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100 Answers to the Question: What Is Leadership?

Lead from Within

If you Google the word leadership you can get about 479,000,000 results, each definition as unique as an individual leader. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” “There are almost as many definitions of leadership as there are persons who have attempted to define the concept.”

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To Resolve a Conflict, First Decide: Is It Hot or Cold?

Harvard Business Review

To help you answer this vital question, consider these two definitions: Hot conflict is when one or more parties are highly emotional and doing one or more of the following: speaking loudly or shouting; being physically aggressive, wild or threatening; using language that is incendiary; appearing out of control and potentially explosive.

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Your New Hit Product Might Be Underpriced

Harvard Business Review

Between 65% and 75% miss their revenue or profit goals, depending on whose research you look at. Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. Most definitely. The problem with wildly successful products. Are you charging enough?

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HPU: A Case Study in the Extraordinary

Mark Sanborn

Always open to new challenges, he seized the opportunity to lead a university with facilities that were a bit long in the tooth and that lacked any signs of innovating in the future. . He made it a goal to provide life preparation for students to take their place in society after graduation. As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P.

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The Rise of the Rude Hiring Manager

Harvard Business Review

His goal today? “To Make certain that everyone who’s being considered for a position is given the courtesy of a definitive response within the stated timeframe. And with months of his “life down the drain,” but knowing that he worked in a small community, Martin felt obliged not come off as a sore loser. To ruin this company.”.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose.