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To be the Best, Invest in Relationships AND Results

Great Leadership By Dan

If your goal was to coach an Olympic gold medal hockey team, wouldn’t you want only the best of the best players on your roster, with both precise skills and impeccable character? Speaker, author, and business expert Tamara McCleary is ranked as the number one woman in Marketing Technology. Guest post from S. Second, get the data.

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Looking for Vision? She’s Out Walking the Streets in Stilettos

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

By mission statements that are no more than meaningless marketing messages – We have covered her in gaudy makeup and dressed her in stilettos …. By using vision as an excuse from driving a change vision that does not benefit the individuals in the organization – We have given her a job that is beneath her dignity …. Ken Blanchard.

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Are You an Accidental Soul-Sucking CEO?

Joseph Lalonde

That’s how it feels, especially when an organization that promotes itself as being committed to an engaged culture is led by a CEO who is unfocused, unserious, unkind, or simply doesn’t get it. They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas. And then pass both those values on to the entire organization.

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 1

Strategy Driven

Front Line Heroes : Battling the business Tsunami by developing high performance organizations (Volume 1) by Bruce Hodes. It is possible to develop and grow powerful organizations in challenging times-it just takes courage, determination, and actionable techniques that work. Katzenbach and Douglas K. What is a Raving Fan Customer?

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The Books That Impacted My Life In 2014

Joseph Lalonde

YouTility: Why Smart Marketing Is About Help Not Hype by Jay Baer – Bear wrote an amazing book on why helping is the new marketing. Market in that direction. The Secret: What Great Leaders Know And Do by Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller – The Secret hit it’s 10th anniversary with over half a million copies sold.

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Collaboration is the Key to Providing Consistent Brand Value

Leading Blog

This is a post by Libby Gill, author of Capture the Mindshare and the Market Share Will Follow. The key to providing consistent value, despite the obstacles you will inevitably encounter, is to build a culture of collaboration where everyone''s goal is to delight the customers and ensure their swift return. Marketing'

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The September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival NFL Kick-off Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Posts are organized by NFL team conferences and divisions. As with many assessments, Benchmarks® delivers insights to many leaders about their actions and behaviors through feedback from a broad range of groups they interact with inside their organization.". Blanchard's culture guru S. New England Patriots. New York Jets.