Category: Leadership
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Amid a Crisis, There Is Opportunity – If You Act Now
Consumer research and strategy company Magid works with brands and media companies and has been tracking media consumption and consumer attitudes for decades. Their April research shows significant opportunities for brands and publishers: 69% of consumers say they are trying new brands right now. This represents an incredible opportunity for…
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Take Control of Your Brand Conversation or Someone Else Will
Not surprisingly, when you don’t control the conversation, it happens without you. Brands that stop advertising and sending positive messages are seeing huge drops in brand sentiment because they only thing people hear about you is nothing or negative. Those that continued to market saw a drop (people are thinking…
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Advertising During Crisis Times: What You Do Now Will Impact Your Business Long-Term
You may not be thinking about advertising right now, but it may be smart to give it some thought. What you do today, can impact your business for the long-term
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Managing Your Growth Plan
One of the key jobs of CEO’s and CFO’s is to be looking out long-term. While your employees are looking at daily performance and your managers are focused on quarterly or yearly goals, the business is depending on you to be the forward-thinker. Whether it’s building for the long-term or…
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Skills to Succeed for C-Level Executives
More than 7,150 executives across 100 nations in the U.S., North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa were queries on the most important traits to stay relevant and at the top of their game. The report from Harvard Business School’s Professor Boris Groysberg reveals the most important “soft skills” for C-level…
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4 Keys to Effective Coaching and Leadership
A coach is only effective if the person they are trying to help is open to the concept. It’s important that you match the right coach to the right leader and set clear expectations and boundaries. The key to the relationship is mutual trust and respect. If the leader sees…
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Five Perceptions to Make Team Members Try Harder
Guest Post by Sarah Jacobs | At first glance, hiring employees for a company is not too difficult a task. However, if you take a closer look to what every company really needs, it might not be as easy as it looks. Yes, every company definitely needs employees to keep it…
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Five steps to empower your team
What would a story about business practices be without a Peter Drucker quote? “So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.” – Peter Drucker New manager soften make the mistake of feeling like they have to make every decision – and exert…
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It’s not just Trump: World Leaders user Twitter to get the message out
Pope Francis is the most followed world leader on Twitter with a combined total of 33,716,301 followers on his nine language accounts, ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump with 30,133,036 followers and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with 30,058,659 followers, according to a Burson-Marsteller study, an annual global survey of how world leaders,…
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Lessons in Leadership from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
“Jeff, what does Day 2 look like?” That’s how Jeff Bezos started out his annual letter to shareholders. While the text talks about what he’s been trying to instill into the culture at Amazon, the message applies to any business and its leaders. Bezos has been reminding people that’s it’s…
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Looking for inspiration? 17 quick quotes about leadership
Here are several of my favorite quotes about leadership.
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Why did Columbus take three ships?
When William “Bud” Post won $16.2 million dollars in the Pennsylvania lottery, he had less than $3 in his checking account. It was life changing, but maybe not in the way you would think. He got hit with lawsuits. Oh, and his brother tried to hire a hit man to…
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What I learned about firing people… from the time it happened to me
I remember being fired for “philosophical differences.” It was an ugly time for me and my family. It wasn’t about my performance, I was told, they just wanted to “go in a different direction.” Just a few months earlier, everything had been great. Our company was performing at a high…
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Leadership should be easy
After all, there’s a lot of information out there. Just Google it. There’s not just one way to do it: different styles seem to work. And the people you want to lead, want to be led. “Even Ray Charles could see this,” said Major General Vincent Boles. So what gets…
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Manager Mint magazine publishes my article on Leadership
You can read it here. 6 key differences between Leaders and Managers
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How to create your own simple business rules
“All of us have too much complexity in our lives,” said Kathleen Eisenhardt, professor at Stanford University’s School of Engineering. In studying how product development teams with complex rules, no rules, and a few simple rules tackled projects, some simple truths emerged.
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Ten things great leaders do
He wasn’t brought it to change the company, but he was expected to grow it a significant amount. On his first day, he gathered the key managers together and asked us to pull out a notepad. He asked each of us to think about the worst case scenario at our…
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Lessons learned: An industry in transformation
Think about this case study. You’re company is 100 years old and highly successful. In fact, your company is the gold standard by which others are judged. You have achieved the ultimate praise: you’ve become a household name! Here’s the problem. 80% of your core business makes up 100% of…
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