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10 Essential Steps To Leadership Excellence

Terry Starbucker

Every successful leader gets this question posed to them at one time or another: “How did you do it?” It’s always enlightening to read and hear the answers, because, after all, these folks have the benefit of hindsight to piece together all the relevant and important steps that led them to the top of the heap. I’ve been fortunate enough in my 30 year career to have been asked that question too, and after a good bit of reflection, I can break it down to 10 essential steps:

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The Paradox of Two Guitar Companies | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership. Branding. Life. Not found. No results were found for your request. John Bell. Formerlife: CEO of Jacobs Suchard (Nabob, Kraft), Strategy/Branding Consultant. Afterlife: Fortune Magazine Contributor, Wannabe Novelist. Search My Site. Search for: Categories. Branding. Human Resources. Leadership. Life.

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When Do We Forgive?

Persuasive Powerhouse

A post a while back on whether there is a shortage of good leaders fostered some interesting comments, tweets and private conversations – most of which confirmed that the majority of individuals feel that we’re suffering a deficiency in this arena. I’ve thought about the responses ever since that post was published. I feel [.

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Is this the Flag from Riches to Rags? | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership. Branding. Life. Does this Flag represent Riches to Rags? by John • November 27, 2011 • Leadership , Life • 2 Comments. I’m a Canadian on assignment in California. Last Thursday I had the pleasure of joining a group of 12 for American Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a much bigger deal down here than it is above the 49 th parallel.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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The Reason I Haven’t Posted in a Week

Leadership Freak

One week ago today, I was lying flat on my back looking at the low-hanging ceiling of a life-flight helicopter. My right leg was cocked at an unusual and uncomfortable angle, painfully yelling for attention. At the same time, a highly trained medical professional relieved the deadly pressure around my collapsed lung. His skill is [.].

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Quality is Human. Quality is Love.

QAspire

Quality is Human. When leaders rely too much on processes, metrics, facts and trends to measure project/organization’s quality, they forget one thing: that quality is about being human. Quality is human. That is because people drive quality and exercise their choice of delivering good versus great work. Because work allows people to expand their capacity to deliver.

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Does this Flag represent Riches to Rags?

In the CEO Afterlife

I’m a Canadian on assignment in California. Last Thursday I had the pleasure of joining a group of 12 for American Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a much bigger deal down here than it is above the 49 th parallel. The days around the holiday are the most travelled of the year. Families and friends come together to give thanks. Strangers wish you a Happy Thanksgiving.

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Executive Coaching When You’re Stuck

CO2

Get un-stuck! Executive Coaching can help when you get stuck. There are many ways you can get stuck as a leader. It can be because of a change in your external environment in which the challenge exceeds your skill and you begin to become frustrated or your environment is without enough challenge against your ability and you become bored. When one begins to face either of these two situations without an outside perspective you may not even relies what is happening.

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Art’s Weekly Leadership Message: Get Engaged to Help Your Project Teams Succeed

Management Excellence

I hear from hundreds of professionals every year in workshops, via coaching assignments or in classrooms, about the challenges they have working in and on project teams. From almost every student’s worst nightmare, the classroom group project, to major strategic initiatives with high-level sponsorship, the complaints are consistent: we as leaders don’t do enough to support team development and performance.

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Complimentary Resource – The Truth About Mobile Business Intelligence: Five Common Myths Debunked

Strategy Driven

The Truth About Mobile Business Intelligence : Five Common Myths Debunked by Information Builders, Inc. This white paper will examine the five common myths associated with mobile business intelligence and uncover the facts about cost, implementation, and capabilities. In spite of the abounding myths, mobile business intelligence doesn’t have to be expensive, hard to implement, or difficult to use.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Getting Gut Honest With Jesus: Don’t You Care?

Ron Edmondson

Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?” Mark 4:38 NIV. I have been told that the stern is the strongest part of the boat. The Creator of the universe was asleep there. The One who made the waters and was there when the waters were parted; who led Moses as Moses led the people through on dry ground had His head on a cushion.

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Things I Liked and Things I Didn’t Like About My First Cruise

Ron Edmondson

Cheryl and I went on our first cruise recently. It was the Giving Rocket cruise with my good friend Casey Graham. We went because we love Casey, we needed a break and we always wanted to try a cruise. It was a Royal Caribbean cruise and sailed to the Bahamas and a private island. I’ve heard people say they could never try a cruise. Some of the same people say they would never try a bed & breakfast.

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