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Are You A Leader or Boss?

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss … The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” Theodore Roosevelt. Many times when I am called in by an organization it is to “fix” an employee who is not meeting the expectations of the boss and the organization.

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Frontline Festival: February 2016

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is all about building productive workplace relationships. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month, we turn our focus to fresh perspectives for leaders. Give us your best fresh insight! Submissions due March 11th– new participants always welcome, please use this form.

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Is It Fun Being Led by You?

Lead Change Blog

Few American presidents were more fun loving than Theodore Roosevelt. He hunted wild animals in Africa and, as a naturalist, started the U.S. Forestry Service. The Nobel Peace Prize winning president was a championship boxer at Harvard and the author of thirty-eight books. He occasionally skinny-dipped in the Potomac River after a strenuous winter nature walk.

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What is “Harm?” (It Depends On Your Perspective)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Leaders interpret "harm" according to the perspective on ethical leadership they are using to make decisions. They may consider harm narrowly (only what would harm them) or broadly (what would harm others and society). At its most narrow, harm could be interpreted as harming me or my company's profitability.

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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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Professional Growth Is Not An Option

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.” Warren Bennis & Burt Nanus. Successful 21 st century leaders clearly recognize the continuous need to grow in their professional knowledge, skills, and abilities to remain effective.

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What’s the Real Problem?

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever had leak, repaired it, only to find the drip, drip, drip showing up someplace else? Or have you recognized a familiar employee engagement problem, and breathed an immediate, “oh, I’ve seen this movie before” sigh of relief and began to apply your time-tested know-how, only to realize the sequel was far different from the original?

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The One Thing Today’s Leaders Need To Do

Tanveer Naseer

One of the things I enjoy about the various talks I give is the conversations I have afterwards with leaders in the audience. These interactions not only give me the chance to understand which leadership insights resonated with them the most, but it also allows me to learn more about the current challenges and pain points they’re looking to resolve in their organization.

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Compose, Don’t Impose

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Men and women want to do a good job. If they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.”. Bill Hewlett. As leaders, we are always looking for leadership strategies that work. A successful leadership experience can lead us to assume that these strategies will work at our next assignment if we impose it on the new organization.

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Vanhishikha Bhargava Joins the Women on Business Contributor Team

Women on Business

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Relationships Matter

Lead Change Blog

A few weeks ago, I was reflecting on how my career started over 25 and a half years ago. I remembered my coworkers and how much time we spent writing code, debugging programs, analyzing issues that arose, and helping each other figure out problems. I also remembered the late nights and eating out as a team after a long day at work. It was a lot of fun and it created a bond of camaraderie.

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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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5 Types Of People God Will Use To Break The Rules

Joseph Lalonde

G od is a God of order. He’s also a God who likes to break the rules, especially with leaders. The rules God will break aren’t His rules. They’re the rules of man. Image via Creative Commons. Why God Breaks The Rules Of Man. The Bible tells us plainly why God will break the rules of man. Man looks on the outside. This is the outward appearance, the way a person acts or looks.

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Tuesday Time Machine: Presidential Leadership

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. 23 March 2014. “I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.”. Abraham Lincoln. “99% of excuses come from people who make excuses”.

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Small Business and Sustainability

Women on Business

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2016 May Be Your Year For A New Career

Lead Change Blog

“Is it just too sad to be over 40 and still figuring out what you want to be when you grow up?” This question came from a woman in a job-seekers coaching group I co-lead. “Who do you want to be?” is a question we ask of young people until they’re about 23, when we suddenly stop and assume this decision has been made. It’s in the past. Whoever you are, that’s it.

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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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Five Things GREAT Bosses Do Daily

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from S. Chris Edmonds : Every morning, your team members rally themselves to come to work. Some are enthused about what they’ll experience that day. They feel trusted, honored, and respected. They’re optimistic about what they’ll learn, how they’ll partner with peers, how they’ll contribute to customers’ quality of life that day. Those team members don’t have to work hard to rally themselves.

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9 Ways We Sabotage Ourselves

Leading Blog

F ROM PEOPLE whose job it is to sabotage the efforts of others, we can take a lesson or two. In Simple Sabotage , authors Robert Galford, Bob Frisch and Cary Greene explain that in January 1944 the OSS (Office of Strategic Services—predecessor of the CIA) published the Simple Sabotage Field Manual to train resistance members in the art of sabotage. “The Manual detailed easy ways to disrupt and demoralize the enemy’s institutions without being detected.

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3 Ways to Reach Your Target Audience with Content Marketing

Women on Business

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Why Your Employee Engagement Programs Fail

Lead Change Blog

That Won’t Work! “David, I’ve tried that. It doesn’t work.”. Roger was isolated, burned out, and frustrated. His team had turned against him, his boss was done waiting, and Roger knew his job was on the line if he didn’t produce results. We had discussed tools he could use to have a better relationship with his team and to help them achieve results.

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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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How To Get Everyone To Return Your Calls.

Rich Gee Group

You’re not going to believe this, but I hate the phone. You would think as a coach and someone who runs a highly successful business, being on the phone all day would be fun, exciting, and powerful. It is for coaching — I get energized! It is for colleagues, friends, and family — we can talk for hours. It’s when I have to either cold call or play the dreaded phone-tag.

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Your leadership instrument

Persuasive Powerhouse

A Stradivarius violin can cost millions of dollars. These instruments built by the Stradivari family in the 17 th and 18 th centuries, are coveted for being the finest in the world for the sound that emanates from them by the world’s greatest violinists. Yet in blind trials over recent years, amateur and virtuoso violinists alike cannot distinguish between the sound that comes from a “Strad” and a more modern violin played by someone else.

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How to Make Your Productivity Skyrocket

Women on Business

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Lincoln’s Secret to Greatness

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Is greatness an attribute reserved for only a few special people? Abraham Lincoln didn’t think so. He believed we are each capable of greatness. Most of the good of the world builds on the accumulated efforts of everyday people doing small things in a great way. A story is told about Abraham Lincoln’s response to a sermon by his friend Reverend Phineas Gurley of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church.

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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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12 Ways to Make Your Teammates Look Good

Nathan Magnuson

In the past, I’ve shared the value of being a “Kamerman teammate” – that is, going the extra mile to make your teammate look good. It’s a mindset shift for most of us, and a complete game-changer at that. I’d like to take this concept a step further and share some practical ways to get started. Over the course of my career thus far, I’ve found that these twelve strategies for extraordinary teamwork not only make your team stronger, they have the power to

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Pessimists Can’t Lead: 7 Ways to Find Optimism

Leadership Freak

Don’t imagine you energize others by reminding them they fall short. Negative leaders bring up opportunities in ways that make people feel like losers. “You should have been doing this all along.” Pessimists suggest there’s something wrong with you, when they say what they want. Pessimistic leaders: Use what they don’t want to explain what they want.

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Women on Business is Sponsoring the Women in Strategy Summit

Women on Business

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Why We All Need Time To Recover

Joseph Lalonde

O ne of the greatest travesties of the modern world is our incessant need to always be on. We’re told that we must work hard and work often. Most of the time, we’re chided for taking time off, going on vacation, or spending time with family. Image via Creative Commons. You’ll hear the screams of the uninformed telling you that you’re wasting your time.

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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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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. He is the author of two best-selling books on the topic: “ The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership ” and “ The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle “ We met in front of a group of students fro

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Seven Ways to Not-Know Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

Pretending you know, when you don’t, makes you intentionally ignorant. Confusion is the point of opportunity, if you have the courage to not-know. Four dangers for all knowing leaders: Pretending you know is an act of self-sabotage. Lost credibility. Smoke-blowers become obvious with time.

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Website Goals that Set Your Business Apart

Women on Business

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What’s Your Pretense?

Joseph Lalonde

I want to let you in on a little secret today. It’s one not many people know about me. My secret? I’m not really calm and collected like those around me think I am. Oh, no… Not at all. Rather, my mind is a jumbled mess at times. I’m always trying to calculate what’s going to happen next and trying to figure out how I can prevent the negative outcome I see in my head.

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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.