Sat.Jul 23, 2011 - Fri.Jul 29, 2011

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Howard Schultz’s Broken Heart

Michael Lee Stallard

A leader I know and much admire is Howard Behar, the former president of Starbucks North America and Starbucks International. Howard tells about the time 14 years ago this month when he received a call in the middle of the night at his home in Seattle alerting him that three Starbucks employees at the Georgetown store in Washington, D.C. had been shot and killed, including an 18-year who had just recently begun working at Starbucks, his first job.

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6 Quick-Hitting One Line Lessons For Front Line Leaders

Terry Starbucker

In today’s ultra-competitive businesses, one of the most challenging things for middle and upper level leaders is to get leadership lessons across quickly and effectively to front line supervisors, especially while they are in the thick of their hectic day to day activities. Sometimes it’s hard to get their full attention for 10 minutes, much less the time it would take to do a full-scale training session.

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Why do leaders need to innovate?

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development The success of a company lies in the ability of its leader. A great leader like Lee Iacocca can help a company on a verge of going out of business to recover its position in the market. A leader inspires people to achieve things they otherwise cannot do themselves. Great leaders create a vision and [.] Why do leaders need to innovate?

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Who's the King?

Leading Blog

The lion was completely convinced about his dominance of the animal kingdom. One day he wanted to check whether all the other animals knew he was the undisputed king of the jungle. He was so confident that he decided not to talk to the smaller creatures. Instead he went straight to the bear. “Who is the king of the jungle?” asked the lion. The bear replied, “Of course, no one else but you, sir.

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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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Lasting Change Begins With You

Persuasive Powerhouse

Being a great leader requires continuous personal change. The ability to lead at your best is dependent on the context that you work within, and because that situation is always changing, you must also change your behaviors in order to be able to work within it. Think about it. When was the last time you: “Acquired” a new boss? Got a new peer on your team?

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Leadership and Social Media: Going Beyond The Keyboard

Terry Starbucker

I was frustrated. I was six months into my first blogging experience, and I was already at a pivot point. I was making all kinds of new connections, but something was missing. There was something that wasn’t happening, and I needed it to happen to really make the experience meaningful. This frustration almost stopped me in my tracks – I was ready to just retire the Blogger account and move on to something else.

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Have a Nice Conflict!

Leading Blog

Reading Have a Nice Conflict was like listening to my Dad again. He first met “Doc” Porter in the early seventies and they click almost immediately. Elias Porter’s Relationship Awareness Theory , on which the book is based, resonated with my Dad. Behaviors are the tools we choose and use to support our self-worth. You can look at personal strengths like behaviors.

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The Leadership Theory Lack

Next Level Blog

Today’s post is a guest post by David Burkus, the force behind the LeaderLab blog where he focuses on how to put leadership theory into practice. If you like what David shares in this post, you’ll. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Employee Motivation: Compliance or Commitment?

The Recovering Engineer

Whether you are trying to resolve a conflict, coach an employee, or correct your child’s behavior; you have to wrestle with your real goals. You have to ask yourself, “Do I want compliance or commitment?&#. Many people might say, “As long as they do what I asked them to do, I don’t really care whether people are compliant or committed.&#.

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Heroes and Leadership – Lisa Petrilli

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Best of Blogs Series Leadership Development [link] Lisa Petrilli (@LisaPetrilli), CEO of C-Level Strategies shared a blog post this morning about her experience listening to speeches by two Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, retired U.S. Navy Petty Officer Michael Thornton and retired U.S. Army Corporal Rodolfo Hernandez. Take a minute and make note of the quotes in the post.

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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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4 Keys To Successfully Resolving Conflicts in the Workplace

Tanveer Naseer

If there’s one chore I could do without, it’s having to shop at the grocery store. I’m not sure if it’s because I always feel like a mouse in a maze trying to find the items on the grocery list (the logic of grocery store layouts still alludes me) or because standing in line waiting to pay for your groceries seems to take longer than any other check-out line.

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10 Tactics that Produce Brilliant Solutions

Leadership Freak

Courageous leaders do more than listen to constructive dissent, they encourage it. Hot conflict not comfortable collaboration produces brilliance. Encouraging constructive dissent: Don’t answer first. Tell people you expect hard truths and practical answer. Don’t settle for yes. Share all the information. You discourage feedback when you toss out information you withheld that invalidates what [.].

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A Leader’s Role in Culture Creation

Kevin Eikenberry

Organizational culture gets talked about a lot by people discussing success in organizations. It is rightly considered an important determining factor in measurements including retention, job satisfaction, trust levels, productivity and much more. Yet there are some common misconceptions about where culture comes from and who is responsible for it. Because of these misconceptions too [.].

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Bet on People – Larry Bossidy

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development At the end of the day, you bet on people, not on strategies. ~ Larry Bossidy Bet on People – Larry Bossidy.

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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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Cultivating Goodness

Persuasive Powerhouse

Call me naĂŻve or unrealistic, but I believe that we get what we put out there. When our intentions are pure and meant to serve the greater good, on balance we’ve made a positive ripple in the universe that will be repaid. The best leaders don’t expect something good to come back, but it tends to happen anyway. In other words, when you sincerely express goodness, it comes back to you.

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Top 25 Dumb Mistakes Leaders Make

Leadership Freak

Yesterday I asked the Leadership Freak Coffee Shop on Facebook: “What’s the dumbest thing you’ve seen a leader do?” This morning while going for coffee with a local business owner, I ran into a friend and asked them the same question. In a short time they easily listed three dumb things. It got me thinking [.].

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Four Reasons Leaders Should Check Out Google+

Kevin Eikenberry

While I am a social media user and I am probably more active in using social media for business purposes than the general population, I’m not a social media expert, and I don’t know if this tool will replace Facebook or diminish the value of LinkedIn. I’ll leave that for someone else. My purposes for [.].

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Always Do Right – Mark Twain

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Always do right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

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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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Pink or Blue: Who ARE You?

Women on Business

From the day you were born, actually even before conception, there are beliefs and stereotypes that are attached to gender. Pink is for girls and blue is for boys, right? The color thing is really fascinating. Here is some of the research from my book “GUTSY: How Women Leaders Make Change”. In the 1800’s babies were all gender neutral, wearing white “dresses” in infancy.

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15 Techniques That Build Loyal Followers

Leadership Freak

You need people who will walk through hell with you. Lost loyalty: “I used to love my job, they said, but not anymore.” “What happened,” I asked? “The old boss left. I’d do anything for the old boss. Now, I’m just putting in my time.” You earn it: Loyalty is always earned, it is never [.].

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Do You Really Want it?

Kevin Eikenberry

While you might not think of Cher as a deep philosophical thinker, I’ll make two comments before I share her brilliant insight. - we can learn from anyone – and the mark of a lifelong learner is having that belief. - we can definitely learn from people who have achieved significant things, even if their achievements [.].

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Are You an Apple or a Google?

Next Level Blog

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post titled "Are You an IBM or a Dell?" Today's post continues with the tech ID theme and is inspired by an article in the New York Times by Randall Stross. In. 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 Green Thing | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership. Branding. Life. The Green Thing. by John • July 26, 2011 • Life • 0 Comments. This tale has been making the rounds on the internet. If I knew the creator’s identity I would have given due credit as my guest blogger. Have a chuckle. In a line at the grocery store, a cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own bags because plastic bags were terrible for the environment.

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10 Decision-Making Power Tips from Dave Ramsey

Leadership Freak

I’m convinced that indecision along with poor decision-making is the reason organizations and individuals languish and fail. I was Dave Ramsey’s guest at a one day EntreLeadership Seminar in Nashville, Tennessee when I heard him say, “Your business, ideas, and team are paralyzed by an indecisive leader. Indecision is caused by one thing: fear.” Dave [.].

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Why Airplanes are a Productivity Haven For Me

Kevin Eikenberry

Commercial flights are (increasingly) full, they are loud – both the ambient noise of the plane and the people on them, they are stuffy, you can’t get any food for free. I could go on (and you likely are in your head anyway, so there is no need for me to). If all of this [.].

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One More Question

Next Level Blog

Sometimes the simplest things make the biggest difference. I see this all the time in coaching leaders. In fact, it's usually the simplest things that make the biggest difference. Here's an example. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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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 Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend. I like to start out each week by featuring five of my favorite reads from the previous week. Hope you enjoy and feel free to post your comments. S. Anthony Iannarino, The Sales Blog: Growing Pains and Sales' Responsibilities - Anthony responds to the question of how to manage client and client services at the same time.

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Overcoming the Six Dangers of Flip-Flopping

Leadership Freak

Lack of confidence creates foolish urgency which blocks your ability to withhold judgment, gather information, and explore options. One cause of too much urgency: Questions from others pressure you to decide quickly. You don’t take enough time to gather information and explore options. The end result is you end up changing your mind. There are [.].

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Top 10 Leading in Context Blog Posts

Leading in Context

As of today, after over 100 posts, these are the Top 10 Most Popular Leading in Context® Blog Posts: Planned Obsolescence: Is it Ethical? No. Can We Still Have the Newest Gadgets? Yes! Case Study: Is Withholding Information From Other Leaders Unethical? Ethical Interpersonal Behavior Graphic: Red, Yellow and Green Zones Ethical Leadership Resources.

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Thought-full Thursday: Wonderful Stuff

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! Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff!

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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.