Thu.Oct 11, 2018

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Letting Go of the Big Chief Motif

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Bishop Joseph Warren Walker, III: Discipline, focus and drive got you where you are today. You lost count of the sacrifices long ago – free weekends, discretionary purchases, a good night’s sleep – all to achieve your vision. You did it. Now get over it. We all want to be effective leaders so that we can guide others to contribute to our vision, but we tend to overlook the importance of humility in leadership.

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Preview Thursday: Beyond Sizzle

Lead Change Blog

We are pleased to present this excerpt from Chapter 4 of: Beyond Sizzle: The Next Evolution of Branding by Mona Amodeo, Ph. D. Over the years, branding experts have used their understanding of psychology of social identification to excel at mining the desires of people to be associated with products that confirmed membership in a group that was sexier, richer, or even a little smarter than the next group.

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The Two Powerful Forces Of Success.

Rich Gee Group

I attended a great talk the other night at Yale – the presenter brought up two major forces nature throws at us regularly – Resilience & Propulsion. It immediately hit me that these are the two forces that make businesses great. Resilience – the ability to encounter insurmountable problems, assess the damage, and recover quickly.

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The Benefits of a Name Tag

Women on Business

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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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The Two Powerful Forces Of Achievement.

Rich Gee Group

I attended a great talk the other night at Yale - the presenter brought up two major forces nature throws at us regularly - Resilience & Propulsion. It immediately hit me that these are the two forces that make businesses great. 1. Resilience - the ability to encounter insurmountable problems, assess the damage, and recover quickly. 2. Propulsion - the ability to generate organizational momentum to quickly move your business forward into new areas.

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Is Your Body Language Revealing More Than You Want it To

Lead from Within

Body language is revealing —sometimes more revealing than we’d like for it to be. Studies find that up to 80 percent of what we understand In a conversation is read through the body, not the words. Especially for people in leadership, it’s important to make sure your body language isn’t undermining your message when you face your colleagues, board members, or the public.

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How to Regain Control When The Job Hits Overload

Management Excellence

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Mobile Forms and Their Positive Impact on Modern Business

Strategy Driven

It is impossible not to agree that mobile technology is a tidal wave of progress in modern business. Mobile is everywhere: in the way we communicate, manage any process, and work with data. The last point is the most important nowadays, because it is a huge innovation of the last years, which is essential for any field. Businesses today often have an increasing need to enable workers at the jobsite to collect data while outside of the office.

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7 Suggestions When Interviewing for a Ministry Position

Ron Edmondson

I once served on the board of a local youth leadership program. These students were the top of their class, so the entry was competitive. Part of qualifying process was an interview with board members, who were mostly seasoned business and community leaders. I was always reminded in the process how interviewing, as critical as it is to acquiring a position, is not something everyone knows how to do – regardless of their other accomplishments.

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Behavior begets behavior

Izell Leadership

What a person is at age 7 is what they will be at age 70. Bullies are a result of their early environment. The longer they are allowed to bully, or worse, are encouraged to bully, the deeper entrenched the behavior becomes. If the pattern is allowed to continue after age seven, a bully will be a bully for life. If under the supervision of a strong respected leader their bulling behavior may be controlled.

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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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Staying Focused in a Noisy Open Office

Harvard Business Review

retales botijero/Getty Images. Let’s face it: The open office can be a nightmare, especially when you’re working on something that requires your undivided attention. To make matters worse, your colleagues can be distracting — maybe they’re having loud conversations or their cell phones are constantly chirping. How can you make peace with your open office?

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Behavior begets behavior

Izell Leadership

What a person is at age 7 is what they will be at age 70. Bullies are a result of their early environment. The longer they are allowed to bully, or worse, are encouraged to bully, the deeper entrenched the behavior becomes. If the pattern is allowed to continue after age seven, a bully will be a bully for life. If under the supervision of a strong respected leader their bulling behavior may be controlled.

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Why People Aren’t Motivated to Address Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

Education Images/Getty Images. People are often highly motivated to avoid threats. If you are walking down a dark, isolated city street, you are vigilant for unexpected sights and sounds and probably pick up the pace to get back to a populated area as quickly as possible. If you step into the street and see a bus bearing down on you, you jump back. If a large unfamiliar dog is growling outside your front door, you stay inside.

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Behavior begets behavior

Izell Leadership

What a person is at age 7 is what they will be at age 70. Bullies are a result of their early environment. The longer they are allowed to bully, or worse, are encouraged to bully, the deeper entrenched the behavior becomes. If the pattern is allowed to continue after age seven, a bully will be a bully for life. If under the supervision of a strong respected leader their bulling behavior may be controlled.

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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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How to Develop a Data-Savvy HR Department

Harvard Business Review

SolStock/Getty Images. To create an analytical culture in your organization, you need to nurture the right mindset among your employees. And that starts with creating a culture of analytics in your HR department. How can senior leaders help HR develop a culture in which people think analytically? First, you need to understand the different levels of comfort with analytics in HR, and then you need to decide your approach to hiring and building expertise at each of the different levels.

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Behavior begets behavior

Izell Leadership

What a person is at age 7 is what they will be at age 70. Bullies are a result of their early environment. The longer they are allowed to bully, or worse, are encouraged to bully, the deeper entrenched the behavior becomes. If the pattern is allowed to continue after age seven, a bully will be a bully for life. If under the supervision of a strong respected leader their bulling behavior may be controlled.

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5 Ways Your Data Strategy Can Fail

Harvard Business Review

Mint Images/Getty Images. There are plenty of great ideas and techniques in the data space: from analytics to machine learning to data-driven decision making to improving data quality. Some of these ideas that have been around for a long time and are fully vetted, proving themselves again and again. Others have enjoyed wide socialization in the business, popular, and technical press.

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Behavior begets behavior

Izell Leadership

What a person is at age 7 is what they will be at age 70. Bullies are a result of their early environment. The longer they are allowed to bully, or worse, are encouraged to bully, the deeper entrenched the behavior becomes. If the pattern is allowed to continue after age seven, a bully will be a bully for life. If under the supervision of a strong respected leader their bulling behavior may be controlled.

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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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Which Types of Companies Are Adding Women to Their Boards, and Which Aren’t

Harvard Business Review

Thomas Barwick/Getty Images. California recently passed a law requiring public firms headquartered in the state to include at least one woman on their boards by the end of 2019. The proposal has led to criticism that board quotas have unintended consequences. Others have claimed that a quota might be necessary to combat the glacial pace of voluntary change in boardrooms.

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images. America spends $3.3 trillion on health care , or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. Yet nearly 30 million Americans, or 10% of the population, are uninsured. If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009.

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What We Often Get Wrong About Automation

Harvard Business Review

Katsumi KASAHARA/Getty Images. When leaders describe how advances in automation will affect job prospects for humans, predictions typically fall into one of two camps. Optimists say that machines will free human workers to do higher-value, more creative work. Pessimists predict massive unemployment, or, if they have a flair for the dramatic, a doomsday scenario in which humans’ only job is to serve our robot overlords.