Next Level Blog

JUNE 22, 2010

» June 22, 2010 Video Book Club: The Discipline of Market Leaders One of the things that makes a strategy book really useful is when it introduces a model that you can use to organize your thinking for years to come. It’s The Discipline of Market Leaders. This week’s VBC feature did that for me. View an alternate.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It’s an honor when clients or friends refer me for a speaking engagement. And, while I speak about Leadership and Workplace Culture, I realize that other topics are timely and meaningful based on an organization’s specific situation. Heather Younger – helps organizations create safe spaces and a culture of listening.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2014

In Leadership Blindspots , author Robert Shaw make this important observation: “ Leadership strengths are often found in close proximity to blindspots. I refer to this as a type of blindness because the leader fails to fully appreciate the risk he or she is facing and the consequences of not taking action.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Greg McKeown most famously wrote about priority in his book Essentialism. But a leadership team’s members need to own responsibility for the whole business, not just their individual pieces of it. His leadership team identified customer service as the senior leadership team’s—and therefore the division’s—top priority.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 10, 2018

In my new book with Ronnie Chatterji, Can Business Save the Earth? Markets are where the value of innovations are articulated. Business, and markets more broadly, are often the catalyst for innovation and are thus a critical players in our innovation challenge. Innovation is more than invention. Time is of the essence.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2015

A good friend gave me a book about building your business through referrals. The author believes, “The best marketing strategy is to be referable.” According to the author, your referability depends upon four habits: Show up on time. Could being referable be that simple? Referable value. He is correct.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 27, 2021

Leave it to leadership and communications expert, David Grossman , to decide to write a book called, Heart First, Lasting Leadership Lessons From A Year That Changed Everything. It’s a book you’ll want to read and then refer to time after time. And, if you read only one leadership book this year, make it this one.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

As you think about what business books you want to read next year, how about adding to the list at least one book from the list below. Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 8, 2020

And you need leadership that has a longer time horizon so you can invest in relationships. For example, they might refer in new customers, or speak at your events, or provide feedback on product direction. You don’t want to have a product that’s got a little bit for each of several markets, but doesn’t “nail it” for any one audience.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 18, 2016

The path to thought and industry leadership must start with a solid platform. Before you begin any PR, marketing, or buzz-building campaigns, three critical actions, taken in a specific order, are required: First, clearly articulate the brand and messages. Next, develop a modern, marketing-oriented, up-to-date website.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Reflections on Charismatic Leadership. In marketing, this idea is used in “purpose branding”—how a brand can change the world for the better. Leadership author John Kotter identifies the creation of a vision for change and communication of the change vision as the third and fourth steps in his model for effective change management.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2017

One of the hottest themes in management and leadership today is the importance of understanding the introvert at work. Research points out that while nearly half the population is introverted, extroverts hold the majority of leadership roles. The following is a guest piece by Kate Rodriguez. Here’s how: 1.

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Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Many leadership qualities have been observed throughout history. Identify Areas of Growth and Improve Your Leadership Skills. What is Leadership? Leadership is the act of guiding a group of people or organization to a desired goal, result, or higher level. Download My Personal Development Plan Template Today.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 20, 2016

There’s a leadership crisis in American politics and business—a crisis that extends around the world. We find the training and managing of leadership is broken. Today, the model of “Change Leadership” versus “Bigness Leadership” is an approach built for these turbulent times by Google, Walt Disney Company and others.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

AI need not be indistinguishable from human behavior, or capable of stimulating human reasoning—what is sometimes referred to as strong AI. We need only a computer system to perform tasks that were traditionally performed by human beings, in what is traditionally referred to as weak AI.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 24, 2021

I’ve spoken with Scott McKain , my guest on this week’s episode of “Aim Higher,” many times—both because he’s a friend and because he says so many things that resonate with me and with my own philosophies of leadership and personal development. Order from Books-a-Million. Order from Barnes & Noble.

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 26, 2010

In his book The Right Leader: Selecting Executives Who Fit , author Nat Stoddard (with help from Claire Wyckoff) investigates the complex topic of assuring smooth executive transitions, with their primary focus at the CEO level. The first section of the book focuses on finding executives who “fit&# the organization.

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General Leadership

MARCH 5, 2014

This is our 10th installment of the “ 12 Virtues of Leadership ” series and tonight we feature the virtue of “ Self-Control.” Whether she is addressing an auditorium full of educators or sitting on the floor helping first graders find their way into the pages of a great book, Angela Maiers’ message is the same.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Six of My Favorite Books of the Year by Kevin Eikenberry on December 27, 2010 in Leadership , Learning , Reading As long time newsletter readers know I read a lot. The book does the title justice.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

In fact, I hold Marshall in such high professional regard that he is one of only three other coaches that I’ll refer people to if I’m unable to meet their needs. On with the inteview… Mike Myatt : How would you describe your business and what do you do? My business has 3 primary aspects: I write, speak and coach.

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CEO Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

So of course I turned to a book. I was surprised there was a big enough market for CEO Branding but it really is about leadership branding in general so the potential audience is much larger. The book cites many examples of great CEO Brands. The book can inspire though and help with some tools but now I have to do it.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

News Flash – If you have to look for leadership it doesn’t exist…Today’s post is not going to sit well with many in the leadership profession, but then many of my posts seem to have that effect. I’ve never been a fan of what I refer to as “make-work” disciplines. Identifying leaders? Have we really degenerated to this point?

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 19, 2016

The Trusted Executive: Nine Leadership Habits That Inspire Results, Relationships and Reputation” helps leaders develop a strategy for building organizational trust. Fast forward to the early 1990s and a new disruptive technology appeared in Kodak’s market: digital photography. Can't Get Enough Leadership. Related articles.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 20, 2010

A few common methods include: The number of people reporting up through the organization The quantity or amount of product or services produced The “bottom line&# or income produced by the company The number of links, references or accolades to the leader or the organization Other methods that focus on things and not people.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

I asked him to write an endorsement for my new book, and used the encounter to learn more about how he created such an amazing culture. People who lead from this perspective bring completely different practices than those who have a more parental view of their leadership role. It does not mean leadership cannot be learned or refined.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 26, 2011

One of the new features I will be adding to my blog this year is what I’m calling the “Coffee House Book Review”, which will feature reviews on books from the fields of leadership, management, marketing, and other areas of interest to those who are running or managing a business or organization.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

John Maxwell — author of the book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership — does a masterful job of explaining the leadership principle of influence through the five myths about leadership: The Management Myth: Management focuses on maintaining systems and processes.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 31, 2017

A Reel Leadership Article Valerian and Dunkirk released on the same weekend. Not only was Valerian a treat for the eyes and soul, there were plenty of leadership lessons in Valerian. Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets. To access Big Market, you had to have special glasses and gloves.

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Mark Sanborn

MARCH 30, 2021

Being so good, so well-known and so often referred to, he doesn’t need one. If you couldn’t have your website–or social media or mastermind or whatever now powers your marketing–how successful would you be? Marketing is important, but mastery is more important. What about you?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. There has been no shortage of information published on the topic of Emotional IQ or what’s referred to as EQ in recent years.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 24, 2016

T oday’s guest on the Answers From Leadership podcast is Ann Fishman. I’m excited to bring Ann on the show to discuss generational trends in leadership, especially in relation to millennials. Listen To The Answers From Leadership Podcast. This generation had what is referred to as helicopter parents.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

including digital marketing success. The digital marketing promise has always included the ability to measure the impact of your online marketing dollars. Delivering on this promise has been a challenging activity that many leaders grapple with when measuring digital marketing benchmarks for success.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 6, 2012

Dan references one his favorite books "Six Disciplines Execution Revolution, by Gary Harpst. "If Much more must also be learned, and for that I refer to you the myriad leadership books on the market. But there's a lot of "leadership fluff" out there, so beware what you buy.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 7, 2011

I’ve had issues with some of the concepts contained in Jim Collins book Good To Great since it was first released. But when theories are marketed as fact, I begin to lose patience rather quickly. Being a commercial best seller is about buzz, hype, and branding…it is about book sales rather than the root value of the content.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

But a problem that’s becoming ever more visible is that some organisations have made authenticity their marketing strategy, rather than a business one. This isn’t a marketing issue, this is a business-wide issue, involving every facet of the organisation. This will also enable the truism that ‘good business is good business’.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Organizations are shaped as much by the personalities of their leaders as by product innovations, marketing prowess, or technical ingenuity, yet identifying personality attributes that promote or inhibit organizational effectiveness has been an elusive goal, despite the existence of assessment centers and executive coaching.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2022

In the new book, Talent: The Market Cap Multiplier , you’ll discover how seven companies from around the world reinvented the talent management process to become better functioning companies and talent engines that drive impressive growth. Question: Why is it so difficult for companies to recruit the right leadership team?

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