Wed.Jan 15, 2020

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10 Tricky Questions About Ethics and Leadership Answered

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton. Go Into the New Year With Answers. This week I'm sharing answers to your burning questions about ethics and ethical leadership - What is it? How do you stay up to speed in spite of rapidly accelerating expectations? Why is ethics such a contentious topic, and defined in so many different ways by different people? The leader groups I work with find that clarity on these and other questions informs their leadership and their decision making.

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A World Gone Social

Lead Change Blog

Just like the meteor that likely precipitated the end of the dinosaurs, social media is having a monumental impact on the world’s economy; a change so dramatic that it has created a new business era. Welcome… to the Social Age. In the Social Age, companies unwilling to change will play the role of the dinosaurs: destined for extinction. Mark Babbitt and Ted Coine, authors of A World Gone Social , share the five keys you need to avoid this fate and lead your organization successfully

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What’s Your Trail Look Like?

Joseph Lalonde

Pam and I recently traveled to Santa Fe, New Mexico to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary. It’s hard to believe we’ve been married for 15 years but we have. Whenever we travel by plane, we rent a vehicle. We’ve thought about trying to do the whole Uber thing while we don’t have our own personal […] The post What’s Your Trail Look Like?

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5 Ways to Lead with a Big Heart

Leadership Freak

I’ve always admired leaders who handle heavy responsibility with heart. Some leaders put on masks and lose themselves to the expectation of others.

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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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You’ve Got to Leave the Launchpad If You Want to Get to the Moon

Next Level Blog

What do you want to accomplish this year? When you step back and look at your list are there any goals that scare you or just seem like a huge stretch? I’ve got a few of those myself this year. They’re based on some ideas that have been somewhere on the radar screen of my brain the past few years. They were there kind of nibbling at my attention but staying busy doing what I’ve been doing kept me from paying much attention to them.

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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on…Hacking Our Pessimistic Neuro Programing

The Practical Leader

These comments and excerpts come from my last two blogs on Lose Those News Blues and Leave the Dark Side: The World’s Never Been Better and Don’t Start the New Year Losing Touch With Reality. “In Christian tradition, the four horsemen of Famine, Pestilence, War, and Death usher in the apocalypse. Compared to 100 years ago, deaths from infectious diseases are way down; wars are rarer and kill fewer people; and malnutrition has steeply declined.

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What is HR Analytics?

HR Digest

HR or Human Resource Analytics is the analysis that is made about the human resource or employees of the company so that strategies could be framed accordingly to improve their performance outcome and retain them for a longer period. HR Analytics does not relate with the collection of data for reviewing the performance of the employees at work, but with the purpose to gain insight in the human resources processes and find out ways through which the performance outcome of employees can be improv

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Why Hire Executive Coaches?

CO2

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? It’s usually not because their boards recommended it. In fact, 79 percent of the time, it is CEOs themselves who seek out coaching. But why do leaders, especially iconic ones, want coaching? It all goes back to what Alfred Adler shared perfectly decades ago, “All problems are interpersonal relationship problems.

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Being a Leader Through Conflict Management

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Jon Wortmann, thoughtLEADERS Principal, sat down with Jim and Jan of The Leadership Podcast to discuss Conflict Management. In continuation of our new collaboration with The Leadership Podcast, Jon delves into conflict management in this short form “chalk talk.” These chalk talk series are bitesize sessions on a common (but challenging) leadership issue.

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Why Hire an Executive Coach?

CO2

By: Gary Cohen Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? It’s usually not because their boards recommended it. In fact, 79 percent of the time, it is CEOs themselves who seek out coaching. But why do leaders, especially iconic ones, want coaching? It all goes back to what Alfred Adler shared perfectly decades ago, “All problems are interpersonal relationship problems.

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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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It’s Not A One-Sided Approach: Working With Suppliers To Generate Better Business

Strategy Driven

Every company has its crosses to bear. Usually, this is in relation to excessive expenses, whether you are concerned about the costs in the supply chain or you are not improving your bottom line, sometimes we have to look further outwards to ascertain better cost-cutting methods. Our supplier is a very notable example because it can be a very fraught relationship when we don’t do things our end or sometimes we end up relying on them for so much, but they don’t deliver.

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Why Hire an Executive Coach?

CO2

By: Gary Cohen. “ All problems are interpersonal relationship problems. ” – Alfred Adler. Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire executive coaches? It’s not necessarily because their boards recommended or required it. The idea of the CEO being coached does not often come at the suggestion of another.

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Essential Tools Coworking Spaces Need To Survive

Strategy Driven

The business world is changing. More and more professionals have chosen to embrace an independent career, whether as a freelancer or a solo entrepreneur, to reach out to their audience. Similarly, more and more businesses support remote working options and encourage their employees to manage their working hours as and where they see fit. As a result, coworking areas have become a popular alternative to the typical office space.

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8 Ways To Make Better Decisions

Eric Jacobson

These eight decision-making tactics from David Lahey ’s book, Predicting Success , are helpful to me and hopefully useful to you as well: Deep breathing , to clear your mind. Researching , to feel confident that you have all the information in front of you. Listing your options , in either verbal or written form, to keep the whole picture front of mind.

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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 can you do with a software engineering degree?

Strategy Driven

First, let’s talk about software engineering. It is a discipline that covers different approaches, methodologies, and ways of generating software. The main objective of studying this career is to know the tools, techniques, and methods to develop quality software and solve all the problems that arise during its development. Software engineering jobs deal with very varied fields of computer science, which also apply to a wide spectrum of fields, such as business, scientific research, medici

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I’m Worried About a Belief in Manifesting. Here Are the Reasons Why.

The Office Blend Blog

Strategies that might help us move forward are worth their weight in gold. But rest assured, I’ll put that idea through its paces before I endorse it. We should all take a closer look at the advice we are offered — breaking things down and exploring how it might work. Where the philosophy of manifesting is concerned, I completely understand its immediate allure.

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Are Older Entrepreneurs The Best Entrepreneurs?

The Horizons Tracker

When you think of entrepreneurs, you probably think of twenty something men, possibly who have dropped out of university to pursue their dream, and who are uninhibited by the scars of failure that prompt us to take a more cautious path. It’s a trait that was highlighted in Warren Bennis’ exploration of the most creative teams in Organizing Genius.

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5 Ways To Deal With Insecurity as a Pastor

Ron Edmondson

This post developed after talking with a young pastor overwhelmed with the responsibility he’s been given. It was his first church out of seminary. His church expects a lot from him – leading the church, preaching great messages, visiting the sick (and the well), managing a budget, and seeing the baptistry consistently in use – just to name a few things.

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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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Is Trust Key To Achieving Success With Data?

The Horizons Tracker

It goes without saying that data has tremendous potential to transform how businesses operate. The latest edition of IBM’s bi-annual C-Suite Study reveals that trust is key to success when it comes to data. The research surveyed 13,500 C-suite executives from 98 countries and found that the best performing companies manage to create high levels of trust in the data they have from customers and other stakeholders.

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The Impact of Great and Terrible Leaders

Leading Blog

M OST PEOPLE have been around a bad leader at some point. Someone who doesn’t communicate, sets impossible expectations, or is just difficult to be around. You’ve likely experienced the draining, exhausting feelings from having to work with or for that person. Hopefully, most people have also experienced a great leader. These are the people who inspire and motivate and encourage people to do their best work towards a common goal.

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Do We Want Autonomous Vehicles To Have ‘Personalities’?

The Horizons Tracker

It may seem peculiar to bestow machines with a personality, much less regard the personality of the machine as important in terms of our engagement with it, but that’s precisely what new research from the University of Michigan suggests we expect from autonomous vehicles. The researchers wanted to establish whether we regard it as important that the driverless vehicle we ride in has similar ‘personality’ traits to ourselves, and how this influences our perception of the safety

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Tabloid Edition: Fugitive Carlos Ghosn and Royal Family Drama

Harvard Business Review

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir debate whether former Nissan executive Carlos Ghosn was justified in fleeing Japan, before discussing the British Royal Family drama and what’s next for Harry and Meghan.

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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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Coaching: Leadership Skills Can Be Learned

CoachStation

Leadership coaching and mentoring can be the difference for managers. Managers who are often challenged by expectations of meeting and exceeding goals; achieving KPI’s; leading teams and many other aspects of creating and sustaining successful business. Consistently, evidence and research suggests that the biggest challenge for managers is leading and influencing people.

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Navigating a New Job with a Very Different Culture

Harvard Business Review

Four strategies to help ease the transition.

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What “Women at Work” Listeners Want to Know About Money, Sponsorship, and More

Harvard Business Review

We put your questions to the experts.

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How to Manage an Employee with Depression

Harvard Business Review

First, learn about the disorder.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

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.