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Is Your Communication Direct—Or Downright Damaging?

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Sales, Self Governance, Small Business

Leaders like to think they know when and how to be direct. They should. Direct communication is good. Damaging communication, on the other hand, can destroy a relationship, partnership, sale, or reputation forever. Why does one listener consider a comment “over-the-top” disrespectful, while another listener interprets the same remark as just “firm,” straightforward, even prudent? […]

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A CEO’s Amazing Transformation Story

Business Ops., Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Strategy

I am professional speaker and after my speeches, people often share stories about their leaders: both the good and the bad. At a recent keynote, I was surprised at the number of positive stories people were telling me about thier CEO. They built a picture of a leader who had led an amazing turnaround in culture and performance.

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10 Leadership Communication Habits That Ruin Relationships

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Self Governance

Few people admit to poor communication habits—much less habits that can cost them a promotion, a job, or a deal. Yet we’ve all seen the following bad habits in colleagues from time to time—and for some, they occur on a daily basis. Guard against letting these creep into your own interactions with staff, peers, or

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4 Myths About How Executives Become Engaging Speakers

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Self Governance, Small Business

Jason, an executive client, shared his new year’s goal with me: “I want to become a more inspiring speaker so that my employees really catch the vision for this upcoming year and get engaged.” Sounds worthwhile. Here’s the backstory: According to his CEO, Jason, who’d stepped in as plant manager three years earlier, was not

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3 Reasons Why the Ship Won’t Move When You Turn the Wheel

Management

Ed Muzio, CEO of Group Harmonics You’ve got the title, the corner office and the perks. But most of all, you’ve got a realistic picture of the job: to be an executive or senior leader is to be the person with whom the buck stops. Small, isolated problems arise and are solved all over the place,

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Corporate America’s Most Costly Habit

Management

Elise Keith, Co-founder, Lucid Meetings & Author, Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization There is one activity in every company that: Impacts every employee, Consumes 30% of employees’ time on average, and up to 80% of an executives’ day, Drives the success or failure of all collaborative work. This is an

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4 Ways to Lead People You Don’t Like

Editors, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Self Governance

At some point in your career, you’re going to find yourself leading a team, department, division, or organization where you’re working with an employee who irritates you. Sometimes you know why. Often you don’t. When analyzing that negative gut reaction to yourself, you may label that person “slick,” “arrogant,” “self-righteous,” “lazy,” “pretentious,” “sniveling,” “aggressive,” “presumptuous,”

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Spotting and Supporting Change Makers

Management

Amy Radin, Author, The Change Maker’s Playbook: How to Seek, Seed and Scale Innovation In Any Company Hard work, persistence, passion, and resourcefulness propel change makers forward. But so does the ability to spot and support other changemakers to join forces with you – to attract them to your organization, and then to help them succeed. You

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The #1 Sign of Intelligence, According to Jeff Bezos

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Strategy

Jeff Bezos is the CEO of one of the worlds most successful companies – Amazon – who have grown at an astronomical rate, disrupting multiple industries along the way (did you know that Cloud Computing is one of Amazon’s largest and most profitable divisions, making life tough for Tech industry giants like IBM and Microsoft?)

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How Uncommon Partners May Be the Secret to Breakthrough Innovation

Leadership, Management

Kyle Nel, Nathan Furr and Thomas Zoega Ramsoy, Authors, Leading Transformation: How to Take Charge of Your Company’s Future Guiding an organization through transformation is one of the hardest things that leaders are called on to do. Among many variables, transformation requires both seeing new business opportunities, and then taking meaningful steps to capture them. But

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