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What’s the Secret to Strong Leadership?

Great Leadership By Dan

Connection At its core, leadership isn’t about control, power, or a job title. Leadership is a relationship between two people. However, these upfront costs pay dividends on the back end—that of engagement and commitment. Communication and leadership are joined at the hip. So what separates great leaders from the rest?

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. Thanks for commenting. Thanks for provoking thought!

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Alaska, Bad Weather and Building an Oil Pipeline

Great Results Team Building

By 1977 all 800 miles of pipeline had been welded together at a cost of over $8 billion dollars. Bill Parcells is famous for sharing a similar message with his football teams. But Parcells’ point is that we need to focus on the pipeline. The first section of four-foot-wide pipe was laid in the spring of 1975.

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Logistics For Your Business

Strategy Driven

Setting up your website, working on getting finances sorted, they are all part and parcel of a startup too. Logistics is the movement of goods and supply chain is that movement – however, it is also sourcing, cost of goods, relationship management and everything else. Tom Peters – Rule #3: Leadership Is Confusing As Hell.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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My Personal Coach

Coaching Tip

Blisters cost games. There are leadership coaches , executive coaches , life coaches , and college-application coaches. They parcel out their observations carefully. He had two purposes in doing this. First, wrinkles cause blisters. Second, he wanted his players to learn how crucial seemingly trivial details could be.

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Will Moneyball Analytics Kill Loyalty and Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

The cultural values of loyalty and leadership are being redefined by the economic value of forecasting methodologies (PDF). Yesterday" is a sunk cost. Bill Parcells, the Super Bowl-winning coach, was famous for saying , "You are what your record says you are."