Sat.Mar 17, 2012 - Fri.Mar 23, 2012

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7 Most Powerful Lessons From Life & Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership I recently sat down and created a list of the most powerful lessons I’ve learned so far, in life and in leadership. Seven of those lessons stand out as lessons that are critically important to share: Your calling can become your idol if you let it. Without a vision people and organizations really do perish. [.].

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5 Leadership Lessons: Leading Any Team to Success

Leading Blog

Fistitude is a fable about a basketball team at a small private high school that is struggling through a rough season. The coach must take a leave and it is up to the interim coach to try to turn things around. Through Fistitude —each finger representing a success attitude—author Sean Glaze presents five lessons to build leaders and teamwork. Glaze illustrates that leadership is taking personal responsibility for what happens, holding yourself accountable and setting an example for others.

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How to Discuss a Problem with Your Manager

Great Leadership By Dan

When you’ve been a manager for a long time, or are used to working with lots of managers, you sometimes forget how hard it is for an employee to approach their boss to discuss something that’s bothering them. For many employees, the thought of “confronting” a boss can be so intimidating, that they will come up with all sorts of other ways to cope with the situation, including: - Avoidance. - Being a victim. - Passive aggressiveness. - Discussing the problem with their co-workers, friends, and fa

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Five Great Teamwork Verses From the Bible

Great Results Team Building

There are certainly many other Bible verses that could be discussed as relating to great teamwork, but this list identifies five that are strong and inspiring examples for the topic. Improving organizational teamwork is the goal of most teambuilding activities, and like most any other subject, the Bible provides wisdom about how to achieve it and why it is important.

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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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Outreach for Leaders

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Community Involvement Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Light Your World Self Leadership Will Lukang, CLDC, CSM, PMP Leaders are known for their composure and energy that are unparalleled by anyone. They usually have what it takes to help people navigate complex situations to achieve their common goal. They motivate and inspire everyone around them and give them hope that enables them to achieve goals they otherwise cannot [.].

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Being Smart is Not Enough

Leading Blog

Being smart has become a commodity. It's permission to play, says Patrick Lencioni. He writes in The Advantage : In this world of ubiquitous information and nanosecond technology exchange, it’s harder than it has ever been in history to maintain a competitive advantage based on intelligence or knowledge….I have become absolutely convinced that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre or unsuccessful ones has little to do with what they know or how smart they are; it has e

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Presentations: Longer is Sometimes Not Better.

Rich Gee Group

I had to deliver a keynote to a large group of business owners the other day. I was asked to compose a quick 6-8 minute talk — and if you know me, it’s a VERY short time to talk. I used iWork Keynote with an LCD projector (all set up well ahead of time) — [.].

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3 MVP’s of the Wisdom Economy

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Change Management Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Self Leadership Value Creation We live in an Information Economy, but a revolution is taking place. As knowledge doubles exponentially, you’re one Google search away from being an expert on just about anything. And so is everyone else. These days experts are easy to find. Turn on CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC.

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Keep Calm and Carry On

Leading Blog

Stuart and Mary Manley are proprietors of one of the most beautiful secondhand bookstores anywhere— Barter Books —in the northeast corner of Northumberland, England. After being forgotten for more than 70 years, they rediscovered, in a box of old books bought at auction, a rare original of the now famous WWII poster Keep Calm and Carry On. Produced more than 70 years ago, this poster was one of three propaganda posters produced by the British government in the spring of 1939 in the build up to W

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Why Directors Should Give a Damn About Culture

In the CEO Afterlife

During my tenure as a CEO, my Board of Directors never challenged me with questions pertaining to the corporate culture. I wasn’t surprised in the least. Jacobs Suchard directors expected me to run the company as an entrepreneurial enterprise, and as long the numbers were coming in, they assumed I was doing just that. Like most Boards, they were more interested in hearing about profit, financial ratios, efficiencies, headcounts, labor climate and strategic initiatives.

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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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Who is Not Afraid of Radical Change?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Mark Mueller-Eberstein, co-author of “No Fear: Business Leadership in the Age of Digital Cowboys”. Good timing, having just experienced a bit of what Mark describes in a recent trip to China. Organizations and society are transforming at radical speed. How can leaders keep up? Are t hey afraid? For sure we are. But can work ourselves and our organization into an environment of a “No Fear business”.

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5 steps to becoming more interesting — and a better leader

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Today’s SmartBlog on Leadership post, 5 Steps to Becoming More Interesting – and a Better Leader is by Mike Myatt, a leadership adviser to CEOs and boards, author of “Leadership Matters,” a Forbes contributor, and is managing director at N2growth, where he authors the N2growth Blog. “Smart leaders have long understood the key to relevance [.].

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How to Quickly Overcome Inexperience

Leadership Freak

10 dangers of inexperienced leaders: Needing to be liked. Blaming. Emotional decisions. Impulsiveness. Trying too hard. Neglecting the long term. Focusing on symptoms rather than causes. Aiming without pulling the trigger. Meddling. Forget to say thank you. (Speaking of thanks, many of these points were inspired by contributors on the Leadership Freak Facebook Page.

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John Elway for Manager of the Year?

Next Level Blog

While fans of Tim Tebow will likely vehemently disagree, I’d have to put Denver Broncos GM John Elway in the running for manager of the year. And not just NFL manager of the year; anybody’s manager of the year. Let me be the first to acknowledge that I enjoyed Tebowmania and Tebow Time as much as anyone. As I wrote. Click headline to continue.

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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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If Your Vision Is Only About Yourself, You Are Too Narrowly Focused

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

If your vision is only about yourself, you are too narrowly focused. If you take only from your environment and contribute nothing in return, you are harming that which supports you. In fact, that’s the definition of a parasite. And ultimately you are harming yourself. Your vision needs to include the larger context in which you exist – your community.

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When You Hit The “Dip”!

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development [link] “Roller coasters. a thrill ride to some and a terrifying ordeal to others! Our lives can be a lot like a roller coaster ride. One day we’re on the top of the world, and in the next breath the bottom seems to fall out, and we’re terrified about what might be coming around the next [.].

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First Pursuits Take You Farthest

Leadership Freak

I still remember the moment I first saw the girl who eventually became my wife. I was 13 years old. I remember her hair, her shoes, her dress, her eyes, and a smile that still devastates me. I was 19 when we married. I’ve been pursuing her ever since. I pursued big dreams, back then. [.].

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The World of the 21st Century CEO

In the CEO Afterlife

Last week I identified the successful 21 st century CEO as someone who is constantly thinking about the future. History has shown us that the best performers were those who made the right strategic moves to create a future in which their company would enjoy significant competitive advantage. Their strong sense of vision and belief in proactivity helped them get to the future first.

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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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Finding a Story for a Specific Communication Purpose

Kevin Eikenberry

Tom had a major presentation coming up in less than a week, and he was concerned. This presentation was important not only for his team and his company, but also for his career. He knew that if he did well it would make all the difference. for everyone. And if it bombed, [.].

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Why Taking a Chance Matters

Women on Business

This week I had the opportunity to attend an event for the Center for Women in Business, sponsored by the US Chamber of Commerce here in the District. There was a wonderful conversation that took place amongst our distinguished panel of female Fortune 500 executives; the topic was “who took a chance on you?” As that topic was discussed it struck me, as entrepreneurs every day we ask our clients to take a chance on our company and here’s why it matters that we take a chance on the people we hi

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Six Step Transformational Conversations

Leadership Freak

“Many people who could have made the biggest difference in my life didn’t.” @pastorhudson tweeted back, “WOW that’s so true! My question is why? Did they not know? Not care? Not have time?” I thought, “Great questions?” Why haven’t they made a bigger difference? We didn’t go to them? They didn’t come to us? They had [.].

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How to Coach Leaders to Really Change

Next Level Blog

There was a great article in the New York Times on Sunday called “Helping Managers Find, and Fix, Their Flaws.” It details the seminal work of Harvard’s Bob Kegan and Lisa Lahey and how they’ve leveraged their research to help leaders make lasting changes that make them more effective. My guess is a lot of leadership coaches soaked up that.

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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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Change vs. Consistency

Kevin Eikenberry

This is the 700th blog post on this blog, and because I blogged previously here, this is really my 1532nd post since March of 2004. This fact got me thinking about consistency, and led me to today’s quotation. “But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.” - Ron D. Burton, lawyer, businessman, [.].

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5 Reasons Sales Should be Part of Every Role

Modern Servant Leader

When Sales is a responsibility of every role in the organization, you increase revenue, investment in the organization and overall morale. Let’s look at an example of someone who views sales as their responsibility, regardless of formal role: I learned a long time ago, unless I wanted a monologue about how amazing GM products are, I better not mention any problems with my vehicles in front of Eric.

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How to Be Competent at Being Incompetent

Leadership Freak

Guess what insecure leaders do when one of their weaknesses comes to light? They immediate explain why it isn’t a weakness and how it’s not that bad. I see it all the time. It’s hard to acknowledge what you can’t do well when you live in a world that expects you to be good at [.].

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I am and they are

Persuasive Powerhouse

. Who are you? Who are they? As a leader, it’s reasonable to consider the questions like these that may spark curiosity and an inquisitiveness to know more about yourself and others. Yet allow me to encourage this curiosity with a note of caution. When you’ve decided “I am (name something)” with finality, it limits your own potential.

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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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It’s Never Too Late to Catch Up

Kevin Eikenberry

I’m on vacation this week with my family in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our day yesterday included lunch with our accountant and his wife. He became my accountant nearly 20 years ago after I got to know him through his wife, with whom I had worked. We also had dinner with people who [.].

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Does Your Team Feel “F—ing Unappreciated” Like McClane in Die Hard?

Modern Servant Leader

“You know that scene in Die Hard where John McClane drops a bomb on the terrorists and then the Police Chief screams at him for it?” “Definitely!” I responded. “Well, when McClane says he feels ‘pretty f—ing unappreciated’, that’s how I feel.” I knew exactly what he meant. This conversation with a friend caused me to worry about my team members at work.

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Finding Your Power

Leadership Freak

Focusing on what others should have done is a powerless excuse maker’s paradise. Responses reflect values. Excuse maker and blamers value themselves above others. They’ll drive the knife in your back if it serves their purposes. Compassionate leaders value others. They believe in lifting rather than crushing. Responses reflect confidence. Blamers live defensive lives, feeling [.].

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Don’t Leave Your Heart at Home

Persuasive Powerhouse

. Some of the leaders I know admit that they are a different person at home than they are at work. When I ask them to describe themselves in each place, I find that they describe a more genuine, heart-centered person at home. At work, they say they tend to be more reserved and cerebral. Do you see yourself in this? I think this divided behavior is a shame.

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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.