Sat.Apr 16, 2011 - Fri.Apr 22, 2011

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Keeping It Simple

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. One of the most effective ways to order your world is to simplify everything you encounter. However the problem is that keeping it simple often becomes very difficult when our basic human nature is to over-complicate everything we touch. In thinking about the people I respect the most, to the one, they possess the uncanny ability to take the most complicated of issues and simplify them.

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Lead with Kindness

Lead Change Blog

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.&# ~Aesop Do you believe that our existence ends when we die and that only tangible things are real? This is important because ultimately this quote either confirms your beliefs or takes you to a great contradiction. Either you believe there is something more than [.].

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The Absolutely, Positively, No Doubt About It Way To Keep Customers – In A Nutshell

Terry Starbucker

I’ve seen a lot of books out there lately that have taken a lot of pages to explain how to get and keep customers, but it’s really pretty simple: Thank your customers for their business, preferably with a smile. Follow the Golden Rule in all your communications with customers, no matter the form. If you mess up with a customer, own up to it and apologize.

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Be a Coach, Not a Critic

Leading Blog

Unless they can highlight a problem, many book reviewers don’t feel like they have done their job. They operate under the assumption that being a critic means being critical. Many bosses operate the same way. They feel feedback is good only if it is critical or negative. Adam Bryant suggests in The Corner Office , that we be a coach, not a critic. He writes, “Employees know if their boss is rooting for them to succeed, and they’re much more open to feedback if they sense the manager’s goal is to

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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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You Like Me, You Really Like Me

Next Level Blog

One of the most e-mailed articles on the New York Times website the past couple of days has been an article by David Carr on how it seems to be acceptable behavior to text someone else while you’re. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Are You Too Nice To Be A Great Manager?

Lead Change Blog

Effective managers create expectations, insist on excellent and confront poor performance. Over 40 percent of managers, however, under-perform on these “Requiring” activities. Why? Many of these managers fear they will come across as mean or combative, an image they want to avoid. To avert a career train wreck, these individuals need to rethink the definitions of “mean” and “nice.”.

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5 Leadership Lessons: What You Need to Know about Developing Teen Leadership

Leading Blog

Dan Appleman has written a handbook for developing teen leadership. Based on over 20 years of real world experience, you will find ideas, techniques, examples and even sample statements to guide you. Developing Teen Leadership will not only help you develop leadership skills in yourself and others, but you will find ways to help teens help other teens on their leadership journey.

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Is Grit the Key to Being a Successful Leader?

Tanveer Naseer

While doing some research for a presentation I’ll be giving later this summer, I came upon a study which looked at determining which trait plays a key role in the achievement of long-term goals. After reading a few more studies that dealt with this subject, I noticed that there were some interesting correlations which could be drawn to the field of leadership.

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Leading, Learning and Building A Legacy

Lead Change Blog

My first corporate experience came at about fifteen years into my professional life. I made the decision to toss my resume in the air to see where it might land. The company I found myself attracted to was a $5B global high tech company with a very conservative culture. I quickly learned that this company [.].

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Reflecting On Your 360 Degree Feedback

Persuasive Powerhouse

It can be really hard to receive feedback. Not only can the less-than-flattering feedback have a negative impact on your self-esteem, but the glowing-all-over feedback can have the opposite effect by encouraging your ego to run amok. No matter how you react to feedback, it’s important to spend some time studying it and reflecting [.

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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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The Genius behind Toblerone | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership. Branding. Life. The Genius behind Toblerone. by John • April 18, 2011 • Branding , Marketing • 0 Comments. Everyone likes to hear a ‘tale out of school’ or a bit of ‘inside information’. Here’s a rather fascinating little anecdote about a very famous global brand, Toblerone. Known for its distinctive packaging, triangular shape and honey-nougat-almond chocolate recipe, Toblerone has been around for over a hundred years.

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Is Grit the Key to Being a Successful Leader?

Tanveer Naseer

While doing some research for a presentation I’ll be giving later this summer, I came upon a study which looked at determining which trait plays a key role in the achievement of long-term goals. After reading a few more studies that dealt with this subject, I noticed that there were some interesting correlations which could be drawn to the field of leadership.

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Understanding the Faces of Resistance

Lead Change Blog

Recently I gave a presentation titled, “5 Simple Steps to Engage Even Your Most Skeptical Employees In Change, So You Can Create a Strong Foundation for a Positive and Developmental Work Culture&# As I went through it, I myself was struck again by the necessity to understand and consider human nature when we are trying [.].

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The X Factor Leader

Persuasive Powerhouse

“X Factor&# : An unknown or indefinable element. With all of the hype about Simon Cowell’s X Factor singing competition show opening in the U.S. this fall, I thought it would be fun to try to define what we’d see in an X Factor leader. It isn’t often that we have the opportunity to observe [.

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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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Is the Male-Female Wage Gap a Myth? You Decide….

Women on Business

Stirred. That’s the best word I can use to describe how I feel after seeing the very recent findings from the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) about the gender wage gap. I’m even more. stirred. by IWF’s Carrie Lukas’ Op-Ed, “There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap&# in the Wall Street Journal. Boy, is she going to get some hate mail! Carrie and her group draw some unexpected conclusions.

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Food Ethics: The Delicate Balance of Nature and Nutrition

Leading in Context

We are learning through research that nutrition is more complex and delicately balanced than we had thought. Changing foods or using only part of a food that we think of as healthy may change the health benefits drastically.

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What CEOs Can Learn From the Goddess of Vision

Lead Change Blog

I recently attended a conference at which a number of CEOs and marketing executives were present. One morning when at a breakfast table with seven others the discussion turned, as it often does, to how we could be of help to each other. One CEO in the group asked the marketers present for some creative [.].

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What Leaders Need to Learn from American Idol

Next Level Blog

If you been reading this blog for awhile, you know that this is the time of year when my corporate friend, Jennifer, and I handicap and kibitz about American Idol in emails we send each other. We. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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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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GUTSY Is As GUTSY Does

Women on Business

As I continue to research for my book about GUTSY WOMEN LEADERS have such a sense of pride looking the progress we have made to stand and be counted. Our revolution has, at times, been angry; yet, it has maintained dignity and a deep desire for continued dialogue. If you have not yet read “When Everything Changed” by Gail Collins grab a copy and take the journey back to the time when turmoil was front and center on the world stage.

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Thought-full Thursday: Freedom

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! “Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.&# ~Moshe Dayan [.

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Remote Leadership Development

Lead Change Blog

Can you develop people remotely? New technologies are being created at a rapidly increasing pace. And high unemployment combined with the current economic malaise has forced many companies to cut back on middle-managers and travel. All of this creates a toxic environment for leadership development. Traditionally developing leaders is a mentoring activity.

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The Math of Leadership

Next Level Blog

I have a confession to make. I’m not that great at math. Don’t get me wrong, I can do the basics, but I’m not going to be writing any Google or Facebook style algorithms anytime soon. My math. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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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 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 January April 11th - 17th, 2011. Enjoy! Jason Lauritsen, Transforming Business Through Talent: HR is in Trouble Nick McCormick, Joe and Wanda on Management: Are Your Goals Hard?

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Guest Post No.2 on Executive Coaching

Persuasive Powerhouse

I am writing a series on executive coaching for HRMtoday. Part two, Who Should Work With an Executive Coach? needs your comments! Stop over and start (or join in) the conversation!

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Preaching

Lead Change Blog

In a spontaneous interview with a group of psychological counselors I asked, “Of all that you say or do in the course of a ‘therapeutic hour’, what percentage is based on pure science?” It’s fascinating that all the answers were below fifty percent. The responses to my follow-up question are even more enlightening. “If less [.].

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Paradox of Innovation & Intellectual Property

Mills Scofield

Yesterday was the 3rd Open Innovation Summit at BW's Center for Innovation & Growth: Practical Challenges of Global Open Innovation featuring P&G. Too much happened for one post so I'm going to do one on each panelist's story and discussion, starting with Kelly McDow, Associate General Counsel for P&G's Connect+Develop. Kelly started out as a chemist, giving her a unique non-traditional-lawyer perspective of invention and innovation. [.].

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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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Possibility Maximizer: The Last Lecture

Sales Wolf Blog

I like to finish off each work week by featuring a resource that I hope will assist in your efforts to Maximize Possibility in your organization and professional life. Today I have powerful and inspirational video to share from professor Randy Pausch recorded shortly before his untimely death in 2008. The Resource: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch What It Is: On September 18th, 2007 professor Randy Paush addressed a packed lecture hall of 400+ Carnegie Mellon college students and faculty.

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Four Keys to Corporate Leadership Success

Coaching Tip

What will determine who gets the next promotion, and the one after that? Which of them, when the time comes, will get that corner office? In other words, what does it take to lead an organization — whether it’s a sports team, a nonprofit, a start-up or a multinational corporation? Interviews conducted with more than 70 chief executives and other leaders point to five essentials for success — qualities that most of those C.E.O.’s share and look for in people they hire.

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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-04-22

Tanveer Naseer

Wonderful discussion underway over current piece – Is Grit the Key to Being a Successful Leader? [link] # leadership #. Thanks @ SmartBrief for including my latest piece on # leadership and grit in today’s NAW SmartBrief – [link] #. The Most Important Question a Manager Can Ask [link] # leadership #communication #. Thanks Wally! RT @ wallybock : Kudos to @ TanveerNaseer for posting one of my top five business blog posts this week.

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Carnival of HR April Fool’s Edition

Persuasive Powerhouse

Skip on over to Lois Melbourne’s Aquire Blog for this month’s Carnival of HR with an April Fool’s theme. The posts are funny, weird, – and then there’s my post (inspirational). Thanks Lois, for including a little inspiration in the bunch!

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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.