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
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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