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Three Questions We Have of All Leaders

Leading Blog

Setting direction well means establishing a compelling vision and ethical strategies. Although business leaders are rightfully concerned with competitive advantage and profitability, employees and customers typically have other concerns or priorities. Leaders who do this respect others’ dignity. Do you see me? “Do Do you see me?”

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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

The Key to Business and Career Success. It’s a provider that a customer or client favors in the purchase of a product or service versus its competition. A preferred provider has a significant competitive advantage over all other providers, because it is the “go-to” provider in the marketplace. ” -Stan Silverman.

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April 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared The 5 Most Important and Critical Skills for Jobs of the Future. Julie Winkle Giulioni shared Career Success 2.0: Intercultural competence can serve as both a critical performance management dimension for employees and a meaningful competitive advantage for the organization.

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The Advisor’s Corner – Can Ethics Be Learned?

Strategy Driven

Question : Can you teach ethics, or are we ‘hard wired’ and born with or without ethics? YES you can teach the principles and importance of ethics. YES , you can model the ethics you expect within your culture. Therefore, what’s ethical in China is not ethical in Rome and vice versa.

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better. A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will.

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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

” Those words are printed on the back cover of Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Competitive Advantage. Five Frequencies prescribes more than 20 practical Signal Boosts for turning culture into competitive advantage. There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest.

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How to Select a CEO for the Collaboration Economy

LDRLB

Eric is the author of The Collaboration Economy: How to Meet Business, Social, and Environmental Needs and Gain Competitive Advantage.]. Is the CEO staking his career on enterprise-wide collaborations with rivals, NGOs and public entities? Would you partner with your company if your career and wealth was on the line?

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