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Howard Fero and Rebecca Herman The manager of a Major League Baseball team, the manager of a retail store, and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company all have at least one thing in common, they all need to manage a team, and they all need to determine how to get the most productivity and […]
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Jim Porçarelli CEOs can best achieve business success by harnessing the combined expertise and skills of the company’s C-suite. Yet, to move at a fast enough speed to keep up with the accelerating business environment, it is imperative that the entire team is on the same page – meaning that alignment within the C-suite is
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You have seen them in nearly every professional setting: those not-so-subtle posters that display visually stimulating photographs complemented by inspiring quotes. As motivational spins on subliminal messaging, these photos – and a host of other similarly designed gadgets – are meant to encourage perseverance, leadership, teamwork, customer service, and other productive behaviors. The logic suggests
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Steve Jones Now more than ever, you need a rock star personal brand. That feeling people have about who you are, what you stand for, and what to expect from you is your personal brand. Whether you like it or not, you have a personal brand. Instead of ignoring your personal brand, the wiser choice
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There is a difference between first place and the rest of the field. After the Cleveland Browns drafted Johnny Football, Johnny Manziel, the owner made a lot of noise about Johnny having to earn his way to the top spot. Good try, but it doesn’t really work like that. Cream rises to the top. And
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Jason Hogg, Senior Lecturer at Cornell University The relationship between a boss and an employee can make a huge impact on performance, work culture, productivity and communication in any job. Naturally, expectations and social norms are different between colleagues and supervisors — but how can you maintain that balance? Here are some tips on how bosses from
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Todd C. Williams, Founder & President, eCameron, Inc. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) implementations fail at an alarming rate. In fact, your implementation probably will not meet your goals either. I have heard of few that actually do meet their goals. Unfortunately, the primary reason is not software difficulties. Regardless of what Salesforce and Microsoft tell you,
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David Berman, President, RingCentral How RingCentral Maintains Core Values During Rapid Growth When Vlad Shmunis, RingCentral’s founder and CEO, brought me on to his team, he asked me to lead the company’s growth with larger customers and rally the organization to the next level. In startup mode, the team was very small, fast and intense. As
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Are you often faced with conflicting situations and mixed-message demands from your board, your team, key stakeholders, and the market? Take risks to grow dramatically and protect your current stability. Seek to maximize sales and watch the bottom line. Build future leaders and prove leadership excellence now. Paradox thinking is “and” thinking. It enables balanced management of interdependent conflicting objectives. Adopting
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New excuses for inferior performance crop up just as fast as one can whack them down—reminiscent of Whack-a-Mole, a game that involved forcing individual plastic moles back into their holes by hitting them directly on the head with a mallet. This week I encountered a new breed of mole related to a hospital’s low patient
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