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Rethinking Good To Great

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. If you’re a frequent reader of this blog you know from time-to-time I’ll take aim at a sacred cow and pull the trigger. I’ve had issues with some of the concepts contained in Jim Collins book Good To Great since it was first released. Given the legions of those who have drunk the Good to Great Kool-Aid, I realize today’s post might be akin to spitting into the wind.

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10 Enduring Leadership Lessons for the 21st Century (My Favorites, Volume II)

Terry Starbucker

What’s a “ 21st Century Leader “? A pretty good question, no doubt. The definition and nature of great leadership in today’s digital age is an ever-evolving thing, since business models and paradigms seem to change like the weather these days (and wow, the weather has been crazy this year!). However, in my experiences and observations over the last 11+ years of this young century I’ve found that there are some clear and enduring lessons that if followed, will clearl

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Failure! 4 Mistakes Leaders Must Avoid

Lead Change Blog

Leaders are known to inspire others to act and achieve goals that they otherwise would not be able to achieve themselves. They challenge the status quo and break down barriers to help their constituents achieve their vision. In many ways, leaders make things happen and affect change that moves the needle and transforms the company [.] Failure! 4 Mistakes Leaders Must Avoid.

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Transforming an Ordinary Moment into a TouchPoint

Leading Blog

We all have those moments when we are too busy for the people around us. But those moments are the work of leaders. Those are the moments when we can help to move things from what they are to what they could be. Campbell CEO Doug Conant said, “ To me, they’re not interruptions. They’re opportunities to touch someone and improve the situation. ” TouchPoints , by Doug Conant and Mette Norgaard, describes a new way of thinking about the work of 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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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Competition is only to be feared if not understood. If understood, competition is not only healthy, but it can also be very prosperous. If you really want to understand a leader’s perspective on the market, ask them about their competition. A leader’s view on competition will not only reveal a lot about their beliefs on current and future market trends, but also on innovation, branding, talent management, supply chain issues, constit

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Employee Motivation Tips: The Why Matters

The Recovering Engineer

There are two musical instruments I would like to play. One is the saxophone and the other is the guitar. When I was in the fifth grade, my parents placed an order to rent a saxophone for the following school year so that I could join the band and learn to play. Over the summer, we moved to a different city where band started in fifth grade. I was out of sequence with the school system, and I wasn’t able to take private lessons.

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Bringing Water-Cooler Honesty to the Act of Giving and Receiving Feedback

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest post by author and speaker Steven Smith. Voted as one of the top 100 business thought-leaders in the United States, Steve’s work has been adopted by several universities to help students gain a better understanding of how the business world really operates. His ideas and writings have lead him to work with a number of organizations including American Express, Microsoft, Disney, State Farm, and Hard Rock Cafe.

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Making an impact on thousands, one person at a time

Persuasive Powerhouse

A comment on a post earlier this week that gave me lots of energy – so I figured I need to write about it (thanks Connie!). She felt that most of us (unlike Oprah) don’t have the opportunity to impact large numbers of people. I respectfully disagree. Allow me to explain. Every day, you [.

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What is Your Leadership Vision?

Women on Business

I have just finished reading “ The Female Vision ” by Sally Helgesen and Julie Johnson. It is worth the time. And the time is now. We are in such a powerful, yet vulnerable position in leadership in the workplace at this time when everything seems upside down and inside out. I will get back to The Female Vision in a minute. First, I digress to make a point.

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Does Being Liked at Work Matter?

Lead Change Blog

[Pssssssst, did she just use the L-word?] One of my close friends is in the last phase of a selection process for a new assignment. Her first meeting and her final meeting is with the executive she would be reporting to. We’re pretty sure she’s a shoe-in because we already know he likes her. Her [.] Does Being Liked at Work Matter?

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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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100th Blog Post: The Ethical Leadership Training Challenge

Leading in Context

This graphic is a wordle of the article "Ethical Leadership Training: Why is it So Hard to Get it Right?" which was published in the September 2009 issue of Training and Development by the American Society of Training and Development and then was reprinted in its Best of Leadership 2009: Leadership Development issue. The full article is posted on the LeadinginContext®.com website: LeadinginContext.com/Articles.

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What is your living legacy?

Persuasive Powerhouse

There were three of us, good friends who were missing a fourth one. She had passed away several years ago, and for some reason we began to laugh as we told the quirkiest stories we could remember about her. She was, after all, a rather quirky person, and we loved that about her. She [.

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There’s No Me In Leadership

Next Level Blog

Am I the only one who’s gotten tired of all the stories we’ve had lately about self absorbed “leaders” behaving badly? Just in the last couple of weeks I’ve written about four of them in the posts, Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Leadership on Purpose – Conclusion

Lead Change Blog

You have tremendous capacity to inspire people to contribute their best. In yesterday’s Beginning post, I wrote about Values and Life Purpose. These two core areas of Leadership on Purpose ground you, force you to sit up straight. They help steer your leadership so that you can more clearly understand the third core areas of [.] Leadership on Purpose – Conclusion.

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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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Daniel Pink on Creativity

CEO Blog

I love Daniel Pink 's views. He studies the science of the mind. According to Pink "We all have an intuitive sense of what motivates people. Reward behavior and get more - punish and we get less of it." But when scientifically tested, this was not true except on the most mundane of simple mechanical tasks. If the job involved any thinking or creativity, it does not work.

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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 May 30th - June 5th, 2011. Enjoy! Jennifer Miller, The People Equation: Professionals Don't Offer Excuses - Want to know the hallmark of a real business professional?

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Leadership Is Not An End In Itself

Next Level Blog

As is often the case, The New York Times’ Corner Office feature offered an interesting interview with a business leader last week. The subject this time was Bing Gordon, a partner with the Silicon. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Why Large Complex Projects Often Fail

Lead Change Blog

You don’t have to go very far to find a failed multi-million dollar project. To be clear, let’s define failure as a multi-million dollar project that ran consistently over budget and behind schedule; some came in years late. If you’ve been around for any length of time, I’m sure you’ve involved with a few. I [.] Why Large Complex Projects Often Fail.

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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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20/20 Workplace

CEO Blog

#wif11 Jeanne Meister, author of the 20/20 Workplace spoke about the increasing speed of innovation. 1880 - Industrial Revolution 1980 - Computer Revolution 1990 - Internet Revolution 2010 - Information Revolution Now - Participation Revolution She spoke about the new employee - the millenials. 20% of them come to work expecting to use their own phone and computer.

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Classic–and Comic–Resistance to Change

Tony Mayo

Making change in organizations is central to my work. The nature of organizations, however, is to resist change. That’s why we call them organize-ations, not random-izations or adapt-ations, One common way for organizations to resist innovation and change is for people to collect evidence that any novel tool or procedure is causing problems–even if the [.].

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Is Your Risk to Reward Ratio Out of Whack?

Next Level Blog

Yesterday, I was in Pittsburgh talking with a group of executives from different companies headquartered there about what they had taken away from my book, The Next Level. It was a really. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Possibility Maximizer: Tim Sanders' Monthly Newsletter

Sales Wolf Blog

Happy Friday! I like to finish off each work week by sharing a resource that I feel will benefit your quest to Maximize Possibility in your organization and professional life. Today I have great monthly newsletter to share from one of my favorite authors - Tim Sanders. Enjoy! The Resource: Tim Sanders' Monthly Email Newsletter What It Is: Tim's email newsletter is published once a month and features a variety of great content to help you grow and develop both your personal and professional lives

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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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Innovation Architects and more on Innovation

CEO Blog

#WIF11 continues. Jordan Cohen spoke about "getting rid of busy work so you can get to work". This is a huge challenge for us all. "40% of time is spent on necessary but not important" (I am actually surprised it is that low). His solution at Pfizer was to allow staff to send requests for research. Reports would come back the next day once the request was defined.

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0206 | Mitchell Kusy

LDRLB

'Dr. Mitchell Kusy, an international consultant, has worked internally in several organizations including American Express Financial Advisors as head of leadership development. He is a full professor in the Ph.D. Program in Leadership & Change at Antioch University. He is the co-author of The Little Book of Leadership Development. In this podcast, we discuss the simple ways everyday managers can develop the leaders on their teams.

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Thought-full Thursday: Opportunity

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! There is no security in this life. There is [.

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From atop the castle at Caen

Jason Womack

One of the only buildings spared during allied bombing during World War Two, this chateau was constructed after 900. Talk about history. As I sat upon the sentry wall, I thought about how many different scenes had played out on the streets below over the centuries! From your vantage point, what are you seeing these days?

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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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World Innovation Forum - Clay Christensen

CEO Blog

Today I am blogging live at World Innovation Forum (#WIF11). I have blogged before at this event. I love the stimulation I get from going to seminars like this. Attending and listening to speakers helps plant the seeds of innovation in my mind. First speaker is one of my favorites - Clay Christensen. Of course he spoke about disruptive innovation. He is a young guy but recently suffered from a stroke.

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0206 | Mitchell Kusy

LDRLB

Dr. Mitchell Kusy, an international consultant, has worked internally in several organizations including American Express Financial Advisors as head of leadership development. He is a full professor in the Ph.D. Program in Leadership & Change at Antioch University. He is the co-author of The Little Book of Leadership Development. In this podcast, we discuss the simple ways everyday managers can develop the leaders on their teams.

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Two Women Leaders from Different Worlds Face-Off

Women's Leadership Exchange

Dark clouds threatened as I entered the Rubin Museum in New York City on June first to hear two icons from two very different worlds –Gloria Steinem, the writer, activist and leader of the feminist movement, and Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, who at the age of 20 became one of the first westerners to be ordained as a Buddhist Nun. In 2000, she started the first Buddhist Nunnery for girls.

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From the American Cemetery, near Omaha Beach

Jason Womack

Three times this week I visited the American Cemetery, before, on and after the 67th anniversary of the Allied Invasion on and behind the beaches of Northern France. Today, I will drive back toward Paris, with notes, ideas, pictures and videos to begin to piece this trip together. As I sip on the last drops of French-pressed coffee (here as the only guest of a magnificent B&B) I am contemplating my own next steps.

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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.