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Six tips for ensuring innovation starts from the top down

John Sweeney & Elena Imaretska, Co-authors, The Innovative Mindset: 5 Behaviors for Accelerating Breakthroughs As leaders, we typically oversee finance, operations, marketing, communications, human resource and even innovation officers. We empower individuals in these roles to evaluate, orchestrate, strategize, create, hire and innovate. However, sometimes there is a common misconception that empowerment is a handoff, […]

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Building Trust in your Organization

Leadership

Karen Kimsey-House, CEO, Coaches Training Institute Organizational leaders tend to believe that people will trust them more if they are always certain and clear with ready solutions for difficult problems. In reality, the opposite is true. When the courage to risk failure and the transparency of owning mistakes is balanced with a clear commitment to

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Three Leadership Locks and How to Overcome Them

Leadership

Every business leader is looking for the breakthrough solution or secret strategy that will launch their organization to the top. But what these people sometimes fail to realize is that the greatest innovation can be the leadership they display. The most crucial strategy a business can enact is the one that determines how people lead

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Indecision: Consternation or Constipation

Leadership, Management

“People say I am indecisive, but I am not so sure about that.” I have seen this quote attributed to a former US President, but I doubt he actually said this. First, it is too humorous a comment for him and, second, he is far from indecisive. The liberal pundits trying to attribute that quote

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The Xbox Rules: Lessons Learned as the CXO

Leadership

Robbie Bach, Author, Xbox Revisited: A Game Plan for Corporate and Civic Renewal When I am introduced as Microsoft’s original Chief Xbox Officer (or CXO), I get all kinds of reactions ranging from “Wow, what a great opportunity” to “Can I have your autograph for my son?” The Xbox saga was a challenging journey in

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Are You Stuck in the 80’s? Do You Still Love Your Daytimer?

Leadership, Management, Strategy

Are you still making excuses to use a paper calendar? You don’t have a flip phone anywhere on you, do you? I don’t know about you, but I loved my Daytimer. Perhaps you loved your Franklin planner. I was more efficient with my beloved Day-timer than I am with my Smart phone, smart as it

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Five Questions Every CEO Should Ask

Leadership

John Manning, President, Management Action Programs, Inc & Author, The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters As your company’s leader, there are a gazillion ways you can go about determining if your business is on track. But when it comes to understanding productivity, as in how productive your people are relative to

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Are Your Expectations Clear?

Leadership, Management

Cornelia Gamlem and Barbara Mitchell, Authors, The Essential Workplace Conflict Handbook A common dilemma for many CEOs is whether their team members and the firm’s associates are giving them honest feedback or merely telling them what they want to hear. Are major problems being covered up? Are major problems being solved without making the CEO

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How to Create a Culture Where More Things Get Done

Leadership, Management

We all want our teams to work quickly and efficiently. But, what most leaders don’t realize is the impact that company culture has on productivity in the workplace. People in their natural state are motivated. It is the job of every person within the culture to create an environment that allows employees to nurture and

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Leaders Who Fail: Lessons You Can Learn From Them

Leadership

Many people today talk about leadership who’ve never led anything more complex than a high school marching band. They offer this or that principle as if proven under fire when, in fact, their experience has been limited to launching missiles in a game of Battleship. But that’s not to say that you can’t learn from

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