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7 Questions You Should Ask When You Launch a New Project

Let's Grow Leaders

I’m launching a new project that will significantly propel the LGL mission of growing leaders with the confidence and humility to make a deeper impact on the world. It’s a strong team, and I found us organically asking one another questions to frame our mission and set us up for success. There was no checklist, but I thought, “Wow, wouldn’t it be helpful for others in such scenes if there were?

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What Does It Mean to Be a Leader?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ Don ’ t explain your philosophy. Embody it. ”. Epictetus. I love reading all of the great blogs here on generalleadership.com. It is like having your own staff of great military leaders to learn from.

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Connect Is The New Follow

Lead Change Blog

“You are my follower.” His inflection caught me off guard. Put me off a tad, too. In my mind, we had simply connected via social media. Yes, I had clicked a button labeled follow on his page. By doing so, I committed to learning more about him, but I certainly wasn’t thinking in dictionary terms of being an adherent or devotee of a particular person, cause, or activity.

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Look for the Three Social Cultures

Michael Lee Stallard

#84 Be on the Lookout for the Three Social Cultures. Intentional connectors understand that there are three types of social cultures: cultures of control, cultures of indifference and connection cultures. . In cultures of control, people with power, control, influence and status rule over others and as a result the others feel left out. In cultures of indifference, people are so busy chasing money, power and status that they fail to invest the time necessary to develop healthy, supportive relati

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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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On the Meaning of Life

Let's Grow Leaders

This week has been hard here. We’ve lost my mom who was vibrant to the end, at a slower pace than predicted– with a painful ending no one should have to endure. Some of my mom’s last words to me were “I just wish all this pain and suffering could help you write a really good blog post.” She was kidding of course, but what the heck.

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A Mother’s Day Perspective

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. On the eve of another Mother’s Day , as I’ve unfortunately done a few times in my history, I needed a not-too-subtle prompt, this time from an internet ad, to get me moving on buying my mom something for the day.

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This Is What Real Leaders Do

Tanveer Naseer

Over the past few weeks, I’ve had several fascinating discussions with leaders from different organizations and industries about the various challenges they’re grappling with within their workplace. For some of these leaders, the major issue they face is how to improve employee engagement levels within their division. For another group, the main challenge they want to address is how to make emotional intelligence a key foundation stone in their leadership within an organization whose

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Self Confidence and the Female Entrepreneur

Women on Business

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Hybrid Leadership

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date.” Roger von Oech. What is a hybrid ? I like the Merriam-Webster definition that includes, “something that is formed by combining two or more things.

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Let No Man Pull You So Low…

Lead Change Blog

One of my all time heroes is Dr. Martin Luther King. Born and raised in a culture where he and other African-Americans were treated as second class citizens, he could have become a much different person than he did. His circumstances could have easily made him bitter and resentful. They could have just as easily forged him into an angry and violent anarchist, lashing out at an unjust and bigoted culture.

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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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What is Great Leadership?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Ted Bagley: All organizations worry about leadership, from the mom and pop community businesses to the giant global entities both domestic and international. There is still a propensity to use the word manager verses leader which can have a significant different intend and meaning. Managers tend to govern over process, data, projects and products while leaders tend to utilize human capital to navigate these same areas and participate as part of the process.

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Are You A Pilot Or Passenger In Your Career?

Rich Gee Group

Today, we live in a time better than ever before. . Greater life expectancy, better health standards while we’re alive, more variety of food and experiences. More opportunity than ever before. You can try new vocations or start your own business for a lot less money and effort than it took even 20 years ago. If you fail, you can start again, reclaim your position and start moving up the ladder (with hard work).

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S is for Selflessness…Coffee anyone?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 22 May 2013. “Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Leadership Dilemma

Lead Change Blog

Leading an organization is not a simple exercise. It requires a leader to be connected with his people, and to understand the business landscape and its shifting priorities based on the market movements. It is a complex matrix of challenges to juggle on a daily basis. It ranges from being strategic as well as being ready to handle tactical stuff on a daily basis.

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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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7 Tips to Build a Business Based on Relationships

Women on Business

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Relationship Currency Transforms a Transactional World

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

You might think this has become a transactional world, where important decisions are made solely on the basis of price. It certainly might look like that, especially in the wild San Francisco Bay real estate market where housing prices are at an all time high and competition is fierce. But my experience last month challenges this belief. I moved from the east coast to the San Francisco Bay area last summer.

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Monday Quote

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others. “ Simon Sinek. .

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Inspired To Bravery – A Leadercast 2015 Recap

Lead Change Blog

I attended Leadercast 2015 last Friday. The conference topic was The Brave Ones. I had some major takeaways from the simulcast that I wanted to share. I confess I wasn’t excited about going. I was not inspired by last year’s event. However, this year’s event challenged and energized. It was the best day I’ve spent in quite a while. Andy Stanley. Bold leadership comes from clarity around an unreasonable commitment to what should be.

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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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Leadership Development S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-S To Prepare for the Future

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton In a recent post, I acknowledged that "leaders face information overload, globalization and increasing complexity. And they hold the key to your organization’s future. Make it a priority to help them be ready." How can we prepare leaders to succeed in a socially and globally connected world? What are the strategies that will help them handle a wide variety of unpredictable situations while making ethical choices?

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Daily practices for exceptional leadership

Persuasive Powerhouse

. Look around and notice the leaders you admire. What they do looks easy – but staying at the top of their leadership game takes intentionality and practice. If they’re among the elite leaders, they practice at being the best by targeting areas of strength and development on a continual basis. You might not think of leadership as something to be practiced, but like so many professions that require human effort (athletes and performers for example), mastery can be fleeting and elusiv

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20 Weird Things that Can Happen When You Become a Manager

Great Leadership By Dan

When making the transition from individual contributor to manager, some very subtle and not so subtle things start to happen. Weird things. Read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership to find out what can happen.

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Solution Saturday: 10 Ways to Shorten Long Meetings

Leadership Freak

Great meetings create efficiency. It’s Solution Saturday. The problem I’d like us to solve is spending too much time in long meetings.

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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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4 Ways To Deal With Stress

Joseph Lalonde

S tress is something every leader will face. Most likely on a daily basis. Yet so few of us effectively deal with stress. This is a problem! Stress robs us of our health. Stress affects our relationships. Stress plays games with our minds. Stress is a killer. That’s why we need to talk on ways we can deal with stress. Image via Creative Commons.

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Avoiding Your Leadership Deflategate

Kevin Eikenberry

I’m guessing you’ve heard something in the news lately about deflated footballs, fines and penalties related to it. While I’m not a New England Patriots fan (I live in Indianapolis after all), this isn’t really about Ideal Gas Laws, balls hidden in bathrooms or the content of text messages. This is about much more than […]. The post Avoiding Your Leadership Deflategate appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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11 Ways for Leaders to Encourage Innovation from Their Employees

Great Leadership By Dan

I often hear managers blame “the company” for not allowing employees to be innovative. While that may be true to some extent, it frustrates me that these managers don’t seem to understand that in the eyes of their employees, they are they company. Regardless of what kind of company you may work in, there is plenty a leader can do to create an environment where employees are encouraged to be innovative.

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7 Ways to Put In More Than You Take Out

Leadership Freak

You’re a black hole, if all you think about is what you need from others. Great leaders give more than they take. 4 things that drain people: Expectation without appreciation.

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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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Looking Back To Move Forward

Joseph Lalonde

T here are many things in life I wish I could do over. But I can’t. The past is the past and there’s no changing it. Image By Jason Powell. People will go so far as to say that we shouldn’t reflect on the past. It’s done and over with. No use crying over spilled milk. Or so the saying goes. The Wrong Attitude. From my experience, this is the wrong attitude to carry in life.

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Getting the Results You Want – 7 Things to Consider

Lead on Purpose

Guest post by Paul Axtell One of the toughest jobs in the universe is to be a product or project leader with people who do not work directly or exclusively for you.

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How “U-Pick” Your Relationships and Results

Kevin Eikenberry

Note: The essay that follows was written several years ago and comes from my book Vantagepoints on Learning and Life. The lessons are as true as ever. I share this as a day-after-Mother’s Day tribute to my mom. Thanks Mom – I love you. …… My mother emailed me about an experience she had last […]. The post How “U-Pick” Your Relationships and Results appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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We’re on a Mission From God

Leadership Freak

“We’re on a mission from God!” The Blues Brothers – 1980 Successful leaders know and do what’s important. Purpose defines importance. Actions disconnected from purpose are meaningless.

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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.