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What Your Organization Really Needs from You: Influence and Impact

Leading Blog

Tommy’s boss saw that Tommy had freed up time and refocused his energies on what the manager needed from him, and told him, “I’ve been waiting for you to figure this out.”. Since founding Berman Leadership Development in 2005, he has been a trusted advisor to general managers and C-suite executives across multiple industries.

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Preview Thursday: Let’s Stop Meeting Like This

Lead Change Blog

Changing meetings from time wasting to time valued, from energy sapping to energy producing, requires a different approach to designing, leading, and contributing in meetings. Identify the habits that work for and against energy-producing, time-valued meetings. The following is an excerpt from Let’s Stop Meeting Like This.

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Corporations: Lessons from a College Football Halftime

Michael Lee Stallard

Enthusiasm and energy will be on full display this Saturday as the #6 TCU Horned Frogs football team host the #7 Kansas State Wildcats at 6:30 pm EDT on Fox. During halftime, TCU will celebrate the 10th anniversary of “Frogs for the Cure” which began in 2005 when TCU athletics partnered with Susan G. Komen® Greater Fort Worth.

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Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Developing Leaders

Next Level Blog

Likewise, we’ve had around 700 rising leaders participate in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program since the first cohort we ran in 2005. When the group’s energy is high, yours is high. When the group’s energy is low, yours is low. Strong relationships depend on trust. That is what you call valuable feedback.

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Determining Your Top 5 Priorities for 2014

Michael Lee Stallard

One extremely successful leader who understands the importance of this best practice is Admiral Vern Clark, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 2000 until his retirement in 2005. As head of the U.S. Track Your Top Five.

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Robert Iger's 20 Leadership Lessons

Leading Blog

When he took over as CEO in 2005, he laid out three strategic priorities saying it should be about the future, not the past : Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger—think global—and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets. Iger truly embraces innovation.

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Are SMEs The Overlooked Engines Of Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

This is especially so as around two-thirds of the 40 million new jobs created in the US economy between 1980 and 2005 were created by new SMEs. For instance, a study from KU Leuven University and the European Central Bank found that large companies do understandably innovate more often and more successfully than SMEs.