Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2011

According to research from the book Why Woman Mean Business , women now represent a majority of the talent pool, a majority of the market, and better gender balance in leadership yields better corporate performance. MARKET : Women make 80% of consumer goods purchasing decisions in the US. From a manager’s view, it’s confusing.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The idea that saves the business $10 million may come from a production line supervisor; the concept that opens up an entirely new market for your products might come from a junior sales rep. Passion and capacity are the only requirements for participation. That truth is that great ideas don’t only come from senior management.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. Catch up here. All leaders should commit to these actions. Don’t miss out!

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Indeed, if a department attracts new customers, it wins the lion’s share of the marketing budget, but it is well documented that it costs some companies five to ten times more to attract new customers than to retain an existing one. The Powerful Role of Trust. Customer relationships, like interpersonal relationships, are built on trust.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

ALIEN THINKING is a book about the importance of thinking differently and questioning your assumptions to come up with breakthrough solutions. As a junior researcher, I had the unenviable task of collecting saliva samples from dozens of participants. It’s a metaphor for approaching problems with an open mind and a fresh perspective.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

5 Second Prize Winners will receive a two-pack of my leadership books – Remarkable Leadership and #LeadershipTweet – signed and sent to you right before Christmas! (a In this post I mentioned that the nominees all agreed to participate in this event – by promoting it, providing a guest blog post, hosting a post and more.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies. Still skeptical?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Companies that have gender-diverse leadership deliver better financial performance than companies that do not – so addressing the gap was not just the right thing to do; it made business sense as well. So we embarked on an in-depth study of our own employees, based on a proprietary, multi-faceted process we use for market research.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Soon, I will share my pick for the Best Leadership Book of this year (2022). In the meantime, here's a reminder of what I selected as the Best Leadership Book of 2021. Flashback : This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership book for the year.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 29, 2022

Today, we flashback to 2021 : This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership book for the year. I selected this book because the book is easy to read, incredibly engaging, and is filled with inspirational and powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

When companies expand into foreign markets, they need to gain the trust of local business partners and prospective customers in order to succeed. Both of these approaches, however, are time-intensive, requiring executives to spend weeks or months in foreign markets. William Andrew/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2018

My manager and team practiced an egalitarian decision-making process in which we would meet, discuss everything from content marketing campaigns to social media tactics, and collectively come up with strategies to move forward with. Engage a diverse planning committee. Organize more daytime events.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It serves vastly diverse populations: toddlers and caregivers, new immigrants, lifelong learners, famous novelists, and scholars. How to provide hyper-local services tailored to the diverse needs of its patrons while also upholding a consistent and high standard of service? in less than five years. Shared Spaces.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 24, 2022

About this time a year ago, I announced my pick for the Best Leadership Book of 2021. Let's look back to that well-deserving book. Flashback to the 2021 post : This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership book for the year. And, if you read only one leadership book next year, make it this one.

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ExactHire - Leadership

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In 2021, as the pandemic continues, and the Great Resignation upends the labor market , and the reckoning with the country’s decades-long skills gap arrives, companies are pulling out all the stops to fill positions with the best talent possible. Do you have strong programs aimed at increasing diversity in your organization?

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Am I open to exploring new industries and roles, or do I want to stick to this specific job description? An honest open review of your abilities and interests can thus help you assess what career goals may be right for you. For example, a marketing professional might benefit from courses in psychology 2.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership book for the year. I selected this book because the book is easy-to-read, incredibly engaging, and is filled with inspirational and powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

As with other kinds of selling and marketing, you may learn as much, if not more, from the feedback of customers who choose not to buy as you learn from those who do. What were your concerns about the role and/or working at our organization?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

For example, at FedEx (#20), the company actively assists executives in moving between functions in order to accumulate a diverse range of experiences that improve their overall adaptability. By giving employees room to explore their full potential and range of interests, BCLs also gain a competitive edge in the talent market.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Need drives innovation, so this week we want to highlight some of what is happening in the new markets in water. Several of these innovators participated in recent competitions such as the annual ImagineH2O and the CleanTech Open. Both of these groups may play a crucial role in creating an ecosystem for water innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 29, 2011

Jim has a new book out (“ As One “), you can find him on Twitter @DeloitteCEO and Jim is a frequent presenter at conferences such as World Business Forum and the World Economic Forum in Davos. Mike Myatt : Your new book ‘As One’ is receiving rave reviews. What inspired you to author a book at this time?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

I didn't learn about influence from a book written by Malcolm Gladwell or by studying influence theory. I learned about it from years of active participation on the social web. In a relatively new network called Quora , for example, participants can answer any question on a topic they feel they have knowledge in.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

In the decades since Deng Xiaoping instituted market reform, millions of women have profitably followed Deng's dictate that "to get rich is glorious." One Standard Chartered program participant later commented, "It made me understand what is needed to reach a senior management position.". This post was co-authored with Ripa Rashid.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Bill George is best-known as the former CEO of Medtronic, where the company's market cap grew from $1.1 This serves as the basis for his new book, True North Groups , coauthored with Doug Baker , who led HR at Medtronic. It is a very timely book. billion to $60 billion during his tenure.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Even seemingly obvious cases are open to debate: Secretariat? Multiple editors rejected the first Harry Potter book, and she clearly rode some increasing returns. And, to complicate things further, the "paradox of skill" states that as the skill of the participants increases, luck typically starts to play a larger role in the outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

It opens with a young woman frantically texting on her iPhone, approaching her boss and asking for a promotion. Hundreds of firms, speakers, authors and individual experts are vying for a share of the “Millennials are Different” segment of the $150 billion-a-year global HR consulting market. She replies, “Three days.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. In the book, The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value , Richard Hunter and I coined the phrase CIO-Plus.

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ExactHire - Leadership

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In 2021, as the pandemic continues, and the Great Resignation upends the labor market , and the reckoning with the country’s decades-long skills gap arrives, companies are pulling out all the stops to fill positions with the best talent possible. Do you have strong programs aimed at increasing diversity in your organization?

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Brand Storytelling Strategy Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Seeing the confused looks of the chip designers, he explained that clams can detect pollutants at just a few parts per million, and when that happens, they open their shells. As it turned out, they didn’t really need a fancy chip to detect pollutants — just a simple one that could alert the system to clams opening their shells.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see. Their job done, they fell out of favor in the ‘80s and ‘90s as focus came into fashion.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

He believed that the most disruptive innovations don't occur inside a single domain, but at the intersection of multiple diverse domains (such as the arts and the sciences). This post is adapted from the book Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal And Flexible Approach To Innovation For The 21st Century (Random House India, 2012).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

You may have to learn some intensive juggling, but evidence we’ve gathered from a study of fascinating people from many walks of life suggests that sometimes more — a lot more — is better, especially when “more” entails a diversity of tasks.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

An example of the importance of flexibility would be that when staff are highly motivated and competent, a combination of highly delegatory and moderate participative styles of leadership would be most appropriate. Some individuals openly seek out positions of leadership, while leadership is thrust upon others.

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