Wed.Sep 28, 2016

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How NOT to Screw Up Organizational Change

Lead Change Blog

Let’s get one thing straight from the get-go: lose the word change “management.” You can’t manage change any more than you can manage the cycles of the tide and the phases of the moon. However, a leader can become masterful about thinking and acting in ways that are both strategic and tactical, upping the possibility for both buy in and relatively little disruption.

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How Arnold Palmer Mastered Golf And Fame By Being Himself

N2Growth Blog

They called him the King but he never acted the part. He was Arnold Palmer who behaved in accordance with the words his father, a golf pro in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, taught him. “Those people in the gallery are all the same as you.”. The deluge of stories about Palmer, the man and the golfer, upon his death at age 87 have a central theme. Total accessibility.

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Trailblazers Welcome – Boldly Go Where Women Have Gone Before

Women on Business

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Blogging Feels Like Hard Work

Joseph Lalonde

T hose looking for blogging advice are often told that they need to blog consistently. You need to create a blogging schedule and stick to the schedule. So, you dutifully go about creating content on a regular basis. You feel great. Until you hit the point where blogging feels like work. Hard work, at that. I know. Because I’ve been there. And I’m there right now.

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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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What Does it Mean to Win?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton What it means to "win" in business has changed. Driving this change is a greater awareness of the impact we have on each other.

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How to Turn Cautious Teammates into Visionary Thinkers

Leadership Freak

Visionary thinking typically receives quick turndowns from cautious leaders. People start thinking small and safe. Everyone dreams small when cautious judgmental leaders control decisions.

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Creative Schools by Sir Ken Robinson – My Six Lessons and Takeaways

First Friday Book Synopsis

If students are not learning, education is not happening. The root task is to create the conditions in which the relationship between students and teachers can flourish. Sir Ken Robinson, Creative Schools ——————— It is no secret – we are all worried about the quality of education. I suspect that we expect the practically impossible.… Read More Creative Schools by Sir Ken Robinson – My Six Lessons and Takeaways.

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The Curious Case of Too Much Support for Change

Change Starts Here

It goes without saying that in our quest to influence change at work, we want to gain support for that change. After all, when people support change, they want to get involved, or at the very least, they won’t stand in the way. However, in the course of facilitating the Fundamentals of Change Management workshop, I’ve discovered there are instances where you might actually want less support.

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The 5 Ways to Become Wealthy in Consulting

David A Fields

If you want your consulting practice to be more lucrative*, there are five paths to achieve that goal. Or, said otherwise, there are five possible bottlenecks holding you back. If you can identify and break open your current bottleneck, you’ll advance to the next level of financial freedom. *Long-time readers know I define wealth as relationship strength.

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New Website Launched—New Project Leadership Book Soon!

Management Excellence

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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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Five Secrets Fulfilled People Use Everyday

Strategy Driven

Are there real tricks to becoming fulfilled in life? You bet. My research and that of others suggests that there are key street-smart actions that those who are most fulfilled use every day. I interviewed over 100 successful people – some who were fulfilled and others who were not – to understand why success does not always bring about fulfillment.

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5 Helpful Questions When Attempthing to Discern God’s Will

Ron Edmondson

I am often asked how to know if the plans we make are God’s will for our life. I’m not referring to which cereal to have for breakfast. For the most part I think God would simply say choose your favorite (and, like a good parent, try to steer you to a healthier option). I’m talking about those life-altering decisions, such as career choice, relationships, or decisions requiring huge steps of faith.

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How to Make Your Customers Love You? Wrong Question.

Steve Farber

If we want to make our customers love us, then we … well, wait a minute … Scratch that. We can’t make our customers love us. We can’t make anyone love us. That’s simply not how it works. Love is a gift we freely give and that’s freely given back to us. The same applies to our business or to any other enterprise or organization. So if we want our customers to love us – our brand, our product, our services – then we start with what we give, not what we want to take or make.

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We Need to Expand Our Definition of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

The great entrepreneurs of the last century — folks like Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison — spawned huge companies that were designed around a model of scalable efficiency. In that model the job of workers was to fit into their roles and perform tightly specified and standardized tasks in a highly reliable and predictable way.

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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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What It Will Take to Keep Women from Leaving STEM

Harvard Business Review

A recent survey showed that STEM degrees are among the most lucrative for graduates. When you look at the gender breakdown of students entering these fields, it’s about 60% male and 40% female, and at the PhD level the numbers are closer. But what happens as people’s career trajectories progress? Over time, those talented women with their PhD in STEM start to drop out of technical and industrial careers.

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Your Writing Isn’t as Good as You Think It Is

Harvard Business Review

You have to write from time to time as part of your job. You probably think you’re fine at it, even as you notice the poor quality of the writing that reaches your screen from others. As I found when I surveyed 547 people who write as part of their job, there is a central problem here: We all think that problems of writing quality are somebody else’s fault.

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Connect Your Firm’s Strategy to Its Identity

Harvard Business Review

Leaders know they need to outperform their competitors to succeed — not by hitting the target with just one or two products, but by winning consistently across their businesses, time after time. To accomplish this, one must have clear answers to some basic strategic questions about the enterprise and its identity: Who are we? What makes our company unique?