Nathan Ott, CEO of eg.1 By the very nature of our role, as leaders, we need to create a vision that galvanizes people. We have to empower our teams to keep our organizations moving forward. To be truly successful we have to constantly challenge the status quo and encourage our people to change the game […]
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Craig W. Ross, CEO & President, Verus Global Beware: Those on your exec team may be masquerading as leaders. They may be unaware that, in reality, they are behaving as bosses. You might have a team of bosses on your hands—and if you do, you could be one as well. Successful companies thrive under great
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To observe that Jim Kouzes has some insightful things to say about leadership is a bit like pointing out that the sun could teach us a thing or two about illumination. In his foreword to a new book on employee engagement, Jim packs a great deal of such insight into remarkably few words when he
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Dõv Baron, Author, Fiercely Loyal: How High Performing Companies Develop and Retain Top Talent Leadership and what it takes to be great at it have likely been debated since some caveman rallied a few of his buddies to help him take down the big prey. Two of the guidelines we have typically used to determine
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Lou Solomon, CEO & Founder, Interact Sitting in a boardroom with your leadership team, you might be seduced into believing that you can drive change for employees while avoiding the pain of self-inventory. You might even imagine that your problems are caused by everyone else–and that you have earned the right to expect the trust
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Esen Akter Tekinel, COO/Vice Chair, PMI-Washington, DC When was the last time your team leader displayed poor interpersonal relationship skills? When did you see a leader escalating tension in an already stressful situation? If your answer is “recently”, this and similar cases can be alleviated with a new leadership model. The model proposed herein, can
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Dr. Sherrie Campbell, Author, Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person For elite CEO’s the first steps toward true success should be inward. Proficient CEO’s understand that mastering who they are comes in harnessing their inner-power, instincts and intuition. Knowing themselves and their emotional patterns indefinitely leads these CEO’s into to the right
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Chip R. Bell, Author, Sprinkles: Creating Awesome Experiences Through Innovative Service Flo has been the highly popular spokesperson for Progressive Insurance for a long time. Her ad character has delightfully ranged from the whimsical to the wacky; from clever to coy. She has sung, danced and even played multiple roles in the same ad. But,
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Rob-Jan de Jong, ANTICIPATE: The Art Of Leading By Looking Ahead “What I have learned is the power of a compelling vision,” Allan Mulally, the former CEO of Ford Motor Company, stated in an interview with Forbes in 2012. Mind you, he didn’t learn this from a textbook; he had put it into practice, witnessed
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Today leaders are largely defined by two characteristics: an aptitude for making hard decisions; for reading situations and demonstrating credible judgment whilst amplifying certainty, and secondly, an ability to influence others; to persuade, to inspire and to shift hearts and minds. Both of these characteristics are informed by a leader’s capacity for insight, their understanding
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