Lead Change Blog
MAY 8, 2019
What do the best leaders have in common? As author of The Disciplined Leader and President of Management Action Programs, Inc. (MAP), John Manning should know. MAP, a general management consulting firm based in Southern California, has helped tens of thousands of top executives accelerate their leadership and management performance. Manning says the answer is one word: discipline.
Leading Blog
MAY 8, 2019
B ILL CAMPBELL was one of the most influential background players in Silicon Valley. He helped to build some of Silicon Valley’s greatest companies including Google, Apple, and Intuit and to create over a trillion dollars in market value. In Trillion Dollar Coach , authors Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle, state that “ without a doubt, Bill Campbell was one of the people most integral to Google’s success.
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Women on Business
MAY 8, 2019
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Leading in Context
MAY 8, 2019
By Linda Fisher ThorntonEthical thinking and critical thinking are both important and it helps to understand how we need to use them together to make decisions. .
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Leadership Freak
MAY 8, 2019
A reader asks, “Maybe a post on how to proceed when relationships have been eroded among team members? With a small team, I find it especially challenging.
leaderCommunicator
MAY 8, 2019
You’ve probably heard the saying, “we have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." As leaders, this simple wisdom is a good reminder and reality check for many of us. Listening. It’s a skill virtually all of us can work on. Once you’ve mastered the fundamentals, there are a number of ways to raise the bar.
Leadership and Management brings together the best content for leadership and management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 8, 2019
Negotiating can be terrifying, emotional, and frustrating. But don’t let that lead you to making this one crucial mistake. Negotiation has a reputation problem. Most people see it as a way to manipulate others to do their bidding. Much of that comes from the way negotiation is portrayed in popular media. The quintessential negotiator is.
The Practical Leader
MAY 8, 2019
Imagine trying to cool your house in the middle of a tropical heat wave when you’ve left all the windows and door wide open. That’s brand management in many companies. Companies spend big dollars on research, marketing, and promotions to attract customers. But poor service experiences don’t match the brand promise. So customers drift away while marketing spends more money to attract more customers.
The Horizons Tracker
MAY 8, 2019
It’s probably rare to find anyone that enjoys shift work, and the impact of such ways of working have been well documented, whether in terms of our physical or mental health. Sadly, shift work can be necessary, so there is a strong incentive to try and find ways to structure shift work such that any risks are minimized. The lack of any concrete evidence on the best way to do this has prompted a special issue of Industrial Health to focus specifically on shift work and working time arrange
CEO Insider
MAY 8, 2019
CEOWORLD magazine. Four Steps to Creating More Productive Working Relationships Between Men And Women In A Post #MeToo World. The recent Women’s Movement, which has been extremely important in bringing attention to sexual assault and harassment in the workplace, has inadvertently created a culture of tension between male and female employees at many companies.
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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
The Horizons Tracker
MAY 8, 2019
It’s widely believed that the success of mankind has largely been based upon our ability to grasp the usefulness of tools and wield them for our advantage. It’s believed that humans have higher levels of causal reasoning than other animals, which has supported our ability to invent such useful tools. New research from Arizona State University proposes that cultural evolution can help to generate new knowledge, even if people don’t really understand what it is they’re doi
Strategy Driven
MAY 8, 2019
To take your small business to the lofty heights of being a market leader in the foreseeable future, you’re going to have to start turning over a major profit sooner rather than later. To do this, you have to treat solidifying the money that you do make just as seriously as actually making it. It’s quite simple – if you continue to waste your profit, you won’t be able to invest it into further growth going forward.
CEO Insider
MAY 8, 2019
CEOWORLD magazine. There’s No Point Focusing On What You’re Doing If You Don’t Know How Well You’re Doing It. Why is it that so many companies are highly focused on the latest customer experience (CX) strategies yet have very little or no data to ensure they are on the right track? As W. Edwards Deming said, ‘without data you’re just another person with an opinion’.
Strategy Driven
MAY 8, 2019
When embarking on a career, there are a number of goals that most of us want to achieve. The most obvious goal is the desire to earn enough to live on comfortably; enough for a stable home environment and, if possible, a few treats along the way. Secondary goals tend to include a pleasant working experience – getting on with colleagues, feeling valued, and so on and so forth – as well as a work-life balance that allows us to work to live, rather than live to work.
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From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.
Eric Jacobson
MAY 8, 2019
Eric Harvey and Al Lucia wrote a booklet called, 144 Ways To Walk The Talk. They provide the following great advice about giving feedback: 1. Make it T imely -- give your feedback as soon as possible to the performance. 2. Make it I ndividualized -- tailor your feedback to the feedback receiver. 3. Make it Productive -- focus your feedback on the performance and not the performer. 4.
Strategy Driven
MAY 8, 2019
When everything is done right, PPC can be one of the most powerful marketing tools out there. But when it goes wrong, it can be easy to throw in the towel and blame everything on it. However, while sometimes PPC may not be the best suited for your application, in many cases, failure is caused by errors that could’ve been easily avoided. Let’s take a look at why your campaigns might be failing and some solutions to correct them.
Eric Jacobson
MAY 8, 2019
According to Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese , authors of the book, The Collaboration Imperative , high-performing teams have the following characteristics: People have solid and deep trust in each other and in the team's purpose--they feel free to express feelings and ideas. Everybody is working toward the same goals. Team members are clear on how to work together and how to accomplish tasks.
Strategy Driven
MAY 8, 2019
The construction industry has always been well respected while also being at the center of a global focus for pollution. Poor air quality is a big deal, and the construction industry is always in the spotlight due to the way the pollutants hit the air. It’s construction that is a number one polluter, and yet there are so many things that companies in the business could be doing to clean up their act.
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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.
Ron Edmondson
MAY 8, 2019
A number of years ago I began thinking in terms of “tiers of leadership”. It was during the first year of a new position. I saw so many things I wanted to do in the organization, but I knew I could never accomplish everything I wanted to do in the first year or even first two years. Real change in any organization – the kind which changes ingrained structure and systems – DNA type changes – and sometimes people changes – often take steady progress over a number of years.
Strategy Driven
MAY 8, 2019
Whatever it is that your business does, there will be some kind of product that you need to make along the way – unless you offer a service free of products of any kind, of course, which is not commonly the case. Because that product is what the customer ends up with in their hands, it is one of the major determinants of what they think of your business, and as such you should make sure that it is going to be as close to perfect as possible.
Art Petty
MAY 8, 2019
One of the key success factors for leaders and for all of us is hiding in plain sight ready for all of us to use. Here are seven key ingredients essential for ensuring respect is present in every encounter. The post The Secret to Leadership and Career Success is Hiding in Plain Sight appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty. Related Stories Who’s Your Leadership Role Model?
Strategy Driven
MAY 8, 2019
If you’re a local store owner, you might feel like business terms like ‘rebranding’ and ‘brand curation’ are reserved for larger and more successful businesses. But this is not the case; in fact, small businesses can see some of the sharpest up-spikes in business after putting in the effort to spruce up their brand. This article provides some useful tips for small store owners whore interested in modernizing their brand’s appearance, drawing in more curious customers as a result.
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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.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 8, 2019
Theoretical physicist and founder of Genomic Prediction, Michigan State University senior vice president Stephen Hsu discusses the extraordinary developments in predictive genomics and digs into the ethical minefield that lies ahead: is the door now open to designer babies?
Joseph Lalonde
MAY 8, 2019
The Speak Up! Series. Have you ever been in a situation where a bad leader spoke up? He shared a vision isolated to himself. Or he chose to single out one employee and berate him. Bad leaders tend to speak up when something is wrong. They focus on what isn’t working and choose to talk down to those they’re […] The post Why Good Leaders Speak Up appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 8, 2019
Youngme, Felix, and Mihir talk about the Beyond Meat IPO and whether plant-based meat alternatives like Beyond Burger and Impossible Burger will become mass-market products. They then discuss Facebook’s announcement that it is pivoting to put greater emphasis on user privacy.
CO2
MAY 8, 2019
By: Thomas Schlick Have you ever had an employee leave voluntarily whom you really didn’t want to lose? We often call this “regrettable turnover” – because when these people leave your organization they take a part of your company’s future with them. Let me share a personal story with you. I was recruiting a top shelf MBA for a key role in my organization.
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Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 8, 2019
Technology can bring out the worst in us — but it doesn’t have to.
The Horizons Tracker
MAY 8, 2019
Amid the concern around the automation of jobs, a long-standing truism has perhaps been overlooked. Whilst the likes of the Frey and Osborne paper predicted a pretty widespread demolition of 47% of all jobs, the reality is that those with low-skilled, routine jobs are far more at risk. The thing is, those with low skills have been on the receiving end of pretty much every shift in the labor market over the past decade.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 8, 2019
The combination of the two is more powerful than either on its own.
Strategy Driven
MAY 8, 2019
The restaurant business fulfills a need that has to be refilled on a continuous basis, so it is no wonder that it’s a flourishing trade to get involved in. As is common to any lucrative field of business, it’s also an extremely crowded and seemingly saturated market. “Seemingly” being the key word, there is still ample room to have a successful restaurant business anywhere in the US, as long as you fulfil certain criteria.
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