Tue.Oct 18, 2016

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Culture By Design 2.0

N2Growth Blog

There is no doubt! Company culture is passed down from generation to generation of personnel through myth and legend. In fact, company culture is so deeply embedded into every organization that it often appears impossible to change. N2Growth boldly disagrees with that thought. In fact, we have developed an entire suite of intellectual property that we call Culture By Design that can help you institute the company culture that you need to differentiate your organization from all of the rest.

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Are You Open-Minded?

Lead Change Blog

Polarization of historic proportions, racial divide, technological challenges and globalization—we are all experiencing stress and uncertainty in our volatile, complex and uncertain environment. Closed-mindedness and miscommunication are at the heart of this uncertainty causing damage to relationships, bottom lines and lives. What are leaders to do?

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7 Fail-Safe Steps to Increase Responsibility and Develop Your Team

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

If you’re not offering your people the opportunity to grow – to increase their responsibility and learn new skills – you are going to lose them. According to a large-scale study conducted by INSEAD, millennials in the workplace care most about opportunity for growth, meaning and relationships. They will even take a job that pays less […].

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3 Ways Leaders Can Help Bring Great Ideas To Life

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Kotter International President, Russell Raath on behalf of The Economist Executive Education Navigator. How often have you heard the phrase “that’s not how we do it here” uttered in your workplace? When employees suggest new ways to tackle challenges, are their contributions welcomed—no matter how outside-the-box they may be?

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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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Using Coupons To Drive Sales

Women on Business

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How to Dance with Tough Issues Long Enough to Do Some Real Good

Leadership Freak

The deadly sin of tough conversations is going halfway. Discomfort causes some leaders to cut them short. Work up enough courage to dance with tough issues long enough to do some real good. Halfway makes matters worse: Pointing out a problem is helpful, but doesn’t solve it. Bringing up an issue doesn’t mean others understand it.

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When you’re asked to work with a coach

Persuasive Powerhouse

In the dark beginnings of organizational coaching, coaches were often brought in to work with leaders who were poor performers. It’s rare for companies to expend resources in that way now. Today, executive coaches work with good to great performers where there is a decent chance that the coaching engagement will yield successful outcomes. Why am I telling you this?

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Remarkable TV: What I Learned From Losing My Wallet

Kevin Eikenberry

I believe that we can find lessons ALL AROUND us if we are open and look for them. And today’s video is the perfect example. Watch the video below and find out what you can learn as a leader from the story of my lost wallet. Tweet it out: When adversity strikes, get create and […]. The post Remarkable TV: What I Learned From Losing My Wallet appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Three Leadership Rules for the Shark Cage

Next Level Blog

If you haven’t already seen it, watch this video of a great white shark attacking a dive cage. It runs about a minute and a half and is straight out of Jaws. OK, now that you’ve watched it, we need to draw some leadership lessons from what happened there. (Great thanks and props to my client Brian Schools who CC’d me on an email he sent to his leadership team at Chartway Federal Credit Union in which he shared the video and some similar lessons.

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0735 | How To Focus In A Distracted World with Cal Newport

LDRLB

Cal Newport is a writer and an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University. He also runs the popular website Study Hacks: Decoding Patterns of Success. He is the author of Deep Work and So Good They Can’t Ignore You. In this interview, we discuss why deep work creates all the value and how to train yourself to work deeper. [ Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ].

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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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Management By Walking Around (MBWA): What Effective Leaders Do

leaderCommunicator

Doctors do it. Effective plant managers do it. Those who manage others well do it, too.

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7 Reminders for Pastors and Ministry Leaders who use Social Media

Ron Edmondson

The way you use it matters. Can I be honest? I’m not always the biggest fan of social media. I know you have a hard time believing this if you follow me on Facebook (either my profile or one of my pages – I have several), Twitter (and I have a couple of those), LinkedIn, Instagram, or Pinterest. How could I not love social media. I wouldn’t have a blog without social media – and, I do love my blog.

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What To Do When You're New

Eric Jacobson

I wish the book, What To Do When You're New , would have been published twenty-five years ago. Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. The book, by Keith Rollag, is all about how to be comfortable, confident, and successful in new situations.

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Successful Companies Don’t Adapt, They Prepare

Harvard Business Review

Jennifer Maravillas for HBR. In 1960, Harvard professor Theodore Levitt published a landmark paper in Harvard Business Review that urged executives to adapt by asking themselves, “What business are we really in?” He offered the both the railroad companies and Hollywood studios as examples of industries that failed to adapt because they defined their business incorrectly.

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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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What Employees Say Managers Don't Do

Eric Jacobson

According to David Grossman , author of the popular book, You Can't Not Communicate-2 , here are eight things employees say managers don't do: Don't keep employees informed. Don't explain the "why" behind decisions. Don't communicate frequently enough and in a timely way. Don't update employees on changes happening in the business. Don't share regular business updates and how the team is performing.

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Theranos and the Dark Side of Storytelling

Harvard Business Review

Humanity’s strange, ardent love affair with story has always fascinated me. To explore our enthrallment and explain the science behind it, I wrote a book – The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human. The book appealed to a predictable audience of English literature types as well as avid readers of popular science. But it also attracted an unanticipated audience of business professionals.

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How to Tell You’re Dumbing Down Your Leadership

Lead from Within

It’s important to realize that just because someone holds a position of leadership, doesn’t necessarily mean they should lead. Leadership is complex. For some leaders see it principally as the power to direct other people; for others, it’s about inspiring people so they feel they can do the impossible; and for some it’s centered on being a visionary.

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Can Employees Really Speak Up Without Retribution?

Harvard Business Review

When employees speak up, companies benefit. Thus not surprisingly, lots of leaders say they want to encourage their employees to speak freely, whether it’s by offering creative new ideas, identifying process improvements, or even calling out unethical behavior. But several studies suggest that leaders often undermine their own efforts to get employees to speak up.

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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 to Memorably Introduce Another Speaker

Harvard Business Review

As a professional speaker and facilitator for over 20 years, I’ve been introduced more than a thousand times, by countless meeting planners, conference organizers, and team leaders. Nevertheless, most of the introductions have fallen into one of four categories: 1) Flattery: “Deborah needs no introduction.” 2) Do-It-Yourself: “You can read Deborah’s bio in the program book.” 3) Regurgitation: “Let me read to you what’s in Deborah’s bio.”

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Centralized Decision Making Helps Kill Bad Products

Harvard Business Review

Anyone who has visited Samsung’s office towers in Seoul, South Korea, will not be surprised to know that the Lee family – the dynasty that controls the conglomerate – runs a tight ship. The three towers, which dominate the landscape of the Gangnam district, were built to consolidate many of the activities of the firm; their imposing presence is emblematic of the company’s hierarchal culture.

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Why We Don’t Trust Driverless Cars — Even When We Should

Harvard Business Review

On May 7th, 2016, Joshua Brown, a 40-year-old entrepreneur and technology enthusiast from Canton, Ohio, was sitting behind the wheel of his Tesla Model S sedan when a tractor-trailer turned across his path. The Tesla, which was engaged in its self-driving Autopilot mode, failed to register the white tractor-trailer against the bright, sunny Florida sky.

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Research: Index Funds Are Fueling Out-of-Whack CEO Pay Packages

Harvard Business Review

CEOs get paid handsomely. The pay of top managers has risen faster than those of other star earners. Often they’re paid generously even as the firms they head underperform relative to their peers. Such performance-insensitive pay packages seem to defy both common sense and established economic theory on optimal incentives. Top management compensation packages guarantee a high level of pay, but are often only weakly linked to the performance of the firm relative to its industry competitors.

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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.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? One surprising finding of my research is that most do not distinguish between different types of digital investments, treating all in a similar way. This situation exists because, believe it or not, a lot of organizations lack any mechanisms to help them actively manage the evaluation, selection, monitoring, and adjustment of digital investments to achieve clearly defined business results while meeting clear risk and return expect

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Whiteboard Session: What Is an Emerging Market?

Harvard Business Review

The promise and peril of institutional voids.