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Star Spangled Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Teddy Roosevelt once said, “This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” We make the difference. Whether it’s our workplaces, churches, schools or communities, you and I are the determining factors about the goodness of this place we call home. The same can be said for us as a nation.

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Memorial Day – A Pause To Remember

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. On this memorial day, the curators and authors of GeneralLeadership.com pause to honor the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. Military. We reflect upon their sacrifices, as well as the sacrifices of the thousands of soldiers who serve in harms way around the globe on this day.

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3 strategies to lead when you can’t mandate

Lead on Purpose

Most organizations are made up of teams that work together to accomplish a common objective. Within those teams are individuals who are responsible for specific tasks. The combination of those tasks create the desired outcome.

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How to Forget Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

Lousy leaders remember what they should forget and forget what they should remember. The power of the past is the permission you give it to influence the present.

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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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26 Leadership Lessons And Quotes From X-Men: Apocalypse

Joseph Lalonde

T he X-Men movie universe has been a shaky one over the last 16 years since the first movie was released 2000. We went from good to bad to worse to seeing improvement. X-Men: Apocalypse, the 8th X-Men movie, was a step in the right direction, along with recent entry Days Of Future Past and First Class. While it won’t win any critic’s awards, it was a fun summer movie.

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A New Way to Look at Change

Kevin Eikenberry

I’m as open to change as most people, or maybe even more so. And yet, the words to the Hank Williams, Jr. song from 1986 resonates with me too. The song is titled When Something’s Good (Why Does it Change?) (lyrics / audio). The references he makes are, well, thirty years old; but the sentiment […]. The post A New Way to Look at Change appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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“We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor” – and many paid that price – Memorial Day, 2016

First Friday Book Synopsis

This morning, I spoke at a Memorial Day Remembrance and Celebration at the Forum at Park Lane in Dallas. This is home for a wonderful group of people, and they showed up dressed in patriotic colors; red, white, and blue filled the room. And the Activities Director, Ellis Paddack, planned a wonderful hour, during which… Read More “We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor” – and many paid that price – Memorial Day, 2016.

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A Day to Remember

Management Excellence

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5 Days to New Ideas: Key Image

First Friday Book Synopsis

On Friday, June 3, I present the best-selling book, Sprint: Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016) at the First Friday Book Synopsis at the Park City Club in Dallas. The authors are Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz. All are associated with… Read More 5 Days to New Ideas: Key Image.

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Honoring Our Fallen Patriots

Strategy Driven

Freedom demands sacrifice. Throughout our history, brave men and women served to secure for us the blessings of liberty; many giving the last full measure of their devotion. We are grateful for the ongoing support our friends, colleagues, business partners, clients, and LinkedIn community members provide our active duty service members, veterans, and their families.

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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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Ten Important Questions For Business Leaders

Eric Jacobson

Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge , authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees?

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I’d rather have no advice than bad advice.

Strategy Driven

I can’t help it. I read some bad sales advice today and I gotta say something. I’ll try to keep it positive, but my tongue is already bleeding from biting it. The title read: When sales calls stall. Every salesperson has experienced that barrier in one form or another, so I wondered what this “expert” had to say. NOTE WELL: I try not to read current sales material because I don’t want to copy, or be accused of copying someone else’s work or ideas.

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Wisdom Versus Integrity

Eric Jacobson

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To Win the Civil War, Lincoln Had to Change His Leadership

Harvard Business Review

FROM THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. In our work with leaders, we see that great ones grow themselves and their organizations by deliberately working on three areas: They wisely manage the present, anchoring in purpose and values. They selectively forget the past, letting go of old values, beliefs, and behaviors that no longer serve them or their organizations.

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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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Keep a List of Unethical Things You’ll Never Do

Harvard Business Review

HBR STAFF. Management is about commitment, execution, and follow-through. Did you act? Good. Did it work? Do it again. It didn’t? Do something else. Above all, keep doing things; keep taking action. I teach a course in strategic controls at the University of Portland. In a recent class we talked about less-than-virtu­ous actions we’ve seen in business.

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Leading Across Cultures Requires Flexibility and Curiosity

Harvard Business Review

How many nights have you spent in a hotel in a city many miles from home? Perhaps nervous about the meeting in the morning, you find yourself lying on the bed flicking through the TV channels for something to watch to keep you awake to offset the growing jet-lag. Automatically, you search for channels and movies in your own language. That’s a missed opportunity.

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The Best Retailers Combine Bricks and Clicks

Harvard Business Review

Retail profits are plummeting. Stores are closing. Malls are emptying. The depressing stories just keep coming. Reading the Macy’s, Nordstrom, and Target earnings announcements is about as uplifting as a tour of an intensive care unit. The Internet is apparently taking down yet another industry. Brick and mortar stores seem to be going the way of the yellow pages.

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