Fri.Jun 24, 2016

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Leadership: This AND That, Not This OR That

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower. The word “AND” is one of the most frequently used in the English language.

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Sometimes Leaders Lose Their Mojo Too

Lead Change Blog

Leaders. We’re counted on to have vision and to oversee the plan. We’re depended upon to have answers and to know and do what’s right. We’re expected to be the life force of a business and the person driving everyone else’s motivation. We’re assumed to get out of bed each morning and have the fortitude to do it all over again and again. But you know what?

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Are You Guilty Of Setting Uncommunicated Expectations?

Joseph Lalonde

I f there’s one area that I’ve seen leaders fail in time and again, it’s in setting clear expectations. The expectations leaders typically have for their teams are uncommunicated. You know the ones… These are the expectations we set in our minds but never let those we’re leading know about. My Unspoken Expectations. We can have these moments in all areas of my life.

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4 Things To Do About Stuff That Drives You Crazy

Leadership Freak

Leaders go blind when they see things that drive them crazy. 10 things that drive leaders crazy: Whining and complaining. Intervening because some knucklehead upset the office. Naysayers and wet blankets. Can’t-do people drive can-do leaders crazy. Drifting. You’re dead weight if you aren’t pulling your weight. Good enough.

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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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"Later" is the new smoking

Jason Womack

When you think of getting things done, what time zone are you generally in? Too often, people I meet with put their mind on things that should have happened, but aren't. Or, they cast out into the future thinking of.

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My 2 bits on Bitcoin and Brexit

CEO Blog

I am highly worried about Brexit even though I buy nothing and sell nothing in England and rarely go there. I have almost no interaction although I do know a few people who speak English. I worry the ripple effect of the vote will cause a worldwide recession. We are in delicate times and it does not take much to turn psychology. A turn in psychology will cause a slowing which will cause a drop in oil price which will cause the Canadian $ to drop.

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Connectedness and its Discontents – Thoughts on Brexit (with apologies to Sigmund Freud)

First Friday Book Synopsis

He drew a circle that shut me out– Heretic, a rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in! Edwin Markham, Outwitted So let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common… Read More Connectedness and its Discontents – Thoughts on Brexit (with apologies to Sigmund Freud).

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Outward Bound Hiring Director of Development

CO2

Position Profile – VOBS – Director of Development Position Profile On behalf of our client, Voyageur Outward Bound School, CohenTaylor Executive Search Services is conducting a retained search for Director of Development Voyageur Outward Bound School at a Glance · Founded in 1964 in the Boundary Waters of Northern Minnesota · Program areas in Minnesota and Texas · First Outward Bound school in the nation to run urban youth expeditions · Partners with educational institutions, bus

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Weekly Round-Up: Great Company Culture Tips, Employees First, Leadership Change, The Secret of Optimism, and the Roadmap for Women’s Leadership.

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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Outward Bound Director of Development Wanted

CO2

Position Profile – VOBS – Director of Development. Position Profile. On behalf of our client, Voyageur Outward Bound School, CohenTaylor Executive Search Services. is conducting a retained search for. Director of Development. Voyageur Outward Bound School at a Glance. · Founded in 1964 in the Boundary Waters of Northern Minnesota. · Program areas in Minnesota and Texas. · First Outward Bound school in the nation to run urban youth expeditions. · Partners with educational institut

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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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Tech Comm Writers, Ensure Google Notices You: Capitalize on Organic SEO

Strategy Driven

Tech comm writers, do not become hidden in the background, increase your organization’s web traffic, get noticed by Google, and become and asset to your organization by effectively generating SEO-enhanced technical documentation. A technical communicator’s contribution to an organization is often hidden in the background of business operations and goes unrecognized by both the employer and even the end-user – the specific target audience of the business and technical documentation.

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Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure

Harvard Business Review

As constant travelers and parents of a 2-year-old, we sometimes fantasize about how much work we can do when one of us gets on a plane, undistracted by phones, friends, and Finding Nemo. We race to get all our ground work done: packing, going through TSA, doing a last-minute work call, calling each other, then boarding the plane. Then, when we try to have that amazing work session in flight, we get nothing done.

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Signs That Your Business Might be Taking the Wrong Approach to SEO

Strategy Driven

There is a lot of pressure on businesses to get their approach to SEO right. But this often leads to businesses making mistakes, overdoing it or simply taking the wrong approach. Yes, SEO can be complicated, but it’s certainly possible to over complicate it too. Here are some signs that you are taking the wrong approach to SEO. SEO Overtakes Usability on Your Website.

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Design How Your Team Thinks

Harvard Business Review

Every day, we sit in meetings in which someone presents a problem or opportunity. The response is always a version of “What are we going to do about it?” When’s the last time someone said, “How are we going to think about it?” Design thinking is popular these days. We design products, experiences, and even business models.

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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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What British, European, and American Policymakers Need to Do Now

Harvard Business Review

News of the United Kingdom’s vote to Leave the European Union shook financial markets Friday, and signalled the start of potentially years of economic uncertainty for Europe. I spoke with Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer about what, if anything, policymakers can do in response.

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Hamilton’s $849 Tickets Are Priced Too Low

Harvard Business Review

Hoping to catch the smash Broadway hit Hamilton in the near future? Good luck: Even as the anniversary of its opening approaches, there remains a frenzy to buy tickets. The musical about founding father Alexander Hamilton recently won 11 Tony awards, including Best Musical, bolstering its list of accolades — which also include a Grammy Award and Pulitzer Prize.

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To Develop Cultural Dexterity, Seek It Out

Harvard Business Review

Global organizations need leaders with cultural dexterity — the ability and know-how to make a sale in Seoul just as effectively as they host a meeting in Riyadh. In a military career that took me around the world — Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea, and Saudi Arabia — I learned that, when it comes to these skills, fortune favors the prepared.

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Why So Few "Diversity Candidates" Are Hired

Harvard Business Review

Finalist pools can reinforce the status quo.

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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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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Laura Schneider for HBR. Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. I made the journey to attend a health care confab where Don Berwick, the former head of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was delivering the opening lecture.

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Brexit and the Triumph of Insularity

Harvard Business Review

They did it. I didn’t believe they would, but they did it. Let me state my biases up front: I am a British national. I have lived in France for the last 10 years. For all its faults, I love the European Union. Fifty-two percent of my countrymen clearly don’t agree. The Brexit vote is unquestionably a triumph for Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, the leading lights of the Leave campaign.

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A Brief History of Britain’s Relationship with Europe, Starting in 6000 BCE

Harvard Business Review

Just six months ago, in confident form and not looking at all like a man who would soon be out of work, David Cameron assured an audience in Hamburg that “I never want us to pull up the drawbridge and retreat from the world.” He might have done better to borrow the blunter words of another Conservative Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. In 1975, the last time Brexit was on the table, she told the press that “We are inextricably part of Europe.

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What Brexit Means for the Openness of the World Economy

Harvard Business Review

HBR STAFF. The UK is, without a doubt, the United States’ single most important ally. It retains an ability to project power globally vastly in excess of its relative size. In both direct military operations and the hidden world of intelligence, the UK contributes more than its share to global peace and stability and the successful functioning of the NATO alliance.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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If Your Argument Is Based on Economics, You’ve Already Lost

Harvard Business Review

Brexit is over, as we all know, and while the referendum is non-binding, it still comes as something of a shock. Why would the majority of voters in the UK decide to leave the EU? Why vote against self-interest? The Remain faction made a rhetorical mistake early on, and stuck by it. They appealed to economic efficiency. By joining and remaining in the EU, the UK (and its neighbors) would, they argued, benefit from lower transaction costs of all sorts.

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Why the Remain Campaign’s Persuasion Strategy Backfired

Harvard Business Review

For supporters of Britain staying in the EU, a simple question remains this morning: How did we fail to persuade voters of our position? Steve Martin, director at Influence at Work in London and best-selling author of several books on persuasion, spoke with HBR about the ways in which the Remain advocates’ message failed to get through, or even backfired.

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Here’s How the Backlash Against Tech Billionaires Will Play Out

Harvard Business Review

Something remarkable happened in Britain last month, though it largely went unnoticed. The left-leaning Guardian newspaper and the libertarian Financial Times carried opinion pieces, within days of each other, covering the same topic and making more or less the same argument : The recent rise in income inequality has been caused, in part, by the growth of “monopoly profits,” specifically monopoly profits said to be earned in the technology sector.