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You’ve Reached the Top. Now What? Pointers for Facing Life After the C-Suite

Nick Craig, President, Core Leadership Institute Congratulations: You’re at the top of your organization or field. CEO, CFO, chairperson, award winner… Most executives and high-achievers have a predictable narrative as to how they expect their journey to turn out, from moving up the ranks in their organizations to reaching a coveted position, often with a fancy […]

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The Importance of Values: Why it takes more than words to build a solid culture

Management

Oleg Konovalov, Author, Corporate Superpower: Cultivating a Winning Culture for Your Business An organization’s culture informs its members of the behavior which is most appropriate for certain environmental conditions, and by doing so, allows people to achieve their goals. Thus, culture is accountable for achieving a certain level of excellence in living and development. In terms of governance

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Why Doing the Right Thing Can Bring You Success in the Global Marketplace

Leadership, Management, Self Governance, Small Business

Paul A. Dillon, Owner, Dillon Consulting Services LLC This is not a typical business article. I’m not really going to tell you directly that you should be doing the “right thing” in business because it is good for customer relationships, or good for business in the global marketplace, in general—or, even that it will keep

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The Impact of Culture on Profit

Management, Strategy

Steven L. Blue, President & CEO of Miller Ingenuity What is a business? This might seem straightforward, but consider it more deeply; what truly is a business? I’m talking about the values, identity and culture that make a particular business what it is. This word – culture – is key. The atmosphere internal to an organization,

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Two Strategies to Avoid the Downward Trend in Honorable Leadership

Leadership

Lee Ellis, President, Leadership Freedom® LLC Do you watch trends? For some leaders, it’s easy to pick up on patterns and trends in business and culture. For other leaders, it’s not as intuitive. Unfortunately, the decline in accountability and honorable behavior in our culture is a hard trend to miss. The business sector is making some

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VW: No Mission, No Vision, No Hope

Leadership, Strategy

Ann Skeet, Director of Leadership Ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University Since the story broke that VW deliberately buried emissions results in its software, plenty has been written about this case of corporate malfeasance, perhaps more than any since Enron. The Volkswagen brand crisis seems fairly straightforward to me. With

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Achieving Growth Despite Recession

Leadership, Management

Norman Wedderburn, President & CEO, Make-A-Wish Southern Florida Imagine a business that doesn’t sell a product or provide a service, instead focuses solely on providing an intangible and unquantifiable emotion. Imagine also if one chooses to be involved only when their heart is moved. This is a challenge in any economic climate but herculean when the

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Three Reasons We Value Truth-Telling in CEOs

Self Governance

While most of us try to be truthful, we all lie on occasion. Some lies are minor (“Of course you don’t look fat in that outfit!”) and many are the “white lies” of everyday discourse (“This is the one product you cannot live without.”) In most cases, these lies do not cause harm and do

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