John Manning, President, Management Action Programs, Inc & Author, The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters As your company’s leader, there are a gazillion ways you can go about determining if your business is on track. But when it comes to understanding productivity, as in how productive your people are relative to […]
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Cornelia Gamlem and Barbara Mitchell, Authors, The Essential Workplace Conflict Handbook A common dilemma for many CEOs is whether their team members and the firm’s associates are giving them honest feedback or merely telling them what they want to hear. Are major problems being covered up? Are major problems being solved without making the CEO
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Chip R. Bell, Author, Sprinkles: Creating Awesome Experiences Through Innovative Service Disruptors are getting a lot of attention these days. They are the organizations that have recognized many organizations have reached the limits of incremental improvement as a means of competitive advantage. The pursuit of innovation has replaced the singular quest for kaizen. Continuous improvement
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Susan Boresow, President of TITLE Boxing Club The role of a “leader” in this day and age is dramatically transforming as accountability, transparency, and creativity become the forefront of our efforts as opposed to simply dictating a team. Leaders are becoming less thought of as authority figures and more so team members and mentors. Keeping
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Daniel Korschun, Associate Professor at Drexel University & co-author, We Are Market Basket The most famous chief executives are often quite charismatic and even a bit flamboyant. Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Mark Cuban, and Donald Trump. But does a charismatic leader make for a well-functioning company? Recent evidence points to a pretty weak relationship between charisma and
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Raymond D. “Ray” Zinn, Author, Tough Things First Seth Godin recently identified some reasons why CEOs can be stupid, and he almost found the central theme (almost, but not quite). CEOs are human, and as such they fall prey to human emotions. One of the trickiest human functions is ego. In Godin’s blog, he listed
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Arman Sadeghi You may think of yourself as another CEO or president but each individual falls into one of three categories. The key is that while every CEO has all of these three people living inside of them, there is always one that is dominant, one that is in development and one that is almost
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Aaron K. Olson and B. Keith Simerson, Authors, Leading with Strategic Thinking Disruptive forces are sweeping through nearly every industry, placing heightened importance on both strategy and leadership. Strategy is critical to ensure that businesses navigate a changing competitive landscape. Leadership is necessary to rally teams and seize these opportunities. We have devoted our careers
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Martin Kettelhut, PhD, Author, Listen Till You Disappear True leadership is the ability to bring out the best in people and circumstances. Just giving orders is hardly leadership. You need to be able to hear what’s working and what’s not, in order to lead your company to perform at its best. There are three areas
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Chip R. Bell, Author, Sprinkles: Creating Awesome Experiences Through Innovative Service We are in a peculiar business era. Customers demand personalized, tailor-made delight delivered by highly adaptive front line people. New products and services released today can be reverse engineered and duplicated by competitors before close of business tomorrow. Newly acquired skills are obsolete almost
