Sat.Mar 24, 2012 - Fri.Mar 30, 2012

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Leadership and Self-Awareness

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Leader Beware – ignorant bliss, no matter how enjoyable, is still ignorant. If you’re in a position of leadership and don’t feel you have any blind spots, you’re either very naïve or very arrogant. All leaders have blind spots – the question is what are they doing about them? The reality is most leaders invest so much time assessing the cultural and functional dynamics of their organizations they often forget the importance of critically

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9 Awesome Things You Can Learn From Drinking Coffee With Entrepreneurs

Terry Starbucker

Since I moved to Portland about 16 months ago, I’ve hung out with a lot of entrepreneurs, in coffee shops all over town. (Yes, here I spread my coffee dollars around between the national chains and the local brews). For an hour or so, we just chat about their businesses, and about them – and I have to tell you, these discussions have been revelatory for me.

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Sympathy is NOT Empathy

Michael Lee Stallard

Connecting with people requires empathy i.e. you feel the emotion another individual feels. This is different from sympathy where you recognize the emotion but don’t feel it. In Fired Up or Burned Out , I wrote about the company Cranium and how it designs “high five moments” into its games. High five moments are times when people connect via the shared empathy of joy (remember that we define “the force of connection” as shared identity, empathy and understanding).

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Why Leaders Should Offer Frequent Performance Reviews?

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development In today’s business world, time is money. Because of this, it’s smart to institute regular performance appraisals, commonly known as a performance review. Assessing your team at multiple points throughout the year helps you and your employees maintain goals and keep open communication. “The benefits of performance appraisals are tough to argue with.

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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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YESability: Driving Growth with Yes

Leading Blog

In a world that is moving from a global economy driven by mass production to one driven by mass customization—a now economy—the demand for mass ingenuity, mass engagement, and mass action, has never been greater. In Business at the Speed of Now , author John Bernard says that there must also be a shift in the way we manage our organizations. “Centralized innovation and decision-making, the mainstays of the Mass Production era, simply cannot get results in a world where unlimited choice demands r

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How Leadership Is Like Beer

Kevin Eikenberry

I caught myself humming a tune from my past the other day. It’s an old Tom T. Hall song titled “I Like Beer.” Just to give you a flavor, here is the second half of the chorus. “Whiskey’s too rough, champagne costs too much, and vodka put my mouth in gear. This [.].

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5 Steps to Consistently Make Good Decisions

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Do you have an issue or a problem that you’re wrestling with right now? If you are like most business owners, you are actually juggling 136 issues. Dealing with issues is a big part of your day, maybe it’s even your whole day… I don’t know what you’re problem is, but I do know why [.].

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8 Leadership Skills Essential for Success in the Future

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

I don’t need a crystal ball to see what will be required of leaders in the future. All I need to do is look around. Most of the companies I work with these days are multi-national – not because I am changing, but because companies are changing. They are expanding, becoming larger and more complex as they seek to establish a presence in new markets.

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Leadership Lessons from the World’s Most Admired Companies

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Hay Group's Mel Stark: Hay Group is often asked about what we’ve learned from the World’s Most Admired Companies. When it comes to fostering and developing leadership, my answer tends to be that it’s just a part of what WMACs do; it's engrained in their DNA. That's not to say that these companies are not conscious of leadership. In fact, I mean quite the opposite.

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Women in Technology [Infographic]

Women on Business

Women in technology are finding many successes, but those triumphs are still not the norm. An infographic from IT Manager Daily and Killer Infographics attempts to raise awareness of the impact women are having in the technology field, including their triumphs and barriers. Check it out below to see some uninspiring statistics, inspiring success stories, and resources for inspired women in technology.

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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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5 Wastes Management Causes: Do They Hurt the Planet?

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues [link] When we think of planet preservation we think of the air, the water and the land. But we don’t think about the many common forms of waste that occur in our workplaces — and this waste not only costs our business, it wastes the Earth’s resources. Management causes waste through its outdated practices.

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A Monster of an Idea

In the CEO Afterlife

My original premise for this blog was to share a variety of leadership and branding principles with the current generation of business leaders. With forty years in the saddle, hundreds of dusty trails and a few fistfights along the way, I have an oasis of management insight in which to draw. More than 60 blogs later, I remain of the view that the vast majority of the strategic tenets that guided me as a CMO and CEO remain valid today.

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How to Handle Disengagement During Meetings

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Great Leadership regular contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: Have you ever been in a meeting where one person decided to display a negative attitude? You know, the person who starts reading his PDA, or the other one who suddenly falls quiet, or what about the one who starts to slide down his chair and on to the floor. Well if you are the one in charge of the meeting what is your role in this dysfunction?

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The Truth About Your Time

Kevin Eikenberry

I spend many of my days with leaders and employees from all over. Of all of the conversations we have, or of all of the side conversations I hear, one topic is most universal. Time. Or more specifically, that they don’t have enough of it. I get that people feel that they have lots to [.].

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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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Are You Ready Campaign

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Sonia DiMaulo’s “Are You Ready” Campaign ends on March 31, 2012. It’s not too late to enter to win a great prize pack of gifts to help you grow as a leader. Read this recent post on my blog to learn more.

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Lessons in Leadership From Writing a Book

Persuasive Powerhouse

Wendy Appel, MA, is our guest writer today. A cultural anthropologist, public speaker and author who specializes in organization development, executive coaching and change leadership. The focus of her work is on individual and organizational change and transformation. She has a new book coming out tomorrow – see information below. I had no idea …. I set out to write a book.

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What Does March Madness Tell us About Leadership Promotions?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by DDI's Bradford Thomas: Being from Kentucky—where we have no professional sports teams—March Madness rises to a whole different level. It’s our Super Bowl, our World Series and our Stanley Cup. Don’t believe me? Check out this blog on ESPN. The annual NCAA Basketball Bracket pool turns everyone into water cooler prognosticators. Annual bragging rights in the office pool centers on your ability to amass a lot of points by picking the early round upsets.

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The Adaptability Paradox

Leading in Context

The well worn path that we have followed for years is easy to follow. We know the rules, the processes, the tools, the pitfalls and all other aspects of that path. Our comfort with that path makes it harder for us to see that even though the 'way we have always done things' has led us to success in the past, it may not in the future.

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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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Radically Change Your Leadership, Today

Leadership Freak

How do you make people feel? The way you make people feel may be the most important thing about your leadership. Relentlessly looking ahead to noble destinations is never enough. Efficient systems don’t work apart from people. Values must find expression in behaviors. Feelings follow us everywhere. What emotional states do you create in others?

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Are You Employing This Tool To Fuel Your Organization’s Growth?

Tanveer Naseer

As more organizations continue to shift their approach from recovery to growth, there’s naturally a growing concern developing about the potential risk of losing their key talent to competitors, as well as how to attract the talent they need to help their organization strengthen their competitive edge. In most cases, these discussions tend to focus either on discovering key talent within your organization or how to attract the talent you need to join your team.

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Women And Money: The Art Of Creating More!

Women on Business

“Women and money” is a top subject these days. Recent studies show that women will be the richer gender within the next two years. This leads me to a discussion that we just had in a women’s leadership council the other weekend. After stating this fact, the feminine crowd burst out clapping as if we were winning a race against the men. Are we competing against the MEN, ladies?

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3 Tips for Stopping Gossipers and Helping Leadership

Modern Servant Leader

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. – Richard Steele. Gossip is toxic fuel to a bad corporate culture. I was reminded of this last week when a subscriber asked for tips on dealing with gossip. She writes: I feel surrounded by “toxic” co-workers that… like to talk bad about all other leaders.

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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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It’s Harder for Women

Leadership Freak

“The path to the top is harder for women than men,” Ruth Malloy. Men can be men but women must be both. Hay Group has identified six leadership styles. I’ve circled stereotypical male styles in blue and female in pink. Women using traditional masculine styles without including feminine styles are labeled bitches. Men lacking stereotypical feminine [.].

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How to Get Value From Working With a Mentor

Persuasive Powerhouse

A while back, I wrote a popular post called How to Be a Great Mentor Without All the Fuss. I’ve been meaning to write the companion piece for those who are being mentored, so here it is. Having a mentor is a great way to learn more about different parts of your organization, to gain exposure to someone at a higher level in your organization, or to take advantage of learning more about what works for a leader you admire.

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Leadership Biz Cafe Podcast #7 – Joel Garfinkle On How To Get Ahead In Your Career

Tanveer Naseer

Regardless of whether the economy is going well or not, one thing that’s remained consistent in the workplace over the last few decades is the reality that each of us is responsible for managing our careers and with it, the opportunities we obtain for professional growth and development. But how exactly do we obtain these opportunities to get ahead in our career?

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The Final Four Thoughts on Learning

Kevin Eikenberry

Normally on Friday, I share a quotation; then provide questions to ponder, action steps and my thoughts about that quotation. Not today. Today, we acknowledge what many Americans are thinking about and will be watching tomorrow – the men’s NCAA Final Four. There are four teams remaining before a champion is crowned. Two games tomorrow [.].

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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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7 Ways Leadership is Like Sports

Modern Servant Leader

Anyone can practice leadership or sports, but not everyone will succeed. Not everyone has the same capacity for sports or leadership. In his book, 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership , John Maxwell calls this the Law of the Lid: “The Lid represents the limit of our leadership abilities. Hard work, efficient management, and knowledge can only bring us so far.” Here are 7 ways that leadership and sports are alike: 1.

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The Secret to Dynamic Presentations

Leadership Freak

Yesterday I gave my first keynote presentation since the accident on November 20, 2011. It felt like putting old jeans on. Successful presenters create dynamic connections between themselves and audiences. Connect with the past: Weeks before the presentation, I’d asked several people, “What was the best organizational meeting you attended?” They all replied, “The one [.].

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How To Stop Working So Late.

Rich Gee Group

How late do you work every day?

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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

Kevin Eikenberry

Today’s Resource Recommendation is Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler. Read the subtitle again, outloud. The future is better than you think. Yes, the world has big problems: famine, water quality and quantity, population growth, disease, and disappearing energy resources. And this book says that the future [.].

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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.