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The Problem with Just Do Your Job

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever had a team member say something like this? “I just want to do my job. I know you want me to care, but I don’t. It’s a paycheck and I’ve got kids.” Or perhaps you’ve heard a leader tell […]. The post The Problem with Just Do Your Job appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Artificial Persuasion: The Invisible Brand

Leading Blog

M ASS MEDIA has been replaced by mass personalization through the rise of Artificial Intelligence. William Ammerman states in The Invisible Brand , “ AI will play an increasingly important role in our lives in the years ahead as marketers turn vast amounts of computing power to the problem of influence people’s decisions.”. Buried deep within the media we consume and the apps we use, unseen forces are working behind the scenes collecting data about us to pair with AI and digital advertising to i

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Overcomer Movie

Joseph Lalonde

Overcomer is the latest film from the Kendrick brothers, Alex and Stephen. They produce movies under the company of Kendrick Brothers Productions. Since they’ve begun working on movies, the Kendrick brothers have released multiple films including War Room, Courageous, Fireproof, and Facing The Giants. Their faith-based approach to movie making is astonishing.

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Stop Leading! You’re Bleeding Off Passion

Lead Change Blog

Last week I had an old-fashioned, too-much-cholesterol breakfast at an out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere diner. The walls were adorned with ads from yesteryear. One that caught my eye was for Ayer’s Sarsaparilla at the bargain rate of 100 doses for one dollar. The centerpiece of the ad for this exotic tonic was that it “purified the blood.” What foundational belief would make people buy the promise that the blood needed purifying, and this was the ticket?

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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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From Fragmented to Focused: Helping Your Team Stay Focused

Kevin Eikenberry

How often do you feel tugged in multiple directions during the day, driven by “something urgent?” How often do you succumb to the lure of the shiny object diverting your attention? Perhaps more importantly, how often is your team being diverted and losing focus? In the fast-paced, ever-changing, smartphone-infused world we live in, focus is […].

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How Negative Impulse Triggers Positive Response

Leadership Freak

Negative impulses are useful when they produce positive results. Redirect negative impulses toward positive actions. Great achievements emerge when negative impulses trigger positive responses. #1. Anger – Openness: Stop resisting anger.

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Four Myths About Empowering Change

Innovation Excellence

We live in a transformational age. Powerful technologies like the cloud and artificial intelligence are quickly shifting what it means to compete. Social movements like #MeTo are exposing decades of misdeeds and rewriting norms. The stresses of modern life are creating new expectations about the relationship between work and home. Every senior manager and entrepreneur.

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Desk Essentials That’ll Make Your Work Day Better

HR Digest

Let’s be real for a moment: You spend more time every day sitting behind your desk than you do sleeping in your bed. When you’re spending that much time at work, you may want to feel de-stressed and inspired to unlock your maximum potential. If you feel your workspace is missing that spark, you’re probably in need of some office desk essentials to make your workday better.

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4 Simple Ways to Connect with People Instantly

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

These powerful tips are all you have to do to fully connect with people when meeting new people or you want to strengthen your existing relationships. Today’s post is by Igor Smirnov. Whether you are meeting new people or you want to strengthen your existing relationships, these powerful tips are all you have to do […]. This is only the beginning of the thought.

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New Study Explores The Key To Successful Learning

The Horizons Tracker

Learning is an increasingly crucial pastime, with the pace of change in the working world requiring people to learn continuously in order to keep pace. As such, there is an understandable focus on how best to learn, and new research from Dartmouth believes it may have found the answer. The study builds on previous work that suggests we learn better when we see an object before then hearing its description.

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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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Digital Marketing Mantra for Advertisers

Strategy Driven

Digital marketing is slowly, but surely growing from a “nice to have” to a necessity. With so many audiences, especially the younger ones, moving away from linear television, barely touching newspapers or magazines and with their heads down into their phones even out on the streets, it seems that the only sensible place advertisers can find their audiences now is in the online space.

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The Importance Of Ethnic Stereotypes On Employment

The Horizons Tracker

The migration of Latinos into the United States has been one of the most newsworthy (not to mention heartbreaking) stories of recent years, and considerable attention has subsequently been given to the fortunes and employment prospects of Latino migrants in the US. Spain is also an incredibly popular migratory destination, yet much less is known about the fortunes of migrants there, especially in the context of any discrimination they might suffer from.

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How To Make Sure You Hire The Right Person For The Job

Strategy Driven

Hiring the wrong person can be a costly mistake and leave you feeling frustrated that you have no one to complete the work that needs to be done. Therefore, it’s extremely important that if you want your organization to succeed, that you hire the right person for the job each and every time. There are steps you can take to help ensure you achieve this goal and aren’t wasting your time or anyone else’s.

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Why Infrastructure And Mobility Are So Important In Getting People Back Into Work

The Horizons Tracker

In The Technology Trap , one of the more interesting proposals made by author Carl Frey to help buffer the impact of technology on employment are mobility vouchers to help people to move to where jobs are rather than remaining stuck in towns where jobs have long since moved on. New research looks at the Travel To Work Area (TTWA), which is a statistical tool used by UK Government agencies and local authorities to indicate an area where the population would generally commute to a larger town, cit

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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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Finding More Flexibility For Your Business

Strategy Driven

We live in a competitive environment where the business is fueled by technology 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and because of this, we need to be flexible. The days where you could create business plans a year ahead of time and expect to be able to stick to them with nothing changing are long gone. While planning is a necessity to succeed in business, particularly for long-term vision , short-term activity and flexibility are just as important.

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Start Meetings On Time

Eric Jacobson

You call a meeting. Chances are one or more people will show up late. Perhaps 10 minutes late. If there are six people waiting on the latecomers, that's 10 minutes times six. Sixty minutes. One hour of collective wasted time. If you hold a lot of meetings that each start late, the wasted time will really add up. So, start your meetings on time. It won't take long before the habitual latecomers will start coming on time, particularly if you start your meetings with a piece of really important new

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Ackoff on Systems Thinking and Management

Deming Institute

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. This video shows a Russell Ackoff presentation from 2003. Ackoff starts with a very good explanation of analytic thinking. Then he discusses the importance of understanding systems and why that requires a different type of thinking (synthesis). When you analyze a system you learn something but you don’t get understanding. … The result of analysis of a system is knowledge.

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Should You Accept a Lower-Level Job After a Career Break?

Harvard Business Review

Prioritize opportunity, not prestige.

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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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Ackoff on Systems Thinking and Management

Deming Institute

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. This video shows a Russell Ackoff presentation from 2003. Ackoff starts with a very good explanation of analytic thinking. Then he discusses the importance of understanding systems and why that requires a different type of thinking (synthesis). When you analyze a system you learn something but you don’t get understanding. … The result of analysis of a system is knowledge.

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6 Ways CEOs Can Prove They Care About More Than Shareholder Value

Harvard Business Review

Lead on at least one.

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