Sat.Mar 19, 2011 - Fri.Mar 25, 2011

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10 Things Leaders Can Do To Make A Better World

Lead Change Blog

Greetings Leaders! I wake up some mornings, read the headlines and shake my head in bewilderment. War, Budget Crisis, Market Meltdown, Real Estate Crash, Poverty and Scandals. I see these headlines play out almost everyday and often feel a wave … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Leadership And The Flywheel Effect: Don’t Forget The Grease

Terry Starbucker

Once a target is set in a business, for most leaders it’s a natural tendency to jump right into the business of hitting it – in other words, massing the effort and “push&# needed to achieve what Jim Collins ( “Good to Great&# ) called the “ Flywheel Effect “ I’ve always liked the flywheel analogy, because it’s a great mental image of how a business gets from Point A to Point B.

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Employee Engagement Network Webinar and Slides

Michael Lee Stallard

Employee Engagement and Connection from David Zinger on Vimeo. Yesterday David Zinger and I held a webinar on Employee Engagement and Connection. You can see a recording of the webinar above and here is a link to the slides used during the webinar. The webinar was hosted by the Employee Engagement Network , a 3,500 member online community founded by David.

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The Steve Jobs Way

Leading Blog

Apple is on a roll and we want to know how Steve Jobs does it. The Steve Jobs way is, in a word, passion. Passion drives his perseverance and momentum through setbacks. Passion obliges his attention to detail. Passion necessitates his intense focus. Passion fuels his outbursts. Passion compels him to encourage those around him. Passion urges him to compete with himself.

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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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You Throw Like A Girl

Lead Change Blog

This post originally appeared on LeadSwag and is reprinted here as part of the Lead Change Best of Blogs series. How many of us have heard this? How many of us have said this? I remember being about eight years … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Before You Start Leading, Know These 5 Things (Learned The Hard Way)

Terry Starbucker

I’ll never forget my first day as an executive. I had just moved from San Antonio to Los Angeles for this “ once in a lifetime &# opportunity to be the head operations person for a cable TV company. I previously was an Audit Manager for Ernst & Whinney and hadn’t managed more than 5 people at a time. Now I had responsibility for well over 1,000.

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What's Holding You Back? A Call for Gutsy Leadership

Leading Blog

Robert Herbold, former COO of Microsoft, says that lack of courage is what destroys companies. In example after example, what is holding companies back is consistent, courageous leadership. In What’s Holding You Back? he writes that we need gutsy leaders that “make sure that their organization has a simple, understandable, clear game plan for the future,” a culture that is “curious, even paranoid about the future, to keep people always looking for new ways to help the company grow and prosper,”

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Authentic Leadership: Would You Follow You?

Lead Change Blog

People are pretty interesting to study. So many people from so many places, so many different cultures, backgrounds, and histories. So many differences. But even in a world of differences there are some things that we can find most everyone … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Employee Engagement on HRIQ’s “HR Today” Podcast Series

Michael Lee Stallard

Jason Pankau and I recently did an interview on employee engagement and connection cultures with Alexandra Guadagno of Human Resources IQ. The interview was part of the HR Today Podcast Series. You can hear the podcast and download it on iTunes at this link.

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I’m Your Boss, Not Your Friend; 10 Reasons Why Your Boss Shouldn’t be Your Friend

Great Leadership By Dan

Is it ever OK for a manager to be friends with their employees? Believe me, this isn’t just a question brand new managers struggle with (and most of them do). It’s an issue a lot of experienced managers are questioned about as well, and many of them don’t think it’s a problem at all. The issue of “buddy to boss” might not be as black and white as you might think.

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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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Free Membership at G5 Leadership

Leading Blog

G5 Leadership is a new leadership training company that offers 90-minute workshops and keynotes delivered via WebEx. G5 Leadership sessions are interactive: ask the experts, talk live, take polls, send chats, post comments, and download workbooks. You’ll hear from people like Steve Farber, Marshall Goldsmith, Bill Taylor, Bob Sutton, Tim Sanders, Scott Page, Steven Smith and more.

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Lonely at the Top? Not Necessarily.

Lead Change Blog

I still hear that a lot. How lonely it is at the top. How difficult it is to remain a character-based leader. How it’s a tough job but somebody has to do it. Right? Well, as I said, not necessarily. … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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New Research: Relationships Make Hospitals Great

Michael Lee Stallard

The New York Times recently had an article entitled “ What Makes a Hospital Great &# that described new research concluding a hospital’s culture and the quality of relationships were the most important factors determining patient outcomes. This finding is consistent with our research that concluded leaders must be intentional about achieving both “task excellence&# and “relationship excellence&# in order to achieve sustainable superior performance.

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Using the DISC Model: Focus on Needs More than Behaviors

The Recovering Engineer

The DISC Model of Human Behavior is, as the name implies, about behavior. And, to apply it well, I suggest looking beyond behavior to the needs behind the behavior to really use it to connect and communicate with other people more effectively. To illustrate the point, consider the refrigerator shown above. While this one has no food in it, I imagine you can think of a time when you opened a refrigerator door to check the contents.

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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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Leading Views: Getting Another Perspective

Leading Blog

In The Velocity Manifesto author Scott Klososky reminds us of the importance of getting another perspective: When I was CEO out building my technology companies, I never realized how limited my thinking was until I became a consultant and speaker. When you go to the same office and are surrounded by the same people every day, and you are thinking about solving the same problems over and over again, you invariably become a bit myopic.

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Organizational Wholeness. Put the pieces together

Lead Change Blog

• Imagine knocking down walls that are limiting your success. • Imagine accessing more funding because of strong partnerships. • Imagine having more knowledge and support for your programs because of relationships. Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Mom’s The Boss

Women on Business

As an entrepreneur and a mother you need a steel resolve and almost epic determination. Running a business is a very scary thing and the unique challenges presented by motherhood have a tendency to further complicate an already complicated situation. This is a situation close to my heart, so I am always on the lookout for companies and websites that support mother entrepreneurs.

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Stop Workplace Drama

CEO Blog

It is amazing how a bit of personal news brings everyone out of the woodwork. Thanks for all the congratulations. I read an interesting book by Marlene Chism - Stop Workplace Drama - Train Your Team to Have No Complaints, No Excuses, and No Regrets. I hate politics - including office politics and this book attempts to come up with creative ways to stop them.

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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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The Upside of Troughs

Next Level Blog

This week I attended a conference where one of the keynoters was an interesting guy named Clark Aldrich. Clark is a designer of business learning simulations and knows a lot about how people solve. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Community Leader: Liz Strauss

Lead Change Blog

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of a conversation with Liz Strauss (web, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) of SOBCON. Liz is a special personality in the social media, marketing and community building worlds. In a short, idea-filled hour, Liz … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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If Failure is NOT an Option, Then Why Do I Want It?

Women on Business

I don’t actually want to fail, but the fact is that we learn near to nothing when everything is going along perfectly. Last Friday I was speaking to the National Speakers Association, Illinois Chapter, and was relaying that over the years the best lessons I’ve learned as a speaker do not come from the positive feedback I receive, but the insightful comments on how I can improve.

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Judging and Bullying: Are They Different?

Leading in Context

What is Judging? If each person's view is different from the views of others, then what is judging? A limited worldview that only allows the views of one person or group Promoting one's own thinking as the "perfection" of thinking An attempt (intentional or not) to make ourselves look smarter by belittling another person or group An attempt to control the behavior and thinking of others or groups.

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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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Do You Get It or Not? Does It Matter?

Next Level Blog

One of the most e-mailed articles on the New York Times website for the past several days has been one titled, “Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You.” My guess is a lot of grown up kids are sending it. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Redemption

Lead Change Blog

This post originally appeared on The People Equation and is reprinted here as part of the Lead Change Best of Blogs series. Have you ever led a high-visibility project that has crashed and burned? I have and it taught me a … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.

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Leadership Leaps: Into the Unknown

Women on Business

I saw this quote and could not find anyone but “ anonymous ” to give it credit. It sounds like it really must be from a woman’s lips. “ To get what we’ve never had, we must do what we’ve never done ”. The quote seems so fitting as we watch a planet in crisis. Can you remember back to March 20, 2003? We had just entered the war in Iraq, that time of shock and awe.

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Turning Your Goals into Habits

Tony Mayo

The number one problem with business books, self-improvement programs, and even executive coaching is the excess of insights and ideas that could help, that would help, but do not help because the ideas do not produce action. Here are the two most important methods that I, as a top executive coach, use with clients to [.].

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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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Possibility Maximizer: Human Capital Handbook 2011

Sales Wolf Blog

Happy Friday - I hope you have had a wonderful week! Each Friday I like to highlight a resource that I feel will aid in your efforts to Maximize Possibility in your organization. Today I have a great resource from the folks at HubCap Digital with the inaugural volume of its Human Capital Handbook. Enjoy! The Resource: HubCap Digital's Human Capital Handbook 2011 What It Covers: This free download from HubCap Digital is the organization's first installment of what is meant to be a "living documen

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"We've got to grow together." the quote of the evening!

Jason Womack

Last Tuesday, I had a great dinner with a new friend just outside of Boston, founder of Elite Leadership Solutions: Bob Maitland. During our conversation, he told me about the business incubator program at Hannah Grimes , here in Keene, NH. One visit to the website, www.HannahGrimes.com , and I realized that Hannah Grimes is not just a person (born in 1776), but an idea.

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Another Women’s History Month is Here

Women on Business

Post by Jane K. Stimmler , contributing Women on Business writer. March is National Women’s History Month and it has me frustrated about the excruciatingly slow movement forward for women in leadership positions. While it’s important to look back at the many brave and determined women who have made significant contributions in history – when I look at the here and now, I see a bit of a stalemate.

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Found Time

CEO Blog

I love found time. This morning, I had a meeting. Google maps said it was a 1:45 drive, so I rounded that to 2 hours. Then I thought, being NY, the traffic through the city could be bad so I added an hour. Then I got worried about rush hour so woke up an hour early and decided to leave right away. And I found at 5:30, there is no traffic. So I ended up with almost 3 hours of "found time".

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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.