Sat.Mar 10, 2012 - Fri.Mar 16, 2012

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Transparency and Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Change Management Resources Reviews A recent book by a new friend got me thinking about transparency and leadership. The book is Business at the Speed of NOW by John M. Bernard. John’s an Instigator here at Lead Change. We met through social media and we’ve spoken a few times about how the Internet and a number of other issues [.].

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Failure, or Progress?: Making Mountains into Milestones

Terry Starbucker

(Terry’s Note: This is the latest in a series of posts written by guest writer Adam Tenenbaum , called Front Line Leadership. Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation. He also has previous leadership experience at other prominent companies. His primary focuses have been talent selection, employee engagement, and leadership development.).

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Develop a Relentless Solution Focus

Leading Blog

Whatever you are trying to accomplish, Jason Selk, author of Executive Toughness , says a relentless solution focus (RSF) will dramatically increase your chances of achieving it. The tactic is this: Within 60-seconds, replace all problem focused thought with solution-focused thinking to dramatically improve your health, happiness, and success. We naturally like to focus on and talk about our problems.

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How to Encourage Your Employees to Think and Act Like Owners

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Brad Hams : Entitlement has become more and more pervasive in our culture over the past several generations, due in part to the (misguided) self-esteem movement, but also to government’s ever expanding promise to give people things that most of them could, in fact, obtain themselves through work and perseverance. This has created dependence, which crushes potential.

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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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Character, Credit and Credibility

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership A small group of us had labored for months on a project to improve morale, performance and slowdown turnover in a particular facility. This assignment had been layered on top of already full task lists, yet it was a labor of love for most of the project team. Who can resist the lure of freedom [.].

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Seven Proven Ways to Inspire Others

Leadership Freak

** You make a difference by inspiring others to make a difference. Here’s how: 1. Stop fixing. If your passion for excellence and success drives you to constantly fix people, stop it. Problem centered fixers invite self-protective restraint in others. 2. Compassion wins. The pursuit of personal gain and glory doesn’t inspire, it threatens. Inspiration occurs when [.].

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What do “healthy workplace relationships” look like?

Persuasive Powerhouse

“Relationship” is a word that we are hearing more about in the workplace to designate positive personal connections with our colleagues. Although expressing emotions at work is still considered unacceptable in most workplaces, positive emotions have an impact on the quality of relationships at work and ultimately, the work that gets done.

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Leaders, Do Your Pet Peeves Disengage Employees?

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Leaders often reflect their values in their leadership. This can be positive especially if the values are in agreement with the purpose and goals of the organization. The same cannot be said when leaders let their pet peeves shape the culture. When left unchecked, leaders’ pet peeves can disengage employees and create a play-it-safe culture.

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The 5 Friends Every Entrepreneur Needs

Women on Business

We entrepreneurs are an optimistic set; some would even say we have our head in the clouds. Some of us are cautious, some bean counters by nature and some of us are the dreamers. We are the people that can actually visualize the dream happening. With this near foolish optimism, there are 5 friends that every kind of entrepreneur should have. The Cheerleader.

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Proof That Less is More

In the CEO Afterlife

Ever since I started blogging about leadership and strategy, I’ve been harping about the notion of “doing less, better” as a business modus operandi. Wall Street is against the idea. They think companies have to “do more and more” to get bigger and bigger. Recently, they’ve been pushing Starbucks to expand beyond coffee into a variety of foods. It will be interesting to see whether Howard Schultz will give in to them.

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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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Assessing Corporate Ethics

Leading in Context

How Well are We Doing? For those who want to be able to assess their progress toward ethical standards, this week I'm sharing tools for comparing business practices with global ethical standards.

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Biting My Tongue

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development “The language we use to communicate with one another is like a knife. In the hands of a careful and skilled surgeon, a knife can work to do great good. But in the hands of a careless or ignorant person a knife can cause great harm.” ~author unknown **Author’s note. This post is about language [.].

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Innovative Branding For Female Entrepreneurs

Women on Business

The complexity of branding can be confusing when you come from the perspective that your brand is all about you, it is and it is not. Being a modern day figure in the marketplace of female empowerment leader and spiritual innovator leads one to believe that my life is my message, my image is my brand, my ideas are what the public is searching and looking for, if I come from that singular identity, then I am way off track.

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Leadership Development and China

Great Leadership By Dan

I’ll be traveling to Shanghai, China to begin discussions with a large state-owned company that’s interested in our executive development programs. I’ve been to China and Asia before, but it’s been a while. Also, I’ve never actually been involved in a business negotiation process with the Chinese. Here’s what I know: 1. You MUST understand the roots of Chinese culture in order to understand the elements of Chinese negotiations.

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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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3 Truths About Keeping Our Focus In A Sea of Distractions

Tanveer Naseer

These days, it seems all of us are grappling with an increasing number of distractions popping up during our workday. While some can be trivial or annoying, others can turn out to be more pressing and demanding a shift in our focus and attention. It’s the latter that I’ve been dealing with and which gave rise to the thoughts below on how we might better address this fracturing of our time, focus, and attention.

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Automatic vs. Manual – Putting It in Gear

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Check out this post by Instigator Jon Mertz on how you can’t just cruise through life on automatic. Jon describes the ‘gears’ you must successfully ‘shift’ through to get the most out of life.

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Stop Working Hard to Remain Stupid

Leadership Freak

** Inexperience is under rated. Inexperienced people enjoy the courage of ignorance. They say, “Why not” rather than “we tried that.” Ignorance allows them to see what could be. They see fewer problems and more opportunities. They try because they haven’t failed. Stupid and experienced: Benjamin Franklin said, “We are all born ignorant, but one [.].

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There May be Potential in those Mistakes

Persuasive Powerhouse

. One day as I worked as a young researcher in laboratory, a colleague walked in with some photos. Her team had been involved in drug trials in humans of a certain blood pressure (vasodilator) medicine. The photos showed children who had high blood pressure that couldn’t be treated with other blood pressure medications. When the children took the medicine over time, someone became aware that they unexpectedly grew hair all over their bodies – and these photos showed very hairy children.

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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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Finding a Sense of Wonder

Kevin Eikenberry

Often we look at kids and wish we could recapture some of that magic of childhood. One of the many things that make children magical is that complete willingness to have a sense of wonder. I’m a big fan of wonder, so much so that I wrote a chapter about it in my book Vantagepoints [.].

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Does Life Imitate Art at Goldman Sachs? Or Something Else?

Next Level Blog

When Greg Smith quit his job running a London based line of business for Goldman Sachs — and told the world why in an op-ed in the New York Times – he acted out the fantasy of everyone who’s ever wanted to tell their employer what they really think of them as they walk out the door. Smith’s article reminded me. Click headline to continue.

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Thriving Through Processes

Leadership Freak

Organizations without processes never thrive. Effective and efficient processes create platforms that enable, enhance, and evaluate both individual and organizational performance. What’s your systematic process for achieving breakthroughs, living transparently, and solving problems, for example? Powerful processes: Eliminate drama. Prevent distractions.

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Thought-full Thursday: Encouraging Full Potential

Persuasive Powerhouse

Every Thursday, we provide you with a thoughtful way to coach yourself – something all leaders need to do. I’ve been featuring a series of quotes from my favorite writers and bloggers on the topic of leadership. Tanveer Naseer , featured today, is a business coach and an “all around nice guy” who writes compelling advice and thoughtful posts on leadership.

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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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What Leaders Can Learn from Spiders

Kevin Eikenberry

Have you ever stopped to really look at a spider web? If you aren’t afraid of spiders, the next time you have a chance, stop and look at a spider web. What you will find ais an intricately designed work of art and engineering marvel. Every part of the web is connected to every other [.].

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What kind of weather are you making?

Next Level Blog

For the past couple of years, I’ve had a lot of great conversations with my clients about the idea that leaders control the weather. You can test this idea for yourself right now. Have you ever worked in a place where the first question everyone asked when they arrived in the morning was, “What kind of mood is he (or. Click headline to continue.

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Love at Work

Leadership Freak

“You don’t love me,” comes from a heart that wants to be loved, but isn’t? “ I love you,” signals beginnings; “You don’t love me,” endings. Love’s ending begins with thoughts like: You put someone else ahead of me. You don’t think of me and my wants. You don’t have my best interests at heart. [.].

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Three Secrets Presentation Pros Keep To Themselves.

Rich Gee Group

Shhh. It's a secret. Don't tell anyone.

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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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Leading During March Madness

Kevin Eikenberry

March Madness is upon us. People who barely know what a basketball looks like are suddenly talking about basketball, and using all manner of strategies for filling out their brackets. All of this activity brings excitement, but also big concerns for leaders about productivity and focus. What should you do to address these things this week? [.].

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On the Tragic Death of a Colleague

Modern Servant Leader

Last week, the world lost a great man and incredible colleague. According to one news report , it seems a large dump truck collided head on with Jeff’s car. The momentum carried both vehicles off the road, where a fire broke out. A courageous bystander rescued the truck driver but was unable to save Jeff. A tragic loss of a great man. Jeff managed a large portion of a project I lead last year.

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Buffet and Bennis on Delegating

Leadership Freak

** Mediocre leaders can’t or won’t delegate. Delegating may be the most unglamorous part of leadership. I woke up this morning with three things on my mind, delegating an important role in the organization I lead, and two Warrens. They all go together. Warren Buffet on delegation: Hire people and don’t tell them what to [.].

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Failure and Change

Women on Business

Guest post by Laura Brown (learn more about Laura at the end of this post). I’m at a crossroads with my websites and the work I do online. At the beginning of the new year I felt unsatisfied with my work, out of touch with what I really want to be doing. So, I took stock of what I have. My blog is a massive body of work. Built over several years online, writing for various sites, then starting my own in 2006.

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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.