Mon.Nov 19, 2018

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3 Problems with Your Open Door Policy and What To Do Instead

Let's Grow Leaders

An open door policy doesn’t get you what you need to lead. The intent behind your open door policy is good: a door that is figuratively always open to encourage transparency, open lines of communication, a standing invitation for your employees to […]. The post 3 Problems with Your Open Door Policy and What To Do Instead appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Embrace your Wilderness

Lead Change Blog

“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” Mary Kay Ash. As a coach, I am always dealing with mindset issues. I have seen people become prisoners of their own past actions and experiences. They find it easy to blame others for their failures, but their mindset does not allow them to learn from these failures and move forward.

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William Donaldson on Entrepreneurial Leadership

Leading Blog

W ILLIAM DONALDSON has led a full life. He was most notably a co-founder of the investment banking firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in 1959, served in Henry Kissinger’s State Department, was the founding dean at the Yale School of Management, served as chairman and chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange, turnaround CEO of Aetna, chairman of the SEC, and now CEO of the private investment firm Donaldson Enterprises.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them

Joseph Lalonde

A Reel Leadership Flashback Article. Pam and I were able to view a movie we’d missed in the theater but had desired to see. Having watched the Harry Potter movies and enjoying them, we were excited for the Harry Potter prequel Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them. Two years after its 2016 release, we made that desire a reality. […] The post Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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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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Is Arrogance Killing Your Leadership Potential?

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Guest post by Bill Treasurer There is no bigger turn-off than arrogance. This is especially true in leadership. When a leader’s confidence grows recklessly out of control, when their head swells to 50x its normal size, they’ve become a victim of the “leadership killer” (a.k.a. hubris). People will afford a leader a lot of power […].

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Standing out at Work

Career Advancement

“Stars don’t beg the world for attention; their beauty forces us to look up.”. ~Matshona Dhliwayo~. Amelia asks: I’ve grown a lot more confident over the past year at my job. Now I need to learn how to stand out at work, because I’m looking toward a promotion. What steps should I take to make that happen? Joel replies: Maybe you’ve played it safe in the past, figuring your good work should speak for itself.

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Learning Happens in a Circle

Kevin Eikenberry

WWe are all familiar with the traditional school experience. Let’s call it learning in rows. The teacher stands in the front of the room and lectures, relays, or shares the information to the students as they sit in rows. It is in many ways efficient, and depending on what is being taught, it can be […]. The post Learning Happens in a Circle appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Daniel Kahneman on Expert Intuition

Leadership Freak

The challenge of intuition is you think it’s right before it’s examined. When you have an intuition, you don’t have other intuitions. You have confidence.

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Leadership Caffeine™—Success: It’s All in the Cause

Management Excellence

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Japan Changes Immigration Policy to Accept Blue Collar Workers

HR Digest

More than 345,000 blue-collar foreign workers are expected to join Japan’s workforce within a five-year period under a new working visa system starting fiscal 2019. The government is considering blue-collar foreign workers to live permanently in the country with their families, as the nation struggles with a serious labor shortage amid an aging population.

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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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Executive Briefing – Nuclear

Strategy Driven

Industry News. Exploring Space with Nuclear Energy Some Space missions run for years, or even decades. They need reliable power to run scientific instruments and communications equipment. Nuclear batteries, so-called Radioisotope Power. Source: IAEA Top News Published on 2018-11-19 Cells require background levels of radiation for normal growth Daytona Beach FL (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 Research by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Dr.

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Executive coaching: What is it and what are the benefits associated with it?

CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

The phrase coaching is popular in today’s management circles and has received both complimentary and critical attention. One of the most popular types of coaching to emerge from management development research is executive coaching. Executive coaching is a custom-tailored intervention that has become popular in corporations over the past thirty years (Smither, London, Flautt, Vargas & Kucine, 2003).

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Change Management – Post Change Evaluation and Action

Deming Institute

Guest post by John Hunter , who founded curiouscat.com in 1996. Change is difficult in most organizations. It is easiest to just keep doing what has been done. Once something has reached a point where the need for change has been acknowledged how the organization proceeds is important. The first part of the process isn’t in the scope for this post; but most often the process should start by using the PDSA cycle to understand the current situation, decide what to try, test improvements and

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10 Defining Words of a Stellar Leader

Ron Edmondson

Leadership is abuzz these days. Everyone is talking about it. I’m not the only blog – and certainly not the best blog, which primarily addresses leadership. Yet, as much as it’s in our conversations and thought process, it appears most organizations and churches are consistently looking for new leaders. In my conversations with churches, people want to know how to find, attract, and train leaders.

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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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What Kind of Happiness Do People Value Most?

Harvard Business Review

Carol Yepes/Getty Images. Sure, everyone wants to be happy. But what kind of happiness do people want? Is it happiness experienced moment-to-moment? Or is it being able to look back and remember a time as happy? Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman described this distinction as “being happy in your life” versus “being happy about your life.” Take a moment to ask yourself, which happiness are you seeking?

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Executive Briefing – Nuclear

Strategy Driven

Industry News. Exploring Space with Nuclear Energy Some Space missions run for years, or even decades. They need reliable power to run scientific instruments and communications equipment. Nuclear batteries, so-called Radioisotope Power. Source: IAEA Top News Published on 2018-11-19 Cells require background levels of radiation for normal growth Daytona Beach FL (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 Research by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Dr.

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Sisterhood Is Power

Harvard Business Review

From the Women at Work podcast: Listen and subscribe to our podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS. Download the discussion guide for this episode. Join our online community. Download this podcast. It takes time and care to develop trusting relationships with the women we work with, particularly women who are different from us in some way.

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To Get More Done, Focus on Environment, Expectations, and Examples

Harvard Business Review

JUSTIN TALLIS/Getty Images. In 2008, I was designing advertising products at Google. For the first time in my young career, I was going to lots of meetings, and my job had become as much about convincing, cajoling, and coordinating as it was about designing. My manager told me about a team that was working on the Google Help Forum. They needed a designer, and he thought the project was a good way for me to try my hand at a consumer-facing product.

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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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How Geisinger Health System Reduced Opioid Prescriptions

Harvard Business Review

The devastating opioid epidemic in the U.S. is a crisis that was created, in part, by healthcare itself as prescriptions for pain-relieving medications rapidly increased in the 2000s. Now, healthcare is at the forefront in trying to fix the problem. At Geisinger, a healthcare system serving more than 1.5 million patients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, where we work, we are taking a multifaceted approach and seeing a big impact.

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Grading The New York Times’ News Coverage, and Quick Takes on Random Things

Harvard Business Review

Youngme Moon and Felix Oberholzer-Gee decide to “grade” The New York Times’ news coverage, before sharing their quick takes on other random things. They also share their After Hours picks for the week. Download this podcast. For interested listeners: AG Sulzberger Interview with Kara Swisher (Recode Decode Podcast). You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: harvardafterhours@gmail.com.

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Why “Many-Model Thinkers” Make Better Decisions

Harvard Business Review

“To be wise you must arrange your experiences on a lattice of models.” — Charlie Munger. Organizations are awash in data — from geocoded transactional data to real-time website traffic to semantic quantifications of corporate annual reports. All these data and data sources only add value if put to use. And that typically means that the data is incorporated into a model.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger. They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. The people lucky enough to work at these companies are doing relatively well. Those who work for the competition aren’t. Policymakers have noticed. Antitrust and competition policy are seeing renewed interest , including recent hearings on the subject by the Federal Trade Commission.

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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.