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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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The conditions that we thought of as a strength are actually operating like a vice. Cultivate awareness: The paradigm shift starts with a clear understanding of what character is and how it operates. Their new book, with co-author Gerald Seijts, is The Character Compass: Transforming Leadership for the 21st Century (Routledge, Oct.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

Do Less Better is the name of my book. The seemingly more attractive (and logical) option is to do more and more – the theory being the more markets, products, and businesses a company engages in, the better the results. The Campbell Soup Company has been doing more and more for decades. Nike began as a shoe company.

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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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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.

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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. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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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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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. In addition, the book provides an excellent glossary of most used terms within business.

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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. Being the shrewd marketer Sinek is, he has distilled his ideas into powerful sound bites that stir emotion in many - many who are disillusioned and disengaged.

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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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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2021

E VERY NOW AND THEN, a book comes along to give you the insights you need to see and understand the world you live in and how to thrive in it. Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age by Ram Charan is one of those books. In other words, it’s more about what a company does than what it has.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2023

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. Moreover, as global markets expand and new business opportunities arise in distant lands, car transport providers play a pivotal role.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 23, 2020

W HEN David Cote became CEO of Honeywell in February of 2002, the company was a train wreck. The problem was that he had to deliver something in the short-term to the investors for survival but had to set the company up for tomorrow too. At the end of the book, he leaves us with some sound advice. He did both.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 30, 2023

Having conducted extensive field research, Ranjay Gulati , author of the book, Deep Purpose , The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , reveals the fatal mistakes leaders unwittingly make when attempting to implement a reason for being. “My Question: You talk about how purpose can actually help to boost company performance.

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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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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 18, 2019

"The clearer your company culture, the less likely it will be hijacked by the weaker personalities in your team," explains Mary Christensen , author of the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader. "A We operate in a spirit of fun and friendship. Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Having conducted extensive field research, Ranjay Gulati , author of the book, Deep Purpose , The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , reveals the fatal mistakes leaders unwittingly make when attempting to implement a reason for being. “My Question: You talk about how purpose can actually help to boost company performance.

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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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Modern Servant Leader

MAY 8, 2020

Ken Melrose, former chairman and chief executive officer of The Toro Company, passed away Sunday May 3, 2020. His book, “ Making the Grass Greener on Your Side : A CEO’s Journey to Leading by Serving” cited examples of servant-leadership in action at Toro while teaching and encouraging its practice to readers.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The good news is that we’re about the step into a new year that can serve as a blank canvas for your company. When you run a business, you tend to take time to learn a lot about the field you’re operating in. You also need to make sure that your business is operating to a budget that accounts for costs and allows room for growth.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 21, 2016

Should every company be striving for the form of strategic advantage that has become the hallmarks of Amazon, Google and Facebook? The most successful leaders, leverage ‘fast company’ cultures to achieve competitive advantage. Fast Companies Get Results. What about your world? Pedal to the Metal Mentality.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

"The clearer your company culture, the less likely it will be hijacked by the weaker personalities in your team," explains Mary Christensen , author of the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader. "A We operate in a spirit of fun and friendship. Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 8, 2020

You need people on your team with both strategic and operational skills—two very different kinds of people. Once you know who they are, you can optimize not just your products, but your whole business—how you market, how you onboard, and how you support these people. Her new book, The Forever Transaction , was released in April 2020.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

When operating a small business, there are a lot of different things that owners need to consider and manage to ensure that it runs smoothly. Here’s a look at the best solutions and software that most small businesses should consider in order to give their operations a boost.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Many believe that a brand is a function of marketing. Marketers and marketing departments love ‘branding campaigns’ or ‘brand-building programs,’ because they are sexier and more exciting than their less attractive cousin, the product campaign. But a brand is much more than a component of marketing.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 27, 2011

That’s the thesis of Rick Kash and David Calhoun, authors of How Companies Win. In a moment, I’ll tell you how to get a free copy of this book courtesy of the authors and LDRLB. According to Kash and Calhoun, companies that win are those that are able to discover and exploit unsatisfied customer demands.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2019

How true disruptors use innovation, including digital, to grow the market and create new business models. Or else, you took on the hard work of growing the entire market. It can drive new business models, open up adjacent products and help you grow the whole market. You took away share from competition or they took it from you.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

After reading my book about strategic pivoting , the CEO asked me to hold a strategic retreat to help the company restrategize its plans. Below is a summary of how I helped five startups, three middle-market companies, and a business unit of a Fortune 300 company pivot for pandemic-influenced business settings.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The company was led by Marc Porat, who had a vision of what the future smartphone would be like at a time there was no world wide web or digital phone. ” Great partnering needs broad guidelines that provide “solution spaces” in which to operate. He can be reached at www.chipbell.com.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2020

As our world deals with the COVID-19 pandemic, business leaders must understand that it’s going to be technology that determines which companies survive and build success from this unprecedented event. Even governance of operations can be encoded into blockchain networks and artificial intelligence. Better supply chains.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

"The clearer your company culture, the less likely it will be hijacked by the weaker personalities in your team," explains Mary Christensen , author of the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader. "A We operate in a spirit of fun and friendship. Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The researchers surveyed 40 leaders of large companies from across Europe. In other words, there is no future for companies if the earth itself has no future. This then underpins long-term and sustainable relationships with employees within the company and other stakeholders outside the company. An overwhelming 77.5%

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

"The clearer your company culture, the less likely it will be hijacked by the weaker personalities in your team," explains Mary Christensen , author of the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader. "A We operate in a spirit of fun and friendship. Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2024

. “If we think about how technology actually operates, we realize that there is not one point in the history of humanity when technology is not directly related to specific cultures and values, beliefs and biases, religious beliefs or gender stances,” the author argues. ”

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I’ve written about these and other crucial tools for helping leaders improve relationships, gain executive presence and succeed in my new book, The Heart of a Leader: 52 Emotional Intelligence Insights to Advance Your Career. Below are five time-tested approaches for new leaders to get off to a fast start. www.DriventoSucceedLLC.com.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Successful people and companies combine the story and the spreadsheet, and by doing so, restore the soul of business.” If the numbers show that your product category isn’t doing as well as it once did in Market Z, is there an emerging opportunity because the market still has potential and competition will be reduced because of this data?”.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Having conducted extensive field research, Ranjay Gulati , author of the book, Deep Purpose , The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , reveals the fatal mistakes leaders unwittingly make when attempting to implement a reason for being. “My Question: You talk about how purpose can actually help to boost company performance.

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