Sat.Jul 09, 2011 - Fri.Jul 15, 2011

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Your Leadership Walk

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Best of Blogs Series Leadership Development We are all on a walk. It is the journey we take each day as a leader. We move through our day, going from one task to the next, one meeting to the next, one problem to the next. We have conversations and interactions; some small, seemingly inconsequential others lengthy and potentially memorable.

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Google+ And The Doctrine of Mutually Assured Distraction

Terry Starbucker

And now…… Google+ !!!!! Another Social Media platform. I’m now on it (as Terry Starbucker), and learning to use it, like all the other beta test subjects. It’s pretty cool, and is showing early signs of being a formidable competitor with Facebook. But this post isn’t really about Google+ – I’ll leave the technical stuff to people who really know what they’re talking about, like this excellent piece by Chris Brogan.

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Who’s the Real Leader in Your Office?

Leading Blog

This is a guest post by Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran, authors of Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? How often have you wondered who the real leader is in your office? Maybe you need to delegate a critical project, and you can’t afford to put your faith in someone who is not up to the job. Or maybe you work under several managers, and you want to make sure that you are building rapport with the one who counts.

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PwC Chairman: Need to Connect with Millennials

Michael Lee Stallard

Dennis Nally, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Chairman, recognized the need to connect with Millennials, in a Wall Street Journal interview entitled “ PwC Chairman Aims to Keep Millennials Happy.&# In the interview Nally states: “Connecting with your employees so they understand you can deliver the career they want is key…they want less-hierarchical structures, they want more flexibility, they want to work as hard but they want to define how they do their work.

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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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5 Ways to Prevent Leadership Achilles Heels

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Best of Blogs Series Self Leadership Have you ever been in a situation where a titled leader appeared to be genuinely sincere and compassionate? And later you realized that throughout the organization people were asking if that leader really walked their talk? Last summer my husband and I had the opportunity to vacation in France, and at the recommendation of friends we [.] 5 Ways to Prevent Leadership Achilles Heels.

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Harry Potter as Servant Leader

Next Level Blog

This past Monday night, my wife Diane and I had a once a lifetime experience. We got to attend the red carpet premiere of the last Harry Potter movie at Lincoln Center in New York. Diane has to be. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Three Reasons A Leader Must Have a Positive Attitude

Kevin Eikenberry

The title of this article is pretty declarative, don’t you think? Actually it isn’t completely true. You don’t have to have a positive attitude to have a leadership role, and you don’t even have to have it to lead. But you definitely must have a positive attitude if you want to lead successfully for an [.].

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Applying the DISC Model: Breaking Through A Common Frustration

The Recovering Engineer

Today, I led a DISC communication skills workshop that ended with a role-play exercise to allow participants the opportunity to practice the skills we had been discussing. For many of the people in the class, this was their first in-depth exposure to the DISC model and how to use it to more effectively communicate with others. The class was lively, engaged, and energetic with everyone in the room displaying a highly positive approach to learning.

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What I Learned About Leadership from the Dalai Lama

Next Level Blog

This month, the Dalai Lama is in Washington, DC for a couple of weeks to lead a multi day series of Buddhist teachings called a Kalachakra. This past Saturday morning, he came out to the West Lawn of. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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5 Leadership Lessons: What Went Wrong? Car Guys vs. Bean Counters

Leading Blog

In Car Guys vs. Bean Counters , legendary auto executive Bob Lutz gives an eye-opening account about what went wrong in the U.S. auto industry, with details of behind the scenes activities. He puts “numbers” in perspective. Too often they are used to overrule common sense. “Where,” Lutz asks, “is the business school that preaches, above all, acceptance of the obvious, simplicity, and that uncommon virtue, common sense?

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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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Women Make up Half of Workforce but Just 2% of CEOs

Women on Business

Catalyst published some interesting statistics about how women stack up in the U.S. workforce. The results aren’t very surprising if this is a topic you’re familiar with, but for those that aren’t, check out the stats below: Women make up : 46.7% of the U.S. labor force. 51.5% of management, professional and related occupations. 14.4% of Fortune 500 executive officers. 15.7% of Fortune 500 board seats. 7.6% of Fortune 500 top earners. 2.6% of Fortune 500 CEOs.

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Nurturing the Irritant Into a Pearl

Persuasive Powerhouse

What if we saw those who irritate us as the beginning of creativity, collaboration, or even a thing of beauty; a possibility yet to manifest itself with a little time and attention? Consider the lowly oyster. When an aggravation is presented to its system it creates a lovely pearl, something of great potential and [.

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Ingredients of a "pretty productive" day

Jason Womack

What's the one thing - people ask me quite often - to improve the chances of today being a MORE productive day? All right. Here's one diagram that shows up quite often in my own note book. In fact, it first showed up while facilitating a leadership workshop for the US Navy on location at Seal Beach, CA. Take a look and see where you could experiment with a new idea this week.

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Leading Views: Alain de Botton on Success and Snobs

Leading Blog

Alain de Botton , author of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work , shared his views at TED on success and snobs: One of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it means. A lot of the time our ideas about what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They’re sucked in from other people. And we also suck in messages from everything from the television to advertising to marketing, etcetera.

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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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Conflict Resolution Tips: The Power of Patience

The Recovering Engineer

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post in the ABC’s of Life series on forgiveness. Today, I got a comment from Aled Davies with a link to a post on his blog about 5 Steps to Forgiveness. I really liked what I read over at Aled’s blog, and it got me thinking: one of the key components I see in the 5 steps he wrote about is patience. The patience to: Slow down your emotional response.

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The Importance of Focus

Kevin Eikenberry

As leaders we often have many competing issues, challenges, and tasks. Guess what? That is life. To be an effective leader we must continue to be focused. We must provide a consistent vision of the future we are leading people towards. That is leadership. Of course we can have new ideas. But the new must [.].

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Key to Identifying High Potentials: Ask

Persuasive Powerhouse

I am a big fan of Scott Patchin, this post’s guest author. Scott’s written for us before, and I welcome his thoughts anytime! He writes a great blog, has a lot of experience developing leaders, and he’s one of those people that I trusted immediately when I first met him a few years ago. You [.

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What Personal Mastery is NOT

QAspire

I recently delivered a talk at Ahmedabad Management Association on the topic “Personal Mastery – The Key To Deliver Quality”. It was wonderful speaking in front of an ‘interested’ audience on a cloudy/rainy Friday evening. The talk was very well received. During my talk, I touched upon the changing world of work, new viewpoints on [.

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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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The Real Reason 50% of US Employees Are Disengaged

Sales Wolf Blog

Last month (June 2011) - Mercer came out with a report - One in two US employees looking to leave or checked out on the job. According to the report. More than 2,400 US employees took Mercer's latest What's Working™ survey. The key takeaway: Compared to past surveys, they feel less committed to their employers and less satisfied. One in three is seriously looking to leave; among younger workers, it's four in 10.

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How to Click With People: The Secret to Better Relationships in Business and in Life

Kevin Eikenberry

This week’s Resource Recommendation is How to Click With People: The Secret to Better Relationships in Business and in Life by Rick Kirschner. I get lots of books in the mail because people want me to review them in this space. I received an advance proof of this book a few weeks ago and I was [.].

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CliqueIt – For Photo Sharing in Your Cliques

Women on Business

Cliqueit is a cool mobile app for Android devices that can help business women in their professional or personal lives. I asked the team at CliqueIt to share some details about the app for the WomenOnBusiness.com audience, and they sent along the following information. If you want to share photos only within your desired groups, CliqueIt could be the answer.

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The July Leadership Development Round Table Challenge

Next Level Blog

You may recall from last month’s inaugural event, this is where we put forth a vexing real world leadership challenge and a number of regular contributors (including yours truly) plus one guest share. 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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Resume' Bias and Selecting Top Talent

Sales Wolf Blog

The resume' is not the first place to begin when considering the potential of the candidate. The best place to begin is with a valid pre-employment personality assessment.

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What Do You Believe About Learning?

Kevin Eikenberry

Learning is a crucial part of living a life you enjoy. The novel Dune offers a profound observation for you to consider. “It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.&# - author Frank Hebert in the novel Dune Questions to [.].

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Leadership and…Sleep Ethics

Leading in Context

Sleep and Ethical Behavior Besides the fact that mistakes and accidents may increase at work due to lack of sleep, there is evidence that lack of sleep also contributes to the likehood of unethical behavior and to serious physical and mental harm. Here are some of the questions that this post will explore: 1. Is it ethical to force people to become sleep deprived?

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Social Boom

CEO Blog

I am never sure how much personal information to share on my blog. My usual formula is 10% personal and 90% business/self development. And of course lots of book reviews. I realize how lucky I am to be healthy. It is a privilege to be able to walk, run, carry things etc. I had minor surgery on my knee Wednesday and now have to keep my leg straight to let the stitches heal.

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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: Powerful Beyond Measure from Tony Robbins

Sales Wolf Blog

Happy Friday - I hope you have had a wonderful week and are ready to end it on a high note! Each Friday I like to highlight a resource that I have found to be beneficial in my never ending quest to Maximize Possibility and get the most out of life. Today I have a powerful video from Tony Robbins that I am confident you will find moving and inspirational.

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Beyond getting "started" - initiate.take action! (On site, talking about individual leadership development today.)

Jason Womack

One of the things about traveling, is I get to see new places and meet new people every day. Between yesterday and today, I'll work with leaders in multi-national organizations. All the people I meet with have a common (positive) quality: They are focused on leadership and encouraging the talent around them. Three things I'm thinkin' as I head in to the board room today: 1.

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New Research Project: We Need Your Help

LDRLB

Since its inception, LeaderLab has been dedicated to actively promoting the application of research and theoretical models in leadership and organizational behavior. Today we’re pleased to announce that we’re adding to the efforts of LeaderLab by working with current scholars to help shape the research being undertaken. But we need your help. We believe our community readers are a great resource on leadership and on real-life working inside of organizations.

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Seth Godin on Project Leadership

QAspire

We live in a time when our career is not just a sum total of years we spent in the industry. Our career is about what projects we initiated/handled/led and what difference did the project deliver. Project is a new eco-system, a new playground where we play and thrive as professionals to deliver our best. [.

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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.