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Three Choices That Will Make You an Accelerator By Craig W. Ross Accelerators can be found in every level of every organization; they get those around them to the point of realized potential more quickly and create faster, more efficient results. But, what is an Accelerator and how do you know if you […]
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Mike Goldman, Author, Performance Breakthrough: The 4 Secrets of Passionate Organizations One of the big challenges I hear from CEOs all the time is, “I can’t seem to find a way to hold my team accountable”. The leadership team has seemingly productive meetings where they define priorities and assign responsibilities and then nothing gets done.
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How can leaders move beyond assigning blame and putting out fires? Start with an arson investigation that includes looking for these early warning signs: 1. An inability among senior leaders to articulate the organization’s strategy Most leaders can explain what they plan to do this week or this quarter, but fewer have the ability to
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You can live your life by one of two philosophes. You can choose to be the exception to any rule or you can choose to be the rule. There are always exceptions: JFK was the first-and last-Catholic in the White House and Chrissie Evert had a winning unorthodox backhand. But both of these are the
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Steve Newhall, Managing Partner, Leadership & Talent Consulting, UK Business leaders spend significant amounts of time designing and agreeing upon strategy but comparatively little time thinking about their culture. In a 2014 Korn Ferry survey, while 72% of executives agreed that culture is extremely important to organizational performance, only 32% believed their own organization’s culture
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Mike Zani, CEO, PI Worldwide A recent Harvard Business Review survey revealed that 66% of CEOs cite “talent-related issues” as their top business challenge. Finding and competing for top talent is only the beginning: once you’ve hired people into the organization, making sure you are identifying and developing high-potential employees is also a significant concern
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Tommy Spaulding, President, Spaulding Companies The Brown Palace Hotel in Denver has been one of the most elegant establishments in Colorado since its founding in 1892. It was named one of the world’s 500 best hotels by Travel & Leisure and every U.S. president since Teddy Roosevelt (except Calvin Coolidge) has been a guest at
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Janet wore a smile from the nose down; her eyes bore daggers. If I offered a Friday afternoon off for having finished a big project early, she “wished” it had been last week when she and her husband were headed out of town for the football game. When I ordered in pizza for everyone’s lunch
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By Craig W. Ross What do your employees know about you? The answer to that question has a more significant impact on your organization’s performance than you may realize. When given the opportunity to work with an organization, I like to ask team members to tell me about their CEO. The answers I get inform
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Mike Figliuolo, Co-author of Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results “Steamroller” personalities can be caustic. They get results but at the expense of relationships and morale. Sometimes they’re outright aggressive and roll over people. Other times they’re passive aggressive and get results with no regard for the emotional
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