Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Guest post from Bernie Swain : Leadership requires all sorts of qualities: judgment, character, confidence, an unshakeable commitment to a work ethic guided by a moral compass. The answer, of course, was and is no, and that coach wound up rehiring him. Here are some of those lessons. Lou was asked by the coach who laid him off.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 14, 2020

You need three things to grow your business successfully: investment, idea, and of course, manpower. Do try to work it out, as success doesn’t come overnight. For a smooth financial journey, consider a good plan in terms of financial management. Tired of using your ideas to grow someone else’s organization? Wrapping up.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Specifically, of how the values an organization uses to define who they are and what they’re all about tend to be contradicted by the decisions and choices their leaders make regarding the best way to achieve their short term goals. If you want to find out how strong a company’s ethics are, don’t listen to what its people say.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Someone who has consistently experienced success in leadership roles has a much better chance of success than someone who has not. Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2017

Anne writes, “Your leadership manifesto ensures you stay the course in challenging times and focus on what’s most important at all times.” It’s an ethical imperative” Find Linda on Twitter at @leadingincontxt. Miki Saxon of MAPping Company Success contributed Ducks in a Row: Educating For The Future.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 3, 2009

This, of course, is a personal question that only you can answer for yourself. The focus on near-term ‘valuables’ at the extent of long-term ‘values’ can prevent companies from reaching the success to which they are striving. The valuables are the products you (and your teams of course) produce.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I write books and teach online courses helping other writers and creatives use online marketing to succeed. Seth Godin calls this an ethical bribe. I think guest posting is going to be the best way to get the highest quality traffic that actually converts to long-term readers, email subscribers, fans, and advocates of your work.

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Thin Difference

AUGUST 6, 2019

In his article The Compliance Trap: The Snare of Short-Term Results , Eric Torrence shared a leadership struggle he faces at home and work. A steamy weather forecast presents an ethical dilemma. However, it isn’t a way of life that is sustainable long term. Of course, refusing to comply isn’t easy.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

The success of this enables trainers with the 'rank and file employees' to be optimally successful. 4) Trial and Error, Success and Failure. (5) One Course Will Fix the Problem. It unlocks doors to greater success, growth and profitability.for those trained and for the sponsoring organization. 2) Learning Curve. (3)

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. many of us face an endless stream of ethical dilemmas at work. We were surprised that 30 leaders in the study recalled a total of 87 “major” ethical dilemmas from their career histories. Wells Fargo. Volkswagen.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Every company has stakeholders, though a few with their own proprietary interests chart the course in their own vision, or lack thereof. One rarely advances more than one rung on the ladder during the course of service to the organization in question: Resource. Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. This vision, if successful, must be underpinned by core ideology and then expressed with clarity and conviction. Best wishes for continued success Sir.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

One rarely advances more than one rung on the ladder during the course of service to the organization in question. Philosophy : purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Research leads to planning, which is the best way to accomplish tasks and benchmark success. 7 Levels of Authority Figure.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2014

Make a careless, short-sighted, ill-conceived move and suffer the perilous consequences. Most of the time it merely takes tenacity and good old preparation to ensure you are aptly equipped to assert mutually desirable terms, anticipate objections, and discern what are motivators or ‘hot buttons’ will resonate with your opponent.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

This we believed to be particularly true in terms of the sorts of brands that we were going to be offering. Of course, we believed that our true claim to originality was with the concept behind the sister site to ShopitUPchic.com: Iwantyouroutfit.com. It was going to be, what Katie terms, ‘a revolving closet for every woman in America.’

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2010

ranks only tenth in the world in terms of low infant mortality rates. I was angry because the national “debate” that we’ve had on health care over the past year was long on opinions and spin and very short on facts. Her response was short and sweet – “We are all unconscious. According to World Health Organization stats, the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. How sad is this?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2016

The swift discipline of employees who violate ethical standards is recommended. These people may be unethical, but they get the job done, and enhance the organization’s short-term profitability along the way. This is the case even in organizations that on the whole are considered highly ethical.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

Watch this short video for a great story illustrating this problem in action: There may be cases in which incentives work only as intended, but I suspect they are relatively rare. Some of these fall into just a silly example of you used a slogan and had success and think there is causation.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It is very easy to combine your personal goals with professional ones as it can feel like success in one area must equate to success in another. Image credit – Freepik) Examples of career goals are those that mark milestones in your work trajectory so that you can progress step-by-step toward success in your area of expertise.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. Connecting with core employees is essential to a leader’s long-term success.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Teamwork is an essential component of achieving success. Make sure to focus on both the short and long term, meet people halfway, and do your fair share. Of course, you will have periods when you take on more responsibility, and periods when others will do the same for you. Do You Have a Strong Work Ethic?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

For more than a quarter century, the mantra, of course, has been that corporations' primary focus should be on shareholders and the primary goal should be to "maximize shareholder value." And, of course, Steve Jobs. Yet this has been a long process of product design, introduction and success. Emphasis mine.)

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Legacy building in business contexts can take the form of working to ensure the long-term viability of the organization and leaving it stronger, more productive, and more valuable than it was before. One day in 1888, a wealthy and successful man was reading what was supposed to be his brother’s obituary in a French newspaper.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

But I’ve seen the pursuit of business opportunities cause irreparable harm to marriages, families, health—and those are some of the successful businesses! Others might find that the successful resolution of these conflicts opens them up to new ways of relating to their families and careers. Hard things don’t come easy.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Over the course of my career I’ve assembled a very handy annual New Year’s “Checklist&# that helps get me focused and ready for the challenges to come in the days and months ahead, and well positioned for success. It’s much harder to give course corrections later if the ship has drifted way off course.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. The real story behind IBM's success is the course Palmisano set for 21st century global enterprises. Patience and a long-term view.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Listen in on MBA classes and corporate conferences and you will hear a lot of talk about the need for inspiring missions, ethical behavior and transcendent purpose. Our system of financial accounting rewards quarterly profits, but struggles mightily to place a value on ethical behavior. Bettinger is not alone.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Of course, everyone knows that conducting business in some of these markets can be risky. Of the very worst incidents resulting in the greatest losses (the remaining 1% of incidents), 60% involved more than one of these hazards, 35% involved two, and 25% involved all three, either simultaneously or in rapid succession.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Ruthlessness in pursuit of success might work for a while. This happens despite success, and sometimes because of how success was achieved. Integrity in all dealings means taking the interests of other parties taken into account, operating with a long-term perspective rather than short-term greed or sensationalism.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's article in January's HBR tries to advance our world's shared values by arguing that doing right is the best long-term business strategy. They would also see that generous and effective employee health programs result in healthier profits long-term. But life isn't always win-win.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The “ accelerated recognition of commercial income and delayed accrual of costs” undoubtedly flatters short-term results, but it soon catches up with you, as four suspended senior executives have found out. Tesco, the success story of the British retail scene for the last 20 years, has suddenly fallen from grace.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

Of course, the same qualities that make younger colleagues so responsive to the education and praise you offer may also make them susceptible to negative feedback loops, so be mindful of the context into which you toss them. One very successful Silicon Valley founder is reported to make everyone in his company "CEO" of something.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2015

The consequences of such insidious biases can be quite costly to an organization, from leading it to hire or promote the wrong candidates to investing in less innovative ideas just because of who proposed them to crossing ethical boundaries. For instance, Lamar Pierce (of the Olin Business School in St.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

These are the visionaries who advise management in refining the organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics and contributions toward the company’s long-term growth. One rarely advances more than one rung on the ladder during the course of service to the organization unless he/she embodies that wider scope.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

What’s more, winning increases testosterone and dopamine hormones, which, in turn, increases our confidence and willingness to take risks, and thus our chances of further success. At the same time, the need to win can blind us to ethical considerations. Of course, this is illegal and unethical. Our Studies Study 1.

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