Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

  Since new members of the House will be up for reelection in two years, they’re operating on a similar time frame. Earlier this year, a colleague shared a book with me called Setting Course , that’s produced by the Congressional Management Foundation.    There’s a lot of sound advice there.  Click Here.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 28, 2014

” Honest, ethical and legal behavior is always appropriate – delegation isn’t. To help leaders ensure effective delegation, my advice is simple: Have each direct report list her or his key areas of responsibility. The company was operating in a rapidly changing environment. Delegate more effectively.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

It’s why I wrote my book Why Leadership Sucks™ … to highlight the fact that servant leadership is the best way to go. But this post isn’t all about me and only my advice. What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)?

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. It's an extension of yourself that lingers even long after that person has left your website, book, show, or other piece of content. Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Leaders in the organization serve as role models through their ethical behavior and personal involvement in planning, communicating and developing others. Insure individuals have access and are free to go to anyone in the organization for advice and assistance. People don’t quit their company, they quit their managers. No excuses.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2011

I’m constantly asked for reading recommendations, and rather than provide you with the current best seller list du jour (you can get that anywhere), I’ve compiled a list of 20 leadership books everyone should read, but may not have. By the way, Jim’s book on Reagan is also first rate.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

What is the most ethical action we might take?” Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. ~Albert Einstein; the question that led to the theory of relativity. What might DNA look like in a 3D form?”

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Complacency has it’s price, up to and including some morally and ethically reprehensible leaders who have been elected to public office. I confided in a friend at the company and sought her advice. We may be snowed by the public relations machine that “markets” a poor leader. We might simply vote without doing our homework first.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

I profiled Wooden as a role model who we can all learn from in my book Fired Up or Burned Out. In John Wooden’s honor, I’m posting the following excerpts from my book: Connection and the Legend So often in life, good things bloom from the seeds of hardship. Military Gamification in Everything? why is everyone smiling?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

” Research supports the same – with neuro discoveries that show why this advice is a leader’s best neuron pathway forward to fix this dysfunctional dilemma! I am always so refreshed by the centrality of ethics, doing the right thing, and people as capital – in your work! Great insights Susan.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

These are my concluding pieces of leadership advice. Truth and ethics must be woven into how you conduct business. One course or a quick-read book will not instill them. It is a compendium book, containing quotes and extrapolations into business culture, arranged in 76 business categories. Know where you are going.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2015

And, the mission critical nature of credibility cannot be overstated, as it establishes a company or brand’s integrity, reliability, validity, soundness and a host of other image-including indicators of an entity’s moral and ethical code, and the standards by which it operates. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Then develop an understanding of whether or not a reaction or decision was appropriate, emotionally, professionally or ethically is the only way to recognize character flaws and improve them in the future. Recognizing how you behaved in a social situation with a peer, coworker or family member is important.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Navy One example of a leader who intentionally developed a Connection Culture using all three bridges is Admiral Vern Clark, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 2000 until his retirement in 2005. About Michael Find out about Michaels latest book, Fired Up or Burned Out. Connecting the U.S. Military Gamification in Everything?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

One book, I would have anyone who worked for me read is the Leader''s Handbook. I recommend it for others but whether it belongs in an IDP would depend on if the organization committing to the type of Leadership presented in the book. I share a bit of my journey in Leadership Development Made Easy.”.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 14, 2019

He’s operated in the real world of real work (he was formerly a marketing executive at Ernst & Young) and still consults for many companies in multiple industries. In addition, make your feedback constructive; critique the act rather than demeaning the person; and give actionable advice rather than speaking in broad generalities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Ethics aren't just important in business," Branson says. It's sound advice on how to succeed as a business innovator in the 21st century. For folks who are looking for operational principles, take these from Lisa Gansky's fabulous book, The Mesh. They are the whole point of business."

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. thanks for the burritos—and the advice. thanks for the burritos—and the advice. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. He’s part of my operations team now, and he hopes to transition to a management position. Sameer, we looked through your school’s CV book.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? Take advice from all sources. It is a compendium book, containing quotes and extrapolations into business culture, arranged in 76 business categories. Book value is not guaranteed.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. Addictive organizations show frozen feelings and ethical deterioration. The emphasis is upon the latest slogans of mission but does not look closely at how its systems operate. Getting bad advice from the wrong people, mainly other tech professionals.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

Ethics and integrity. You’ll note his endorsement on the back cover of my signature book, The Business Tree™. Best Advice to Future Legends. It is a compendium book, containing quotes and extrapolations into business culture, arranged in 76 business categories. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

It occupied one counter at 2-J’s Hamburgers, an established Austin restaurant, owned and operated by Ralph Moreland. I come in after the wrong consultants have given bad advice, after knee-jerk reactions to changing business climates had taken tolls on existing market players. Ethics cannot be edicted from afar.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. Addictive organizations show frozen feelings and ethical deterioration. The emphasis is upon the latest slogans of mission but does not look closely at how its systems operate. Do successful corporations operate without a strategy-vision?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Do people seek your input, advice, and counsel ? Unless an untreated psychological, neurological or psychiatric condition exists, an inability to change is likely self-inflicted by one or all of the following: no recognition of needed change; no desire to change, or lack of work ethic needed to cause the change.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

There's no reason why the head of overseas operations can't also be a mom.". Tom DeHart, the president of Caston's international division, wanted a short-term director of overseas operations, someone who would spend the next 18 to 24 months traveling frequently to Caston's non-U.S. And yes, I know, it's never exactly the right time.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

This holds for corporate operating units and departments. You must always educate corporate opinion makers on how you function… and the skill with which you operate. Operating units and departments must schedule and follow a program to market their worth to their companies. Ethics Statement.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

There is no converting them to your more enlightened way of thinking and operating. Curiously, that charity has been clouded by public investigations of questionable ethics and dubious fund-raising practices. Public officials spend your contributions hiring young, inexperienced staff members and rely upon them for advice.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Yet it is always the moral and ethical thing to do. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. If you are in a work environment that simply doesn’t get it, get out asap! Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Many deals were put on the books in order to inflate the price of Enron stock, which the insiders sold at peak price levels. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor.

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