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Skills for Success: The Experts Show the Way
In Skills for Success: The Experts Show the Way, the Soundview Editorial Staff summarizes the keys to achieving success in business and life. It is an oldie (1988), but it is well worth reviewing even today, 23 years later. How … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Leadership, Consistent Execution, Leadership Development, Prioritization
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The Lessons of History and Great Leadership
I enjoy the Great Courses series produced by the Teaching Company. Each course is a series of lectures that I can listen to while working out or in the car. Currently, I am listening to a course entitled The Wisdom … Continue reading
Going Global – 3 Lessons From Those Who Failed
This is a guest blog by Mike Gomez (Global Success Centers and Allegro Consulting) I recently gave a presentation to owners of American companies who were contemplating a global expansion strategy. I decided to share some lessons I gleaned while … Continue reading
Posted in Growth and Strategy
Tagged Business Leadership, Global Growth, International Business
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
In their book, Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan and Charles Burck drive home the point that execution is vital. The difference between a company and its competitors is its ability to execute; that is … Continue reading
The 9 Biggest Time Wasters in Business
The sheer waste of time in the typical business today is incomprehensible. From half-baked initiatives and pet projects that lead nowhere to endless and endlessly dull meetings, the typical employee can fritter away as much as half of his or … Continue reading
The New Leader’s 100 Day Action Plan
In their book, The New Leader’s 100 Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results, George B. Bradt, Jayme A. Check and Jorge E. Pedraza discuss leadership transitions and on-boarding. Executive Summary High performance … Continue reading
Leading at a Higher Level
In this book, Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations, Ken Blanchard summarizes his thoughts on leadership and building winning teams and winning businesses. Set your sights on the right target and vision Is … Continue reading
5 Business Fundamentals I Did Not Learn at Wharton
In a previous blog, I discussed the five business fundamentals that I learned at Wharton. Today, I discuss five keys to business success that I did not learn at Wharton (and that may not be learnable in a classroom environment). … Continue reading
It’s Your Ship – Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
In this book, former Navy Captain D. Michael Abrashoff boils down the management and leadership techniques that helped his ship, the Benfold, become “the best damn ship in the Navy.” His 11 fundamentals are equally applicable in the business world. … Continue reading
5 Business Fundamentals Learned at Wharton
The start of another school year is upon us. As such, nearly 100,000 aspiring MBA’s will be matriculating in the next few weeks to begin a two year program that leads to that golden business passport – an MBA. A … Continue reading
Posted in Business Acumen, Leadership
Tagged Business Leadership, Customer Service, Management, Marketing
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Is Your Smartphone Killing Your Business?
Your iPhone, Android or Blackberry smartphone is a great device, enabling today’s business leader to constantly be in contact with the office and access the Internet or the cloud for needed information on the fly. Unfortunately, it is exactly this … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Perform / Execution
Tagged Business Leadership, Do the Right Thing, Focus, Less is More
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The Lost Skill of Delegation
“You cannot do it all.” As business leaders, most of us have come to realize that we need to better delegate tasks so that we can get what is essential done. But, it is important to remember that the purpose … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Perform / Execution
Tagged Business Leadership, Delegation, Do the Right Thing, Focus, Management, Winning Teamwork
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Get Out of the Office and Get Your Business Growing in 3 Days
With the weak economy and the grid-locked government, many business leaders feel stuck, frustrated and frozen in place. They know that their current strategy of downsizing, economizing and streamlining will not lead to long-term success. In fact, in a recent … Continue reading
The 4 Secrets to Great Business Leadership Already Known by the Ancients
Thousands of years ago, in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, individuals like Socrates, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius and Seneca aspired to lead virtuous lives by following the four ideals of: Wisdom Justice Self-Control Courage Today, these same four qualities still represent … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Leadership, Courage, Do the Right Thing, Justice, Self-Control, Wisdom
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Leadership Delusion: The 25 Lies Crappy Business Leaders Tell Themselves
The worst thing about bad business leaders is that they genuinely believe that they are doing excellent work. Yes, they may realize that their companies are not performing. But in their minds, it is not their leadership. It is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountability, Business Decline, Business Leadership, Honesty
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The Most Seductive and Dangerous Mistake Smart Leaders Make
Business leaders are on the firing line, making it happen, and trying to realize ever more difficult goals. Far too often, for every one step forward, they take one, two or three steps backwards by making that most seductive and … Continue reading
Go Home!!! Work Fewer Hours and Get Better Results
Business leaders pride themselves on working hard, putting in the long hours required to achieve success. Paradoxically, the extra hours many of us put in may actually hinder our effectiveness and the performance of our companies. In short, working fewer … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Personal Success
Tagged Business Leadership, Do the Right Thing, Focus, Less is More, Winning Teamwork, Work-Life Balance
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Speed – A Key Element of Business Success
“The secret to success lies in careful preparation followed by speedy and decisive execution.” Napoleon In successfully executing on your business goals, speed matters. The quicker that you complete a task, the sooner you can get on to the next … Continue reading
Minimize Distractions for Better Results
In business today, the opportunity for distraction is endless. This includes all the distractions of the urgent but unimportant that range from meetings to E-Mail to Internet surfing. Due to these distractions and constant interruptions, employees and companies often do not … Continue reading
Why is Business Today So Complex?
Everything and everyone in business drive business leaders and businesses towards greater and greater complexity and more and more work. As Warren Buffett has said: There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. … Continue reading
Posted in Business Acumen, Leadership
Tagged Business Leadership, Do the Right Thing, Focus, Less is More, Prioritization
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