Fri.Nov 17, 2017

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Lessons I learned from Adversity

Lead Change Blog

“The best education we can ever receive is from the University of Adversity. It’s the only institute of learning that rewards us when we fail.”. ― Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence. With the hectic pace of today’s world, we easily get caught up in the busyness of life. We are forever stressed, overwhelmed, and running errands, attending to work, rushing to office, stuck in traffic jams.

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4th and Goal Every Day

Leading Blog

O VER THE LAST DECADE, University of Alabama’s Nick Saban—one of college football’s winningest coaches— has produced four national championships. What makes them so successful? The secret is that it is fourth and goal every day. Phil Savage of the Crimson Tide Sports Network, explains in 4th and Goal Every Day: Alabama's Relentless Pursuit of Perfection , “Alabama goes for it.

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3 More Reasons Your Leadership Is Ineffective

Joseph Lalonde

I’ve never met a leader who says he longs to be forgotten. He wants to be remembered. And what does he want to be remembered for? Every leader wants to be remembered for being effective. Yet there are so many leaders who struggle with being effective. They flounder trying to get their teams to follow them. They lack the ability to move their vision forward.

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How to Lead Conversations that end with Vitality

Leadership Freak

You beat yourself up. So do the people around you. Don’t climb in a hole and pull dirt in on yourself. Maybe it’s time to throw dirt out of the hole!

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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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Weekly Round-Up: 4 Tips for Public Conversations, Not so Trivial Leadership Actions, Use Email Efficiently, Leadership Habits, & Tips for Improving Your Apologies

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. Leaders: 4 Tips for “Grocery Store Conversations” By Bobby Dodd ( @ bobby__dodd ), The Educational Leaders “While you can’t predict questions or are aware of every rumor, you should always take precautionary steps when approaching the ‘grocery store conversations’…”.

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How to win contracts as a start up

Strategy Driven

Can you really compete? The ‘solution’, is in the question, what will win the contract? Considering many new startups set up in business because they believe they have a new, better and more innovative solution – it really is the driving force behind the growth of new start ups. If you are a new or very small business you have a lot of strengths, which larger players do not have.

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Boosting Your Customers Confidence in Your Brand

Strategy Driven

Attracting and keeping customers, especially for small businesses is a delicate balance. You need to ensure that they are getting a quality product, but also a good service. If either of these things is not up to standard, then it can cost your business money. Your customers and clients need to feel wanted, appreciated and safe for them to do business with you.

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Can professionals learn at conferences and exhibitions? #sld17 #hrblog

Rapid BI

For many sectors, autumn and winter are peek exhibition and conference season. But is it all about sales or can we learn from these too? Can professionals learn at conferences or they just a waste of time? In almost every sector there is a relevant trade show and conference. Trade Exhibitions Often these exhibitions are free […]. The post Can professionals learn at conferences and exhibitions?

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Why the Entire C-Suite Needs to Use the Same Metrics for Cyber Risk

Harvard Business Review

Harry Haysom/Getty Images. When it comes to cybersecurity, the chains of communication that exist within an organization, if they exist at all, are often a mess. Multiple conversations about cyber risks are happening across a multitude of divisions in isolation. At the same time, members of the C-suite are measuring their potential impact using different metrics — financial, regulatory, technical, operational — leading to conflicting assessments.

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How to Reduce the Costs of Salesperson Turnover

Harvard Business Review

dave Wheeler for HBR. Even the best sales forces can’t keep every good salesperson. Loss of salespeople to competitors occurs frequently in high-growth industries in which the demand for experienced salespeople exceeds the supply, such as in fast-evolving technology markets. Poaching of salespeople also occurs when sales are driven largely by relationships.

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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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How to Excel at Both Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

Adam Pretty/Getty Images. For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. We intuitively knew that there must be leaders that span these areas, but in fact, few do.