Tue.May 28, 2019

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Daily Gratitude

Lead Change Blog

Gratitude is about attitude. It is the mindset you wake up with every morning and it guides your outlook on the world. I make a conscious effort to be positive and thankful for what I have. Gratitude is a conscious choice. It doesn’t just happen. You have to think and act on it. You have to take stock of your life and appreciate all the wonderful things in it.

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Leadership Irony: To Accomplish More, Do Less

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Sara Canaday: As leaders, we are, by definition, doers. We finish. We deliver. We get results. And we love the feeling of accomplishment that comes with crossing things off our “to-do” lists. The tougher the task, the better we like it. We revel in being that person people bring the undoable to and then conquer. That’s how we got here, right?

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Your Smile Is Your Logo.

Rich Gee Group

“Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after an experience with you becomes your trademark.” — Jay Danzie Too often, we tend to hide our real connecting abilities with brochures, pamphlets, websites, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and a myriad of other distractions. Not that they are BAD per se, but they sometimes get in the way of what REALLY counts.

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The Importance of a Clear Diversity Statement in Tech Companies

Women on Business

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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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Transformational Leadership: 5 Steps to a Brighter Future with Your Team

RapidStart Leadership

He found a creative way to complain about a relationship gone bad, but the words of his song reveal the difference between merely managing people and truly leading them. What did he say? Today I’ll share his thought-provoking quote and how it can inspire us to become transformative leaders in … Transformational Leadership: 5 Steps to a Brighter Future with Your Team Read More ».

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A Creativity Mashup – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

If you’re like most, when you think of “mashup”, you think of music. And while this is one way to look at mashup, today we are looking at it as it relates to creativity and leadership. And we’ll start by using this definition of mashup: Mashup: a mixture of disparate elements. Tweet it out: Want […]. The post A Creativity Mashup – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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4 Ways to Overcome the Deadly Traps of Managing

Leadership Freak

76% of employees did not want their boss’s job. (HBR) Most American workers are not aiming for the corner office.

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How to Create Need for Your Consulting Firm’s Offering

David A Fields

As a consulting firm leader, you’ve probably wondered more than once how you can increase the Need for the services you offer potential clients. So, how do you? It’s a trick question. Your consulting firm doesn’t create or increase needs; you discover or reveal them. If not enough potential clients suffer from the problem you … Continued. The post How to Create Need for Your Consulting Firm’s Offering appeared first on David A.

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Two Questions Every Leader Should Ask Repeatedly

Management Excellence

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How to Foster an Appetite for Risk by Using Ambiguity as a Resource

Innovation Excellence

Some time ago I had a conversation with Jim Long, former Head of Creative Office and R&D and my mentor, about how innovation could succeed within a company. We agreed that for innovation to be truly transformative, it should be set at a distance where it cannot be interrupted by existing metrics and governance models.

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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 Welcome A New Employee To The Team

LDRLB

Overall, we’re pretty terrible at hiring. Not you per se. But collectively…as the “business” world. We’re pretty bad at finding and welcoming new people. Despite mountains of evidence of their ineffectiveness, most companies still utilize unstructured interviews run by just the management class to make hiring decisions. And onboarding is no better.

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CEO Turnover Rate Has Hit a Record High

HR Digest

According to a new study by Strategy&, the consulting arm of PwC, CEO turnovers reached 17.5 percent last year, the highest since the inception of the survey in 2000. The study, which analyzed CEO successions at the world’s 2,500 largest companies reports that while the median tenure of a CEO has now plunged to only five years, 19 percent of all CEOs remain in position for 10 or more years, consistently, over the time period analyzed.

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The First 50 Retweets Are Key To Virality

The Horizons Tracker

It’s perhaps fair to say that there is slightly less attention (among academia at least) into making content go viral on social media. A few years ago a number of studies came out exploring the kind of factors involved in viral tweets, from the subject line to the time of post. That’s not to say that interest has completely dried up however, as a recent study from Beihang University in China shows.

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Business Politics Practices – Managing Up Scapegoat Technique

Strategy Driven

Every good leader understands that the notion of managing up is a farce. Subordinates simply don’t possess the positional authority to “manage” – set priorities, established schedules and due dates, and direct actions – superiors. Any competent subordinate understands they are unable to manage upward and simply refuse to even try. Both the superior and subordinate understand the lexicon of managing up simply represents effective upward communication and nothing more.

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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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The Game That Can Help Spot Alzheimer’s

The Horizons Tracker

Back in 2017 I wrote about a new game, developed by Deutsche Telekom, that had the potential to help identify people at the early stages of dementia and Alzheimer’s. The game, called Sea Hero Quest, has recently been the subject of research from the University of East Anglia, which found that the game was an effective early detection tool for various signs of Alzheimer’s.

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The Learner’s Lens

The Center For Leadership Studies

At this year’s Association for Talent Development International Conference and Expo (ATD ICE), the prevalent learning trends centered on the ways in which technology continues to transform how and where we work and learn, now and in the future. It was evident in the education sessions and on the Expo floor that we are beyond the “buzzword” phase. Terms like microlearning, just-in-time learning, and virtual training are now the standard for learning and development (L&D) strategies and soluti

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When Should Your Business Outsource Expert Advice?

Strategy Driven

Sometimes in business it’s useful to call upon expert advice rather than trusting your instincts. You can hire advisors for pretty much anything, but there are a few times in particular when such advice can be valuable. Here are just a few key times to seek advice. Handling complex legal matters. Business law can be complex and that can be times when its worth getting advice to ensure that your company is meeting all the legal requirements that it should be.

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How To Embrace Failure As A Way To Success

Eric Jacobson

“On the path to success, we trip and lose our footing from time to time. But stumbling and even falling is the best way to learn from mistakes and is critical to achieving goals,” says Bill Wooditch, author of the book, Fail More:Embrace, Learn, And, Adapt to Failure As A Way To Success. “We all fail. It’s a part of business, and it’s a part of life,” explains Wooditch.

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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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Two Questions Every Leader Should Ask Repeatedly

Art Petty

As part of your leadership improvement program, it's important to ask for input. The answers and perhaps even more so people's reactions and responses to your questions offer valuable clues to where you need to strengthen your performance. . The post Two Questions Every Leader Should Ask Repeatedly appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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7 Things the Church Can’t Do for the Pastor

Ron Edmondson

Pastor, there are some things your church can’t do for you. They simply can’t. Please understand. I love the church. Greatly. I’m a local church guy. I was in the business world, as a pastor, and now in my new role serving the greater Church. I have often said, “the church is the hope of the world.” I believe it. Of course, the church is a body of believers and there are churches that live out their mission well and others who don’t.

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The Quality of Mercy Is Very Much Strained

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Note from Jesse: I am delighted to host this guest post by John Baldoni which reflects themes explored in his newest book GRACE: A Leader’s Guide for a Better Us. Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. That admonishment, taught to me as a kid, was used to remind us boys two […]. The post The Quality of Mercy Is Very Much Strained appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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#leadershiptruth – Commitment Matters

Roundtable Talk

Psychology Today recently published an article about Last Minute Itis: the disease of cancelling plans at the last minute thanks to our easy access to technology. With a type of a few letters and a couple of strategically placed emoji’s, we can blow off dinner dates, meetings and events with the press of a finger. […].

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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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Understanding the Space Economy

Harvard Business Review

Sinéad O’Sullivan, entrepreneurship fellow at Harvard Business School, discusses how space is much more important to modern business than most people realize. It plays a role in making food, pricing insurance, and steering self-driving cars. While moonshot projects from SpaceX to Blue Origin drive headlines, the Earth-facing space economy is booming thanks to plummeting costs of entry.

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How to Make Your Office Safer For Everyone

Strategy Driven

Some company bosses think that their main priority is making a profit, or to their customers, but both of these approaches are wrong. The first is making sure that the staff are happy and safe. It doesn’t take long to tell the difference between a company that values its staff , and one that doesn’t. A big part of this is making sure that they’re able to work safely.

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When Life Gets Busy, Focus on a Few Key Habits

Harvard Business Review

What are the things that keep you healthy and grounded?

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You Get What You Expect

Frank Sonnenberg Online

You Get What You Expect. People adjust their behavior based on the way they see the world. Here are 11 ways that you get what you expect: If you believe today’s going to be awesome , you’re going to be happier and more productive than if you fear problems lurking around every corner. If you believe people are trustworthy , you’re going to manage relationships differently than if you think everyone’s out to get you.

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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.

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Understanding the Space Economy

Harvard Business Review

Sinéad O’Sullivan, entrepreneurship fellow at Harvard Business School, discusses how space is much more important to modern business than most people realize. It plays a role in making food, pricing insurance, and steering self-driving cars. While moonshot projects from SpaceX to Blue Origin drive headlines, the Earth-facing space economy is booming thanks to plummeting costs of entry.

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Avoiding The 5 Mistakes That Can End Your Leadership Career (before it even gets started)

Terry Starbucker

This is a cautionary tale for all aspiring leaders, and a (very painfully) true story…… “They can’t see the scoreboard? What, ARE YOU KIDDING ME????”. That was the bomb that nearly killed my leadership career, just as it was just getting started. The year was 1991, and I was working for the Washington NFL football team, as an executive overseeing the planning for a new football stadium.

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5 Signs That Your Family Business Might Have an Ethics Problem

Harvard Business Review

Research shows that family businesses are more susceptible to crossing the line.

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How Partisan Politics Harms The Health Of Immigrants

The Horizons Tracker

Politics is nothing if not partisan at the moment, with a seemingly yawning divide between left and right of the political spectrum. We can perhaps imagine the damage this does to areas such as the economy, but a recent study from the University of Washington explores the impact at a much more granular level. It finds that the current political climate, and especially debates in the United States about things such as the proposed border wall with Mexico, is having a profound impact on the healt

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.