Christie Caldwell, Director of Consulting (Asia-Pacific), Aperian Global The HR VP for a major US corporation leans across a broad desk on the 33rd floor of a glossy office building in Shanghai’s Lujiazui financial district. “We basically have a leadership crisis here in APAC when we start to hit the director level. From this level […]
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Barbara Wittmann, Leadership Coach What we can learn from tribal culture to inspire sustainable business 10 years ago I walked away from a fancy corporate Job and started my own IT consulting business in Munich, Germany. In a highly competitive market it was not easy as a small player and “newbie” to get ahead. In
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Karen Kimsey-House, CEO, Coaches Training Institute Organizational leaders tend to believe that people will trust them more if they are always certain and clear with ready solutions for difficult problems. In reality, the opposite is true. When the courage to risk failure and the transparency of owning mistakes is balanced with a clear commitment to
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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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