The people part of business operations.
When I trained as a coach under the great Woody Hayes at The Ohio State University, we all learned one important lesson early: Don’t try to manage results. This is the key to success in anything people do. In this video, I talk about the only two things a person or a team can actually […]
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Greg Matter, Vice President, JLL At this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive festival, the shortening of product life-cycles, funding and recruitment were identified as some of the top challenges facing tech firms and start-ups. Although the terminology may differ, these challenges are universal across industries: developing a constant stream of innovative products that provide a competitive advantage;
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One of the most impactful areas to create a radical shift in business growth and results is to be able to distinguish between “what you are doing” each day (i.e., work deliverables) and “who you are being” as a leader. All businesses are results oriented, but what is it that makes one business more successful
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Richard L. Weinberger, PhD, CPA As the CEO of an organization, you spend a great deal of your time deciding what future changes will be most beneficial for your company. When contemplating these major decisions, what’s your initial starting point? One effective tool is a SWOT analysis, which highlights the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
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When you move beyond providing “customer service” and connect at a deeper level by providing solutions, it allows you to “understand and care.” It takes the customer’s experience to an entirely new level. When you genuinely care for your customer, they can feel it — it touches their heart. You truly make a difference in
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In April, as decreed by the Church of England, we commemorate the life of William of Ockham, an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher who has influenced modern organizational theory—but not enough. Peter Drucker’s medieval counterpart offered the observation that “entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity,” although these exact words never actually appear in
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Shari Sandifer, CEO, Avant Work is stressful. Between deadlines, budgets, meetings and managing different opinions and personalities, it’s easy to get buried under the day’s demands. And for individuals trying to balance their work lives with families and other responsibilities, it becomes all-to-easy to neglect one’s own mental, physical and spiritual well-being. While the expectation in
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Bob Farrell, CEO, Kewill In the business world, failure is too often thought of in negative terms. But, failure is a normal, even inevitable, part of any executives’ journey. Mistakes can often be some of the best business lessons learned in disguise. Here are a few tips for how you can start thinking of mistakes
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Todd C. Williams, Founder & President, eCameron, Inc. We have all seen the headlines. Day after day, government projects seem to fail, costing taxpayers millions of dollars. Transparency in the public sector makes these failures good press fodder. However, the failure rate is not much less in the private sector. And, you would be crazy to
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Steve McIntosh, Chief Fan Ambassador, Fanhub Everyone seems to know the ‘secrets’ of entrepreneurship—so why are successful businesses so rare? Nearly 90 percent of businesses in the U.S. have less than 20 employees, and half of all businesses close within five years. In tech, the stats are especially grim: Henry Blodget, founder of Business Insider, calculated that only 1 in 200
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