The people part of business operations.
Jock Purtle, Founder, Digital Exits Any good business leader understands employees are the key to success. You may have a great product, and you may have a solid business model, but if you don’t have the right people in the trenches, then your success will be short-lived at best, if it ever comes at all. Because […]
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Tabitha Scott, CEO, Cole Scott Group Energy drives all living things — that includes organizations. People, the seasons of the year, and companies share a common life cycle: birth, growth, maturity, and decline. Importantly, for an organization to survive, it must jump onto a new growth curve before reaching the end of its decline phase. Companies that
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Mostafa Sayyadi, Author, Leading Between the Lines The business environment is constantly changing as organizations are increasingly participating in global markets. Hypercompetition has become the norm. Innovation is also a crucial part of hypercompetitive environments. Organizations can design, copy, or update products and services easier with more adaptability then ever today. Leaders can apply innovation strategy
Jack Bergstrand, Author, The Velocity Advantage When faced with criticism, leaders usually utter some version of the same cliché: “complain all you want, but the view is pretty different when you’re in power.” Presidents say it about the Oval Office. CEOs say it about the corner office. Shareholders say it about the boardroom. The sentiment,
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Mostafa Sayyadi, Author, Leading Between the Lines Competitive advantage is sought by many executives, for instance, Grant concentrates on knowledge application, and argues that firms are entities that must apply the knowledge that their employee’s possess in order to enhance competitive advantage. An example of this is when Jamie Diamond left Citigroup to head up J.P.
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Andy Fromm, Chairman & CEO, Service Management Group When it comes to innovation, I’ve come to realize that it’s impossible to map out point A to point B. The journey isn’t direct, but rather a meandering path, full of redirections, twists, and turns. I strive to let curiosity drive me every day. This mindset is
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The COO of my consulting firm years ago used to start staff meetings with 5-15 minutes of small talk. Although he intended to promote socializing, the adverse consequences were late-arrivers, difficulty in focusing on serious discussion at the start of the meeting, and low energy throughout the remainder of the meeting. But those meetings were
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Mostafa Sayyadi, Author, Leading Between the Lines Today‘s globalized nature of competitiveness in the markets is placing more pressure on companies to develop more effective organizational strategy. There are many studies that focus on the organizational and managerial factors that create a better workplace for employees. Organizational strategy is such an area that plays a critical
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You might wonder why I am talking to CEO’s about Surgones. Every company has roles that require an increbily high level of IQ and technical skills, but even in those roles, Emotional Intelligence is the differentiator of sucsess. This article helps expain why your bright and higly analytical people still need Emotional Intelligence in the
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Kim Christfort, National Managing Director, The Deloitte Greenhouse™ Experience team In a time of accelerating change, increasing disruption, and heightened uncertainty, success demands unprecedented levels of resilience and flexibility from executives. CEOs in particular must strike a dynamic balance between seemingly paradoxical priorities – embracing risk while mitigating it, exploring new, untested, business models while
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