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Three Ways to Overcome Your Fear of Making Prospecting Calls

Strategy Driven

Be crystal clear on your overall objective. Do everything in your power to achieve your goal, however, emotionally detach from the outcome. Did the player achieve his goal? She served as Vice President of Programs for the Phoenix Chapter of International Coaching Federation in 2011. Hold it firmly in your awareness.

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Forget Brand Preference – Win the Brand Relevance War

Strategy Driven

With brand relevance, the goal is to make competition irrelevant – to offer something so different and special that it creates its own unique category and customers don’t perceive that there are any alternatives to consider. The brand preference model dictates the objectives and strategy of the firm. All rights reserved.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

The better employees are attracted to jobs that make a difference to customers, fellow employees, or the communities they live in and they are much more willing to raise objections when they feel inhibited from making that difference.

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Is Your Team Failing Elegantly? Seven Leadership Mistakes That Wear Away at Your Company’s Will to Win

Strategy Driven

Why do so many talented, well-led teams, enterprises, and organizations – many of them with clear, reasonable goals – fail to win victories that should have been easily within their grasps? Setting impossible goals. Unusually Excellent : The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm.

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For a Powerful Presentation, Begin with a Bang, Finish with a Flourish

Strategy Driven

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. Check out the search engines for ‘little known facts about …’ or ‘trivia about …’ for ideas.

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Is Copyright Enforcement Censorship?

Harvard Business Review

While Congress is considering the PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011), there is a philosophical divide regarding the best way to deal with online piracy. Option #1: Uphold the status quo.

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Funders Can Give More than Money

Harvard Business Review

The outlook is only marginally better for endowments , with returns on their invested capital hovering around 5 percent—as they did in 2011. Some seek stricter accounting of ROI based on objectively measurable goals and achievements. An engineer, he says, because engineers help other people solve problems.