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Getting It Done: Achieving Twice as Much in Half the Time
Posted in Perform / Execution, Personal Success, Team / People
Tagged Business Transformation, Competitive Advantage, Consistent Execution, Decision Making, Employee Engagement, Focus, Leadership Success, Make It Happen, Pareto 80 - 20, Personal Productivity, Prioritization, Simplicity
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5 Steps to Creating a Unique Strategic Vision
Today, companies struggle to consistently increase sales and profits faster than the overall market. In too many cases, these companies lack a unique strategic vision that would differentiate the company and its products and services from the competition. Instead, their … Continue reading
Three ‘Cheats’ of the Ethical Leader
An ethical leader is someone dedicated to always doing the right thing for the employees, the business, and all stakeholders. Alas, this ideal for the selfless and driven leader clashes with the reality of who most of us really are. … Continue reading
The 9 Steps to Managing Our Stress
As business leaders, our lives are often stressful. Recent research confirms what many of us have observed; stress can harm our careers, endanger our health, and kill. In my career, I have witnessed: A boss retire early from his dream … Continue reading
New Year Resolutions for First-Time Managers
Happy New Year! For first time managers struggling to move their business units forward in 2015, now is the time to take a step back and focus unwaveringly on the fundamentals of managing and leading others. As such, I offer … Continue reading
Simple: Conquering the Crisis of Complexity
Simple: Conquering the Crisis of Complexity, written by Alan Siegel and Irene Etzkorn, is an excellent reminder to all of us to rail against complexity and keep things simple. Even though I summarize some of the key points below, I … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Perform / Execution, Personal Success
Tagged Business Leadership, Business Transformation, Business Turnarounds, Communication, Competitive Advantage, Customer Service, Leadership Success, Less is More, Marketing, Personal Productivity, Problem Solving, Process Improvement, Simplicity
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Foster Fresh Perspectives
As leaders, we can often get stuck in ruts, talking to the same people every day and thinking the same way as everyone else. To breakthrough and come up with new and innovative ideas and approaches to problems and issues, … Continue reading
We Need to Spend “Alone Time” With Our Skip Levels
As leaders, we need to spend time on a regular and consistent basis with our skip levels. What is a Skip Level? As we move up in our organizations, we become ‘managers of managers’ with both direct reports and … Continue reading
The Advice Not Taken
Lose Weight…Eat More Fruits and Vegetables…Exercise More. We all know what we have to do in order to improve our health. That is easy. The difficulty lies in taking this advice and actually following it. Likewise in business, there is … Continue reading
We Need to Deal with Our Non-Performers Today
Dealing with non-performers is likely the most uncomfortable (yet necessary) task in building a winning team. Truth be told, few of us enjoy disciplining, remedial coaching, and terminating employees, especially those that we may work with on a daily basis. … Continue reading
We Need Less Leadership!
In her thought-provoking book, The End of Leadership, Barbara Kellerman writes: One of the problems plaguing the leadership industry is its fixation on developing good leaders, while ignoring completely the problem of stopping or at least slowing bad leaders. Stopping … Continue reading
Lady Luck Always Has Her Day
Whether we like it or not, a good deal of what happens to us in our lives, our careers and our businesses comes down to luck and fortunate timing. The chance meeting with someone that led to a job and … Continue reading
The Essential Drucker: Insights from the Original Management Guru
The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management is an indispensable read to help you enhance your business leadership and improve your business. What makes it particularly interesting is that much of it … Continue reading
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