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Four Success Factors for Building the Executive Pipeline

Samantha Howland, Senior Managing Partner, Decision Strategies International Many organizations face a critical talent transition over the next decade. As experienced, senior leaders reach retirement age, trustees and senior executives cite succession planning as a crucial challenge considering the risks and requirements for smooth leadership transitions. Whether through internal promotion or external hires, many companies […]

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The Importance of Entrusting Workplace Freedoms

Leadership, Management

Dr. Victor Allis, CEO, Quintiq In the modern workplace, creating a corporate culture that helps engage employees is a hot topic, and has become a key factor in improving workforce retention and productivity. Yet as companies develop strategies to better engage their workforce, they often miss the opportunity to reevaluate company values and reflect on

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Innovation Saboteurs: The People Who Are Crushing Your Company’s Best Ideas (and What You Can Do About Them)

Management

Keith Harmeyer and Mitchell Rigie Not so long ago, a business could thrive for decades on just one great idea. But in today’s innovation-driven marketplace, in order to remain relevant and successful you need a big idea every year, every quarter, or in some industries, every few days. While many new innovation methodologies have been

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“Go Little, or Go Home!” Give up your gut and start leveraging “little data” for hiring

Management

Michael Simpson, CEO of Pairin At 25 years old, six months into my first time of leading a company, my mentor asked me why I was so stressed. I said, “We are doing a good job of understanding our customers and competition, and we’re providing good service. If I didn’t have staff problems, I would have

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Ready, Set, Grow

Management, Small Business

Wain Kellum, CEO, Vocalocity I have been fortunate enough to have been the CEO of six fast-growth companies, and I have worked with or served thousands of other businesses. I have learned that every business has many things that make it unique, but the one thing all businesses have in common is that they could benefit

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Risk Taking and Leadership in Business

Leadership, Self Governance

Emma Sinclair What are the skills, tendencies and inclinations that separate a good business person from a true leader? My short answer? An appetite for risk. I IPO-d my company at 29, the youngest person in the United Kingdom to have done so. I often wonder what it is about me that gave me the

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5 Things Every CEO Needs to Know

Sales

Greta Schulz Today CEOs are in a quagmire. They are finding themselves running their businesses, making CEO decisions yet having to either manage a sales department or wear the sales hat themselves. What’s a CEO to do today? There are 5 things I think are imperative to do if you would like to make it

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Leading the ‘Millennials’

Leadership, Management

Jeremy Kingsley Companies and organizations in the US and around the world are currently facing a challenge in finding ways to motivate and lead a group called “The Millennials.” There are an estimated 80 million young people between the ages of 18-35, more specific, those born from 1980-2000 (some groups use different years). They will make

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5 Tips for Becoming an Office All-Star…From a “Corporate Oddity” who Beat the Odds

Leadership, Self Governance

Joshua Coburn With competition in the business world growing at a faster pace the need for new and creative leadership is rapidly growing. Fulfilling this need has resulted in an influx of new employees penetrating the corporate landscape. Frequently these employees are thrust into management positions untrained and ill-equipped for leadership. Below are five tips

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Growing Your Franchise: 5 Tips

Entrepreneurship, Management, Small Business

Lisa Druxman When you are a franchisor, you have one goal. That is to have successful franchisees. When they are successful, we are successful. Here are 5 tips that have helped us grow one of the fastest growing franchises in the country:

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