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My 10 All-Time Favorite Leadership Posts (chosen by you)

Terry Starbucker

Hard to believe that this blog has been around for nearly 13 years – it’s been a wonderful and winding journey putting my thoughts on these pages about a subject that is near and dear to my heart. Leadership. The more human kind. I’ve covered a lot of ground (and probed the depths of my head and heart) in my 1,066 posts since December 25, 2005, and what I have gained from it is incalculable.

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Preview Thursday: Make Learning Deliberate

Lead Change Blog

The following is a book excerpt from How You Learn Is How You Live. While the practices in the book will help you to improve your performance or learn new content, the goal is to pay attention to your own learning process and to become more flexible in managing it. This process is what allows you to transform your life. Deliberate learning requires that you understand your unique way of learning from experience and use it to intentionally direct and control your behavior.

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5 Vital Behaviors That Will Impress Your HR Team

Let's Grow Leaders

What does your HR team say about you? Does it matter? As we engage in our long-term leadership development programs, we inevitably spend time talking to the HR team about who’s in the program, why, and how we can best help. For […]. The post 5 Vital Behaviors That Will Impress Your HR Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Likability in Leadership—Necessary for Some, a Liability to Others

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Cassandra Frangos : We had a handy rule of thumb for hiring in my first job in management consulting. After the first or second round of interviews, if the candidate scored high on the prerequisites, the team would gather for a reality check and ask each other: "Would you mind being stuck in an airport for 9 hours with this person?” If the answer was, "Oh my, no way ," we’d usually move on to the next highly qualified candidate.

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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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The Truth About Filling Your Own Cup

Leadership Freak

Servant leadership is pouring out for the advantage of others. But you can’t serve effectively with an empty cup. Your cup is empty because you poured out more than you poured in.

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How to Bridge the Maternity Gap in Your Resume

Women on Business

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Could Your Incentive System Be Hindering Performance?

RapidStart Leadership

What if that carrot we offer actually slows them down? In the effort to motivate our teammates, we are quick to offer carrots we think will incentivize them to greater efforts. But as this story of the Soviet Union’s most prolific athlete shows, sometimes our incentive system can do the … Could Your Incentive System Be Hindering Performance?

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All Great Employees Have This Secret Ingredient.

Rich Gee Group

I've been doing a lot of thinking lately. Many of my clients complain about the work habits of their employees and how they're light-years away from a competent and conscientious worker. It has to do with their past work histories. And I think I've solved that problem. To be a good employee who is valued and moves up accordingly in the organization — one has to have worked at a number of similar vocations to build valuable abilities.

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The Art Of Change Leadership

Eric Jacobson

The Art of Change Leadership demystifies the psychology behind our reactions to change and offers a powerful collection of tools to inspire individual and collective transformation quickly and more effectively, explains author of the new book, Cheryl Cran. The book teaches you how to: Leverage your current technical knowledge to increase the rate of innovation.

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All Great Employees Have This Secret Ingredient.

Rich Gee Group

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately. Many of my clients complain about the work habits of their employees and how they’re light-years away from a competent and conscientious worker. It has to do with their past work histories. And I think I’ve solved that problem. To be a good employee who is valued and moves up accordingly in the organization — one has to have worked at a number of similar vocations to build valuable abilities.

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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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Why You Need to Find Work that is Exhilarating

Management Excellence

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7 Traits of a Great Team Member

Ron Edmondson

In the business world and in the church, I’ve learned having a good team often makes the difference in how well we do at reaching our objectives. I have been blessed with some great teams in the past. As a result, I frequently get asked if I have any openings on my team. I have a good team in the church where I am now. I’m also asked how I continue to put together such great teams.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

Ilka & Franz/Getty Images. Profit and purpose are converging. Over 80% of millennials report that making a positive difference in the world is more important to them than professional recognition. They no longer believe the primary purpose of business should be to make profit, but rather to create social value. On the investor side, more and more shareholders demand tracking and reporting of both positive and negative externalities, compelling some of the largest corporations on earth into a

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Why CEOs Should Push Back Against Short-Termism

Harvard Business Review

PM Images/Getty Images. The pressure put on CEOs to deliver quarterly results is greater than ever before. A 2014 global survey of more than 600 C-suite executives and directors, conducted by the non-profit Focusing Capital for the Long Term (FCLT), reported that two-thirds of those surveyed said pressure for short-term results had increased over the previous five years.

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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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Just How Bad Is Business Travel for Your Health? Here’s the Data.

Harvard Business Review

Eric Raptosh Photography/Getty Images. Checking into a hotel for a conference several years ago, I asked the receptionist where I could get some dinner. There was no restaurant in the hotel, I was told; my only options were ordering delivery from a fast-casual chain or a pizza joint. I went with the pizza, but my lack of choices was annoying — so much so that, when I got home, I started looking into the data on health and travel for work.

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The Right Way to Respond to Negative Feedback

Harvard Business Review

Adrienne Bresnahan/Getty Images. Feedback, as they say, is a gift. Research bears this out, suggesting that it’s a key driver of performance and leadership effectiveness. Negative feedback in particular can be valuable because it allows us to monitor our performance and alerts us to important changes we need to make. And indeed, leaders who ask for critical feedback are seen as more effective by superiors, employees, and peers, while those who seek primarily positive feedback are rated low

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When Customers Are — and Aren’t — OK with Personalized Prices

Harvard Business Review

wragg/Getty Images. There’s a lot of buzz around price differentiation these days, especially with the spotlight on AI and big data. Machine learning makes it much easier to customize the marketing of products and services – and that includes the price. Let’s be clear: price differentiation is not a new phenomenon. We encounter it regularly and, as consumers, often profit from it.

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Asian Americans Are the Least Likely Group in the U.S. to Be Promoted to Management

Harvard Business Review

Peter Dazeley/Getty Images. Asian Americans are the forgotten minority in the glass ceiling conversation. This was painfully obvious to us while reading the newly released diversity and inclusion report from a large Silicon Valley company: Its 19 pages never specifically address Asian Americans. Asian men are lumped into a “non-underrepresented” category with white men (we’ll say more about that below); Asian women are assigned to a category that includes women of all races.

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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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Using Analytics to Prevent Customer Problems Before They Arise

Harvard Business Review

Jekaterina Nikitina/Getty Images. A non-negligible percentage of customers who buy a new smartphone return it within the “free return” window. Many of these returners claim that the phone does not work correctly. However, the data clearly indicates that this is often not the real issue. The reality is that these customers simply don’t know how to use the smartphone well enough, and either do not realize it, or are not willing to admit it.

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Office Spaces

Harvard Business Review

Is your office killing your productivity? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR: , cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Pete Bacevice , a workplace researcher at the global design firm HLW and the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. They talk through how to survive in an open office, deploy teams across multiple buildings, and ask for a better workspace.