Walt Disney started a fire in the entertainment world that continues to burn decades after his death. Perhaps no single figure so dominated American—and indeed, even global—popular culture as Walt Disney did. Each year, millions view a Disney movie, visit his theme parks, watch his television shows, listen to his recordings, buy his products, and […]
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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
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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Gerry Reffo, Co-Author, Leadership PQ What will they need to do? Predicting the future is risky; nonetheless the following trends offer some clues. Financial and Social Profit Many global business leaders know that delivering for society also delivers for the business. Some consider this cynical. Others see it as liberating. Most people much prefer to work
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Joelle K. Jay, Principal, Leadership Research Institute “All I do is put out fires all day long. There’s no time for me to actually focus and do my work. It’s all just crisis management, day after day.” “I’m entirely scattered. My mind is running so fast at any one time, I just fly from one activity
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The Rocky franchise first came into our lives in 1976. Detroit and Motown both were still churning out hits. Rocky gave the world this quote that remains as true today for business as when these words were mumbled by the prizefighter 37 years ago. “It’s about how hard you get hit . . . How
Gordon Tredgold When it comes to being an inspiring leader there are really only 2 things that we need to do. Create an inspiring vision Create belief that the vision can be achieved When we create an inspiring vision we create the desire in our teams, or within ourselves, to achieve the dream. It becomes
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“When CEO’s and all leaders start displaying an equal or greater passion for wanting to achieve accuracy and objectivity in how they are seen as leaders compared to the passion they display for wanting to achieve accuracy and objectivity in the operations they manage, this will mark the beginning to the end of the world’s
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