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Your “One Big Thing” – Going Beyond Success to Achieve Significance

Joseph A Michelli, Author, Driven to Delight: Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz Way Columnist and author Irving Kristol once suggested that leaders need to define that “one big thing and stick with it.” Whenever I consider offering customer experience consulting services for a prospective business client, I interview senior leadership and ask a lot of […]

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3 Unconventional Ways To Empower Your Team

Leadership

Gary Douglas Empowering your team is about you, far more than it is about your team. As an unconventional leader, you start empowering them (and yourself) by giving up control. You may desire to control everything, and if you are willing to let it go, you and your team will together create so much more

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Homeward Bound: Four Questions to Ask Yourself on Your Drive Home from Work

Leadership

It’s 5 p.m. and you’re ready to leave the office and make the journey home. How do you spend this time between destinations? You could lament the inevitable rush-hour traffic, or tune in to your radio station of choice. But you can also use this time to reflect on your day and gradually switch gears

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Do You Know the Business You’re Really In?

Leadership, Management, Strategy

Ask most people what business they’re in and they’ll likely tell you what they do for a living. Some will define themselves by the product they produce or the services they provide, others will default to their job title or their role as a way of defining their business. The problem with these definitions is

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Get Out of Your Own Way for Company Growth

Leadership

Bryan Miles, CEO, eaHELP When you’ve started an organization from the ground up, it can be really tempting to keep it a one-man (or woman) show. You’re the one who’s taken the risks, endured the sleepless nights, poured out the sweat and tears to get your company off the ground. But in order to keep your

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Need Motivation Tips? Learn from Super Bowl Commercials.

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Small Business, Strategy

The big day was approaching. By “big day” I don’t mean election day (which can’t come soon enough) or a wedding day, I mean the Super Bowl—THE big day for sports fans. To be clear, I am not a sports aficionado but even people like me watch the Super Bowl. Not because of the game

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Be the Coach Who Still Plays

Leadership

Wolfgang Koester, CEO & Co-founder, FiREapps It has been my experience that the most important factor in a CEO’s success is whether he or she is willing and able to get down in the trenches with employees. Like the coach who is still out on the field with the team. There is an adage that great leaders don’t

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How to Strengthen Relationships at the Office

Leadership

As the head of an organization, you can either take the high road or the low road with your leadership. A leader who is concerned with fixing and resolving a situation in the present moment with little or no regard for developing people and relationships is taking the low road. High road leaders, on the

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Time management courses aren’t working—but why?

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Small Business, Strategy

Does your organization’s professional development program offer time management courses? How is that going for you? If you’re like a lot of businesses, you’re probably footing a rather expensive bill for such training programs, with the expectation that employees will return with skills for working more efficiently and productively. Unfortunately, if you’re also like a

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Stop Telling People What to Do, Ingage their Hearts Instead

Leadership

Evan Hackel, CEO, Tortal Training & Ingage Consulting I am a CEO, and I have worked with many other top executives during my career. So I speak from experience when I say that this could be the biggest day-to-day frustration many leaders face . . . “I tell people what to do, but they don’t

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