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The Power of a Good Pause

Let's Grow Leaders

To me the most remarkable part of Christmas is how everything goes from ridiculously busy to a full-on stop. The Winning Well workshops, the keynotes, the 2017 planning, the filming, the travelling (well not that), the rehearsals, the concerts, the shopping, the cooking, the visits, and then the pause. When I walk into a candle lit church, all the chaos seems to melt away.

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Top 100 Small Business Blogs on the Web Ranking Includes Women on Business

Women on Business

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How to Matter: The 5 Key Ways Companies Win

Leading Blog

I N TODAY'S ECONOMY of volatility and velocity, the lifespan of a Fortune 500 company has plummeted from an average 50 years to a mere fifteen. When constant disruption is the new normal, how do companies succeed? They find a way to matter. When we looked at thirty-plus case studies of successful companies, we found that they all share an audacious approach to disruption.

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Spin vs. Sorry: How to Mess Up Well & Become Authentic

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Bill Munn: “It was my mistake. I’m sorry. Please forgive me." It’s important to get these phrases written down, before they become obsolete. For a few decades now, the popularity of “spin,” with its tempting save-face claims, has elbowed out the use of a simple, honest apology. The reasons (read: excuses) for this are numerous and seemingly convincing: · We can’t afford bad publicity. · We need to frame this so fewer people are defamed. · We are a litigious society.

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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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7 Things I Learned About Expressing Frustration from a State Trooper

Leadership Freak

Most leaders don’t know how to best use and effectively express frustration. Unexpressed frustration turns into more frustration. Poorly expressed frustration makes matters worse.

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Learning Leadership from a Fortune Top 50 World Leader

Kevin Eikenberry

If you’re interested in leadership, this is one episode you CANNOT afford to miss! Join Mitch Daniels, president of Purdue University and former governor of Indiana, as he discusses what it takes to be ranked in Fortune Magazine’s Top 50 World Leaders. Listen Now In this episode, you’ll discover: How he has prioritized student affordability […].

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Going Digital – How Small To Medium Businesses Are Winning With Cloud Solutions

ExactHire - Leadership

The cloud is one of the best business tools to be developed in recent years. It has freed companies from the constraints of their locations and endless paperwork, and helped them to become more robust, flexible, and cost-effective. Research in 2015, stated that 37% of all small businesses had adopted cloud computing, and by 2020, this could rise to 78%.

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The Best Christmas Present You Can Ever Give

Ron Edmondson

Give words. What’s the best Christmas present you can ever give? Give words. Give the gift of written words. Years ago, when I was almost 18, and just about to graduate from high school, my grandmother gave me a Bible for Christmas. It’s a great Bible. In fact, it was my first study Bible – a New American Standard, Ryrie Study Bible.

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Sample Key Performance Indicators – KPIs

Rapid BI

The example KPIs on this page are provided for educational purposes. They are not intended to be used 'as is' as the most effective use of a KPI is when it is aligned to the business strategy and the business plan of the organisation. The post Sample Key Performance Indicators – KPIs appeared first on RapidBi.

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Using Dr. Deming’s Ideas at Baptist Memorial Health Care

Deming Institute

Skip Steward, Chief Improvement Office (CIO) for Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation in Memphis, Tennessee is the latest guest on the Deming Podcast ( download the podcast ). Dr. Deming’s thinking continues to influence me, not only in things like PDSA thinking, but also in some of those other fundamental principles around constancy of purpose, around how we think about systems, how we think about the worker and the work that they are doing.

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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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6 Traits That Predict Ethical Behavior at Work

Harvard Business Review

Trust and openness are crucial elements of an ethical organizational culture. Only when employees are able to voice the problems they see can ethical lapses be discussed and resolved. A first step in building this kind of culture involves a hiring approach in which companies actively seek those individuals inclined to speak up when ethical challenges surface.

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Corporate Governance Should Combine the Best of Private Equity and Family Firms

Harvard Business Review

The public corporation is typically bedeviled by the gap between managers’ and shareholders’ interests. Over the years, governance has attempted to close that gap by aligning incentives with measures of performance. These attempts have often failed. But where they have succeeded, they have left public corporations increasingly swayed by short-term results (which are easy to measure) at the expense of future success.

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What to Do When a Coworker Goes Over Your Head

Harvard Business Review

It’s infuriating when a colleague goes over your head to your boss. Not only have they left you out of the conversation but they’ve potentially made you look bad. What can you say and do when someone tries to sidestep you? How should you address it with your colleague? And how do you make sure it doesn’t hurt your reputation with your boss?

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If the SEC Measured CEO Pay Packages Properly, They Would Look Even More Outrageous

Harvard Business Review

On December 7, Portland, Oregon, passed a law that will impose a surcharge on the local business taxes paid by corporations that operate in the city when the CEO’s compensation is 100 times or more the median earnings of the company’s employees. To monitor this ratio, the Portland law will make use of data that, beginning in 2017, U.S. public corporations must file with the U.S.

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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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The Secret to Better Problem Solving

Harvard Business Review

Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg discusses a nimbler approach to diagnosing problems than existing frameworks: reframing. He’s the author of “Are You Solving the Right Problems?” in the January/February 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review. Download this podcast.

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business Review

In 2014, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was in crisis. The agency, which provides health care to approximately 9 million veterans at over 1,700 locations, had set a top-down goal to increase the percentage of veterans who were seen within 14 days of requesting an appointment. This mandate, as admirable as it was, clashed with the diminished capacity of the chronically underfunded organization, where in some parts of the country, underpaid physicians were burning out under the weight of

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How Unemployment Affects Twentysomethings’ Self-Worth

Harvard Business Review

Does unemployment threaten young adults’ developing confidence? Should parents come to their aid by providing financial help or inviting them to live at home for a while? These questions are important, since rates of unemployment for young people (ages 16-24) in the United States are typically double those for the entire labor force (in both good and bad economic times ), and since returning home after unemployment or other difficulties is also becoming quite prevalent.

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The Management Ideas That Mattered Most in 2016

Harvard Business Review

Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR. One of our favorite parts of the HBR year is looking back at what we published to find the ideas that, in retrospect, stand out the most — articles that taught us something truly new or surprised us with wholly new ways of thinking about topics we thought we were tired of, as well as the articles our readers found most interesting or useful.

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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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How Trump’s Tax Proposals Will Affect Single Working Mothers

Harvard Business Review

We all know by now that despite winning nearly 3 million more votes than Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton lost three key states — Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan — by a total of about 80,000 votes. That was just enough to hand Trump the electoral college victory, and the election. Given Trump’s narrow margin of victory in these manufacturing-heavy, traditionally Democratic states, it’s understandable that the post-election conversation has focused on whether his campai