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Motivate with a Memorable “Vision Phrase” that Matters

Michael Lee Stallard

The foundation is projected to touch the lives of 50,000 children by 2014. Examples include healthcare services, food and beverage products, lawn care, construction, clothing, lodging, entertainment and travel services, utilities and police protection. Goodness is reflected in organizations that help and serve people.

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn.

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To bid or not to bid? That is the question.

Strategy Driven

They’ve refined the buying process so far that they have precluded the words ‘quality’ and ‘value’ from the buying process AND they have taken the words productivity, ease of use, and morale out of the delivery process. The main goal of bidding is NOT get the best product. Nor, for the most part, do they care.

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Leadership actions that are not an option for leaders.

Strategy Driven

They’re internal actions that build trust, earn respect, and create a team of inspired people – inspired to be productive and do their best… Great leaders are value providers, not order givers. Don’t focus on task or project completion. Rather, think what will happen AFTER the project is completed. Outcome, not task.

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We Took a Vote. You're Fired.

Harvard Business Review

— actually lead to more-productive employees and companies? It''s an attractive value proposition: It''s projected to be a big part of the 13.4% growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014. She points out that customers visit Lululemon''s web site to learn about products, not to read about financial or corporate news.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. You would consider first whether you could offer a distinct product to each individual customer that perfectly matches his or her unique preferences.

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When Did the U.S. Stop Seeing Teachers as Professionals?

Harvard Business Review

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. Teachers perceive themselves and their students as being treated as fungible costs of production, cogs in a bureaucratic machine. To them, nothing less than the education profession is at risk. What is professionalism exactly?