Ilene Marcus, Author, Managing Annoying People: 7 Proven Tactics To Maximize Team Performance How can leadership be a better job? As a boss, all eyes are on us whether we like it or not. Our key responsibility is to embody the soul of our company’s efforts; to display the values and commitment of our brand proposition. That’s […]
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Stacey Engle, Senior Vice President, Fierce, Inc. Significant events over the past year—including the presidential election, the ever-growing millennial workforce and key technological advancements—have brought to light a number of issues. These events have created tension and given rise to new demands in the workplace. Although 2016 is behind us, the wake of the past year’s
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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts – Aristotle. What will make your life whole? What does this equation look like? The whole of your life done well makes for exponential happiness. Its greater than the sum of its parts! Take for example the great Steve Jobs. He achieved amazing success in
Melissa Greenwell, Author, Money On The Table During most of my nearly thirty years in corporate America, working with public and private companies of all sizes and industries, I’ve held a senior leadership role – had a “seat at the table,” surrounded almost exclusively by men. This is not surprising. Only twenty-three Fortune 500 companies are led by
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Suhas Apte & Jagdish N. Sheth, Authors, THE SUSTAINABILITY EDGE: How To Drive Top-Line Growth With Triple-Bottom-Line Thinking Ensuring long-term sustainability, whether it’s a start-up or an ongoing business, should be a top priority for every entrepreneur and CEO. With the growth stagnation seen in mature markets, resource availability in decline, the pace of innovation accelerating
Judith E. Glaser, CEO, Benchmark Communications, Inc. Conversational Intelligence as a Vital Leadership Skill Organizations are changing at a dizzying and constant pace, creating the potential for volatility, distrust, and fear. These qualities both manifest and are fueled by conversations: conversations between leaders, between leaders and employees, and among employees themselves. Why should leaders care about
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Michael Adebisi, Director, NewTime Consulting, Ltd. There’s no question about it: managing the massive, burgeoning scope of Big Data is one of the biggest challenges that companies face now and in the future. Big Data analytics promise to supply answers that fuel effective redirection of company strategies and resources when necessary. But how can CEOs
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Each year I aspire to teach my clients lessons that will help them improve their personal and professional lives and their businesses. But what many of them probably don’t realize is that I simultaneously learn as I teach. And even though I’ve been consulting for more than thirty-five years, each year and each client has
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Tracy Benson, CEO, On the Same Page Few quarterbacks enter their rookie season as the Dallas Cowboys’ Dak Prescott has this year – with the explicit support and mentoring from team’s reigning all-star Tony Romo, on the DL since the start of the season. Last week, the corporate world witnessed its very own parallel. Howard Schultz,
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Bob Kulhan, President, CEO & Founder, Business Improv At first glance, “improvisational leadership” might seem to be contradiction in terms. Leaders are thoughtful, strategic people; improvisation is a comedic art form and a team sport in which no one person is greater than the ensemble. However, when you redirect the tenets of improvisation away from comedy and toward
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