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To be the Best, Invest in Relationships AND Results

Great Leadership By Dan

Speaker, author, and business expert Tamara McCleary is ranked as the number one woman in Marketing Technology. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. To be ranked in that rarefied air means one has invested and IS investing time, energy, and passion into that avenue.

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Don’t Leave Workplace Civility to Chance

Leading Blog

Simply defining these valued behaviors - and marketing them like crazy with, for example, posters throughout your workspace - does nothing more than increase awareness. Some new valued behaviors might need to be added to address new temptations, new generations, new customer or market demands, etc. Chris is one of Inc.

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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 …. An organization without a clear vision or goals is like a river without banks—it stagnates and goes nowhere,” says Ken Blanchard. Ken Blanchard. Did she get worn out? Shilpa Jain.

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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills Scofield

They think they’re innovative because they make something in green instead of just red, but they stick with their industries, markets, customers, and (usually dying) business models. Adult” Blue Lobsters at # BIF2017 ( Phil Komarny , me, Matt Fritz, Dany De Grave , Angela Blanchard , Christopher Rice , Jon Follet , Nick Barendt , Vala Afshar.

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Leadership Biz Cafe Podcast #3 – Interview with Jesse Lyn Stoner

Tanveer Naseer

In this episode, we discuss some of the ideas she shares about vision in the international bestseller she co-authored with Ken Blanchard, “Full Steam Ahead: Unleash the Power of Vision In Your Work and Your Life”. The key elements necessary for creating an effective vision statement.

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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills Scofield

They think they’re innovative because they make something in green instead of just red, but they stick with their industries, markets, customers, and (usually dying) business models. Adult” Blue Lobsters at # BIF2017 ( Phil Komarny , me, Matt Fritz, Dany De Grave , Angela Blanchard , Christopher Rice , Jon Follet , Nick Barendt , Vala Afshar.

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Partnership: A Crucible for Innovation

Lead Change Blog

Luca de Meo, as head of marketing at Volkswagen AG, created a series of two-day events called Marketing Works! The life cycle of a team is more like the cycle of maturity (dependence, counter dependence, independence, interdependence or some might prefer the Blanchard labels—forming, storming, norming and performing).