Fri.Apr 22, 2016

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Frontline Festival April 2016: Leaders share what Winning Well means to them

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival celebrates the launch of Winning Well and is all about leaders sharing what winning well means to them.Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Want to learn more about Winning Well? You can download the first few chapters for free here.

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Hey Leader—What are You Fighting FOR?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” Mahatma Gandhi. Today as I write this my brother-in-law is in a hospital ICU fighting the fight of his life; leukemia. Now, one could say that he is fighting against cancer, but I say he is fighting for life.

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5 Ways to Reduce Your Office Carbon Footprint

Lead Change Blog

Ever wondered how the carbon footprint of a printed letter compares to a boiled kettle? I have, and it turns out a letter can do just as much damage to the environment as two boils of a kettle. Who’d have thought it? You’ll be glad to hear I haven’t gone as far as testing this myself. Thankfully, a carbon footprint comparison tool came to my rescue.

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700 Articles. How Am I Doing?

Rich Gee Group

Just posted my 700th article online . WOW! I NEVER thought I would be here – when I first re-launched my WordPress site back in late 2009, I decided to include articles to let viewers, prospects, and clients know what’s inside of Rich Gee’s crazy mind. 6½ years later, I have 700 small peeks into the wacky & wild world of Rich Gee. If you subtract weekends, you get approximately 260 working days each year (no holidays or my 6 weeks vacation time).

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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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Bankruptcy Could Help You Keep Moving Forward

Women on Business

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What Makes A Good Leader?

Joseph Lalonde

T ake note, young leaders. This is a million dollar question. Especially if you’re able to get the answer. New leaders need to be curious and intentional about discovering what makes a leader good. Answering this one question will set you on the right path of leadership. You may find that there are many answers to this question. And I think there are.

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Topic of pro-human workplace featured on Dana Theus’ Coffee Break show

ReImagine Work

What IS a “pro-employee” organization. How about a “pro-human” workplace? Learn about this and more as Dana Theus, myself and others talk about this on Dana’s Coffee Break show. In our discussion, we covered topics like the bottom line impact of employee engagement and disengagement, when business IS personal, what being human at work means, bullying and character-based leadership among other things in our 31 short minutes.

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Three Ways to Release the Lion

Leadership Freak

Those without fear aren’t courageous. They’re oblivious. Courage is choosing to act when afraid.

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Do you speak in a monotone? – this could help

First Friday Book Synopsis

So, here’s a problem. People who speak in a monotone are not very engaging. People tune them out, and, ultimately, quit listening. And people who speak in a monotone do not know that they are speaking in a monotone. They are pretty oblivious to the problem. But… it is a real deficiency for any one… Read More Do you speak in a monotone? – this could help.

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Weekly Round-Up: 3 Warning Signs of Leadership That Most People Miss, 7 Times Leadership is at Its Best & More

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog.

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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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What Is the Best Mindful Business Strategy?

Strategy Driven

Mindfulness garners a lot of recent attention. Wisdom 2.0, a conference that blends mindfulness with technology, leadership, and culture, hosted over 2,400 participants earlier this year. Attendees come from all over the world to learn and engage in developing meaningful mindfulness practices. A new area for mindfulness is how business strategies are developed.

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Challenge, Contribute and Change – Time To Step Up

My Own Coach

Do you take accountability for change? Or, when change happens, do you look to other people? I’ve been inspired to write this post after seeing a film on my recent journey home. In one scene, close to the end of the film, I noticed a quote inscribed on the back of the lead character’s wrist watch: Challenge, Contribute and Change. For some, […].

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The End Of Long-Term Planning

Strategy Driven

At the end of a particularly long and grueling strategy meeting with the executive team of a major consumer services business, Alan, the chief executive officer, turned to me and said, “Living quarter by quarter is madness, but in a few years’ time people will laugh at us for developing three-year plans.” He was right. With the pace of business change today, driven by technology and globalization, long-term plans last about as long as an ice storm in the desert.

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What Work Looks Like for Women in Their 50s

Harvard Business Review

“The fifties was the most exciting career decade of my life so far,” says Babette Pettersen, “and it looks like my options are only getting better as I turn 60.” Babette is one of a growing number of people — especially women — whose careers have accelerated as they have approached what used to be considered retirement age.

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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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Keeping Meetings on Track When You’re Not in Charge

Harvard Business Review

Meetings frustrate everyone. There are too many of them, they take too much time, and not enough gets done during and after. It’s easy to blame this on others – the higher-ups who invite us, arrange the agendas, and chair the meetings. We just show up, make our presentations, and try to sound smart. But we are all accountable for keeping meetings effective, whether we are calling them or simply participating.

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The Condensed May 2016 Issue

Harvard Business Review

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features. Download this podcast.

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What We Can Learn from One of the World’s Most-Mocked Cars

Harvard Business Review

The most legendary of all communist cars was the East German–made Trabant, almost four million of which were produced between 1957 and 1991. Remaining virtually unchanged for over three decades, its 26 horsepower, two-stroke engine produced a maximum (downhill) speed of only 50 mph yet spewed almost 100 times more pollution into the air than Western cars.

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How Companies Are Using Simulations, Competitions, and Analytics to Hire

Harvard Business Review

As the NFL draft gets underway this week, teams will assess the “fit” of a player by examining the raw data of their ability to perform—based not on the ranking of their college or on how they would describe their skills, but on hard data including their performance on drills at the recently completed NFL Combine. Based on one recent analysis of the over 300 NFL prospects who participated in the Combine, only two of the top ten players with the strongest performance for their p

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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.