General Leadership

MARCH 11, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. (US Air Force photo by Melanie Rodgers Cox). Always do everything you ask of those you command. – General George S. Patton. When I was an instructor at the Air Force’s Officer Training School, I noticed the uncanny way the groups of officer trainees we led became mirrors of their Flight Commander.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 11, 2016

If I’m not distracted, I’m looking for the next distraction. I’m addicted to distraction. It makes me feel important. Distraction doesn’t make you important it makes you shallow.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 11, 2016

W hen we look at the world around us, we often see a limited view. Especially when it comes to the area we live in. We see opportunity everywhere. You might think living in Hawaii will change your life. It might but, then again, it might not. You might think moving to Nashville will bring you success. Will it really? There’s something more to our success than where we live… Image via Creative Commons.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 11, 2016

It is the hard work you do in practice after you are “all in” that improves your condition. Force yourself when you are tired. John Wooden, Wooden on Leadership Daily practice plans are very important. I could tell you what we have done at UCLA each day of practice in all the days I was… Read More Coach John Wooden and His Two-Hour Practices – An Example of Deep Work.

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leaderCommunicator

MARCH 11, 2016

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2016

How does a good company generate value in society? How do the leaders of these new world companies reshape and remake our families’ available goods, our friendship networks, and the many smaller firms that support them? As a management consultant to over a hundred firms in the last thirty years, my team and I have worked with global companies such as Toyota, Suncor, Siemens, and FedEx, to name a few, to help them transform into new world companies – companies ready to take on the challenge

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 11, 2016

I believe that when we stretch ourselves in one part of our lives, that stretch shows up in other parts of our lives. That is why I encourage leaders to do things that expand and hone their edges, whether it is in work, life, or play. In Keeping My Edge , I share how challenging myself on really difficult ski runs in the mountains keeps my performance edge in many other areas of my life.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

laura schneider FOR HBR. Marketers are used to thinking and speaking in demographics , since slicing a market up by age, gender, ethnicity and other broad variables can help to understand the differences and commonalities among customers. Think “our target audience is 14- to 34-year-olds” or “we are launching a campaign aimed at urban Latinos.” But psychographics , which measure customers’ attitudes and interests rather than “objective” demographic crite

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

No matter how hard you try or how many hours you work, you’re likely to disappoint a colleague at some point. You won’t be able to make every deadline or fulfill every commitment. But what if you have to let something slip that’s especially important to one of your peers? How do you tell them that you’re going to let them down?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

China has experienced rapid changes over the past five decades. From 1979 to 2015, Chinese GDP per capita increased from 2.7% of U.S. GDP per capita to 23.6%. Average wages increased sixfold, while absolute poverty declined from 41% of the population to approximately 5%. While the economic change is undeniable, what about cultural change? In three studies , we have documented a rise of individualism in China.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

The U.S. government is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of the retail sector — buying and selling, getting and spending — just as it tracks census information and data on economic indicators such as GDP, employment and unemployment, and inflation. As economists who’ve been using lots of government data for a long time, we’ve always been delighted that the federal government had systematic, professionally managed programs for collecting data and p

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

Startup activity can signal a city’s economic potential, but it’s actually the quality of the startups, not the quantity, that matters. That’s just one of several important findings from a paper released this week by Jorge Guzman and Scott Stern, both of MIT. The paper surveys the landscape of American entrepreneurship, offering an optimistic picture of it and of the U.S. economy’s future prospects.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

In 1995, I published The Digital Economy, a book that became one of the first best-sellers about the internet in business. To mark its 20th anniversary, my publisher asked me to write a dozen mini-chapters for a new edition. As I revisited it, I was struck by how far we’ve come since 1995 and by how many concepts in the book have withstood the test of time. “The digital economy” term itself has become part of the vernacular.

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