Tue.Sep 20, 2016

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What is Hormesis and How Does it Help My Hustle?

Lead Change Blog

Do you find it painful to take risks? Do you lean toward playing it safe in order to avoid failure, loss, or the unknown? Hustle , a book by Neil Patel, Patrick Vlaskovits, and Jonas Koffler that has just been released contends that we can best position ourselves to overcome fear of risk by a process called hormesis. Hormesis is repeated exposures to small doses of stressors and risk which don’t weaken but, surprisingly, strengthen our biological systems.

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Accuracy on the Internet: The Price of Freedom is Personal Responsibility

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

The Internet is one of the final frontiers. Untamed and unregulated, it offers huge opportunity for individual freedom in exploration and communication. With a smartphone, you have access to anything you want to know at all times. However, the price of this great freedom is increased personal responsibility. In the past, our information was curated […].

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3 Critical Factors To Help Your Team Stay The Course

Tanveer Naseer

When it comes to leading teams, the common focus in the leadership literature tends to be on team building; on answering the question of how do we rally people and get them on board and aligned with our company’s vision or long-term goals. Of course, this makes a lot of sense when we realize that our chances to succeed in pushing forth a new initiative or change mandate is dependent on how much our employees are genuinely invested in bringing their best efforts to transforming this idea in

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What Every Career Woman Can Learn From Miss America

Women on Business

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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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What leadership asks of you

Persuasive Powerhouse

If you’re a seasoned leader who has had ongoing success, you might find it easy to rest on your laurels. If you’re an aspiring or “apprentice” leader, you might make the mistake of believing that leadership is a piece of cake. No matter where you are in your leadership career it can be, at times, harder than you imagine. The truth is that most leaders were trained or educated in a specific job or career.

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How to Be Yourself While Becoming Yourself

Leadership Freak

New behaviors feel like showing up for dinner dressed like Micky Mouse. Frustration and disappointment are more comfortable than the discomfort of feeling inauthentic when you try on new leadership behaviors. People say, “Be yourself.

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The Best Free Leadership Advice You’ll Ever Get

Lead from Within

If you’re like most leaders, you’re always looking for ways to improve your leadership. People are constantly asking me what they can do to make their leadership exceptional. They usually expect the answer to involve costly coaching sessions, or expensive training programs. But the best advice I can give is a simple technique that will improve your leadership immediately without costing a penny.

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Everything needs to get better. Everything. – Living in an era of “what’s about to change next?”

First Friday Book Synopsis

Everything needs to get better. Everything. After nearly two decades of presenting synopses of business books, and books on social justice including books on poverty, education, and homelessness, I’m ready to state the obvious: Everything needs to get better – and, it can get better Everything needs to be done in a better way –… Read More Everything needs to get better.

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Dealing with Conditions

CEO Blog

I had a great COO working for me at SYNNEX who talked about "Conditions". Conditions are those things which you cannot change - you can only choose how to react to them. For example - the exchange rates or if an accident has already happened. It is done - now you can only react to the Condition. Or as someone once wrote "you cannot ought to have done anything".

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High Turnover is Not a Recruitment Problem, So What is It?

Steve Farber

[ I’m happy to share this guest post from my friend and colleague, Michael Kennedy —a veteran of the automotive industry and renowned automotive recruiter. Aside from the specific statistics, the challenges and solutions that follow apply to all industries. Read on! –SF ]. Car dealerships, like many other organizations across the nation, continue to face a hiring and retention epidemic.

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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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Dealing with Conditions

CEO Blog

I had a great COO working for me at SYNNEX who talked about "Conditions". Conditions are those things which you cannot change - you can only choose how to react to them. For example - the exchange rates or if an accident has already happened. It is done - now you can only react to the Condition. Or as someone once wrote "you cannot ought to have done anything".

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12 Leadership Principles of Jesus

Ron Edmondson

These Inspire Me There are many leaders I admire who have influenced my own leadership. I admire the teachings on leadership by guys like John Maxwell, Andy Stanley, and Patrick Lencioni. There are leaders from my personal life such as a former pastor, a former boss, a high school principal and leaders in my own community who have influenced me as I have watched their leadership.

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Seven Things Motivated People Do To Stay Motivated

Eric Jacobson

This month brings the new book, High-Profit Prospecting , by Mark Hunter. It's a powerful read that includes counterintuitive advice ad cutting-edge best practices for sales prospecting in today's business world. Soon, I'll provide a fuller recap of the book, but today, I share one of my favorite sections of the book where Hunter describes his seven things motivated people do to stay motivated : Motivated people ignore voices in their lives.

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37 Worst Plane Crashes & Airline Disasters: Aviation Leadership Failure

Miles Anthony Smith

Aviation Leadership Failures: 37 Worst Plane Crashes in History While many of these crashes happened in the early years of aviation, there have been a surprising number of airline disasters since the new millennium. Most of these 37 worst plane crashes were caused not by technology but by humans , some by hijacking, others by human error in operation or maintenance.

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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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We Need a Better Way to Visualize People’s Skills

Harvard Business Review

By 2020, the US economy is expected to create 55 million job openings: 24 million of these will be entirely new positions. And 48 percent of the new jobs, according to Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce, will emphasize a mix of hard and soft intellectual skills, like active listening, leadership, communication, analytics, and administration competencies.

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Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It

Harvard Business Review

75% of organizations struggle to implement strategy. Improve your odds of success with this 7-minute video slide deck. To download a customizable version, visit the Visual Library.

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A Guide to Cold Emailing

Harvard Business Review

Cold emailing is harder than most communication for two reasons. You have no relationship with your audience yet, and you lack non-verbal feedback, so you can’t modify your approach in real time. As a result, most cold emails fail. But they can work well. People have built careers and launched start-ups with little more than cold emails. (By the way, I am not talking about sales emails, which tend to be sent in bulk.

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The 5 Models of Family Business Ownership

Harvard Business Review

One of the first questions we ask clients is, “How do you own your family business?” Often the response is legalistic: “We are a limited liability company” or “Our shares are held in trust.” This information is essential, of course, but it leaves unanswered the more fundamental questions: “In your family business system, who gets to be an owner?

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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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Case Study: Should You Rehire Someone Who Left for a Competitor?

Harvard Business Review

Ram Kapur and his brother Shayam were covered head to toe in brightly colored paints. They’d been out celebrating—it was Holi, the festival of colors in India—and now they were returning to the home they shared with their parents, in Gurgaon, for their family’s traditional meal together. Ram’s phone rang just as they walked through the door, and he held up the screen to show Shayam the caller name: Hari Shukla.

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These 6 Sectors of Africa’s Economy Are Poised for Growth

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. It helped spark new levels of interest in Africa by the international business community, and companies in a range of industries—from consumer goods to financial services to technology—have since expanded their African footprints.

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Wells Fargo and the Slippery Slope of Sales Incentives

Harvard Business Review

In early September Wells Fargo agreed to pay a $185 million fine and return $5 million in fees wrongly charged to customers. The settlement stems from the bank’s employees allegedly opening more than 2 million bank and credit card accounts without customers’ permission. The CEO of Wells Fargo, John Stumpf, apologized in front of a congressional panel Tuesday , saying in a statement , “I accept full responsibility for all unethical sales practices.” That speaks to why they

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Psychology Is the Key to Detecting Internal Cyberthreats

Harvard Business Review

Organizations are increasingly aware of the impact of insider cyber threats, but most are more prepared to respond to external cyber threats. One survey in 2015 found that on average, just 3.6% of the total IT budget for the previous year was spent on addressing internal security. Yet, Intel Security’s 2016 Report states that among companies experiencing data breaches over the past few years, insiders were responsible for 43% of data loss, half of which was intentional and malicious.

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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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How to Maintain Your Professional Network Over the Years

Harvard Business Review

Everyone knows it’s important to build a network. But once you’ve made a connection with someone, how do you maintain it over the long haul so that you can call the person when you need help (e.g., a job reference or a professional favor)? How frequently should you be in touch with your contacts? And how do you balance efforts to bring in new people while staying in touch with those you’ve known for a while?

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