The prediction is clear: The U.S. presidential campaign is one of the nastiest and divisive in history. Both political parties are working overtime to convince us the opposition is not only bad for the country, but they are immoral people, too. While most workplaces are safe havens from political discussions, the effect of the high-volume […]
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Christopher James Conner, President, Franchise Marketing Systems Scale is the true definition of leverage for a business leader, it is the culmination of solid business systems, the right people, a good business strategy and the technology to support growth. Most of us in businesses that do not traditionally scale well – Retail, Service or in my case consulting –
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John F Dowling According to Susan Krause Whitbourne, Ph.D. “It is a well – known principle in social psychology that people define themselves in terms of social groupings and are quick to denigrate others who don’t fit into those groups. Others who share our particular qualities are in our ‘in-group’ and those who do not
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Ed “Skip” McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker, Authors, The Purpose Is Profit: The Truth About Starting and Building Your Own Business Most entrepreneurial companies thrive on innovation, creativity, and speed as key ingredients for driving success. Entrepreneurs are willing to take risks to increase the probability of breakthrough achievement at the cost of possible failure. In
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Larry Solomon, CEO, Solomon People Solutions During my tenure as executive vice president of human resources at Dr Pepper Snapple, I worked with CEO Larry Young who recognized the strategic importance of a strong partnership between executive leadership and human resources. The impact of this belief in the strategic importance of people is evident in our
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Michael Timms, Founder & Principal, Avail Leadership When it comes to finding talented managers and executives, there really are only two options: recruit them or develop them from within. Common thinking is that although it may be a little more expensive to recruit them, it’s worth it because it’s quicker and easier. But that assumption is
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The Republican National Convention came to Cleveland and literally left with a bang . . . of fireworks shot over Lake Erie. The city learned lessons in security-police on bicycles are the most fluid to how to move masses of people-have every non-essential downtown employee work from home. We can learn from these communication lessons
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Sanjiv Anand, Chairman, Cedar Management Consulting International Who owns the formulation of a company’s strategy and who owns the execution? These may seem like simple questions, but I can assure you confusion exists on these topics. To a large extent, the lack of clarity in answering these questions also contributes to the failure in designing a strategy
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It’s painful: While every leader knows their organization will only win when the workforce is energized, few know how to accomplish this. With over 20 years of supporting leaders in major multinational companies, we’ve observed 3 common mistakes – and identified the steps essential to transforming the behaviors within an organization. Mistake #1: Pretending you
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Dave Marinaccio, Author, All I Really Need To Know I Learned From Watching Star Trek and Admen, Mad Men, and The Real World of Advertising Advertising is an intrusion. An unwanted interloper. A necessary evil. It’s the price we pay for television production and to hold down the cost of FIOS. It is the intersection of free speech
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