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Leading in the Wild

Lead Change Blog

They extend a heartfelt invitation to all (does and bucks) to join them on their wild journey. “Do Opening the cage door, Hazel works to convince the four to abandon their confined and boring dwelling and join his band in the wild. Welcome to the Wild. The Way of the Leader in the Wild. Do you ever come out?”

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

It’s about a wildly successful company that went off course. His goal was not to make Microsoft the most innovative company but the most successful in its field. Of course, part of that entailed reestablishing the company’s reputation for cutting-edge technology. You know this company. But there was much more than that.

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The Leaders Our Companies Need: Lessons We Can Learn from Historical Luminaries

Leading Blog

But what qualities do our celebrated leaders of industry embody that make them successful? A striking feature of Roosevelt’s political success was that he became an admired champion of the poorest Americans. In this regard, he and his followers were wildly successful. It’s hard to escape this view of leaders and leadership.

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Got Workplace Gossip? Powerful Phrases to Stop Workplace Gossip Before It Spreads

Let's Grow Leaders

Of course, the last thing I needed as I was working to establish credibility in my new role overseeing 110 stores, with limited sales experience was a bunch of distracted store managers trying to figure out if their new boss was getting in on with a direct report. That’s quite a wild story.

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3 Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

Leading Blog

Even when there is a large market, most successful entrepreneurs attack a small portion of it at the beginning. Of course, you will take the higher valuation, because you’ll give up less of the company, right? Of course, you want the bar to be set low rather than high, to guarantee that you’ll make it over.

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4 Disciplines Successful Leaders Employ To Achieve Their Wildly Important Goals

Tanveer Naseer

Over the course of this episode, Jim and I discussed this updated edition of his book, including: * Why so many leaders struggle with achieving their strategies and goals.* What leaders are getting wrong about what they track, and what are the real measures they should be focusing on to succeed.*

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Build Your Own Competency Model- A Team Exercise

Let's Grow Leaders

Such an exercise gets people really thinking about what it takes to be successful in their role. Of course, the further you take it, the more impactful the exercise becomes. What skills are most central to their success? Knows that a true sign of success is what happens in the center when s/he’s not there.

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