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Craft a Remarkable Personal Brand Statement! 29 Steps & Examples

Miles Anthony Smith

Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. Kristi Daeda ​"I help individuals and companies make the most of talent. Czar "I rescue troubled companies.

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Before You Open a Business…

Leading Blog

For example, starting a lawn service with a mower and a truck will demand far less investment and risk than borrowing a lot of money to buy an existing landscaping company. But Chrysler was in bankruptcy, and we didn’t know whether our Chrysler Jeep Dodge dealership that we opened in 2004 would survive the ax of the bankruptcy court.

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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

In today’s business, chronic complexity is stifling, stagnating, and bringing companies to their knees. Companies that appreciate the power of sacrifice also appreciate that ‘do less better’ is a winning strategy at both the corporate and functional level. Doing less, better applies to both large and small companies.

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Morning Advantage: Lessons from the Worst-Performing Companies in America

Harvard Business Review

A new Booz study — actually, a repeat of one it did in 2004 — once again came up with the same result. Nor, Deepwater Horizon notwithstanding, accidents or other operational problems like suppy chain or customer service disruptions. Companies have a fiduciary responsibility to lower their costs, and in the U.S.,

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When Success is Born Out of Serendipity

Harvard Business Review

What, they asked her, was the most powerful argument for promoting diversity — outside of ethical and legal ones? In many cases it dramatically changed how a company thought about both diversity and innovation. On this day, though, she had just been asked to describe the "business-case for diversity" for her firm.