Many people today talk about leadership who’ve never led anything more complex than a high school marching band. They offer this or that principle as if proven under fire when, in fact, their experience has been limited to launching missiles in a game of Battleship. But that’s not to say that you can’t learn from […]
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Enough books have been written and enough information is available that, by now, most leaders and managers understand what they need to do to manage change in their organization. They understand the need to get buy-in, secure credible senior sponsors, persuade key influencers in the organization and communicate, communicate, communicate. Some of the more sophisticated
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Claudia St. John, Author, Transforming Teams: Tips for Improving Collaboration and Building Trust A client called recently with a major worry. “We have a big problem with our customer service representatives (CSRs) not getting along with our sales people. Our CSRs are not being supportive of the new sales associates that we just hired,” she
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One of the most exciting opportunities available in business today is partnering with nonprofits in cause-related marketing. Generally defined as a partnership where both the for-profit and the nonprofit partners have something to offer and each realizes a benefit, cause-related marketing contributes to the community, while also expanding your company’s network and audience. To succeed
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Do you remember the feeling you had when you first started your business? Do you remember your first product launch? The first time a customer told you how great your company was, how much they loved a product? The joy you experienced by doing the work? I was reminded of all of that this past
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Gary Douglas, Founder, Access Consciousness Most business leaders desire innovation, yet they reward compliance and consistency. Is that working for your business, or your leadership? Or do you agree that it is time to create a different future? You create a different kind of competitive advantage when you take the perspective that every person and
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“Project management is easy. We have been managing people for hundreds of years. Just take any manager, give them a project, and tell them to get it done.” Experienced project managers will accurately predict the end of this story—there is a disproportionate chance this project will fail. Rather than “manager” being the key noun, a leader is required
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Bryan Miles, CEO & Co-founder, Miles Advisory Group You’ve been there before: you’re at a trade show or important event and you’ve got to focus on networking, speaking, and attending important sessions, but your email and tasks just keep piling up. You know they are, and the idea of sorting through all these items when
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Anthony Zolezzi, Serial Entrepreneur, CEO Advisor and Author As an advocate for success, I find myself asking many of the same old questions. What made that team so successful? How did that group get so much more done than the rest? How does this person make everything seem effortless and how are they so productive?
Many of our business models and leadership strategies are based on expectations and educations that are no longer relevant. We are currently engaged in a revolution, the equivalent of the industrial revolution that changed the world a century ago, yet many of us are failing to adapt and evolve. There are many businesses and individuals
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