Sat.Oct 13, 2012 - Fri.Oct 19, 2012

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Bring It: 7 Keys To A Great 3 Minute Startup Pitch

Terry Starbucker

For the last 10 months I’ve been an investor in the Oregon Angel Fund (OAF). We invest in startups and early-stage growth companies in the Pacific Northwest, and as you can imagine, we hear a lot of pitches. Because there are many interested companies and applicants, and only a small number of actual annual investments (just a handful), that first 3 minute summation of “ why you should invest in us ” is absolutely critical.

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In Search of Joy: A Saturday Salutation

Let's Grow Leaders

“To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.” ? Mark Twain Most people have big and small joys in their life. Many are busting to share them. Could you find more ways to draw out the joy on your team? What would be the side effects of more joy [.] The post In Search of Joy: A Saturday Salutation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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The Transparency Debate: How Much Should Leaders Share?

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development As leaders grow in levels of responsibility, scope and scale, the issue of “transparency” becomes more significant. Executives have insights into confidential strategy, complex nuances, and serious situations. They also have large teams and a customer base watching every move. It’s common practice for leaders to pull back more as they rise in the [.].

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If it were just about leading, would you still want to be a leader?

Leading Blog

Imagine for a moment that you as a leader didn’t have all the perks that seem to accompany positions of leadership—no lease car, no reserved parking space, no special dining rooms, offices, furnishings or refreshments and certainly not the compensation that creates jealousies. Would you still want to be a leader? What if no one had to think that your way was always the best way?

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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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Disconnection at the Heart of Corporate Failure

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Debbie Nicol: Have you ever watched TV with the volume down and the radio on in the background? Some may describe that as crazy, some call it multi-tasking whilst others may sadly say ‘oh we have that all the time at work, everyone talking at once, no one listening, saying one thing and doing another’, creating confusion, misalignment and disconnection, and even at times manifesting as corruption and unethical practice.

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The Secret to Effective Time Management: A Story to Win By

Let's Grow Leaders

Time management techniques typically involve identifying priorities and scheduling well. There is also power in building in unscheduled time… leaving white space on the calendar for reflection and spontaneous magic. Adding some white space into your time management strategy can lead to better strategy, creative breakthroughs, and a more poised approach.

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Leading Apple With Steve Jobs

Leading Blog

Jay Elliot, former Senior Vice President of Apple, has spent a lot of time with Steve Jobs. In Leading Apple with Steve Jobs , he writes that “ Isaacson’s Steve is not the Steve I knew.” He believes that there has been too much focus on the negative aspects of how Jobs dealt with people and not enough on the positive. “I think,” he writes, “most people who worked for him, including me, would say they did the best work of their lives for him and don’t regret the experience a bit.

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5 Ways to Make Sure You Don’t Fall off the Fast-track

Great Leadership By Dan

Most organizations have some kind of formal or informal succession planning process to identify their high potential (HIPO), or “fast track” talent. Some will come right out and tell you you’re part of a high potential pool, and some let you know in a more indirect way. Either way, what they don’t always tell you is that these lists are fluid. Each year, people are added and dropped.

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Trusted and Empowered? 6 Ways to Get Your Boss To Trust You

Let's Grow Leaders

Last week’s post, A Matter of Trust, generated some great conversation on the Center For Creative Leadership LinkedIn group. One interesting addition was a paradoxical question from Carol Ann Hamilton, “which comes first, trust or trust?” Indeed, trust is a complex two-way street. In a follow-up conversation she shared: I ask this paradoxical question to get [.

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What do you do instead of what you are supposed to be doing?

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership What do you do instead of what you are supposed to? Top 10 Things You’re Probably Doing Instead of What You are Supposed to be Doing: 10. Eating something bad for you 9. Checking your email every 3 minutes 8. Looking for inspiration from others’ work 7. Reading just one more article about “how to [.].

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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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50 Inspiring Startup Quotes from Successful Entrepreneurs Includes Women

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: A number of women entrepreneurs are included in the list of 50 of the most inspiring startup quotes from successful entrepreneurs that was published on Lifed.com. However, all of the quotes are worth reading. Some of the quotes from business women are: “Having a partner definitely allows you to take more risks.” - Arianna Huffington, Co-founder, The Huffington Post. “Don’t limit yourself.

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Developing the Ethical Leader of the Future

Leading in Context

by Linda Fisher Thornton On Thursday, I spoke about The Future of Ethics and Business Leadership at the Richmond SHRM Strategic Leadership Conference. My lens was leadership development - how to help leaders be ready to lead ethically in a highly complex, connected future. Here are some success principles for developing "Ethical Leader Future:".

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The Obvious Question: And How to Get It Right

Let's Grow Leaders

In most organizations an important part of leading is being able to articulate and “sell” the great work of your team to other key stakeholders. Strong results and quality thinking in bad packaging can be overlooked. A great presentation can quickly go south, when the team gives sloppy answers to obvious questions. In her book, [.] The post The Obvious Question: And How to Get It Right appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Jane Perdue: The Character-Based Leader Co-Author Interview

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Character Based Leader Book Check out this great interview with Author, Jane Perdue: Chapter Title: ”Using Your Head to Manage Your Heart to Lead” Jane Perdue Principal/CEO, Braithwaite Innovation Group Co-Founder, Get Your Big On A friend once touchingly described Jane Perdue as a quiet storm of inspiration, a leader who wasn’t afraid to tactfully bring up the elephant in the [.

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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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Everything you need to know about leadership, you learned in Kindergarten

Women on Business

Yesterday as I watched an old episode of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ the story line was about how the kindergarten teacher enacted lessons in kindness using lessons from her Kindergarten class resonated with me. Leadership lessons at their core are taught in Kindergarten and here’s what I mean. Say Please and Thank You. When asking for cooperation, which is a key part of every entrepreneur’s life, saying please and thank you should go without saying.

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10 Reasons Leaders Fail, Plus One

Leadership Freak

“The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” William Pollard Organizations fail because leaders fail and leaders fail because they: Stop learning. Don’t build the team. Can’t collaborate. Won’t adapt. Won’t delegate. Assume. Blame. Lack focus. Don’t communicate. Don’t plan. Adapted from contributions on Facebook (10/16/12).

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Get More Done in Less Time: Learning From Crises

Let's Grow Leaders

When are you most productive? If you are like most people I know the answer is easy… when you really need to be. Most of us have great examples of crises and other urgent situations, where folks pull together and get more done. And yet, at other times, lots of stuff seems to get [.] The post Get More Done in Less Time: Learning From Crises appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Will Lukang: The Character-Based Leader Co-Author Interview

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Character Based Leader Book Check out this great interview with Author, Will Lukang: Chapter Title: “Assessing Authentic Leadership Through Your Community” Will Lukang, PMP, CSM, CLDC Will Lukang seeks every opportunity to learn and grow so that he is able to pass his knowledge to younger generations. He is passionate about people/leadership development, coaching and mentoring.

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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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Personal transition for better leadership

Persuasive Powerhouse

As a leader, you are almost always responsible for some kind of organizational change. Since change is constantly necessary to stay relevant in our world, if you are successful, you lead change well. Yet how are you at leading your own personal development? Do you realize that internal (self) change is a key to making external change more effective?

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Effective Management Starts With Making The Right Hiring Decision

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest post by Jessica Edmondson. Ever wonder what is the best path to effective management? The Internet is notorious for offering more resources than we could ever dream of needing on how to achieve the best management style, or on how to translate your business management degree into a training strategy that works best for your company.

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LinkedIn Reveals the 100 Most In Demand Employers [Infographic]

Women on Business

Using its huge data set, LinkedIn has researched and ranked the 2012 100 most “InDemand” employers in the world. At the top of the global list are Google, Apple, and Microsoft, Facebook, and Unilever, in that order. In the United States, the most sought after employers are Google, The Walt Disney Company, Facebook, Apple, and Salesforce.com, in that order.

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Is Your Past, Present or Future Driving You?

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Change Management Community Involvement Leadership Coaching Self Leadership Workplace Issues I spend an hour each morning in prayer and contemplation. Why? Because it is very hard for me to stay in the Present; I tend to live life thinking about the Future. This makes me fairly driven to getting things done. If I don’t slow down, stop and take time I almost forget there is [.].

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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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Giving without expectation

Persuasive Powerhouse

. Ours is a culture of giving to others with an expectation that we’ll get something in exchange. This appears particularly acute in business where we have work in exchange for (hopefully fair) pay. We work extra hard for a possible bonus at the end of the year. We send gifts to sales prospects hoping that they’ll buy from us. We encourage our teams in hopes that they’ll work harder.

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Overcoming the Reason People Resist Change

Leadership Freak

“In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” Warren Buffett Talking about change is easy, acceptable, even exciting. Talking and executing are two different things. Change becomes real when we have to change our own attitudes and behaviors, not until. The wrong picture: Change movements [.].

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9 Ways Women Can Combat Workplace Negativity

Women on Business

Guest Post By: Sheri Staak, Innovative Business Leader at Staak Report (learn more about Sheri at the end of this post). If the media’s constant bad news about company layoffs, overseas outsourcing, and a decreased availability of jobs isn’t getting you down, the attitude at work probably is. In industry today, we’re all operating in a pressure-cooker environment, laden with deadlines, quotas, and conflicting personalities.

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“How Are You?” Is So Much More Than a Question

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership My husband and I went out last night for a cherished date night. It was a special one, in fact. We were commemorating thirteen years of marriage at a local restaurant with great conversation, outdoor dining, Italian food and wine. Our server quickly approached us after we were seated. With enthusiasm and warmth, she asked [.].

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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 Great Leadership Development and Succession Planning eBook

Great Leadership By Dan

I'm pleased to announce the availability of my first eBook! Now I can cross "write a book" off my bucket list and I can include "author" in my official bio. (-: There will be no book signing tour - after all, it's an eBook. I had to explain this to my Mom when she told me she went to her local Barnes and Noble and couldn't find it. It was a trip putting it together.

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The Seven Powers of Powerful Questions

Leadership Freak

Questions are the most powerful statements you make. Questions expose. Your questions tell me who you are. Questions invite thought. Answers end thought. Questions enlighten. “It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question,” Decouvertes. Questions overcome resistance. People naturally question statements. On the other hand, ask an honest question and people lean in. [.].

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The Confidence/Competence Loop

Kevin Eikenberry

There are several basic areas of study that, as we study them, we can become more effective coaches and leaders. This long list includes both human behavior and learning. The psychological concept I want to talk about today comes from the intersection of these two fields of study. Don’t worry; I’m not going to go [.].

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Dan Rockwell: The Character-Based Leader Co-Author Interview

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Character Based Leader Book Check out this great interview with Dan Rockwell: Chapter Title: ”Leading Your Way Into Humility” Dan Rockwell Blogger, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell believes we are what were when we were in our early teens. That makes him a farm boy from Maine, even though he’s been in central Pennsylvania for twenty-five years.

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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.