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Can Optimists and Pessimists Ever Get Along?

Lead Change Blog

For instance, they’d suggest an innovative marketing strategy to promote their new product without much regard for anything else. Given these characteristics, naturally, the pessimists would tear the optimistic marketing strategy and other ideas to pieces. Sometimes they would even see problems that weren’t there.

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How to Build Leadership Skills When You’re Not A Leader

LDRLB

Innovative. Whether you’re CEO of a company, a team manager or a hard-working employee, adopting and possessing leadership qualities can enhance your professional trajectory and even personal life. Labeling yourself as a leader and possessing leadership qualities personally executed can be seen as different entities.

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The Best Things in Business are Free

In the CEO Afterlife

Negotiating for a lower price or something extra is the modus operandi of every antique retailer, real estate broker, flea market merchant and automobile dealer. I’m not referring to a bunch of “buy one get one free” promotions or deep discount sales events. Leadership. Some companies thrive on innovative cultures.

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Are Firms Becoming More Short-Termist?

The Horizons Tracker

Discounted returns. The analysis found that investors often discount the expected future returns of public firms, which the authors believe has serious implications for the health not only of individual firms but of the market as a whole. The post Are Firms Becoming More Short-Termist? first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Is Your Culture Powering or Souring Your Brand?

The Practical Leader

Companies spend big dollars on research, marketing, and promotions to attract customers. So customers drift away while marketing spends more money to attract more customers. Leadership brand is built on a foundation of reciprocal trust. What they really have are leadership problems. Brand management is an inside job.

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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

The Modern Servant Leader Servant Leadership & Technology. Leadership. September 20, 2011 Servant Leadership. Servant Leadership Intro. Servant Leadership Academic Programs & Education Opportunities. Servant Leadership. Servant Leadership. Leadership Lessons from a Cracked Pot.

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Is Business a Combination of Sport and War?

In the CEO Afterlife

As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success. With only 100% available to the players of the market share game, you knew whether your play(s) made you a winner or a loser. The delusion is that market share is the “be all and end all” of business success. Their horizon is markets that do not exist.

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