Many people today talk about leadership who’ve never led anything more complex than a high school marching band. They offer this or that principle as if proven under fire when, in fact, their experience has been limited to launching missiles in a game of Battleship. But that’s not to say that you can’t learn from […]
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Janet wore a smile from the nose down; her eyes bore daggers. If I offered a Friday afternoon off for having finished a big project early, she “wished” it had been last week when she and her husband were headed out of town for the football game. When I ordered in pizza for everyone’s lunch
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Jim Alampi The single most critical leadership skill in growing companies is delegation. The absence of this skill in the CEO or at the executive team level causes more companies to get “stuck” than any other behavior. In a startup, being a hands-on executive is a useful characteristic, but once the number of people in
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Colin D. Baird, Vice President, Sullivan Curtis Monroe Executives I speak with are interested in learning more about how Dr. W. Edwards Deming from M.I.T., and Dr. Taichi Ohno transformed Toyota Motor Corp (TMC) from a small fledgling automatic loom company in 1924, into one of the world’s most efficient, and profitable automotive companies in 2013. Toyota also
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Colin D. Baird, Vice President, Sullivan Curtis Monroe Gemba is a Japanese term used in the lean world to define “the place where things are happening”, and genchi genbutsu means “go and see for yourself”. In American terms we might refer to it as Management By Walking, or Get Your Boots On. CBS television has a hit
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Dr. Albert de Goias Leadership in business is not just the art of directing the motivated or motivating the confused or irresolute person. It is about guiding the emotionally unstable to believe in themselves and tap into their unique insights. A person’s real contribution is not driven by their ability to apply directives, but by
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Ian Clough, CEO, DHL Express U.S. For most small and medium-sized business owners and chief executives, the international question looms large, in business plans, strategy sessions, and in late-night calls with anxious investors. For some, the decision has already been made: products are now shipping overseas, and services have taken flight. New sales figures and
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In today’s continually changing economic and political landscape along with the rapid innovation of technology, how can a leader keep up? In order to lead from the front, leaders need to continually learn, understand market trends and stay aligned with the company’s vision and mission. It’s not always inherent or easy to understand what leadership
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Ordinary just won’t work anymore. Organizations will increasingly depend on cutting-edge solutions to never-before-seen problems and clever ideas for those recurring headaches that have always plagued us. Research indicates that a handful of star performers create the vast majority of valuable ideas for their organizations. Resellers are fucking trash. I miss being able to
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