Fri.Nov 04, 2016

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Your Success Key to Maximizing Potential and Improving Performance

Lead Change Blog

This post is a part of our 2016 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. Today we are pleased to share a guest post from Joshua Lee Henry from Advancing the Kingdom to Transform Society. In her bestselling book Mindset –The New Psychology of Success: How We Can Learn to Fulfill Our Potential (Ballantine Books, 2007), author and Stanford professor, Carol S.

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5 “NEXT PRACTICES” WHEN HIRING A GENERAL COUNSEL

N2Growth Blog

Today’s Executive Search and Management Consulting firms s are famous for espousing “Best Practices.” But guess what? Nothing could be more detrimental to your organization. Think about it this way: Why would you and your organization want to “follow the herd”? At N2Growth, we’re not just another consulting firm espousing best practices.

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Be Silly Today.

Rich Gee Group

“None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an afterthought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth that you’re carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There’s no time for anything else.” — Christopher Walken. I’ve never opened an article with Christopher Walken (even though I love him), but I found this quote so inspiring for a Friday.

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20 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Doctor Strange

Joseph Lalonde

I n a movie universe full of super-powered humans and aliens, Doctor Strange brings in a new aspect to the Marvel movie universe. Doctor Strange introduces the world of magic and mysticism. The story of Doctor Stephen Strange could be your story. Or even my story. One where we have a skill and we center our lives around that skill. But what happens when we are no longer able to use what we feel we were created for?

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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7 Cheap Business Startup Ideas

Women on Business

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Free Individual Development Plan (IDP) Template

Great Leadership By Dan

The most popular post on this blog continues to be one of my first posts written in 2008 called How to Write a Great Individual Development Plan (IDP). In one of the earlier versions of that post I had offered to send readers an IDP template. With the growth of my blog, the volume of requests got to be unmanageable so those requests now get an auto-response directing them to my eBook , which includes a copy of the template, along with a 9-Box Performance and Potential Grid.

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Weekly Round-Up: Failing Forward, A New Perspective on Failure, Hoarding Knowledge, How to Really Listen, 3 Traits to be a Better Leader

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog.

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Today’s Interactions are Tomorrow’s Backstories

Management Excellence

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Public Service Announcements

Strategy Driven

Non-profit organizations and the causes they promote are greatly served by enlightening the public. Public education is an important part of the charge for those organizations. The earliest PSAs promoted the selling of war bonds and were shown in movie theatres during World War I and II. The campaigns included: “Loose lips sink ships” and “Keep them rolling.

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Agnes 1.6

Steve Farber

Chapter 16. “It’s all about the money for you, isn’t it, Cam?” I said with rising vexation. “Isn’t there anything else that turns you on? Anything?”. “Look,” Cam said with an appetizing mouthful of coleslaw. “You’re supposed to be helping me with my business, aren’t you?”. I took a bite of my sandwich. “Well, aren’t you?” he persisted. I turned to Agnes and explained the circumstances that had brought Cam and me together for the day, though I left out the details about the precariousness of Cam’

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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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Brainstorming technique for innovation, creativity and problem solving – a business strategy

Rapid BI

Brainstorming as an approach can be an effective way of generating lots of ideas on a specific issue which can then be filtered and reviewed to determine which idea or approach is the most appropriate. This pages outlines the history and demonstrates how to conduct an effective brainstorming session. The post Brainstorming technique for innovation, creativity and problem solving – a business strategy appeared first on RapidBi.

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Agnes 1.6

Steve Farber

Chapter 16. “It’s all about the money for you, isn’t it, Cam?” I said with rising vexation. “Isn’t there anything else that turns you on? Anything?”. “Look,” Cam said with an appetizing mouthful of coleslaw. “You’re supposed to be helping me with my business, aren’t you?”. I took a bite of my sandwich. “Well, aren’t you?” he persisted. I turned to Agnes and explained the circumstances that had brought Cam and me together for the day, though I left out the details about the precariousness of Cam’

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Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter

Harvard Business Review

Striving to increase workplace diversity is not an empty slogan — it is a good business decision. A 2015 McKinsey report on 366 public companies found that those in the top quartile for ethnic and racial diversity in management were 35% more likely to have financial returns above their industry mean, and those in the top quartile for gender diversity were 15% more likely to have returns above the industry mean.

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Mindfulness Works but Only If You Work at It

Harvard Business Review

The latest trend in leadership development is mindfulness training. There is a burgeoning array of apps, self-help books, and corporate interventions designed to help leaders become more mindful and thus more resilient, focused, and aware — qualities that many executives believe can make them more effective in their roles. Mindfulness — a way of paying attention with care and discernment to yourself, others, and the world around you — has been much researched.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Internal Hires Need Orientation Too

Harvard Business Review

As someone who has been in the business of hiring people and developing people organizations for many years, I’ve noticed two common first-day-on-the-job scenarios. Let’s take a look at each. On Gail’s first day at her new job, she is greeted by Ken from HR. Ken and Gail walk to her desk, where she meets her team and manager. Gail’s first few days include an orientation program that is specifically designed to make her feel comfortable in her new role and ready for her re

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How Polls Overestimate Support for Third-Party Candidates

Harvard Business Review

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the two most disliked presidential candidates since the advent of modern polling in the 1950s, so it’s no surprise that recent polls have placed support for the top third-party candidate in the presidential race, Libertarian Gary Johnson, at as much as 15%, with Green candidate Jill Stein receiving as much as 5% support.

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

The U.S. is in the midst of a presidential campaign in which both candidates have adopted antitrade stances and one has taken a frankly xenophobic , isolationist stance. The UK has voted to leave the European Union. Much of continental Europe is convulsed with similar combinations of disaffection , protectionism , and, in some cases, nationalism and even racism that have morphed into a more-or-less generalized anger against globalization.