier to just label them and avoid the issue. He’s rude. She’s unreliable. He’s an egomaniac. She’s self-absorbed. Anne Loehr and Jezra Kaye, authors of Managing the Unmanageable , say that these “unmanageable” people are costing companies a fortune.

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The 5 Essentials of Personal Leadership (In My Own Words)

Terry Starbucker

Recently I had an opportunity to sit in front of a camera and talk about my personal leadership philosophy (thanks to Yasmin at IamERL.com ). I can break it down to just 5 essential elements, but first, take a look at this (it’s a brief one – just 1:46 long): Did you catch the 5 essentials? Here they are, summed up: Love to lead, and honor the leadership.

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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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Is Your Message Relevant?

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. When was the last time you bothered to read, watch, or listen to a message that wasn’t relevant to your needs? Great leaders understand the power, influence, and leverage created by relevant messaging. Put simply, relevant messages are engaging because they connect – they add value. Great (relevant) messages usually contain one or more of the following aspects: they are timely, informative, actionable, revealing, ground-breaking, insp

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3 reasons to kiss being perfect goodbye

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership This post is by Jane Perdue, founder of Braithwaite Innovation Group and a leadership and women’s issues consultant. Are you trapped in the paradox of perfection? Do you want to crank out perfect outcomes yet fear failure so much that you quit trying or give up or never get anything finished? Aim for excellence rather than [.] 3 reasons to kiss being perfect goodbye.

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The September 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the September, 2011 Leadership Development Carnival - Back to School Sale! Yes, it's back to school shopping time, and this month's Carnival gives leaders and aspiring leaders a shopping cart full of leadership development supplies. All are deeply discounted (free) and offer incredible value to the discriminating leadership shopper. So stock up, and enjoy your reading!

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Are You Using These 4 Steps For Organizational Success?

Tanveer Naseer

With the month of September now underway, there’s an unmistakable feeling of renewed energy and determination in the air. As children return back to their school routines and the summer break now nothing more than a fond memory, perhaps it’s only natural that there’s this collective drive to take on the challenges before us with spirited enthusiasm.

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September 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Check out the list of great posts and resources over at Dan McCarthy’s Great Leadership blog. Thirty authors make up the Leadership Back To School Sale that Dan shares. So head over and check out the great leadership content. September 2011 Leadership Development Carnival.

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Ones Should be CEOs, Twos Should Not

Leading Blog

Vivek Ranadivé and Kevin Many say that technology is reaching a breaking point. The amount of data is even overwhelming computing capabilities. A new model of information technology is needed. A new model is being found by applying the predictive nature of the brain to the way computers "think." Wayne Gretzky has famously said, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

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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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A Four-wheel-drive Diamond in the Rough Leadership Model

Great Leadership By Dan

One of the cool perks of making the switch to university-based executive education is that I get to work with and learn from a lot of awesome business school professors. At the University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics , we often use our own faculty; however, I do have the flexibility to partner with external instructors when appropriate.

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The People You Try to Please Control You

Leadership Freak

The people you try to please control you and your organization. Customers drive organizations, you don’t. Drucker said, “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” You are all about pleasing customers. Pleasing others, however, presents problems for you. The more people you try to please: The more frantic you and your [.].

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Say Yes to Being Late (in these four situations)

Kevin Eikenberry

Most successful people pride themselves on being on top of things, delivering when promised and generally being on time. In fact the highest achievers are typically high achievers because they don’t procrastinate and are able to get lots done on time. Think about this another way, most of us have been taught the value of [.].

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What happens in a workplace with healthy relationships?

Persuasive Powerhouse

“Relationship&# is a word that we don’t use much in the workplace to designate personal connections with our colleagues. I rather suspect the reason we don’t is because it implies expression of emotions (fondness, love, compassion , etc.). How sad that the good feelings that we experience when we are connected and a part [.

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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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Apple Needs Women and Workplaces Need Diversity

Women on Business

An amazing group of seven women, The Chipsters, who are also IP Lawyers, tell us why companies with women in top positions are run better and why without Steve Jobs, Apple is doomed unless they get some women in their executive team. Click here to read the original article on Forbes. I know this probably seems like an obvious fact to most of us, but how many of us actually live and exude this forward thinking.

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Five Strategies that Create Your Future

Leadership Freak

If you feel stuck you are. You want to be unstuck but wanting doesn’t change anything. Wanting without acting makes matters worse. Frustration drains you. Frustration and blame are twins. Where there is blame there is frustration – where there is frustration there is blame. Blame and frustration deepen ruts. Getting unstuck: Taking responsibility ends [.].

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Ethics Training Shouldn’t Be Boring

Leading in Context

Ethics Training Shouldn't be Boring Keeping people engaged in the process of learning about ethical leadership is important. I see so many tweets from people attending ethics classes about how bored they are and how they already know the material that's being reviewed. Are these participants learning? Or are they being given information that covers some area of perceived risk but has no value to them in their day-to-day worlds?

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What Do You Know?

Kevin Eikenberry

I know I have smart, well informed readers. I’m confident that most everyone who reads these words is someone I would call a lifelong learner. That being said, I know you are thirsty for new knowledge and in that pursuit may begin to feel, like I do sometimes, that you are getting some things figured out, and becoming [.].

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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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Leading Meaningful Labor

Persuasive Powerhouse

“Most leaders are unaware of the intensity of their ability to shape the climate of the workplace and to influence the attitudes of the people who work there. They may choose to influence in such a way that the people working there feel as if they are making a contribution or just taking home [.

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Gain Influence with Others by Seeing Yourself

Leadership Freak

I’m from Maine. My parents are from Maine, and so are my parent’s parents. We refer to ourselves as MAINEiacs and we have a reputation for stoicism. Maybe the cold winters make us that way? My dad is a classic Maineiac – steady and unemotional. Self-awareness to this MAINEiac seemed like a passing fad – [.].

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Five rules for executive product leadership

Lead on Purpose

The original idea for starting Lead on Purpose was a recognition that product managers have the need to lead (inspire, motivate, guide) people who do not report them. Their success depends, to a large extent, on people in other parts of the organization. The PMs who take a leadership approach to their job have the most success. The leadership role of the product team (PM, PO, PMM, UX) is critical to the success of any organization.

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What Does Your Worry Fix?

Kevin Eikenberry

Ernest Hemingway was a brilliantly talented and very interesting man. While I am in no way an expert on him or his life, when in Key West a week ago, I toured his home there. In fact, here is a picture of Lori and I standing in front of the house. Whether before reading on, [.].

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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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The Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace

Next Level Blog

Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post called Can This Marriage (Customer, Team, Leader) Be Saved? in which I referenced a book called The 5 Love Languages and riffed a bit on how those might be. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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The Pain of Round Pegs in Square Holes

Leadership Freak

Passion is essential but it doesn’t solve everything. About a month ago I invited one of our lead people to take on a new role. It’s not working out and it’s my fault. They were passionate; but now I see frustration. They’re out of their sweet spot. Passion isn’t omnipotence or aptitude. For example, I’m [.].

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Thought-full Thursday: Choosing Growth

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 and answers to the questions are most welcome! Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. ~Karen [.

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101 Ways to Unleash Your Potential

Kevin Eikenberry

Typically in this space I write about books (about 80% of the time) written by other people. I review these books because they are excellent resources, and as people often tell me my recommendations are expensive, because I influence them to buy a lot of books! I’m sorry. (Well, not that sorry). Today, I humbly [.].

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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 Strategic Viewer’s Guide to the President’s Job Speech

Next Level Blog

There’s lots of speculation about what President Obama will say in his jobs creation strategy speech to Congress on Thursday night. Will he be bold? Will he be meek? Will he seek compromise? Will he. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Pareto: 80% of Your Time is Spent on Trivialities

Leadership Freak

The 80/20 rule (Pareto Principle) indicates 80% of your activities are trivial and 20% deliver results. Who wants to go to their CEO and say I’m wasting 80% of my time? It’s shocking to suggest that 80% of an employee’s time is available for richer activities. It’s even more uncomfortable to apply that rule to [.].

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The September Leadership Development Carnival: Back to School Sale

Persuasive Powerhouse

Drive on over the Great Leadership site, grab your shopping cart and browse the contributions of bloggers who are offering a great selection of posts on leadership. But WAIT!!! For stopping over to this massive sale, we’ll give you more than you bargained for. Yes, click now and experience great insights for FREE! Thanks Dan for [.

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Why HR and the CEO should be joined at the Hip | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership. Branding. Life. Why HR and the CEO should be joined at the Hip. by John • September 6, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership • 1 Comment. The day the Jacobs Suchard (now part of Kraft Foods ) Board of Directors promoted me to the C-Suite, they strongly suggested I align myself with the CFO.

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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.