Fri.Apr 14, 2017

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Continuing the Mission – Your First 30 Days

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. When things go wrong in your command, start wading for the reason in increasing larger concentric circles around your own desk. – General Bruce D. Clark. Standing on the platform in front of troops and family for the fourth time to take command, this time of a Mission Support Group, I was following a popular and successful commander.

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Mentor and Coach

Lead Change Blog

Leaders are naturals in developing people around them, because they aim to serve others. They do that by investing the time to get to know their people and understanding their strengths and weaknesses. Leaders are good listeners. They spend more time listening than talking. By listening, they have a deeper understanding of their people’s capabilities.

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Conflict without Casualties

Leading Blog

C ONFLICT is everywhere. Conflict at the most basic level is simply a gap between what we want and what we are experiencing at any given point in time. Conflict is energy, and can be used in positive or negative ways. Negative conflict becomes drama, and it is costly to companies, teams and relationships at all levels. In fact, according to a Gallup Poll, negative conflict drains the U.S. economy by about $350 billion a year in lost productivity and wasted energy.

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5 Easy Steps To Improve Your Life.

Rich Gee Group

There are so many books, seminars, and articles about how to motivate (yes I know, this is one too!). But I think they miss something big: To be successful in business and life, you need to build a motivational foundation inside YOU. 1. FOCUS & MEDITATE . Do you spend hours doing nothing? Do you play online games? Too much Youtube/News Sites? You are not alone — and the first thing to stop these destructive behaviors is finding a purpose, a goal to focus your energies.

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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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The 3 T’s of Authority Building for Women

Women on Business

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Take Five Everyday

Joseph Lalonde

Our days are constantly filled with activity. Looking at our calendars, we see our days are already penciled in. It’s hard to find time to get everything finished. It’s hard to find time to breathe on some days. We feel overwhelmed with everything going on. So what I’m going to tell you will seem difficult to process. You may even push back against this little piece of advice.

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Be Kind Even When You’re Not Feeling It

ReImagine Work

Being cut off while driving. People letting a door slam in your face when you approach a store. The person who leaves their car stereo blaring while parked in front of the ATM. Daily we can experience any or all these types of minor discourtesies. Trolls Don’t Have To Ruin Your Day. If you are visible on the web, inevitably someone is going to take a shot at you.

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How Doers Derail Teams and Halt Progress

Leadership Freak

Whatever you do, don’t add a doer to a project that’s 25% done.* You might think they’d get the ball rolling. Instead they send teams into tailspins.

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Weekly Round-Up: Lessons from United Airlines, Brutal Leadership Truths, Strategic Leaders, Life & Leadership Lessons, & the Double Bind

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of recent top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog. This week you’ll read articles on leadership lessons from United Airlines, 3 leadership truths no one likes to admit, 6 things strategic leaders do, 10 life and leadership lessons you should have learned as a kid, and the double bind of leadership.

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THE LEADERSHIP GAP:” Focus On “Who” You Are Being

Lead from Within

Lolly says, If you want to get your leadership right, you have to get yourself right. As human beings we will never be perfect but we can be the best versions of ourselves. What is going on inside us is just as important as what we are doing on the outside. Finding out who we are is one of the most courageous acts we can do. WATCH. The post THE LEADERSHIP GAP:” Focus On “Who” You Are Being appeared first on Lolly Daskal.

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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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Living the Mission of Love in Business

Steve Farber

Movement Mortgage has adopted one of those sweet-sounding mission statements that doesn’t tell you much about what the company does but that tells you plenty about who they think they are. It goes like this: “We exist to love and value people by leading a Movement of Change in our industry, corporate cultures, and communities.”. Those types of mission statements are great, but they always cause me to ask a question: Do they really live it?

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The Development of The Seven Archetypes

Lead from Within

WATCH. Executive Leadership Coach Lolly Daskal (www.LollyDaskal.com) on the patterns she discovered in people through her work, which led her to develop the seven archetypes in “The Leadership Gap. ” www.theleadershipgapbook.com. The post The Development of The Seven Archetypes appeared first on Lolly Daskal.

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5 Questions Leaders Should Be Asking All the Time

Harvard Business Review

Photo by Evan Dennis. The best teachers all have at least one thing in common: they ask great questions. They ask questions that force students to move beyond simple answers, that test their reasoning, that spark curiosity, and that generate new insights. They ask questions that inspire students to think, and to think deeply. As a business leader, you might have years of experience and the confidence of your organization behind you, so it may be tempting to think that your job is to always have

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What Makes “THE LEADERSHIP GAP” Unique

Lead from Within

Listen to Lolly Speak about The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You And Your Greatness: and what makes The Leadership Gap unique. WATCH. dsfjalskdjflk. The post What Makes “THE LEADERSHIP GAP” Unique appeared first on Lolly Daskal.

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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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Responding to Feedback You Disagree With

Harvard Business Review

Maybe it’s your performance review. Or a 360-degree feedback report. Or (unsolicited) advice from a colleague. Maybe you got a dressing-down from an angry client. Or overheard the nickname your team has for you. Whatever it was, it was wrong. Off-base. Unfair. They don’t understand the situation. They don’t even really know what you do.

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Lolly Daskal’s R. E. T. H. I. N. K System

Lead from Within

Lolly Daskal executive leadership coach speaks about her RETHINK system why it was developed and what can it do? WATCH. The post Lolly Daskal’s R. E. T. H. I. N. K System appeared first on Lolly Daskal.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business Review

Every few months it seems another study warns that a big slice of the workforce is about to lose their jobs because of artificial intelligence. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033. Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated.

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How Some Companies Are Making Child Care Less Stressful for Their Employees

Harvard Business Review

Photo by Mike Wilson. The cost of child care in the United States is high. This is not news. The 2016 Care Index released by the New America Foundation and Care.com shared an increasingly troubling cost profile of child care right now. The national average for at-home care is $28,354 per year, while in-center care is $8,589 per year. Some of the most expensive metro regions included private-sector-rich NYC, Boston, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

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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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Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It

Harvard Business Review

United Airlines is pledging to train its workers better to ensure that “ employees are prepared and empowered to put our customers first ” in the wake of a video showing a passenger being dragged from a plane. It’s a new turn in what has been a PR disaster for the company. The public reacted to the video with horror. Those flight attendants must have been appalled, too, as they watched the customer — who just a few minutes earlier was supposed to have been greeted on the

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Do Most Companies Even Try to Innovate Anymore?

Harvard Business Review

We are living in the age of the superstar firm. Companies like Samsung, Google, or BMW—the top players in their respective industries—are prospering. Yet economic growth remains sluggish in many parts of the world. The reason for that paradox, as the OECD has warned , is that the productivity gap between firms at the global frontier and those lagging behind has widened.

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Earning Less Than Their Wives Makes U.S. Men More Partisan

Harvard Business Review

The Great Recession of 2008 was a watershed moment in American society for many reasons — but one of the underappreciated effects may be how the recession changed gender relations in America. While the unemployment rates for men and women normally move together fairly tightly, between December 2008 and March 2010, the unemployment rate for men aged 20 and above was, on average, more than two points higher than the unemployment rate among women.