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The Secret to Transformation Success: Let Go!

Lior Arussy, CEO, Strativity Organizations and executives crave predictability and consistency. Bearing the burden of accountability to stockholders and stakeholders, CEOs seek complete visibility to their companies’ operation, performance, and results. This obsession with consistency and predictability is what often keeps organizations from adapting more quickly to the changing environments in the market and to evolving […]

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Having Difficult Conversations Isn't Easy

4 Mistakes CEO’s Make in Difficult Conversations

Leadership, Management

One of the most important things a CEO must do is have skillful difficult conversations – holding people accountable, rolling out change people don’t like, pushing back with the board, and for those of you with teenagers, telling them “no” to something they really, REALLY, want. I’ve trained and coached many CEO’s, and these are

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Business Lessons Learned from Preparing for the World Marathon Challenge

Leadership, Self Governance

Jonathan Terrell, Founder & President, KCIC On February 5, 2018, I became one of a small number of people from around the globe to complete the World Marathon Challenge — seven marathons, in seven days, on all seven continents. It was a grueling experience, but I was successful because I applied several lessons I’ve learned since

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3 Strategies to Connect as a Leader

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Small Business, Strategy

Clark, my client, stopped by our office unexpected: “I have good news and bad news. The good news first. . . . A couple of partners and I just bought a small telecom—a spinoff of the division I managed before we all got laid off.” “Sounds like great news,” I said. “Maybe. If we can

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Who Will Change the World: How CEOs can effectively work with employees in globalized markets?

Leadership

Mostafa Sayyadi, Author, Transformational Leadership: How To Prosper as a Leader In Today’s Hypercompetitive Environment “A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.” — Nelson Mandela The business environment is constantly changing as organizations

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The Best CEOs Continue Their Personal Development

Leadership

John Knights, Co-founder and Chairman of LeaderShape Global It is not surprising that most CEOs and other senior leaders put a brake on their personal development as a leader once they are in that position. First, they got to where they are by being who they are! Who can argue with that? And second, the job

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Poor Performance – Whose Fault Is It?

Leadership

Kelly and Robby Riggs, Authors, Counter Mentor Leadership: How to Unlock the Potential of the 4-Generation Workplace Unfortunately, most managers aren’t interested in being better leaders. Not really. What they’re most interested in is blaming the younger generation. From slumping sales to dismal employee engagement, it’s all the fault of those entitled, lazy, glued-to-their-phones Millennials. We

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Learn, Laugh, Lead: How to Avoid a Huge Leadersh*t

Leadership

Brian M. Harman & Stephanie M. Taglianetti, Authors, Learn, Laugh, Lead: How to Avoid a Huge Leadersh*t Cultivating a generation of future-proof leaders. This generation understands the impact of storytelling. They are aware of the emotional connection and content structure that drives meaning, impact and action into everything that they do. Stories and laughter are fundamental

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Entrepreneurship for Company Leaders

Entrepreneurship, Leadership

Derek Lidow, Author , Building on Bedrock: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney and Other Great Self-Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies At crucial decision points for growing a business, leaders often find themselves in the position of fledgling entrepreneurs. They may have been tasked with launching a new business, entering a new market

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The Four Keys to Building Leadership Capability in the New World

Leadership

Sebastian Salicru , Author, Leadership Results: How to Create Adaptive Leaders and High-performing Organizations for an Uncertain World As an experienced and astute CEO, you have realized already that the rules of the game have changed. The new world of turbulence, volatility, high velocity, and the disruption caused by a plethora of new technologies, has also changed the

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