Sat.Apr 28, 2012 - Fri.May 04, 2012

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Is Blogging Dead?

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. I read an interesting article in Inc. Magazine entitled “ Where Have All the Bloggers Gone ?” If you read this article it would lead you to believe blogging is in decline and on it’s way out as a marketing tool. The article cites a study from the University of Massachusetts in which the respondents (170 executives from Inc. 500 companies) indicated the use of blogging was down 13% from the prior year.

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Great Leadership And The Wisdom Of Chocolate Covered Kale

Terry Starbucker

Like many others here in Portland I’ve been increasing my consumption of a certain vegetable – one that has magical powers. “It’s a superfood!”, the stores proclaim. Low calorie, low fat, high in essential vitamins and minerals, etc, etc, etc… That’s all good, quite good in fact, but there’s one big problem with it.

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Simple Principles Work!

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Coaching As we got our coffee and sat down, the conversation continued. “I am just swamped though, and the work just seems endless. I don’t know if I can keep this pace. I just imagine this wave of work overtaking me.” My friend tried to comfort me by adding, “You know you will work through it. [.].

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Stuck? Flip the Script

Leading Blog

Flip the Script is about approaching everything in your life with a new mindset: you can’t control circumstances but you can manage them. Author Bill Wackermann says that the first step is to “embrace the notion that turning a situation around and creating new opportunities takes the desire to face yourself as you really are and a willingness to see the potential that could be hiding right in front of you.

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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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The Top 5 Mistakes Leaders Make

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Great Leadership regular contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: The Top 5 Leadership Mistakes: which one would your team members say you make? Over the years, I have worked with hundreds of leaders many who have displayed specific leadership shortfalls, that when improved, have had a positive impact on the effectiveness and profitability of the organization.

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1 in 2 Independent Consultants are Women [Infographic]

Women on Business

Statistics show women are joining the growing independent consulting sector at a rapid pace. Women make up less than half (47%) of the traditional workforce, but they make up 53% (8.5 million) of the independent workforce. A new study from MBO Partners reports that 77% these women are satisfied and 74% plan on remaining in independent work. The top reasons women cite for taking the independent route are: more flexibility (65%), control of their own schedules (64%), and being their own boss (59%

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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2012

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in May. The 3 Power Values : How Commitment, Integrity, and Transparency Clear the Roadblocks to Performance by David Gebler. Flip the Script : How to Turn the Tables and Win in Business and Life by Bill Wackermann. Leading With Honor : Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton by Lee Ellis.

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Are You Waiting For Permission to Grow?

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest post by Darcy Eikenberg. “We’ve cut back on our training—nothing I can do about that.” “Our conference budgets have been cut, so it’ll be hard for me to stay current.” “My manager doesn’t know any more than I do—how am I going to grow?” Heard those comments in your workplace lately? If so, you’re not alone. One of the biggest laments uncovered in survey after survey is that the current lack of learning and development programs is a strong contributor to disengagement.

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Developing Globally Responsible Leaders

Leading in Context

Laws serve as minimum standards for society, but responsible leadership requires that we go well beyond those minimum standards. As the leaders who will help shape the future of our businesses and our societies through small actions and big decisions, we need a global sense of responsibility. This post explores what it means to be a globally responsible leader and what kinds of learning opportunities help leaders develop a global sense of responsibility.

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A Leader Is Someone We Can Believe In

Persuasive Powerhouse

When I ask others what they think a leader is, they have lots of different responses. However, there is one that always inspires me: “A leader is someone I can believe in” When we believe in a leader, it shows they are doing something – or a lot of “somethings” – right. What behaviors do they exhibit that cause us to believe?

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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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LeadershipNow 140: April 2012 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from April 2012 that you might have missed: The Yin and Yang of Business by @TomAsacker. @Leadershipfreak: If you know more than everyone on your team, you have a weak team. " 8 Ways to Find Freedom ". lead:ology - Leaders vs Managers: A False Dichotomy. Choice Point: Do Not Let Your Culture Kill You by Robert Quinn @LeadWithLift.

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Transparency in Succession Planning: To Tell or Not To Tell?

Great Leadership By Dan

"To tell or not to tell"?, now THAT is the question when it comes to succession planning and high potential programs. I recently attended a talent management networking meeting hosting by PDI Ninth House. It was well attended, with over 100 participants, all responsible for some aspect of talent management. The two presenters had a packed agenda with over 50 slides to get through.

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

To most of us, mentors are people of experience and knowledge who help the less experienced advance their careers and/or their education. There are plenty of well-known examples throughout the course of history; Aristotle mentored Alexander the Great, Laurence Olivier mentored Anthony Hopkins and Freddy Laker mentored Richard Branson. In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand M

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10 Strategies for Building Confidence in Others

Leadership Freak

Insecure people who won’t try are frustrating. Insecurity stagnates. Confidence explodes outward, fear implodes. There’s little success or progress apart from personal confidence. The problem of confidence: You cannot make others feel confident. Security and insecurity are functions of the self. Successful leaders, however, help others find confidence, assuming they want to find it.

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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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Happy Women Work From Home

Women on Business

Today’s women can work at home and still hold an executive position and even make millions from sitting behind a lap top computer. In fact… you can be extremely HAPPY working from home because you don’t have to get dressed up, fight traffic and you can work out whenever you want to. Just schedule it! The internet allows us to have freedom to raise our children, have more time, and live the life we want.

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5 Pitfalls to Avoid When Identifying Team Values

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

What Happened. Someone on the leadership team suggested it would be a good idea to identify our values. The regular agenda for the leadership team meetings was already jam-packed, and no one had time for an extra meeting to do this work, so the task was assigned to a few volunteers to bring back to the team. The Pitfall. Seeing values as separate from the real work.

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Where (and When) the Magic Happens

In the CEO Afterlife

A picture is worth a thousand words; clichéd but true. This illustration may also become clichéd, but whenever I see it, I grin and nod. Although the Promised Land lies within that magic circle, most of us can’t break out of our comfort zone. Recently, the Apple Corporation has shown the world a glorious example of how big business creates magic. No doubt, many CEOs will try to replicate the principles that catapulted Apple to the most valuable company on the face of the earth.

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10 Powerful Strategies to Build Your Confidence

Leadership Freak

(Photograph courtesy of NASA Langley Research Center) ** Repeating the past in a changing world makes you irrelevant and insignificant. Employing old strategies in new situations tends toward failure. Transition, turbulence, and change test leadership-confidence. Danger and beauty: The danger of confidence is quantity – too little paralyzes; too much and you’re an arrogant fool [.].

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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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What Does it Mean to Be Humble?

Kevin Eikenberry

In workshops (including yesterday), I’m often asked how to raise confidence – either in ourselves or in those we lead. It is is a valuable question, yet it often leads to the question of balance – what’s the connection between confidence and humility? Today’s quotation addresses the humility side is a very simple and enlightening [.].

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3 Ways to Silence Your Inner Critic and Build Executive Presence

Next Level Blog

So, here’s the scenario: You’re the newest member of a leadership or management team. Today is your first regular leadership team meeting. It’s that part of the meeting where you go around the physical or virtual table and everyone reports out for five minutes or so on the latest and greatest things happening in their part of the world. As. Click headline to continue.

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Leadership Insights on Decisions From McDonalds

Great Results Team Building

This article on Leadership Insights and Decisions is published as a guest post on the "Coaching Confidence" website. Many thanks to Jenn Waller for sharing it with her audience! You can read the entire article on "Leadership Insights on Decisions from McDonalds" if you click HERE.

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8 Ways to Find Freedom

Leadership Freak

Freedom ignites passion, imagination, and initiative; control destroys it. Freedom feeds vitality; control oppresses and limits. Freedom, however, is dangerous. Freedom is essential because their expertise exceeds yours, in their area. If you know more than everyone on your team, you have a weak team. Effective leaders set people free. Finding freedom: #1.

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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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How Leaders Can Use Pinterest

Kevin Eikenberry

Leaders? Use Pinterest? Isn’t Pinterest the hot new social media tool that is growing by leaps and bounds? Yes. Isn’t this the site that seems to be largely about recipes, crafts and wedding planning? Not entirely. Are you talking about how leaders of business could use Pinterest in their marketing efforts? No, though that is [.].

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Is Your Boss Unfit to Lead? Take the Rupert Murdoch Test

Next Level Blog

Well, you have to hand it to News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. He knows how to generate a story. The twist on the latest Murdoch story, however, is that he’s the subject of it. This week, a British parliamentary panel investigating phone hacking, email hacking and bribery of police officers by his company’s managers and reporters concluded that.

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Be the First to Applaud

Modern Servant Leader

The presenter highlights a broad group of award winners, mentioning his appreciation of their hard work. The audience, approximately 8,000 people strong, is silent for a second. But then, as the presenter takes a breath, about to speak again, a clap is heard from stage-right. Applause then quickly rises from stage right and rolls through the back of the giant auditorium in rapid succession.

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How Leaders Shoot Themselves in the Foot

Leadership Freak

** Everyone engages in self-defeating behaviors. “Part of my job is helping people get out of their own way,” Joel Garfinkle author of Getting Ahead. Which of these self-defeating behaviors hold you back? Hiding from what you really think or feel. Over thinking and under acting. Focusing on “why” at the expense of “what” and [.].

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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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Look Below The Behavior

Kevin Eikenberry

It’s May of 2012 – the month I will turn fifty years old. Someone asked me if I was going to blog about my birthday (I guess the answer is yes), and then they asked me what lessons I’ve learned in nearly 50 years on the planet. I’ve been thinking about that question a bit, [.].

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A Tribute and a Leadership Lesson From Sister Alice

Persuasive Powerhouse

. Great leaders stretch us. Sister Alice taught Botany and Cell Biology at Aquinas College, where I received my B.S. in Biology. She had a wonderful way about her – a positivity, curiosity, and endless desire to make sure we learned (more than Botany and Cell Biology, for sure!). She was also a surprise. Let me explain. The campus of Aquinas College was (and still is) quite beautiful – wooded, flowered, grassed, streamed, and ponded – it has a terrain that made it the perfect place to study all

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Employees: Love Them or Leave Them

Women on Business

As a small business owner you become intimately involved in every area of your company and work closely with most of your employees. There are several perks to this. You gain an intimate understanding of how your company works, understand your clients and their needs, and see the company culture at work on a daily basis. Small business owners do not need to look at reports and analyze data to understand what is happening with their company.

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How to Brag without being a Braggart

Leadership Freak

If the right people don’t know about your work your work doesn’t matter. It may be important. It may be valuable. But, you’ll never get ahead if those over you don’t know your value and accomplishments. Keeping your head down and working hard keeps you down and lets others take credit. Self-promotion: Self-promotion isn’t a [.].

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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.