Sat.Aug 08, 2015 - Fri.Aug 14, 2015

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How to Get Employees to Care About Your Company

Let's Grow Leaders

Great commercials, strong PR, a brilliant social media strategy all warrant effort when building your company’s reputation. But there’s no better PR than an army of loyal employees living and breathing your brand. You know the type– folks with enthusiasm bursting from their veins–talking up your products and services with their friends at every bar, baptism and bat mitzvah they attend. “No, I’m telling you this works, I’ve seen it from the inside!

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Leaders Lead – Take Charge and Move Out

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. “When in command: command.” – Admiral Chester Nimitz. If being a leader means anything, it means taking charge and executing the responsibility others gave you.

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9 Tips for Creating a Positive Change in Your Culture

Lead Change Blog

Many of the organizations that I have worked in this year are involved in dramatic change. They are doing more to meet the increasing demands of customers in order to compete with companies within their industry. They are implementing new productivity standards, causing them to measure more effectively the behaviors of their employees and the return on investment for the implementation of newly defined competencies.

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The Real Secret of Life

Terry Starbucker

“I never want to grow up.” – Terry “Starbucker” St. Marie, August 3, 2008. This is the second in a series of my 3 favorite posts over the past 9+ years, in anticipation of my 1,000th (!) post coming up on August 23rd. As always, I’m eternally grateful that you’re here today to read this post and join my More Human Leadership journey.

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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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Does Your Boss Have Your Back?

Let's Grow Leaders

When I was fairly young in my HR career, I was walking by my boss’ boss’ office (let’s call him Eric) while visiting our corporate headquarters in Manhattan. Without leaving his desk, he called out: Karin, can you please do me a favor? You see there’s this meeting that I’m unable to attend, and it would be great if you could attend it for me.

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Tripod of Success Series: Legacy From a Third-Grader

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Myrtice Smith was born in 1932. After completing third-grade, she quit school to work on the family farm and help care for her brothers and sisters during one of the most trying times in our nation’s history.

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10 Tips For Presenting to Senior Leaders

Lead Change Blog

Presenting to senior leaders can be nerve-racking at best: you’ve got a short window of time to articulate your passionate point of view or showcase the outcome of your team’s good work. Most of us have a story about a time we blew it, and our well-rehearsed intentions spiraled downward in a frenzied fiasco. Executives are naturally a tough audience.

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So You Want to Be a Leader? You Better Find a Mentor

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Nigel Dessau: I have never met anyone who was successful in life who did not have at least one mentor. Having good mentors indicates that you have a great network—something every 21st century executive and leader should have. However, finding the right mentor can be a challenge. A few years ago, I worked for a company that was acquired by Sun Microsystems.

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Time Machine Tuesday: The Tale of the Tire – The Power of Honesty

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 14 April 2013. “Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.” Mary Kay Ash. General John Handy, a 37-year Air Force veteran, shared the following story at a graduation of the Air Command and Staff College (an Air Force graduate

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Let’s Not Confuse Hard Work With Meaningful Work

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by fellow author Dan Ward. Like most authors, I get a lot of questions about my books. One question I struggle to answer is “Was the book hard to write?” On the one hand, writing my books required considerable time and effort. Researching, drafting, editing, re-editing and then re-re-editing all involve a certain amount of mental exertion and can get taxing after a while.

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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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Is Your Leadership Soul Getting Its Wings?

Lead Change Blog

“Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.” It’s a Wonderful Life. A quote that warms our heart. A commercial version is: “When your sandwich is just the way you want it, ring the bell.” This is a sign in a Subway store encouraging customers to let others know when they got what they wanted. How often do we really get what we want? Remember the Rolling Stones song that says –.

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Are You an Idealist or Pragmatic Leader?

Women on Business

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Monday Quote

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. “ Omar Nelson Bradley. . How did you enjoy today’s post? If you liked what you read, sign up for our frequent newsletter by clicking HERE — and you’ll also receive our handy Leader’s Reference List. . … Read the res

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How to be Authoritative without being a Jerk

Leadership Freak

Fear only works when the big bad leader is present. The sigh of relief when jerk-leaders leave the room signals disengagement. The most effective leaders are authoritative, not authoritarian.

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5 Ways to Improve DE&I in the Workplace

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical for an organization’s success. And companies that take bold action to help ensure an inclusive workplace will win every time. Discover how your company can create a culture that celebrates DE&I while achieving higher revenue and growth.

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Opposites Attract … But Do They Stick?

Lead Change Blog

In her latest book, The Genius of Opposites: How Introverts and Extroverts Accomplish Extraordinary Results Together , Jennifer Kahnweiler continues to explore the world of Introverts and Extroverts, as we all learn more about the power that comes through being different. Not having read the book yet, I have no comments directly on Kahnweiler’s ideas, other than to heartily endorse the general idea that introversion is not a handicap, but an asset, as well as the notion that we all might work t

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How to Build and Save Face the Japanese Way

Women on Business

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What is Research?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton What is research? The answer depends on your perspective. Some people believe the definition is very narrow, and only if you "do it right" in the scientific sense does it meet the requirements of proper research. Others believe that it includes paying attention to messages from all areas of our lives and using that information to achieve insight and understanding.

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My 10 Favorite Classic Management and Leadership Books

Great Leadership By Dan

There have been over a million books written on management leadership. I’ve read a bunch of them, but there are 10 that are on my bookshelf that don’t sit still long enough to gather dust. Read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership to see my list, then come back to add yours in the comment section.

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No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results

Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.

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Call Them Opposites. Call Them Paradoxes. Just Manage Them.

Lead Change Blog

“We’ve been hiring women and minorities like crazy,” shared a client. “But our culture is worse than ever. This diversity stuff doesn’t work. I’ve seen his frustration before. Many managers share his view. Feeling internal and external pressure to have more diversity, some companies define diversity as “making the numbers,” and task Human Resources (HR) with hiring more women and minorities.

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The Leadership Behavior Employees Most Want

Leadership Freak

We often search for the most important thing. Christine Porath, associate professor at Georgetown University, along with other researchers, believe the leadership behavior that employees most want is respect.

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Is Multitasking Ruining Your Meetings? 3 Tips to Boost Engagement

Women on Business

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The opposite of good leadership

Persuasive Powerhouse

. The following is not meant to be a political commentary – I’ve made a conscious decision not to wave any political flag in this space. Yet I couldn’t miss the opportunity to point out some disconcerting observable behaviors in a public leader that demonstrate what good leaders shouldn’t do. Sometimes you can learn how to be a better leader by noticing other leaders who do things that you find objectionable.

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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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How To Destroy Your Influence Through Social Media

Joseph Lalonde

S ocial media is a great tool, one that I love dearly. Who doesn’t, right? It’s great to be able to catch up with old high school friends on Facebook. It’s great to see the constant flow of information on Twitter. It’s even great to see all of the amazing pictures people share on Pinterest. Image by Jason Howie. While there’s a good side to social media , there’s also a dark side many people get caught up in.

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Work Backwards to Fulfill Dreams

Leadership Freak

A dream without expression is a liability. If you can’t grasp a bit of your dream today, it’s a nagging inconvenience. Big dreams that diminish the value of imperfect progress are burdens.

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Helping Employees Change Habits Takes 66 Days

Women on Business

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Leading Change in the Digital Age

Kevin Eikenberry

As leaders, we are in the business of change – helping to implement it, leading it, and helping our teams cope with and make sense of it. It is a critical part of our job. And the rate of change has never been faster. That isn’t just how we feel – study after study confirms […]. The post Leading Change in the Digital Age appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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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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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Fantastic Four

Joseph Lalonde

I ’ve been excited to see the new Fantastic Four movie for quite some time. When you break down their story, it’s one of leadership, through and through. Reed Richards and crew have a vision. They execute on the vision. The vision doesn’t go as planned. They have to run with the consequences. Perfect parallels for leadership, if you ask me.

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4 Things that Drive Employees Crazy

Leadership Freak

We love to think about what drives leaders crazy. But, what about employees? Red tape. The reason red tape drives employees crazy is they want to get things done.

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How High Obesity Rates Affect Workers Compensation Costs

Women on Business

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The Recency Illusion – What It Is and What It Means to Leaders

Kevin Eikenberry

The recency illusion. It is a phrase most often used in relationship to language usage, but when coined by linguist Arnold Zwicky, he defined it much more broadly as “the belief that things you have noticed only recently are in fact recent.” Here are two interesting language examples: You might think that the use of […]. The post The Recency Illusion – What It Is and What It Means to Leaders appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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How to Write OKRs: 45 Effective Examples

Discover how to align everyday employee priorities with company goals. Many companies are embracing objectives and key results (OKRs) as the best practice for committing to goals and following through. Objectives are outcomes that reflect current company priorities. Each employee should write OKRs that roll up to larger company goals. Show employees how they contribute to the larger mission.