Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2020. frameworks that help make thoughtful decisions about starting, growing, managing, and selling a business. Winning Now, Winning Later : How Companies Can Win in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term by David Cote. Leadership isn't easy.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2020. Bezonomics : How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives, and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It by Brian Dumaine. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases. Jeff Bezos is the business story of the decade.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

A significant area of responsibility you’ll find yourself taking on board when running a business is managing its finances. Operate to a Budget. You’re going to need to operate to a budget , meaning that you should take into account how much money you have available to spend within your business and where you want to attribute it.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 31, 2022

In the second part of this series, we will continue this theme on executive hiring for a private equity portfolio company by examining parallel soft skill essentials and core, soft credential constituents. You are tasked with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. The Soft Skills.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I F YOU ENTER a bookstore and peruse the shelves for books on famous leaders in history, you’ll likely find a recurring cast of characters staring at you. How leaders operated within, or pushed against, the constraints of their time illustrate characteristics of responsibility, vision, sacrifice, and more. Winston Churchill.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2020

And her top opinion, her absolute top pet peeve is when a leader or manager says one thing and does another. One area where this is absolutely critical is when it comes to company values, the subject of my new book, ‘ Bringing Your Values Out to Play’. What purpose do they serve to your company?

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 5, 2022

No matter which industry your organization operates it, there’s a pretty high chance that you’re grappling with how to motivate and engage your employees in the daily work they do. Steve Curtin is an expert on customer service management and leadership. Steve Curtin is an expert on customer service management and leadership.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In the modern era of technology and business, fleet management has witnessed a transformative shift. As the need for mobility grows and environmental concerns rise, businesses are keen to optimize their fleet operations not only for cost-effectiveness but also for sustainability and efficiency.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Back in my own days as an executive, I was hugely influenced by a book called The Discipline of Market Leaders. The authors argued that companies had to pick between one of three paths to value creation and success in the market – operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Newest in the series is the HBR Project Management Handbook. Hence, his new book. Further, he explains that projects differ from operations , which are day-to-day activities, and which generally follow similar patterns and objectives every year. Effective project managers must be true leaders.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Analyze which areas of your operations could benefit the most from AI integration. Supply chain management? Prioritize Data Management: AI thrives on data. As an executive, ensuring your business has a robust data management strategy is paramount. Is it customer service? Product recommendations?

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This time each year, I select from all the leadership books I read during the year my pick for the best new leadership book of the year. It was a tough choice, so for 2022, I'm picking two books: Both books are timely, highly relevant, full of great teachings and well worth reading for leaders at any stage of their careers.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Guest post from Larry Sternberg and Kim Turnage: What would your organization be like if every employee had a great manager? In every organization, managers are a key leverage point to drive higher performance and better business results. The impact managers have on turnover and engagement go straight to the organization’s bottom line.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 29, 2018

Every company that’s serious about branding defines its unique selling points. Both of those actions put companies in control—they command how they are perceived by employees, who then internalize and project this image. By allowing your company culture to project it. And this builds confidence in you. That’s a plus.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

W HEN A CEO first assumes their position or joins a new company, they’re often quick to make changes to the executive team, creating a group of trusted advisors who will drive their strategic agenda. Companies are also facing heightened expectations about their role in society. You have to put the company ahead of each business.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The 12-Week MBA offers an alternative way to learn business essentials by focusing on the skills and knowledge required to succeed as both a manager and a business leader. In addition, the book provides an excellent glossary of most used terms within business. When we're in a book club, we get that social validation.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 12, 2017

Her extensive cross-cultural expertise spans 14 countries, six languages and hundreds of companies. As founder and CEO of Lead From Within, her proprietary leadership program is engineered to be a catalyst for leaders who want to enhance performance and make a meaningful difference in their companies, their lives, and the world.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2020

I’ve visited hundreds of companies that claim they’re transforming their business with Lean methodologies. But as you become more experienced with Lean, you realize that what you can’t see is what separates world-class operations from mediocre ones. The plant’s management boasted that inventory turns had increased from 6.5x

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 3, 2021

06:10 – Consequences when you operate from a reactive place. 30:55 – Why, in many companies, the organization is there to serve the hierarchy as opposed to the hierarchy in the organization being there to serve the people, the customer, and the goal. Get the Book and Move Through Fear. Connect with Gaurav and Mark.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I IN 1982, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman released In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies. The book was a huge business bestseller and served as a guide for managers for many years to come. Yet, 40 years later, few now speak of the book. When the book project started in 1978, the U.S.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2016

He or she can set the strategic direction, sign off on policies and plans, and encourage a professional and productive atmosphere, but significant change is implemented by managers and employees often far removed from the CEO’s corner office. If managers and employees do not embrace proposed change, it will not happen as planned.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more “conventional” teams), but extreme teams. This requires clarity on the part of group’s senior management on the business environment in which they operate. How do we make money?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

It’s not uncommon these days to see a company go from top performer to bankrupt. How do companies compete in this digital era ? High, president of the digital business advisory firm Metis Strategy , advises numerous companies and executives on how to compete in the digital era. Digital Leadership.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2021

Perhaps your boss wants to avoid the 75% to 80% failure rate that plagues company transformations. While the last decade has flattened our organizations and reduced the need for some managers, the need to create leaders at every level has never been more necessary. We need connected managers to create community and spark collaboration.

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CO2

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Entrepreneurs Operating System). From filling the bloggers, like me, with positive book reviews for Traction his book. Every activity that a company does should be aligned with the values, vision, mission, and objectives. EOS seems to simply skip over this fundamental on how it suggests a business should operate.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 6, 2013

The refinery was in search of one lucky individual to navigate the troubled waters between management, the union, and the hourly associates. I sensed the disintegrated teamwork at the oil company and knew my efforts would be futile in that perfect storm of animosity. I found my Fully Integrated Team.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2024

.” Five years earlier, we’d conducted introductory service/quality improvement workshops for senior management and head office staff of a large company. The company clearly had problems with low engagement, faltering customer service, rising costs from inefficient processes and quality problems, and low innovation.

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CoachStation

MARCH 14, 2023

According to a study by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), effective onboarding can increase employee retention by 25% and improve productivity by up to 50%. In addition, a Glassdoor survey found that a positive onboarding experience can lead to employees being 69% more likely to stay with a company for three years or more.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 10, 2020

The average company loses more than 25 percent of its productive power to organization drag , reports the authors of the book, Time, Talent, Energy: Overcome Organizational Drag and Unleash Your Team's Productive Power. With each of these changes, the company becomes more complicated. Is the book worth the read?

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 25, 2023

“Only you , as a senior leader, have the power to direct your company to continuous and sustainable success,” says Scott K. Edinger , author of the new book, The Growth Leader. His book explains why that is true. Look at your company strategy and see if the sales experience is in there. That’s your first step.

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Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

While his ideas are not particularly original, they are sound (in the appropriate context) and when incorporated into the operating system of a business or organization, can be fire. Is it to sell books and speaking gigs? It takes more than sound bites like "people leave managers, not companies" to shape sustainable performance.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Want to improve your shareholder management strategies? This article explores everything business owners need to know about shareholder management. Shareholders are an essential asset to a company. But managing these relationships can be a challenging task that is a corporate reality for many business founders.

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CoachStation

MARCH 14, 2023

According to a study by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), effective onboarding can increase employee retention by 25% and improve productivity by up to 50%. In addition, a Glassdoor survey found that a positive onboarding experience can lead to employees being 69% more likely to stay with a company for three years or more.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2014

Document management software can put important documents at your fingertips in seconds and help you keep everything organized. But which document management solution would work best for your office? Here are three tips to help you understand how document management software can help and which features you’ll need to make it work.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

How do companies handle horse-races among competing candidates—including family members—any one of whom may become the future heir to the throne? I’m so focused on CEO succession I even wrote a book called, “Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?” John believed the company could do well (financially) by doing good (socially).

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

Vertical integration extended their chain of operations, bringing inside their boundaries suppliers at one end (“upstream”) and customers at the other (“downstream”). An automobile company might have bought a supplier of its batteries, or created its own dealerships.

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