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Developing Your Personal Brand

Decker Communication

At a very young age, she could recognize the iconic symbol thanks to years—and millions of dollars— they’d spent developing their brand. As a business leader, it’s just as important to develop your own personal brand. Perhaps it’s a passion for developing others or a passion for protecting the environment.

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Turning Observation into Innovation

Leading Blog

It requires skills that too few have developed. Corporate anthropologists, like traditional anthropologists, explains Andi Simon in On the Brink , look “at a company as a new and unfamiliar culture” to arrive at fresh insights. Simon says she is amazed at how often we miss what is right in front of us.

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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

In our book, Relentless: The Forensics of Mobsters; Business Practices , we discovered the leadership principles of organized crime syndicates that forge high-performance teams of very loyal gangsters, incredibly strong brand names and cultures with a long-term perspective and an unrelenting customer focus. Zimmerman , Ph.D.,

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Hit Songs and Great Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Leadership guru and author, Simon Sinek recently said, “To affect change inside an organization we must remember why people resist change. With all due respect, Simon is partially correct but doesn’t tell the whole story. Core values are developed over a lifetime and are what guide our decision-making process.

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Strategic Intuition

Tony Mayo

It all flows from University of Chicago PhD and Nobel laureate Herb Simon, who introduced the concept of bounded rationality that states that people don’t consider all alternatives as they decide most things, only a subset. Simon indicated it took about ten years to be really good at something.

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Do You Have Executive Presence?

Thin Difference

While it’s easy to recognize traits like composure, charisma and confidence in well-known thought leaders like Steve Jobs, Simon Sinek or Brené Brown, it’s more difficult to apply these characteristics to the way we lead on a daily basis. What Steps Can You Take to Develop your Executive Presence? Guest Post by Shannon Eckmann.

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People Do Business With You…But Why?

Women on Business

According to author and thought leader Simon Sinek, people buy the “why.” Categories : Communications , Marketing , business development 2 Comments 1 Tweets that mention People Do Business With You…But Why? :: Women on Business -- Topsy.com January 12th, 2011 at 1:23 am [.] By Maribeth Kuzmeski Why do people do business with you?