Mon.Apr 09, 2018

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A Salute to Book Bloggers

In the CEO Afterlife

Aspiring writers are poor souls trying to break into an industry that doesn’t want them. That may be a preposterous statement to those of you unfamiliar with the publishing biz. Look at it this way: publishers would rather release the next John Grisham legal thriller than take on an unknown author. More importantly, the rise of Amazon and the decline of bookstores has sent the conventional global publishing industry into a financial tail spin.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Hurricane Heist

Joseph Lalonde

Sometimes you just want to go to a mindless movie. One where you can sit back, relax, and laugh with your wife. That’s what Pam and I thought when we saw the previews for The Hurricane Heist. Cheesy. Fun. Stupid. When you have a movie based on the idea of a group of criminals robbing the U.S. Treasury during a category 5 hurricane, what more can you expect?

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Nancy Duarte on Storytelling in Business

QAspire

I created a series of sketch notes for Tiffani Bova’s “ What’s Next ” podcast where she meets brilliant people to discuss customer experience, growth and innovation. Tiffani Bova is a Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. I will post sketchnote versions of selected podcast episodes that enlightened me. When driving large scale change, leaders often fall in trap of presenting the current reality and future state in form of data, numbers and charts.

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How to Diversify Your Happiness

Next Level Blog

If you’ve spent any time thinking about your retirement account or other investments you may have, you’re probably familiar with the concept of asset diversification. The idea is to not over-invest in one particular company or class of investments but to balance your portfolio across different types of assets. As a simple example, it makes sense for many people to invest in both stocks and bonds since when one of the two is up the other is often down.

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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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Why Your Credit Score Matters as a Small Business Owner

Women on Business

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7 Ways to Take Responsibility for Team Success

Leadership Freak

The simplest definition of ‘leader’ is someone with followers. But how can you be worthy of being followed? “Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

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The Music of Day-to-Day Leadership

Leadership Freak

If you want to be a better leader, choose better words.

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Someone to Know: Q&A with Nationwide Chief Communications Officer (CCO) Rick Phillips

leaderCommunicator

No one I know is more focused on best in class communications that deliver results than Rick Phillips. As Chief Communications Officer for Nationwide, Rick leads the company’s corporate communications program, serving all corporate, staff and business units within the company. He’s constantly motivating his team to think bigger, better and to ensure communications is positively impacting brand, reputation and performance.

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Bill Bisanz, CEO Work’s with Executive Coach

CO2

Executive coaching can have a large impact on a CEO. Learn first hand from an interview conducted recently with Bill Bisanz, CEO of Real Estate Equities. Bill Bisanz is the CEO of Real Estate Equities, an apartment development, management, and ownership group based in St. Paul, MN. Founded in 1972 by his father (Robert Bisanz) and Terry Troy, Real Estate Equities now has 170 employees and properties in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Indiana, in addition to a vacation management business ( Elite Desti

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Is Your Business As Eco Friendly As It Could Be?

Strategy Driven

Running your own business can be incredibly tough. When it comes to acting as the leader, all the responsibility is put on you, and sometimes you can doubt your ability to handle it. However, that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth it! There’s no need for you to worry, there’s a lot of advice out there about how to operate best as a self owned business, and how to take your company higher and higher in today’s world.

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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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Working with an Executive Coach: An Interview with CEO Bill Bisanz

CO2

Executive coaching can have a large impact on a CEO. Learn first hand from an interview conducted recently with Bill Bisanz, CEO of Real Estate Equities. Bill Bisanz is the CEO of Real Estate Equities, an apartment development, management, and ownership group based in St. Paul, MN. Founded in 1972 by his father (Robert Bisanz) and Terry Troy, Real Estate Equities now has 170 employees and properties in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Indiana, in addition to a vacation management business (Elite Destin

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How To Give Praise

Eric Jacobson

Entrepreneur magazine's February 2012 issue offered these great tips on how to give praise : Praise followed by criticism is not praise. Praise followed by praise is probably a little too much praise. Ending an expression of praise with ".and stuff" nullifies the praise. And, Make it timely. The closer the recognition is to the behavior, the more likely the behavior will be repeated.

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Working with an Executive Coach: An Interview with CEO Bill Bisanz

CO2

Executive coaching can have a large impact on a CEO. Learn first hand from an interview conducted recently with Bill Bisanz, CEO of Real Estate Equities. Bill Bisanz is the CEO of Real Estate Equities, an apartment development, management, and ownership group based in St. Paul, MN. Founded in 1972 by his father (Robert Bisanz) and Terry Troy, Real Estate Equities now has 170 employees and properties in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Indiana, in addition to a vacation management business (Elite Destin

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How to Respond When You’re Put on the Spot in a Meeting

Harvard Business Review

Hayon Thapaliya/hbr staff. “Katherine, have a go at it?” I love this scene from the 2017 movie, Hidden Figures. Katherine, played by Taraji P. Henson, is put on the spot by her boss, played by Kevin Costner, in a room filled with top brass NASA officials — all male. She is asked to go to the chalkboard and lay out the math to bring John Glenn’s space capsule out of orbit and back to Earth.

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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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Productivity: The Heart of My New Office Design

Lead Change Blog

Recently, I converted my garage into an office. This was for two reasons. First, I wanted to stop working in the kitchen. As it turns out, when you work in a room like that regularly, you simply can’t switch off. You finish work, stand up, and realise you’re already home. My office-garage conversion was therefore designed to give me a place in which I could work and then shut away when finished.

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What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Bloomberg/Getty Images. “If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you’re going to wake up this morning as a software and analytics company.” Jeff Immelt, former CEO of General Electric. The second wave of digitization is set to disrupt all spheres of economic life. As venture capital investor Marc Andreesen pointed out, “software is eating the world.” Yet, despite the unprecedented scope and momentum of digitization, many decision makers remain unsure

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7 Hard, but Hopefully Helpful Words for Pastors

Ron Edmondson

This is for all my pastor friends. It may not make as much sense to readers who haven’t served in that role. One thing that sets me apart from some pastors is the amount of time I spent in the business world is greater than the time I have been in ministry. It has given me a unique perspective. It’s also helped me realize I didn’t understand the unique pressures of ministry completely until I was in ministry.

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Why Email Is So Stressful, Even Though It’s Not Actually That Time-Consuming

Harvard Business Review

Andrew Nguyen/HBR Staff/The New York Public Library. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed with the crush of email. In fact, one study showed the average professional spends 4.1 hours per day responding to work messages. During a recent time tracking exercise, I discovered I’m actually at the low end of the spectrum, spending about 1.35 hours per day on email.

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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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Research: Could Machine Learning Help Companies Select Better Board Directors?

Harvard Business Review

Jens Magnusson/Getty Images. Ever since Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776, observers have bemoaned boards of directors as being ineffective as both monitors and advisors of management. Because a CEO often effectively controls the director selection process, he will tend to choose directors who are unlikely to oppose him, and who are unlikely to provide the diverse perspectives necessary to maximize firm value.

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How to Testify Before Congress

Harvard Business Review

Eric Thayer/stringer/Getty Images. It’s a predictable part of nearly every big business scandal: the moment when the CEO is summoned to Capitol Hill to testify before a congressional committee. For Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, this rite of passage happens this week , when he will testify about data breaches and how foreign states allegedly used social media to try to influence the 2016 presidential election.

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Facebook Is Changing How Marketers Can Target Ads. What Does That Mean for Data Brokers?

Harvard Business Review

kelly bowden/Getty Images. Last month, Facebook announced in a brief statement that it will be shutting down Partner Categories, a feature that allows marketers to target ads on the company’s universe of platforms by using third-party data provided by data brokers. The move, which comes during a period of intense scrutiny over the social media giant’s privacy and security practices following the Cambridge Analytica revelations , marks a first-of-its-kind pivot among internet companie

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GDPR and the End of the Internet’s Grand Bargain

Harvard Business Review

andrew nguyen/hbr staff/dan gold/unsplash. In May the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect, two years after passage by the European Parliament. This radical new privacy law, which covers any business that processes information about EU residents, will dramatically affect the way data is collected, stored, and used , including for U.S. companies doing business abroad.

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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.