Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Every workgroup needs a contrarian. People with different points of view, experiences, or attitudes move conversation and decision-making to a higher level. They aid in getting unconventional ideas and options noticed, comfort zones expanded, and results improved. That’s the upside. Some contrarians can also bring things to a complete halt. The Urban Dictionary defines a contrarian as “someone who automatically tends to take the opposite point of view from the person to whom they’re speaki

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2017

H OW DO YOU make things happen? How does it feel to not be afraid? Steve Sims, the founder of Bluefish , has built a company that gets things done. Bluefish makes seemingly out-of-reach, change-your-life, experiences happen. Experiences like training with the Navy Seals, singing with your favorite band, watching Formula 1 in Monaco with royalty, having a private dinner at the feet of Michelangelo’s David while being sung to by Andrea Bocelli, and being James Bond for the weekend.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 11, 2017

A Reel Leadership Christmas Throwback Article I usually start the Christmas season off by watching my favorite Christmas movie on Black Friday or that Saturday. This year, I postponed it but was able to get around to watching what I consider to be one of the best Christmas movies out there. If you haven’t guessed, my favorite Christmas movie is Die Hard.

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 11, 2017

You produce weakness in others when you exercise power unless you use power to fill others with confidence. You cannot empower people by exercising power over them.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 11, 2017

If you work, you are an employee. Much of what I write about here is about leadership and how to be more effective in helping others choose to follow us in the pursuit of desirable outcomes. But every leader is a member of the team too. Even the CEO, even the owner. For the next […]. The post Eight Ways to Be a Better Employee in 2018 appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 11, 2017

6 years. That’s how long this Everyday Leadership blog has been running. I hope you’ve seen your leadership awareness and effectiveness grow over this time – as have mine. Below I’ve compiled the top 10 posts of 2017. You can also view the Top 10 list from past years. If you’re not a subscriber yet, sign up to receive my free content in 2018 and I’ll send you my ebook Trusted Leadership Advisor as well!

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 11, 2017

How to read prospects and decode subconscious signals to get results and close the deal. Ordinary salespeople sell. Extraordinary sales professionals engage. . Part of what sets them apart is their ability to understand body language, both their prospects' and their own, and use it to their advantage. Jim McCormick teams up with renowned body-language author Maryann Karinch to divulge insider information in BODY LANGUAGE SALES SECRET S. .

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Cooperperson

DECEMBER 11, 2017

by Networking in business is a key factor to being successful. Whether it is networking in large groups to build your book of customers, or networking within your office to help nab that promotion, being able to clearly and comfortably communicate with other professionals is an important skill to develop. Why, then, do so many people cringe when they hear they have to attend a networking event?

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Steve Farber

DECEMBER 11, 2017

There’s this idea of late that the younger generations place a higher priority on living an integrated life than older generations. But I’m not so sure this is a generational concept. Instead, I suspect it’s more of a trend of our times, a trend that involves most of the workforce regardless of age. The belief that we should strive for balance in our work lives has been gaining momentum for a couple of decades, and it’s not going away.

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Anese Cavanaugh

DECEMBER 11, 2017

You think it’s just “time” you’ve lost, or that you need more of, but what does it really cost you?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2017

You want to let the world know about your company. You’re delighted with how you’ve managed to build your own business from scratch and now your aim is to spread the word as far as it can go. There are many ways in which you can go about this, but you need to get your advertising game on point. With marvellous marketing methods you can get your business from local to global in a short space of time.

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Anese Cavanaugh

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Time is of the essence, but YOU have to make it and take it back. Here’s how.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The objective of every for-profit company is to increase its bottom line, and if you’re in the business of selling products or services, that ultimately means you’ll need to generate more leads. But where are these prospective buyers and how can you make your brand visible to them in an effective manner? Answering that question successfully and executing based on experience are the keys to managing any well-rounded sales campaign.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , gives readers practical guidance and concrete techniques to help leaders become more visionary. In his book, Rob-Jan de Jong provides the developmental framework for visionary capacity, focusing on two key skills: The ability to see change early The ability to connect the dots Rob-Jan de Jong De Jong makes a clear distinction between the company vision and your personal vision.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Consumers and company owners alike are familiar with one of the most well-known sayings in business: the customer is always right. This saying has been used for years on end. It is most often attributed to the Marshall Field’s Department Store (which later became Macy’s), and Harry Gordon Selfridge who worked for Field at the turn of the 20th century and later founded Selfridges , a high-end department store.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Moment/Getty Images. Like many of my classmates, shortly after college, I joined the ranks of a top strategy and management consulting firm. I knew I was signing up for long hours, but the reality of that didn’t really sink until a few months in, when I asked for a vacation day to go to a friend’s wedding. My request was granted, sort of.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2017

One of the greatest difficulties in business has been and may always be, maintaining a good level of communication. This is especially true for the people you rely on to make your business function from day to day. It goes without saying that the most numerous employees will be junior and or regular staff that are the individuals making things happen at ground level.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Jorg Greuel/Getty Images. If the topic of sexual harassment hasn’t come up in your office – either on Slack, in conversations over lunch, or by the watercooler — I’d be surprised. With the ongoing #metoo campaign and the almost daily headlines about men accused of harassing their coworkers, this subject is top of mind for many of us.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

If you don’t like your choices, create better ones.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Chris Gilleard/Getty Images. Cybercrime is here to stay, and it’s costing American firms a lot of money. The average annualized cost of cybercrime for global companies has increased nearly 62% since 2013, from $7.2 million to $11.7 million. And these are just the average direct costs. Target, which experienced a massive data breach in 2013, reported that the total cost of the breach exceeded $200 million.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

William Whitehurst/Getty Images. A little-known fact about health care is that hospitals frequently hire substitute doctors – or, as they are called in the profession, locum tenens physicians (from the Latin for “to hold the place, to substitute for”) – to temporarily cover for doctors who are vacationing, sick, attending conferences, or on leave for other reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Daniel Haskett/Getty Images. The House and Senate have passed somewhat different versions of major legislation to restructure the federal income tax. A House-Senate conference committee still needs to reconcile the two bills, with the goal of finishing before Christmas. Both bills would significantly overhaul the corporate income tax, increase the federal budget deficit, and disproportionately benefit upper-income taxpayers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

chuttersnap/unsplash. The Trump Administration has a chance to start working with 164 other countries to create “rules of the road” to stop China building national champions with government funding. Such state-owned enterprises or state-supported industries (SOEs) — think steel, aluminum and solar panels — have flooded global markets , depressed prices, and literally shut down hundreds of U.S. solar-panel startups.

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