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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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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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The Leader’s Goal: Understanding People

Leadership, Management

In the past three weeks, I have facilitated several meetings within organizations both large and small in which I helped teams create plans to meet their goals. One common and recurring theme I hear is the “problem with management” or “the leaders don’t understand what we’re dealing with”. When these comments are made, the leaders

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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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Raising Your Goals: Combining Motivation and Education

Leadership

Will Harris Zig Ziglar’s reputation as an inspiring speaker, successful business professional and super nice guy was everything I sought to obtain in life. A mutual acquaintance introduced me to Mr. Ziglar by saying, “Zig, Will Harris holds you in highest regard. His life goal was to meet you.” Mr. Ziglar smiled and said, “Well,

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Agility: The Guns Germs & Steel of the Organization

Leadership, Management

In Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel, the author takes the reader on a whirlwind tour through 13,000 years of history on all the continents. He also directly and indirectly offers some observations and recommendations about what leaders can do to influence the cultures they create and the organizations they aspire to lead. The author

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C-Suite Coaching: No Longer a “Nice to Have”

Leadership, Management

There is nowhere to hide. Not even the executive suite is safe from the changes sweeping business today. In fact, the impact of those changes is felt most keenly at the executive levels. CEOs, COOs, CFOs and senior vice presidents — like everyone else — have to hit the ground running and keep running fast.

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On Motivating Others

Leadership, Management

Jeff Gitterman As an employer, my interest is in creating long term changes that hopefully lead to better moral and ethical decisions from both me and my employees. With this in mind, I’ve generally found that there are two ways to go about motivating others. The first is to affect them through fear and manipulation

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