Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 10, 2009

The real question is: are you willing to invest the effort and make the sacrifices necessary to take on the responsibility of a leadership position? The authors propose three questions you should ask to assess your own leadership potential: How far do you want to go?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In addition, when your bid is the first time a government agency learns of your company, you can be sure your proposal is heading for the bottom of the pile. Government agencies and their purchasing/contracting officers often rely on pre-existing relationships and preferred vendor lists for all of these less lofty contract awards.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

Send the email you’re using now (this is your control, or “A”)) to 500 names, and send your proposed new email (“B”) to the other 500. For example, if you have an email list of 100,000 prospects, select every 100th prospect to create a test list of 1,000.

Marketing 162

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 5, 2009

Pressured with executive leadership commitments (usually in front of sales and customers) your team begins ducking and dodging the monkeys while trying to focus on bringing the right products to market. Product management and its leadership have to be vigilant and plan for the ambush of Flying Monkeys.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If your mind is full of things you keep meaning to get done, your head won’t be in the game Do the hard stuff first: outbound sales calls, proposals, etc.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Following are a few of the ways Admiral Clark and his leadership team built bridges so that everyone felt connected and a part of the Navy. When Navy budget officials proposed cuts related to training and developing people as part of the annual planning cycle, Clark wouldn’t allow it. Instead, he increased the training budget.

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LDRLB

JUNE 30, 2011

I’ll propose some alternatives in my next few posts and I am very interested to hear your thoughts on them. Mission Discernment: A preventative ethics strategy for leaders in Catholic health care organizations. 2010, Nov-Dec). I recently wrote two posts criticizing strategic planning. Doctoral Dissertation at St.

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