Tue.Apr 04, 2017

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Executive Leadership: One Temptation Most Successful Executives Resist

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re an executive (or aspiring to be one) this time I’m writing for you. Not my usual M.O., I usually write for your teams (and how to help them deal with you ;-) But today, I write to you. Why? Because when senior leaders practice winning well behaviors, the culture shifts that much faster– and results not only go up, they stay up– and teams feel excited about what they’re up to.

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How Do You Inspire Others Through Your Leadership?

Tanveer Naseer

As a people person, I always enjoy visiting new places and new cities as it provides the opportunity to meet new people and spark new conversations, some of which can lead to some very thought-provoking discussions. For example, a few weeks ago, I meet with a group of leaders to exchange ideas on the growing challenges found in today’s increasingly uncertain global business environment.

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Highlighting Our April 2017 Sponsor: Eat That Frog!

Lead Change Blog

The Lead Change Group is pleased to have Eat That Frog! from BK Publishing , a best-seller by Brian Tracy, as our April 2017 sponsor. This book, which has added a new chapter in addition to updates throughout, centers its 21 time management strategies on this metaphor: if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that it’s probably the worst thing you’ll do all day.

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You’re Not Charging Enough For Your Services.

Rich Gee Group

The other day, I came across an old contract when I worked at <confidential> from a famous consultancy called <confidential> in NYC. The contract was signed prior to my employment and after 2 months, I fired the consultancy based on their incompetence with the project. I was amazed with the short and cavalier agreement and the associated fees for each service: Project Management: $39,800.

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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 Dreamers Drive Doers to Distraction and Beyond

Leadership Freak

Organizations need more doers than dreamers. A team of dreamers will start a thousand things and finish none. (Yes, that’s an exaggeration. Everything in this post is a bit exaggerated.

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6 Tips to Use Graphics or Images You Find Online

Women on Business

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Why You’re So Lousy at Problem Solving

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Guest Post by Nat Greene Humans have done a good enough job solving problems throughout the ages–otherwise we would not have made it to 7 billion people on the planet. Bravo. But countless problems still plague humankind. Some are problems in your life, like staying healthy or managing relationships. Others are in business, which cost […].

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How Leaders Build Great Organizations … And How They Can Destroy Them

Lead from Within

If you ever doubt the power of leadership, take a look at the organizations around you—those that are successful and those that are failing (or have failed). Sometimes external forces are a factor, but more often than not some aspect of leadership is at the core of the company’s outcome. The choices you make every day as a leader have an enormous effect on the fate of your company—and those who work for the company, and those it serves.

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How to stop waltzing around a real issue

Persuasive Powerhouse

You’ve sensed that you need something more or different from someone important to you in the organization in order for you to perform at your best. You’ve been elusive about the issue, telling them what you need indirectly hoping they’ll “get it”. You’ve been doing this dance for a long time and nothing has changed. You’re frustrated, feeling like you’ve done everything possible without the results you want.

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How Leaders Can Support Team Success

Kevin Eikenberry

A few years ago I wrote a blog post on supporting team success that has since become one of my most-read posts ever. And today I am sharing six tips to help you support you own team’s success. Tweet it out: Remember you aren’t just the leader of the team, you are a member of […]. The post How Leaders Can Support Team Success appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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155: How to Inspire Lifetime Loyalty | with Lee Caraher

Engaging Leader

As millions of millennials and the even younger GenZers come into the workforce with very different expectations and definitions of loyalty, companies need to shift to make the most of those workers’ energy, skill sets, and incredible potential. Those companies that shift now for the long game of allegiance will have a strategic talent and […] As millions of millennials and the even younger GenZers come into the workforce with very different expectations and definitions of loyalty, compani

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A Better Approach to Consulting Business Development: Portfolios and Cascading BucketsDevelopment

David A Fields

Lessons from financial investing and a technique called Cascading Buckets can improve the results of your business development efforts for your consulting firm. I learned investing from reading One Up on Wall Street, the Investor’s Business Daily, and Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Actually, that’s not true.

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Competition: What Competition?

Strategy Driven

Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy via Wikimedia and flickr. A business has to deal with a lot, but the competition is the main opponent. With one stroke, your competitors can make or break your success, which is scary. To end up the victor, you have to ensure that the firm is always one step ahead of the game. That way, they will chase you and not the other way around.

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A Critical Leadership Error and 4 Ways to Approach It

Ron Edmondson

There is one critical error most leaders make at some point. I make it frequently. If you’re leading you probably do also. We forget people are trying to follow. We get so caught up in our own world we forget people we are trying to lead are trying to follow us. We “think” we know where we are going and we assume they do also – almost at times like they can read our minds.

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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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Our Aim, Vision and Values

Deming Institute

Our Aim. The aim of The W. Edwards Deming Institute® is to foster an understanding of The Deming System of Profound Knowledge® to advance commerce, prosperity and peace. Our Vision. At the Deming Institute, we honor the legacy of Dr. Deming by bringing his teachings to life today and for the future. We’re introducing his teachings to a younger generation, developing new Deming leaders and ensuring the transition of knowledge from Dr.

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What Happens at Home When People Can’t Depend on Stable Work

Harvard Business Review

Recent research by economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton documents a dramatic rise in mortality rates among working-class white people in the U.S. The immediate causes of these “deaths of despair,” as the pair refer to them, are often factors like drug abuse, health problems like diabetes, and suicide. But these issues stem from a larger epidemic of job insecurity for Americans without a college degree, creating a sense of untethered hopelessness among millions of people.

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What Your Moonshot Can Learn from the Apollo Program

Harvard Business Review

Project Apollo Archive/NASA. In January Google ended Project Titan, an initiative to blanket the earth in Wi-Fi with the help of solar-powered drones. It was the latest in a series of Google’s moonshot projects being closed. With the announcement, some in the media concluded that the Google moonshot was essentially dead. “Moonshots” is the term favored by the company’s exploratory arm, known as X, which states on its website : “Our mission is to invent and launch &#

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4 Things Your Innovation Efforts Shouldn’t Focus On

Harvard Business Review

Differentiation should be a prime motivator of any strategy; firms should always look to find an edge. But too often CEOs find themselves stuck in what I call an innovation plateau. They fall into chronic sameness, an inertia driven by a feeling that they must focus on cost, even cheapness, to remain competitive. A main indicator of how widespread this plateau has become is the decline in corporate investment in R&D, the invisible infrastructure that supports true innovation.

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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.