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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.

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An Activist Investor Lands in Your Boardroom — Now What?

Harvard Business Review

Anxiety, fear, even dread are among the predictable reactions in the executive suite and boardroom when they unexpectedly appear. Because it was the “mother of all decisions,” it was also one whose execution could have been slowed or even stalled by its own gravity.

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How To Produce An Effective Company Blog

Eric Jacobson

companies using a blog for marketing purposes, your business likely will within the next year. According to Emarketer, the proportion of companies using dedicated blogs as a marketing channel—excluding blogs on social networks and microblogs such as Twitter—will rise to 39% in 2011 and to 43% by 2012.

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Share The Bad News

Eric Jacobson

If revenue is down, or if youve lost a large customer, or if a new competitor has entered the market, let your team know. Source: "Execution--The Discipline Of Getting Things Done" Promote Shared Creativity With Your Employees As the book "The DNA Of Leadership" suggests, ask your employees: * How would you handle this?

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Lots Of Lessons From Post-it Notes

Eric Jacobson

How test marketing is critical. ▼ 2010 (108) ► December (9) 70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategi. How they can be used by leaders to boost morale.

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Never Say These Words To A Customer

Eric Jacobson

Are you absolutely sure every employee in sales, production, operations, marketing, etc., ▼ 2010 (108) ► December (9) 70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategi.

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Ask These Five Questions

Eric Jacobson

One recommendation is to at least include members of your management team, sales team, marketing team and research team when you ask the five questions. You may find that each of these teams may give you different answers for #1 and #2, and that may present more challenges for you that will also need to be addressed.

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