Strategy Driven

AUGUST 14, 2015

It used to be said that people have three careers in them. Bacharach started his music writing career by taking 'work for hire,' tailoring songs to particular performers. The Bacharach repertoire expanded, and he developed his signature musical style, along with lyricists such as Hal David. Resources being developed.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

If you happen to be someone who makes a great first impression, but cannot execute and/or deliver up to expectations you are just setting yourself up for failure and your clients will be even more frustrated than if they had never engaged you to begin with. Share and Enjoy: View Comments Gordon R. Thanks for stopping by Gordon.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions. I have always found that rapport is quickly developed when you listen, care, and attempt to help people succeed.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

It is my experience that they either lack the personal skill sets, or haven’t built the right executive team to lead change, they just don’t recognize the need for change, or they just don’t care. Others avoid it at all costs because it's a distraction from their distractions.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 3, 2011

In the movie Wall Street, Michael Douglas won an Oscar for his portrayal of the rude, larcenous wheeler-dealer Gordon Gekko. As an executive coach, I work with supremely successful people who need to change some behaviors. This should have been the apex of Mike's young career. I don't need to work on developing myself.'

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

Welcome to the April 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I read through this month’s Leadership Development Carnival entries, I felt a bit of the same. Some writers are executives at the top of their organization’s org charts. Gordon Leidner answers these questions in his guest post on Great Leadership!”

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 2, 2013

The movies can be a rich source of leadership inspiration and help us identify role models and examples of leadership skills and characteristics that we can choose to develop. Submitted by Beth Armknecht Miller, from Executive Velocity : “ One of my favorites is Remember the Titans. Work the plan. Keep on keeping on!”

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Roundtable Talk

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Leadership is about taking risks… When Christine and her partners launched SCC, most of her banking friends didn’t understand why she was walking away from her “promising career&#. Know the risks, but believe in yourself and don’t explain your decision to the doubters, just go do it. There was so much more.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If you don’t engage those who hold dissenting opinions and viewpoints in candid and open discussions you will struggle in developing to your true intellectual potential. link] Gordon R. link] mikemyatt Wow…thanks for the thoughtful comment Gordon. Thanks for sharing Gordon. link] Gordon R.

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Roundtable Talk

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Kudo’s to Mr. Furlong for his vision and to the hundreds of people that helped execute it. PS – A special leadership shout-out goes out to BC Premier Gordon Campbell for waving the Canadian flag like a maniac during Furlong’s speech and nearly taking out Harpers eye. Happy leading! Get in the game Steve!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

The condition is rare but, fortunately, there appeared to be several specialists both in Germany and France who had each treated hundreds of cases during their careers. After all, executives are only human, too. One way is to develop and set a clear decision rule beforehand, when there is nothing concrete to decide upon yet.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The glass ceiling, a phrase popularized in a 1986 Wall Street Journal article, has been invoked for years as the barrier keeping women from reaching the executive ranks in numbers paralleling men. In 2000 we started following the careers of MBA graduates from top U.S. But does it really tell the whole story?

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

To celebrate the launch, my publisher is enabling us to extend, for the next week, a range of complementary Next Level leadership development opportunities for those who can pre-order copies of the book through Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Fresh insights from global executives on what it takes to succeed in a competitive marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. Business education Education Leadership development' In general, let’s promote more dialogue between companies and academia.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. Business education Education Leadership development' In general, let’s promote more dialogue between companies and academia.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I went into the tech industry, where I saw firsthand that male executives preferred to promote the ideas and innovations proposed by the female colleagues they happened to be having sex with. I had never thought of sexual harassment as affecting my career arc, and yet I can now see how its friction surely influenced it.

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