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The Three Decisions You Need to Own

Harvard Business Review

The best executives understand which ones they need to focus on and which ones they can delegate. While the obvious decisions that CEOs need to get right involve strategy and competitive advantage, too many executives delegate away three critical decisions that they need to own: decisions about goals, resource allocation, and people.

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How To Produce An Effective Company Blog

Eric Jacobson

companies using a blog for marketing purposes, your business likely will within the next year. According to Emarketer, the proportion of companies using dedicated blogs as a marketing channel—excluding blogs on social networks and microblogs such as Twitter—will rise to 39% in 2011 and to 43% by 2012.

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Share The Bad News

Eric Jacobson

If revenue is down, or if youve lost a large customer, or if a new competitor has entered the market, let your team know. Leaders Delegate True leaders are confident enough to delegate. Your employees need to know about the health of your company or organization.

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Lots Of Lessons From Post-it Notes

Eric Jacobson

How test marketing is critical. Leaders Delegate True leaders are confident enough to delegate. Saturday, August 21, 2010 Lots Of Lessons From Post-it Notes There are lots of lessons tied to those canary yellow squares, called Post-it Notes -- how ideas and innovations can come from anyone on your team at any time.

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Never Say These Words To A Customer

Eric Jacobson

Are you absolutely sure every employee in sales, production, operations, marketing, etc., Leaders Delegate True leaders are confident enough to delegate. MacKay writes, "Common sense, thorough research and sound advice should allay your fears to a reasonable level." Take a moment. thanks for a great reminder!

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Ask These Five Questions

Eric Jacobson

One recommendation is to at least include members of your management team, sales team, marketing team and research team when you ask the five questions. Leaders Delegate True leaders are confident enough to delegate. Hopefully, the tips and ideas youll read in the Blog will help you to become a true leader.

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Most Doctors Have Little or No Management Training, and That’s a Problem

Harvard Business Review

Based on work with dozens of health care organizations, we have adapted the leadership development model of Ram Charan et al to outline a leadership path for physicians. These leaders learn to oversee and delegate work, and develop and coach others. It also requires knowing how to delegate and mentor.