Suzanne Bates, CEO, Bates Communications How many leaders have walked onto a big stage and stumbled at precisely the moment when we hoped they would shine? When Mary Barra appeared before Congress in April to answer for events leading to GM’s recall of 1.6 million vehicles with faulty ignitions, her careful, overly-scripted testimony landed with […]
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Meridith Elliott Powell, Founder & Owner, MotionFirst Well like it or not, British musician’s Sting’s children are going to have to work for living. In an interview with the Mail Online the former front man for the 80’s band The Police, revealed that he has no plans to leave his children much if any of his $306
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Dr. Laurent M. Lapierre, Professor, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa In the past, leadership theory and practice has traditionally favored the leader in discussions of how leadership can advance organizational effectiveness. But what about the follower and the part they have to play? Followers are essential to any organization. Without followers you have no leaders and
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Jim Bathurst, Retired Marine Colonel and Author Imagine being the executive assistant to the Marketing Division President of a Fortune 500 company, and the CEO periodically comes down from his ivory tower, walks by your desk, and never acknowledges you even exist. That is but one example of the leadership my wife witnessed while working
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There are so many books and speeches/seminars on leadership, yet there are so few leaders. The demand for great leadership has never been higher. Today, the pace of change in business is dramatically faster than in earlier times. Top executives in firms today report fiercer competitive business environments and more globalized patterns of operations than
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Deb Weidenhamer, CEO, iPai Auctions and Auction Systems Auctioneers & Appraisers After founding and operating several companies over the last 18 years, I’m confident of one thing: The success of any business depends on the quality of its management team. When a company struggles, the problems inevitably stem from issues with the leader. When a
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Dr. Shelley Reciniello, Author, The Conscious Leader Sherlock Holmes is fond of saying, “You see but you do not observe.” Poirot states: “It is the why of human behavior that interests me.” It pays to do a little sleuthing in the workplace where things are not always as they appear. Let’s look at two different
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Today’s global economy leaves little room for error. It does not allow for mediocrity; the rules and players have changed; and “ordinary” simply won’t work anymore. If you don’t have the best products and services and the top people delivering them, your competitors will, and they will take their excellence all over the world. Only those
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Howard Fero and Rebecca Herman The manager of a Major League Baseball team, the manager of a retail store, and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company all have at least one thing in common, they all need to manage a team, and they all need to determine how to get the most productivity and
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Lawrence Polsky and Antoine Gerschel Want to get on “the list” to move up the executive team ladder? Our advice from coaching executive teams and leaders around the world is to act like you know you can be fired tomorrow. That’s right, approach your job like you have a target on your back. Keeping that
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