Gershon Mader, President of Quantum Performance Inc. I’m sure you’ve seen this as many times as I have. People sit around a meeting table, nodding agreement as their leaders explain the plan for a critical change initiative. Once the meeting is over, they push back their chairs and drift towards their desks. As they congregate at […]
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Gordon Tredgold When it comes to being an inspiring leader there are really only 2 things that we need to do. Create an inspiring vision Create belief that the vision can be achieved When we create an inspiring vision we create the desire in our teams, or within ourselves, to achieve the dream. It becomes
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Jim Buchanan, Author, Winning Customer Love Over the past 40 years I’ve worked in lots of different businesses, of all types and sizes, all around the world. I’ve held jobs on the shop floor, as a route salesman, as a mid-level supervisor and manager and in the C suite, including a couple of CEO roles. My
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Jude Bijou, Author, Attitude Reconstruction: A Blueprint for Building a Better Life At work we display some of our worst behaviors. When an employee makes a mistake during a crucial, high-pressure period, we might get into a negative attitude and our mind screams, “He’s incompetent.” We all have destructive ways of thinking. While we can’t control such
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J.E. Karp, Author, The Power of Service: Service Through the Eyes of Customers THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT WHILE QUALITY AND VALUE MAY BRING THE CUSTOMER IN, GREAT SERVICE WILL BRING THEM BACK. Aside from increasing prices or decreasing costs, incremental sales increases result from two factors — repeat business and new customers. The question is, what is it
Peter Champe When I created a new and better nasal aspirator to ease our son’s chronic nasal congestion, I didn’t really know what it meant to start a business. Now Baby Comfy Nose is available in 7800 Walgreens stores nationwide and the larger baby products company, Baby Comfy Care is expanding. There are many things I wish
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Rick Norris My uncle Wayne raced Indian motorcycles in the 1930s. One of his projects was refurbishing a 1936 Indian Scout, though his sons Wayne and Bart ultimately completed the project. To do so, they had to take inventory of the bike and plan the tasks of obtaining the parts and executing the labor. The
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Dr. Patricia Thompson, Author, “The Consummate Leader When the buck stops with you, it can be difficult to separate yourself from work. Being on the receiving end of pressure from shareholders, the sense of responsibility to do right by those who report to you, and the ultimate accountability that comes with being at the helm of an
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Suzanne Bates, CEO, Bates Communications How many leaders have walked onto a big stage and stumbled at precisely the moment when we hoped they would shine? When Mary Barra appeared before Congress in April to answer for events leading to GM’s recall of 1.6 million vehicles with faulty ignitions, her careful, overly-scripted testimony landed with
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Fred J. Conforti, Beyond Goals…Beyond LEAN In over thirty years of starting, managing, growing, buying, and selling companies, along with a decade of consulting for more than a dozen companies, I have observed and catalogued the attributes that are most problematic for an enterprise to be successful. Any one of these shortcomings alone is not so
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