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Shane Cragun, Founding Principle, SweetmanCragun As you read through the following list of companies, see what comes to mind: RadioShack, Sears, Blockbuster Video, Bethlehem Steel, Kmart, Blackberry, Atari, Tidal, and Polaroid. If your answer is “all are on a path to irrelevance, or already extinct,” than you would be correct. Some are on their way to the […]
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Feeling Stressed? Don’t Suppress As a CEO you are under pressure seemingly from all sides. Maybe you feel squeezed by the need to make more revenue without more staff. Perhaps you are suffocating from long work hours with no end in sight. Stress can leave you irritable, tired and short-tempered. That is not a good
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I have created my Rules of Communication. They pretty much are the same rules for life. Sometimes people will say that they did not know that there were rules. That excuse never works for me when I say to the nice policeman that I did not know the speed limit was 25mph. He says, here’s
If you’ve made it the top of an org chart, you won’t find yourself there alone: Bad news and your company’s toughest challenges find their way to the top, too. To ensure you succeed, memorize and use three key words: Tell me more. On the surface, those words seem the antithesis to how leadership should
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What would it look like if you had better visibility into your corporate travel expenses? What if you had the right technology that integrated booking, authorizations, and payments; and then that technology streamlined your processes? What if your business travelers were happy to follow the corporate travel policy? For many lightly managed travel programs, that
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Robert H. Miles, Author, BIG Ideas to BIG Results: Leading Corporate Transformation in a Disruptive World No transformation challenge is greater than the one confronting you as a new CEO when you assume the mantel of executive leadership. Yet most CEOs only get one chance in their long careers to get this right. From the moment
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Shoba Sreenivasan, Ph.D. & Linda E. Weinberger, Ph.D. Hoarding is characterized by the inability to throw or give things away. Just as one can hoard material possessions, you can also hoard opportunity. “Success” hoarders have a “me-first” psychology: they hoard ideas; they hoard credit or recognition; they hoard connections. So, why is this wrong? It’s
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There are many ideas about the factors that contribute to the ethics of an organization. These ideas range from ethical leadership to a concern for stakeholders to having a mission beyond economic success. While these ideas seem plausible, there is little evidence to support them. More importantly, there is often little you can do to
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Ken Marlin, Author, The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street: 11 Key Principles from Battlefield to Boardroom In the early 1970s, I attended what the Marine Corps calls “The Basic School” or “TBS”. That’s where newly minted Marine Corps officers learn how to lead men in ground combat. I learned a lot at TBS as
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Did you ever play a game as a child when you made up the rules as you went along? I’m guessing that those evolving rules often proved to be a source of contention! Leaders at work find the same to be true. When managers decide to disregard their moral compass as the official business handbook,
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