July, 2011

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The Top 10 Things Leaders Should Hear From Their Teammates

Terry Starbucker

All leaders need to get good and consistent verbal feedback from their teammates, but there are what I consider to be the “Golden 10″ pieces of feedback that we really need to be getting to ratify our effectiveness (and our approach to greatness). Let’s count ‘em down, from the bottom to the top: 10. “I don’t know, but I’ll find out&# - When they trust that you won’t jump down their throats for not knowing an answer. 9. “I made a mistake&# &#

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When Humor Isn’t So Funny

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. The old saying &# everybody loves a comedian &# has regretfully given birth to a time where everybody thinks they’re a comedian. You see, those who don’t understand humor failed to realize the old saying noted above was meant to be sarcastic…We all love good humor, but the truth is all humor is not good.

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What I Learned About Leadership from the Dalai Lama

Next Level Blog

This month, the Dalai Lama is in Washington, DC for a couple of weeks to lead a multi day series of Buddhist teachings called a Kalachakra. This past Saturday morning, he came out to the West Lawn of. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Why You Want Women on Your Team

Women on Business

Post by Jane K. Stimmler , contributing Women on Business writer. Making a case for more female participation on Boards of Directors, executive groups, strategic committees, project task forces or, well, just about any group, just got a little easier. A recent research study described in June’s Harvard Business Review submits that having a group comprised of more women will ultimately lead to greater success.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Applying the DISC Model: Breaking Through A Common Frustration

The Recovering Engineer

Today, I led a DISC communication skills workshop that ended with a role-play exercise to allow participants the opportunity to practice the skills we had been discussing. For many of the people in the class, this was their first in-depth exposure to the DISC model and how to use it to more effectively communicate with others. The class was lively, engaged, and energetic with everyone in the room displaying a highly positive approach to learning.

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The Most Used, And Least Successful, Leadership Technique Of All Time (Unless You’re A Vulcan)

Terry Starbucker

“We’re in the dark here&#. “Nobody knows what’s going on&#. These are classic signs of a leadership technique I call “ Leadership by Osmosis “ That is, the expectation that a leader’s knowledge can simply be transferred to others without the benefit of much verbal and written communication – kind of like Mr.

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Leadership Interview – James Hotaling

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. There are simply no words that can do justice to the example of servant leadership epitomized by Command Chief Master Sergeant James Hotaling. A highly decorated member of the special operations community earning the Bronze Star with Valor for actions during Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan, Jim is a true American hero.

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Three Signs That Your Slide Deck Stinks

Next Level Blog

Earlier this year, I was with an executive who was proudly showing me the Power Point presentation he had prepared for an upcoming strategic offsite. We got through three slides and he turned to me. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Women Make up Half of Workforce but Just 2% of CEOs

Women on Business

Catalyst published some interesting statistics about how women stack up in the U.S. workforce. The results aren’t very surprising if this is a topic you’re familiar with, but for those that aren’t, check out the stats below: Women make up : 46.7% of the U.S. labor force. 51.5% of management, professional and related occupations. 14.4% of Fortune 500 executive officers. 15.7% of Fortune 500 board seats. 7.6% of Fortune 500 top earners. 2.6% of Fortune 500 CEOs.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Employee Motivation: Compliance or Commitment?

The Recovering Engineer

Whether you are trying to resolve a conflict, coach an employee, or correct your child’s behavior; you have to wrestle with your real goals. You have to ask yourself, “Do I want compliance or commitment?&#. Many people might say, “As long as they do what I asked them to do, I don’t really care whether people are compliant or committed.&#.

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Radio Show: Spot and Correct a Workplace Culture Problem

Change Starts Here

In this episode of The Change Agent’s Dilemma, Culture Sleuth Terri Kruzan shares how to spot and correct a workplace culture problem. Listen in to hear why culture is important for change agents to pay attention to. Learn how to tell when your organization’s culture is a problem for your change initiative, and what to do about it. Listen to the show here (30 minutes): Be sure to visit the radio show page to listen to past episodes and subscribe to the show.

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6 Quick-Hitting One Line Lessons For Front Line Leaders

Terry Starbucker

In today’s ultra-competitive businesses, one of the most challenging things for middle and upper level leaders is to get leadership lessons across quickly and effectively to front line supervisors, especially while they are in the thick of their hectic day to day activities. Sometimes it’s hard to get their full attention for 10 minutes, much less the time it would take to do a full-scale training session.

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Leadership Interview – Warren Bennis

N2Growth Blog

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Widely regarded as the father of the contemporary field of Leadership, Warren Bennis paved the way for those of us who make our living as leadership advisors. Warren would never say this, so I will; he has forgotten more about leadership than most of us will ever know. Put simply, spending an hour with Warren Bennis is like drinking leadership wisdom from a fire hose.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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The Leadership Theory Lack

Next Level Blog

Today’s post is a guest post by David Burkus, the force behind the LeaderLab blog where he focuses on how to put leadership theory into practice. If you like what David shares in this post, you’ll. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Post Layoff – To Take A Lower Salary or Not

Women on Business

Guest post by Donna McNamara (learn more about Donna at the end of this post). Unemployment in the US has been creeping upward again since May and currently stands a little over 9%. For many (myself included), unexpected job loss created a new normal. That new normal seems to translate into a lower salary upon finding work again. My situation is a little different from most.

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Conflict Resolution Tips: The Power of Patience

The Recovering Engineer

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post in the ABC’s of Life series on forgiveness. Today, I got a comment from Aled Davies with a link to a post on his blog about 5 Steps to Forgiveness. I really liked what I read over at Aled’s blog, and it got me thinking: one of the key components I see in the 5 steps he wrote about is patience. The patience to: Slow down your emotional response.

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Even the best changes involve loss

Change Starts Here

I was reminded this week that all changes – no matter how good – come with a sense of loss. We bought a car. After 9 years, my husband’s SUV seemed to have more non-working parts than working parts. The key fobs didn’t work, and when he locked the door manually, one of the locks made a funny sound. The air conditioning (essential in Atlanta) occasionally stopped working.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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How 4 Little Pronouns Can Make or Break Your Leadership

Terry Starbucker

It’s amazing how pronouns can tell us so much about the state of a company, and a team. Simple little pronouns. As leaders we do a lot of thinking about what we say and how we say it – we want to make sure our messages and directions are understood. We also want our words to inspire and motivate. So we tend to focus on the larger words – the action verbs, the descriptive adjectives, or the key nouns that will get the job done.

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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

SoCal CTO

Today I join Ben Yoskovitz , Vinicius Vacanti , Jill Hubbard Bowman and Steve Blank and others in announcing the launch of StartupRoar. This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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You Get the Culture You Pay For

Next Level Blog

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been ignoring articles in the Financial Times about a cell phone hacking scandal in England. This morning, the New York Times picked up the story in a big way and I. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Being Womencentric Rocks!

Women on Business

When you meet a woman who has a vision that doesn’t quit, it makes sense to hang out with her. That is what I am doing with Pattie Simone. She is a spicy gal from New York who grew up when women were still on the quiet side; yet she could not be put in a playpen. She saw opportunities and ran with them. She still does! Her vision is a site for women: entrepreneurs, academics, scientists, authors, speakers, business owners, solopreneurs, you get the flavor, to promote their ideas and wares to wom

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Conflict Resolution Tips: Don’t Assume You Know What Someone Will Do

The Recovering Engineer

Have you ever seen or been involved in a conflict conversation where one person said: “I knew that you were going to say that!&#. If you have, you probably noticed that the conflict intensity escalated from that point forward. This type of statement is aggressive. It says that how you anticipate another person will react is a forgone conclusion rather than an expectation.

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Getting through to absolutely anyone

Change Starts Here

I recently read a book that I recommend all change agents read: Just Listen: Discover The Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone by Mark Goulston. Goulston, a psychiatrist who appears to be equal parts business consultant, marriage counselor, and hostage negotiator, shares the science of how the brain moves from “No&# to “Yes,&# and then tells how to do that with someone whose buy-in and agreement you need.

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Google+ And The Doctrine of Mutually Assured Distraction

Terry Starbucker

And now…… Google+ !!!!! Another Social Media platform. I’m now on it (as Terry Starbucker), and learning to use it, like all the other beta test subjects. It’s pretty cool, and is showing early signs of being a formidable competitor with Facebook. But this post isn’t really about Google+ – I’ll leave the technical stuff to people who really know what they’re talking about, like this excellent piece by Chris Brogan.

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What Personal Mastery is NOT

QAspire

I recently delivered a talk at Ahmedabad Management Association on the topic “Personal Mastery – The Key To Deliver Quality”. It was wonderful speaking in front of an ‘interested’ audience on a cloudy/rainy Friday evening. The talk was very well received. During my talk, I touched upon the changing world of work, new viewpoints on [.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Three Communication Lessons from Carmegeddon

Next Level Blog

Even if you don't live in Los Angeles you've probably heard of Carmegeddon. This past weekend, a 10 mile stretch of interstate 405 was closed for a bridge demolition. As Reuters reports, there was a. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Supplementing Your Income With A Home Job While Building Your Business

Women on Business

Guest post by Traci L. Dillard-Bell (learn more about Traci at the end of this post). Building a home business can be physically, emotionally, and especially financially exhausting, but there are ways maintain a steady stream of income by taking on a part-time home job early on while creating your business. Having a side income can reduce some of the stress when trying to make ends meet while you are getting your home business off the ground.

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Conflict Prevention: Just Fix the Problem

The Recovering Engineer

I am not always “on my game.&# Teaching conflict resolution, problem solving, interaction dynamics, and leadership skills does not make me perfect at applying them. It does make me aware, and that awareness helps me to correct my thinking more quickly. It also makes me work on practicing the skills so that I keep getting better. And still, I have moments of insight about myself, my thinking, and my conflict approaches that are new.