Tue.Dec 05, 2017

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Six Reasons Even the Best Project Managers Fail

Let's Grow Leaders

The project is mission critical, and complicated with lots of moving parts across departments. You’ve assigned your rock star, PMI certified project manager to shepherd the process and the project is way behind schedule. She’s frustrated, you’re one missed deadline away from frantic, […].

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Are You Helping Employees Find Purpose In What They Do?

Tanveer Naseer

As the clock starts to wind down on 2017, I’ve been spending some time reflecting on some of the recurring themes and ideas I’ve written and spoken about over the past 12 months. Among these various leadership topics and issues was the subject of finding a sense of purpose in what we do, a topic which also served as the focus of the TEDx talk I gave this past September here in Montreal.

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December Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the December Leadership Development Carnival! The themes for this month are as follows… Let’s get started! Productivity. Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership provided The Big Power of Small Wins. Wally writes, “Small wins are the way to accomplish big things, establish a winning tradition, and feel better at the end of the day.” You can find Wally on Twitter at @WallyBock.

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How to Stay Optimistic: 3 Questions to Ask Before You Give Up

RapidStart Leadership

How can you stay optimistic in the face of failure? Failure is a natural part of doing business, of being human, and of attempting to do things you haven’t done before. And when we fail, there’s a natural tendency to want to give up. It’s hard to stay optimistic. But before you pull the plug and succumb to a gloomy “it’ll never work” outlook, there are three questions you should ask yourself.

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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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How to Stop People Pleasing and Fall in Love With Your Job Again

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Guest post by Scott Mautz Emily Colburn, a 36 year-old marketing director in a mid-sized consumer goods company on the West Coast, was squarely planted among the nearly 70% of us that research indicates have “lost that lovin’ feeling” at work. The inspiration she used to feel in her job, the full-on passion for it, […]. The post How to Stop People Pleasing and Fall in Love With Your Job Again appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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The recipe for great leadership

Persuasive Powerhouse

I’m a pretty decent cook who loves to try new and sometimes unusual recipes. I always follow the step by step instructions – at least the first time I try a recipe. After that, I can improvise to make a dish that is my own. Oh how I wish great leadership were so simple that it could be condensed into a recipe. The truth is, that leaders aren’t just born (although they might be), and if they aren’t, they need learn to be great leaders.

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Consistency as a Leader – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

Today I’m pulling a leadership lesson for us from an unlikely combination: from the words of my pastor and from Woody Allen. Intrigued? Check it out below! Tweet it out: Remarkable leaders don’t always know what to do but they always show up. #JustShowUp @KevinEikenberry. The post Consistency as a Leader – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Why Your Consulting Client’s #1 Priority Shouldn’t Be Yours

David A Fields

Let’s say your consulting firm wants to lasso a few new clients. (Sounds far-fetched, but go with me.) You should search for companies whose number one, burning priority is addressing the problem your consulting firm solves, right? Wrong. For instance, let’s say you’re targeting the Fortune 500 newcomer ThimbleCurry, Inc.

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Fight More. Fight Better.

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In Jason’s most recent post , he mentioned the importance of setting rules for conflict. Based on what I see and hear in the workplace, conflict done well is a fairly rare thing. Many teams (and many leaders) don’t know how to do it well so they either do it poorly, or more commonly, they avoid serious disagreement at all costs. Disagreement is not only natural between people, it is also valuable.

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Too much crazy

Surviving Leadership

Today, another person I respect and adore decided to take a hiatus from social media. This is something like the third or fourth person (that I know of) in the last 6 months. There are a lot of reasons people take time off from social media. Some want to spend more time with family. Others realize it’s keeping them from doing what they love (reading books, painting, overthrowing governments, etc.).

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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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5 Ways to Keep Your Employees Safe at Work

Strategy Driven

As a business owner, your employees are perhaps your most valuable assets. Any entrepreneur worth his salt knows that to please his customers, he must first address the happiness of his team – making sure workers are healthy, safe, and fulfilled in their roles. When it comes to give and take, it’s not enough to provide extra holiday or bonuses to compensate hard work.

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Is traditional consulting a future-proof business model? A plea for re-orientation

CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

The consulting industry is currently undergoing a radical change. Traditional strategy, restructuring, and implementation consulting agencies are more and more under pressure. The causes are manifold and can be anything from not meeting client requirements to new scientific findings and easier access to current knowledge via the internet. Alternative consulting approaches are focusing on the traditional consulting model’s weaknesses and become more and more important.

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Emailing While You’re on Vacation Is a Quick Way to Ruin Company Culture

Harvard Business Review

fandijki/Getty Images. Companies expend untold energy building culture—defining their values, revamping their office space, organizing holiday parties and volunteer outings. And yet many managers don’t seem to realize that while company culture can be really hard to build, it’s incredibly easy to destroy. And you may unknowingly ruin it in just two steps.

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The Fine Print in Christian Leadership

Ron Edmondson

The secret things belong to the Lord our God… ” Deuteronomy 29:29. I’ll never forget the first time I read this verse. I was reading through the Bible in a year. Honestly, and I hope my hyper sensitive pastors don’t get upset with this one, but that part of Scripture reading can be difficult at times. But, hidden in the midst of Deuteronomy is this one verse.

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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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Driverless Cars Will Change Auto Insurance. Here’s How Insurers Can Adapt

Harvard Business Review

Tim Evans for HBR. There is little doubt that the widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles will have a huge impact on the automobile insurance industry. Research and computer modeling conducted by Accenture in collaboration with the Stevens Institute of Technology indicates that as many as 23 million fully autonomous vehicles will be traveling U.S. highways by 2035 (out of about 250 million total cars and trucks registered in the U.S.).

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Box’s CEO on Pivoting to the Enterprise Market

Harvard Business Review

Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, reflects on the cloud storage company’s entry into the enterprise market. He was skeptical about pivoting away from consumers, and it was challenging. But by staying disciplined with the product and deeply understanding market trends, they’ve made the strategic shift from B2C to B2B work. Download this podcast.

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Key Findings in Healthcare Transformation - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS

Harvard Business Review

Read More from Siemens Healthineers. Taking the Pulse of Health Care Transformation. Transforming Health Care Delivery to Increase Value. The Power of Digitalizing Health Care.

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What the CVS-Aetna Deal Means for the Delivery of U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Carol Yepes/Getty Images. The landscape for the delivery of health care in the United States is changing, but the traditional care-delivery players are not the change agents. The recent announcement of CVS’s $69 billion deal to acquire Aetna brings an insurer together with a large network of primary care providers: CVS has built more than 1,100 Minute Clinic locations inside its pharmacy stores in 33 states and the District of Columbia.

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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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To Recover from Burnout, Regain Your Sense of Control

Harvard Business Review

kovacovsky/Unsplash. You feel exhausted, ineffective, unaccomplished, and cynical. Maybe you feel like no matter how hard you work, you can never keep up. Or that you can’t make your boss happy no matter how hard you try. And you’re beginning to question your professional situation: Am I in the right job? The right company? The right career?

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Which of Your Employees Are Most Likely to Expose Your Company to a Cyberattack?

Harvard Business Review

Harry Haysom/Getty Images. When poet Alexander Pope first said “to err is human,” he probably didn’t realize how prescient those words were in capturing the world of cybersecurity. Yes, the root cause of most security breaches can be traced to human actions, or lack thereof. However, the bigger mistake is to believe that cybersecurity can be attained simply by correcting bad behavior.