Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in April 2021. Rethinking Competitive Advantage : New Rules for the Digital Age by Ram Charan. The old ways of creating competitive advantage for your business—such as building moats to ward off competitors—have become dangerous.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2023 curated just for you. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024 * * * “A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.” — Henry Ward Beecher * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Contributing to the inclusiveness that reaches across the organization is Pixar University, the in-house professional-development and employee education program that offers numerous courses related to filmmaking, the arts, health and other topics of interest to Pixar employees. Employees can take up to four hours of classes each week.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2022

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2022. Win from Within : Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage by James Heskett. There is significant evidence that an effective organizational culture provides a major competitive edge?higher Digital transformation is critical.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2017

Welcome to the July 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Dan Rockwell of Leadership Freak wrote recently about assets that help leaders extend their influence. Before highlighting each of the assets, Dan wrote, “Leadership isn’t about status, position, salary, or title. I hope that’s the case.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

What if leaders could shift the cultural mindset around what gives businesses a competitive advantage and recognize the benefits of being more human? Benefits of Empathetic Leadership. But it’s clear that empathy is a core leadership skill. Still, a sea change like this is hard-won. Empathetic leaders are adaptable.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

This concept has gained popularity, as evidenced by the recent agreement between Pfizer and BioNTech to work together to develop a COVID-19 vaccine during the pandemic. Cost Reduction: Engaging in coopetition allows organizations to share costs, infrastructure, and research and development expenses.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Finding innovators in the life sciences industry The importance of innovative leadership cannot be overstated. Organizations can gain a competitive advantage by identifying and attracting these innovators, accelerating research and development efforts, and ultimately driving their businesses forward in an increasingly competitive landscape.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2019. Employee engagement is shockingly low--but it's not an employee problem; it's a leadership problem. Innovating Innovation : Leadership Tools For Moving Your Business Forward and Making Change Happen David Morey. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The story is no different when it comes to developing a leadership strategy in times of change. Whether it be a global pandemic, a company restructuring or a merger, a leadership strategy is crucial if you want to manage shifts and times of uncertainty. By embracing the potential for change, you can harness its power.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. In today’s leadership and strategy methodologies, leaders and organizations need to have five strategic rules of leadership clarity present in order to achieve greater outcomes of effort within their organizational designs. By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2020

Now, the types of leadership qualities that show up on list after list are there for good reason. The business benefits of compassion, kindness, and empathy are less obvious, especially in an uber-competitive world. They watch new ideas take root and recognize the value of developing products to meet customer needs.

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Engaging Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Creativity is the starting point for all innovation, and most organizations rely on innovation to create a competitive advantage. Innovation is necessary for the successful development and implementation of new programs or better products. Where do we find creative people? Where does it come from?

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

I’m sure you’ve heard of the terms Emotional Quotient (EQ) and Intelligence Quotient (IQ); but few people have heard of Adaptability Quotient (AQ), especially as it relates to leadership. In part due to their agile and adaptable leadership style, they are able to create self-managing teams that collaborate together on projects.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

This type of work is nuanced and requires leadership skills that are often overlooked in business school. Executive leadership training programs can offer support and meaningful dialogue to master new challenges effectively. What is an Executive Leadership Training Program?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

Leadership teams for authentic challenger brands evaluate the competitive landscape with an eye toward changing something fundamental about the way they approach the business. In doing so, they create a new and distinctive competitive advantage — a clear path for a unique marketing strategy that can only be leveraged by their brand.

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HR Digest

APRIL 3, 2023

By embracing diversity and promoting inclusion, organizations can unlock the full potential of their employees, foster innovation and creativity, and build a culture of equity and respect. Through cultural awareness, productivity and creativity can be enhanced by encouraging innovation and new perspectives.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

Throughout the ages, leaders and followers alike have wondered whether the process of leadership depends on inborn traits or whether it can be taught. Still, some people who strive for leadership never quite achieve it. Leadership skills can be taught. What is different about strategic leadership?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

Between my research and that experience, I’ve developed some insights into what makes a venture a success or a failure. We’ve also found that these evaluative types become much more comfortable with new ventures after creativity training and a better understanding of the ideation process. They tend to like imaginative ideas.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2019

An Ironclad brand is one that unleashes your competitive advantage. In step 4, you develop a ladder of benefits and reasons to believe that specify the promise your business makes, how you prove that promise, and what your customer ultimately enjoys as a result of experiencing that promise. Step 7: Activate Creative.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Purpose is a Competitive Advantage. They develop leaders. They find creative solutions to problems. She had prior leadership positions at Yum! The following is an excerpt from the updated and expanded Second Edition of: Dare to Serve by Cheryl Bachelder. Why does work have such a bad reputation? They feed people.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 19, 2019

Being known as an organization where the best people want to work isn’t just an HR issue—it brings a serious competitive advantage when the best people want to be part of your team. They fall into six critical areas: Great leadership. When you get leadership right, you get the right people. Great development.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage. Business best practice never stands still.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 7, 2014

You’ll feel good because you’re growing and developing, and you’ll find higher levels of innovation and creativity. Lead From Within : If you want to improve your life, if you want to improve your leadership, you must learn what your strengths are and align yourself with them. Leadership: Turn Mistakes into Lessons.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Anticipating and preparing for change is the essence of competitive advantage. The leaders who dominate in this new era will not only understand the changes affecting them, but they will seize them, master them, and use them to their advantage to achieve ever-higher performance. World-class competitors can do it.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

If you are in any doubt that collaborative leadership is an imperative, and not just a fad, take a look at any of the 22 articles in the Harvard Business Review series on collaboration. According to John Chambers , CEO of Cisco, “You cannot create collaboration is you think leadership is about control.” Learn to tolerate ambiguity.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

He’s also a sought-after speaker on subjects ranging from competitive advantage to strategy to leadership. They approach strategy as a test of imagination, creativity , cunning and courage rather than as a set of tasks to be completed. What role does culture play in creating competitive advantage?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 21, 2021

Such an entrepreneur is open to infusing new talents, innovations and creativity into the business to strengthen it and guarantee its longevity. Your staff needs to share in your ambition to develop a future-oriented business. Establish a competitive advantage in a saturated market. Inspire innovation.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Leaders can develop workplace cultures that engage people and provide a source of competitive advantage. Connection, because it meets our human needs, makes people more trusting, more cooperative, more empathetic, more enthusiastic, more optimistic, more energetic, more creative and better problem solvers.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 5, 2015

In a connection culture, people develop supportive, cooperative and collaborative relationships. How does an emotional connection between management, employees, and customers actually provide a competitive advantage? It also makes them more creative and better decision-makers.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 11, 2012

The newest issue of Strategic Leadership Review is out and features three more strong articles promoting evidence-based leadership. The article discusses creative organizations and the need to develop innovative leaders at all levels. One in particular is Lisa Fornier’s Leading from the Middle.

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CEO Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2010

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Friday, December 31, 2010 Slow Down, Sell Faster I am really enjoying the snow. It is in these periods of low rush that my creativity tends to be the highest. But the offset is the lower creativity. For a differentiator to become a competitive advantage it must be connected to a customer problem.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 19, 2014

"Our company takes a holistic view of organizations to align the mechanics that create and sustain real competitive advantage for companies from five to 50 million dollars," he adds. This past week, Michael shared with me his insights about leadership, challenges faced by leader,s and what it means to be a leader.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

There are many who would say process stifles creativity and slows production, and while I would concur this statement is usually the case with bad process, nothing could be further from the truth as it relates to good process. Good process should provide a fluid framework to inspire creativity not stifle it.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 5, 2013

Guest post from Shoya Zichy: Innovation is critical to an organization''s growth and competitive advantage. Yet in a recent survey of 5,000 only 1 in 4 people believe they are living up to their creative potential. Each is needed but often not identified or respected.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 18, 2020

It’s no surprise that Tamara Ghandour’s book interested me because I read all I can about innovation and creativity. Her company, LaunchStreet, works with teams to unlock the power of innovation and gain a competitive edge. I believed that your brain was segmented – one side was creative and the other logical. Of course not….so

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