Thu.Feb 23, 2017

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Get a Little Better Every Day

Lead Change Blog

Here’s the big secret of personal development. If you want to make big improvements, it’s most likely to happen if you improve a little at a time. Leadership development experts tell us that seventy percent of the way we learn to lead is on the job. That’s true, and you can make that learning better with a little bit of work. I really think the world of leaders is divided into two groups.

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5 Tips to Reduce Interruptions and Get More Done

Women on Business

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Here’s a Leadership Hack for 2017: Start finding ways to Invert Control

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Tom Reilly: The end result will be that you will get what you want without trying as hard. Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? And yet it isn’t. The best part is that you can invert control over and over again. Not just at work, but also in any situation where you want to manipulate an outcome in your favor. Here’s what it involves: Assessing how to take back control in order to automate better results.

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How Leaders Expand Their Future and Enhance Their Success

Leadership Freak

Your future shrinks or expands in relation to the strength of your connections. Depth of connection determines breadth of influence. 3 dangers of disconnection Disconnected leaders: Feel blindsided and violated by negative feedback. Disconnection gives birth to feelings of persecution. Come off as uncaring.

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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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Jane Willmott Joins the Women on Business Contributing Writers Team

Women on Business

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Delivering Innovative Service with Chip Bell

Kevin Eikenberry

“I love to see people impacted by a great experience”, says Chip Bell, a renowned keynote speaker and the author of several best-selling books. In this episode, Kevin and Chip discuss some differences between customer service and innovative service. Further, how you can move from just value added to value unique and create a story […]. The post Delivering Innovative Service with Chip Bell appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Make Your Marketing Personal (Without Looking Like A Creep)

Strategy Driven

As we go forward, the world of marketing online is going to change again. Companies are not only going to want to get their ads in front of their customers, but they also want them to be more personalized. Why? Essentially, it’s because personal ads help to develop brand loyalty and make the customer feel like the company cares. Behind this new wave of customization is a whole raft of digital technologies that are allowing it to happen.

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You Priorities or Other People's Priorities

CEO Blog

Someone said "Your in box is a convenient way for others to put things on your priority list". I am finding this. My email volume is incredible. So my natural inclination is to figure out how to process it all efficiently. Questions I have and some thoughts: 1 - Should I politely reply to every enquiry? I try to do this now. Or just delete? 2 - I like to triage.

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3 Ways Silence is Misdiagnosed on a Team

Ron Edmondson

Good communication is so important on a team. Equally important, if the team is to be healthy, is that everyone on the team has their thoughts and opinions heard. I am a firm advocate that everyone on the team should have a vital role. It’s why I write so much about delegation and empowerment. If a leader believes in someone enough to have them on the team then they should believe that person brings something unique and valuable to the team.

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David Langford Presentation on Motivation and System Improvement

Deming Institute

David Langford’s presentation at our 2015 annual conference was titled: Education – Implementation Intentions and Automatization. David included a clip from one of my favorite shows, Utopia (called Dreamland in USA) with a vivid example of a performance appraisal experience. David also discusses the problems created by using extrinsic motivation to drive improved measures.

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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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3 Ways to Get More Done Right Now

Harvard Business Review

Cat Yu for HBR. When I need to get something done in a hurry, I use three time management tactics to maximize my available time and sharpen my focus. For instance, when I returned home last year from my active duty military deployment, I had to quickly readjust to my corporate job and get up to speed with team priorities and deadlines. Meanwhile, my side hustle as a professional music producer was calling.

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Assessment: How Successful Was Your Company’s Reorg?

Harvard Business Review

Has your firm recently undergone a reorg? If so, you’re in good company. Reorganizations, or reorgs, are a common business practice. And with change accelerating in almost any industry you can think of, we expect them to become more and more common. Think about the disruption being caused by electric and autonomous cars in automotive; by regulatory challenges in banking; by shale resources in oil and gas; and by a groundswell of public dissatisfaction in political institutions, to name jus

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Chinese and American Consumers Have Different Ideas About What Makes a Product Creative

Harvard Business Review

When consumers believe a product is creative, they are more likely to like , share , and buy it. And yet not everyone agrees on what “creativity” looks like. Jeffrey Loewenstein and I recently published a study examining the features that indicate whether a product is creative in the world’s two largest economies, the U.S. and China.

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Why We Need to Stop Obsessing Over CEO Pay Ratios

Harvard Business Review

The numbers are striking. In 2015 U.S. CEOs earned 335 times the pay of the average worker. In the U.K. they earn 129 times more ; the High Pay Centre marked “Fat Cat Wednesday” (January 4, 2017) as the day by when a CEO has already earned more than an average worker earns in the entire year. This ratio is the number one piece of evidence that executive pay is excessive and the number one statistic that advocates of pay reform argue should be fixed.

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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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Globalization: Myth and Reality

Harvard Business Review

Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff, professors at Harvard Business School, spell out an overlooked career path: buying a business and running it as CEO. Purchasing a small company lets you become your own boss and reap financial rewards without the risks of founding a start-up. Still, there are things you need to know. Ruback and Yudkoff are the authors of the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business.

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Research: Arab Inventors Make the U.S. More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

From Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah, a Lebanese-born American serial inventor, to Ahmed Zewail, the 1999 Nobel laureate in chemistry, to Farouk El-Baz, a NASA and MIT scientist who helped plan the Apollo landing, to Elias A. Zerhouni, the 15th director of the National Institutes of Health, Arab immigrants have made major contributions to American science and technology.

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If Democrats Want to Challenge Trump, They Need a New Strategy

Harvard Business Review

The moment that Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States, the Democratic Party became the weakest, in terms of elected offices held, it has been in the entire history of the United States. While Republicans in Congress have begun to show some interest in investigating the Trump campaign’s pre-election ties to Russia, it remains the case that party competition, not the checks and balances among branches of the government, is the most important restraint on the power of