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Nate Regier, PhD, Co-founder & CEO, Next Element Conflict is like electricity. It has a lot of potential energy. We use electricity to power our appliances and cell phones. Electricity is very dangerous as well. Anyone who’s been shocked by a bad power cord can testify to that! If you’re a bit of a thrill-seeker but don’t […]
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Leaders think strategically, understand the critical link between focus and clarity, and appreciate the value of time. So fewer and fewer are inclined to let others waste their time. Brevity has become a basic communication skill for professionals. Here are six best practices as a leader: Be brief when speaking off-the-cuff. Lectures are for the
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The end is near: You can see 2016’s finish line on the horizon. For many teams this is “rally time,” meaning we need everyone super focused and giving their best efforts if we’re going to hit our goals. While every team is under immense pressure to finish the year strong, far too many will fall
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Samuel B. Bacharach, Author, The Agenda Mover Having a leadership pipeline is one of the core responsibilities of a CEO. It is continuity, transference, and evolution of leadership skills that sustains the organization. The question for leaders is, “What type of leaders will assure that your organization will thrive?” We no longer live in the world of hierarchy,
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One of the biggest mistakes that I made while running my company, Micrel, for 37 years was to hang on to problem employees – those who were extremely functional in producing a lot of high-quality work, but dysfunctional in the way in which they interfaced with others. Why is the Dysfunctional Employee So Hard to
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Lisa Messenger, Author, Daring & Disruptive When describing the life of a CEO, ‘busy’ doesn’t cut it. Be they at the start of their business journey when every dollar counts, or helming a team of hundreds, a CEO is usually spread thinner than that precious last scrape of Nutella. Budgets, reports, legal issues, people management
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Tim Brown, CEO, Nestle Waters North America Most of my peers and I know about MBWA (management by walking around) from Tom Peters’ and Robert Waterman’s classic 1982 book, In Search of Excellence. Not too long ago, I learned the term originated at Hewlett-Packard in the 1970s, when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard (who were insatiably curious,
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Jonathan Whistman, Author, The Sales Boss: The Real Secret to Hiring Training and Managing a Sales Team Any business leader understands that their results depend largely on a team of people and the quality of efforts made by those people. The greatest leaders however, understand people’s inherent need to belong and leverage this insight into
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I know many companies feel that if you don’t take care of your customer, somebody else will. At Micrel, the semiconductor company that I ran for 37 years, I told my employees that they were number one. One of my strongest beliefs is that if you don’t take care of your employees, they are not
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Dr. William A. Schiemann, CEO, Metrus Group Who wouldn’t like to be more fulfilled? If you’re not feeling totally fulfilled, you’re not alone. Even if you are fulfilled, the odds are that many of your managers and employees are not, according to new study conducted by Metrus Institute. In fact, few Millennials and only some Gen Xers
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