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A Non-Profit Board’s AHA Moment

Lead Change Blog

Today we are pleased to share a post from Lisa Kosak of Green Thumb Leadership. Trust me; our leadership was in name only. Sadly, we lacked development and had not been mentored enough to be managers. Mark’s parable about a leadership journey was very relevant. How do we prepare volunteers to jump into a leadership role?

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The Big Picture of Business – Ethics… Good for Business

Strategy Driven

Corporate Responsibility is more than just a statement that a committee whips together. Corporate Responsibility relates to every stage in the evolution of a business, leadership development, mentoring and creative ways of doing business. It is more than a slogan or rehash of a Mission Statement. Change is 90% beneficial.

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How Cisco Gets Brutally Honest Feedback to Top Leaders

Harvard Business Review

The result blends qualitative research and benchmarked data on other C-suite executives to give us a solid indication of an individual’s potential and development needs. In a company as large and diverse as Cisco, there are numerous opportunities to test and develop one’s leadership capabilities.

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The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

Harvard Business Review

Leadership is changing — fast. When risks do present themselves, they develop plans to minimize the risk and identify where it is needed most. To develop better risk management behaviors, CEOs need to: List a minimum of eight ideas for new initiatives. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO. Sponsored by Cognizant.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Realities of Networking

Strategy Driven

They staff committees and events, hoping to generate more leads. Just because you once spoke to their business club, attended a workshop with them or served on a volunteer committee, they keep coming back to you for free work. Leadership Programs Community stewardship – for the right reasons – is wonderful.

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The Big Picture of Business: Putting Budgeting Into Perspective, The Bigger Picture of Strategic Planning

Strategy Driven

Can the benchmarking information be accessed regularly? How diverse is the planning committee? He guides companies through growth strategies, visioning, strategic planning, executive leadership development, Futurism and Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. He has advised two U.S.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

I further made recommendations that future charitable requests would go through committee and that the client’s partners and key executives were better suited by serving on community boards, thus polishing their own luster. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making.