Mon.May 23, 2016

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Don’t Let This Relationship Undermine Your Success

Let's Grow Leaders

“The opposite of love is not hate– it’s indifference.” – Steven Pressfield. Megan approached me as soon as I left the stage. “Karin, I’m so with you on this not losing your soul thing… I resonated with everything you said… but for me it was the reverse. I wasn’t losing my soul at work, I was finding it.

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Can I Trust You As 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]. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” Ernest Hemingway. Do your followers trust you? What about your peers, or your family? Of course, you answer. Are you sure?

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Three Characteristics Needed to Champion Change

Lead Change Blog

Experience is a tough teacher; you receive the test first then learn the lesson. We’ve all learned quite a few lessons at the hands of that instructor. When underperforming firms, or firms which have issues they are ill-equipped to solve, need to make changes in order to right their ship, so to speak, interim leadership is sometimes brought in to provide experience and an extra set of hands to implement change.

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Why You Need an Advocate at Work

Career Advancement

“I learned a long time ago that the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.” ~ Maya Angelou. Melanie is in a total funk. She’s been supervisor in her high tech company for almost three years now. When she first came on board, she was considered somewhat of a superstar, a high potential, high achieving future leader.

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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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An introduction away.

Jason Womack

Someone you know is working on something important. We all know people who have the potential inside of them to do great, big, significant things.if only other people knew what they are working on. While in Alabama recently, I.

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22 Life Lessons And Quotes From A Story Worth Living

Joseph Lalonde

M any years ago, my life was touched by a special book. That book was Wild At Heart by John Eldredge. The message pulled at my heart. It pulled at my spirit. This book made me believe there was more to life than watching TV, playing video games, and being alone. My life was meant to be a story. That same message is true today. And that’s why I was stoked to see John Eldredge and his sons were releasing a special one-night-only movie release called A Story Worth Living.

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How Leaders Can Sharpen Their Vision

Kevin Eikenberry

If you are leading others, where are you leading them to? (Tweet That) If that question gives you a queasy feeling, if you have to search for an answer, or your answer seems vague or inadequate, I hope I’ve gotten your attention. Because as leaders, we must have a goal, an objective, an outcome, a […]. The post How Leaders Can Sharpen Their Vision appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Mindful Mondays: Five Reasons You Should Rip the Band-Aid Off Fast

Next Level Blog

Unless you have a bit of a sociopathic tendency (and none of my readers do!), you probably don’t enjoy delivering bad news. It could be announcing that the quarterly numbers aren’t on target, letting someone know that they underperformed, admitting that you made a mistake or telling someone that they no longer have a job with your organization. Working up the courage and intestinal fortitude to do any of those things can be tough.

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Please Take My Reader Survey

Lead on Purpose

Help Me Create Content That Serves Your Needs I’m updating my platform to make sure it does the best possible job of answering your needs and interests. And that means I need to know more about you.

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Great Leaders Stand Out When Times Are Hard!

Marshall Goldsmith

For years now I’ve done three things: I give talks, I coach executives, and I write books and articles. I travel constantly. On one airline alone, I have 12 million frequent flyer miles. You could say that I keep myself pretty busy! One of the most common questions I’m asked is “how do you have so much energy?” I laugh because I can see the person is often thinking, ‘you’re an old man, you’ve been flying on a plane for 18 hours, how can you possibly you step onto the stage with so much enthusias

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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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7 Phrases That Will Make Your Day More Positive and Productive

Anese Cavanaugh

It's Monday. I saw someone this morning taking my kids to school, "Good morning! How are you?" I asked. "Ugh. hanging in there. Mondays you know??" they offered back. Personally? I love Mondays. It's a fresh week, a fresh start, and a fresh set of opportunities to create impact, connect with people, and--wherever things aren't humming, redesign. My first call this morning with a client was peppered with a blend of.

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What’s your first impulse? Is is compassion – or rejecting judgment? – This reveals so much

First Friday Book Synopsis

I think we can tell a lot about people when we discern their first impulse. I think we can tell a lot about ourselves when we discern our own first impulse. What do I mean? On a corner not far from my house, there is a new “nightly gathering spot” of some homeless folks. A post… Read More What’s your first impulse? Is is compassion – or rejecting judgment?

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What to Do (and Not to Do!) to Get Your Presentation Off on the Right Foot

leaderCommunicator

DON’T: JUST TELL A JOKE AT THE START. I often hear leaders say they need to tell a joke to get the audience’s attention. I’m not sure who suggested this notion, but it’s not a helpful strategy for the majority of us. It’s risky. The problem is that the leader feels pressure to be funny and the joke often gets delivered in an awkward way.

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Short-Lived Best-Seller Splashes

First Friday Book Synopsis

It always interests me how best-selling books make an initial splash on the best-seller list, then just dry up, and disappear in a week. These books debuted on the Wall Street Journal hardcover best-seller list on Saturday-Sunday, May 14-15. None of them still appeared on the list published on Saturday-Sunday, May 21-22. We do not… Read More Short-Lived Best-Seller Splashes.

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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 not the company. It’s the people in the company. It’s you.

Strategy Driven

When you walk into someone’s place of business to shop or buy something, what are you expecting? Most people (you included and me included) expect someone friendly, someone helpful when you need them, to be served in a timely manner, to be given fair value, to be presented with a quality product, to make the process quick and easy, and to be thanked whether you give them the business or not.

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7 Actions Which Limit Leadership Success

Ron Edmondson

My heart is for leaders. I have been in leadership roles for over three decades now. I’ve led large and small teams. Through my ministry I’ve worked with hundreds of leaders. A mentor of mine always reminds me the success of whatever is being led always reflects back to leadership. I guess this is why I continue to share what I believer are simple principles – but often a simple idea is powerful in practice.

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Student Led Change

Deming Institute

Presentation by Christine Simpson and Sarah Ambrus at the 2015 Deming in Education conference: Empowering Students to Lead Change. In discussing the use of the 5 why’s Sarah made an important point that people would benefit from remembering. Focus on what we can control. Sometimes you have to go back and redefine your problem in terms of what you actually have control over.

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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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From Accountant to Yogi: Making a Radical Career Change

Harvard Business Review

At some point, almost all of us will experience a period of radical professional change. Some of us will seek it out; for others it will feel like an unwelcome intrusion into otherwise stable careers. Either way, we have choices about how we respond to it when it comes. We recently caught up with yoga entrepreneur Leah Zaccaria , who put herself through the fire of change to completely reinvent herself.

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The Emotional Combinations That Make Stories Go Viral

Harvard Business Review

Viral content typically evokes high-arousal emotions , such as joy or fear. But new research suggests arousal is just one of the underlying drivers of viral content. High dominance, or a feeling of being in control, may be another key driver behind content that is widely shared. New work from Jacopo Staiano of Sorbonne University and Marco Guerini of Trento Rise sheds light on the roles that valence, arousal, and dominance play in content that goes viral.

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Growing Up Wealthy Makes Leaders More Narcissistic

Harvard Business Review

How does income inequality — currently at historically high levels — affect the types of leaders we get in the workplace? As a first step toward exploring that question, we carried out a study exploring how parental income while people are growing up relates to their leadership behaviors as adults. We found that parental income is significantly related to adult levels of narcissism, a trait characterized by grandiose self-views, impulsive tendencies, and low empathy.

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Should You Compete with Amazon or Sell on Amazon?

Harvard Business Review

In 2015, 2/3 of U.S. adults shopped online at least monthly, with 1/3 of adults shopping online every week, up from 24% in 2014 (Mintel). As e-commerce grows, online marketplaces like Amazon and Jet continue to improve their value proposition, making a commodity out of fast free shipping and returns, a wide assortment of products, and low prices. Now more than ever, customers expect free shipping and free returns.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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4 Ways to Be More Effective at Execution

Harvard Business Review

Most people recognize that execution is a critical skill and strive to perform it well, but they may a) underestimate how important it is to their career advancement or b) not realize that you can improve on execution without working longer hours. On the first point, bosses place a premium on execution, which we define as the ability to achieve individual goals and objectives.

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The Biggest Challenges of Data-Driven Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

The widespread deployment of low-cost sensors and their connection to the internet has generated a great deal of excitement (and hype) about the future of manufacturing. The internet of things (IoT) and industrial internet in the United States, Industrie 4.0 in Germany, and 物联网 (wù lián wăng) in China are all centered on the application of big data and analytics to creating the next generation of manufacturing: using data to reduce costs through next generatio

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Different Cultures See Deadlines Differently

Harvard Business Review

We all have the tendency to look at other cultures through the lens of our own. While this is natural, it can lead to misunderstandings when communicating with and managing colleagues from around the world. In my experience working and teaching across cultures, I’ve noticed one important area where this frequently causes conflicts: deadlines. In order to understand how a supposedly black-and-white concept can be interpreted in different ways, you first have to understand how different cult