Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Successful entrepreneurship and productive leadership require a sharp focus and high effectiveness. Concentration is a learning and problem-solving skill. Try to avoid the energy-crash cycle and maintain a steady blood sugar level by eating protein, good fats, and complex carbs. Work around your needs and energy level.

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Tips Sharpe Real Estate Delegation 166

Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

” Employees are constantly told they need to change processes and practices, only for the leadership team to keep on doing what they always do, and managers maintaining the same old routines. Other surveys state that change initiatives flounder because companies lack the skills to sustain change over time.

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Altman Six Sigma COO Sharpe 86

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The mindset and skill set for the latter is vastly different than those that enabled your creative expression. There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. As your company matures that person might not have the needed skill set to take the company to the next level.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 203

Ron Edmondson

JUNE 8, 2020

We have placed so much energy investing in the next generation of leaders that we’ve left a ton of leaders my age wondering how to remain relevant and useful. I was at a conference representing Leadership Network. We had just announced a new initiative with a super-sharp millennial group. Hone your best skills.

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Learning-by-Doing Sharpe Mentor Energy 79

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Leadership Tip: Hiring managers would produce greater value by spending more resources on finding rare, star performers. Instead they spend too much time, energy and resources putting out day-to-day fires and trying to improve the performance of average or sub-par performers. Consider a Different Recruiting Philosophy.

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Sports Definition Long-term Quality 102

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It’s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington’s corridors of power, they didn’t even stand out.” It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. Workers were also encouraged to move from family to family to expand their range of skills.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. Being sharp means being succinct. This skill takes practice. No one is equally expert at both. Rehearse your pitch.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Adrienne Tom ( Career Impressions ) ​ My #1 tip for being successful in a career today would be ongoing investment in professional development and skills development. To do so, one must continually invest in the upkeep of their knowledge and skills base to stay relevant and flexible. Initiative.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

It''s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington''s corridors of power, they didn''t even stand Out." It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. Workers were also encouraged to move from family to family to expand their range of skills.

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 56

Chris Brady

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Speaking with the credibility of decades having developed her leadership skills side by side with Tony, Pat initiated an important message by asking for a show of hands of husbands present with their wives (visually we could see many were not). Clayton humbly reflected leadership training in action.

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Open-book Learning-by-Doing Travel Blog 124

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

The shifting energy equation, for example, sets the stage for growth. Shale gas will allow the US to be energy independent, create an export industry, and reduce energy costs. Upgrade skills. What new skills and capabilities will you need to succeed in the emerging landscape? Your leadership is crucial.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

There is indeed a stark, sharp, gigantic trade-off between meaning and money in our so-called brain-dead shell-game Ponzi-scheme of an "economy.". So that there's not a sharp, painful trade off between meaning and money; so that bankers don't earn hundreds of times what teachers do. Is there a trade-off between meaning and money?

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Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 21

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 17, 2015

This left the concept of “leadership” less related to obvious authority and more with subtle influence. Those officers who resorted to barking orders in a desperate attempt to signal rank often found their edicts sabotaged or circumvented by adroit foot soldiers skilled at deception. Real Leaders Care about Spirit.

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Long-term CEO Audience Short-term 150

Decker Communication

OCTOBER 3, 2018

He modeled perfectly the use of SHARPs. Through behaviors for energy. But with the use of SHARPs, we can make our content pop, like it’s off the charts. But what was almost as amazing as the experience he created singing, was the one he created speaking. Pitbull made us believe that he believed.

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Content Sharpe Audience Reference 65

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. Being able to discern and debate subjective positions with objectivity is an art form that must be present for effective leadership.

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Blog Gordon Learning-by-Doing Open-book 419

Coaching Tip

APRIL 19, 2013

Knowing who we are and what we are meant to do allows us to focus our energy and achieve sustained high performance. Values often influence people''s choices about where to invest their energies. Energy isn’t wasted in the politics of the team, organization or community because there aren''t different rules for everybody.

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Innovation Chief Executive Officer Self-aware Sharpe 91

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

You might think that the dwindling away of an institution that devoted much of its energy to equalizing incomes would be a big part of that discussion. Since unions fell into sharp decline in the private sector in the 1970s, the private-sector wage gap between blacks and whites has grown. It hasn’t been.

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Politics Sharpe Education Hotels 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

She is professional, articulate, sharp, and enthusiastic. ” If Maria stumbles, or can’t seem to answer a seemingly simple question, such as “can you describe your leadership style?” How would your staff describe your leadership style?” Practice on-the-spot coaching. You and Your Team.

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Leadership Styles Sharpe Airlines Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

Studies show that individuals with political skills tend to do better in gaining more personal power as well as managing stress and job demands, than their politically naive counterparts. Each has different rules for skillful navigation. Political dynamics start with the individual player and their political skills.

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Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2016

These people need to work at keeping themselves sharp, growing, and accountable, while helping others to do so as well. No matter where you are, I believe your job is to continue working on it, showing up bigger and bigger, using your super powers for good, and expanding your range for leadership and joy in your life. It’s a cycle.

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Charisma Energy Sharpe Self-aware 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

There is indeed a stark, sharp, gigantic trade-off between meaning and money in our so-called brain-dead shell-game Ponzi-scheme of an "economy.". So that there's not a sharp, painful trade off between meaning and money; so that bankers don't earn hundreds of times what teachers do. Is there a trade-off between meaning and money?

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Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

For more tightly focused not-for-profits , such as the Cleveland Clinic and the network of Food Banks around the country, the decline is not nearly as sharp. Our own research on organizational strategy and leadership more broadly suggests a reason. Why the disparity?

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Crisis Mayo Strategy Short-term 13

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. Being a leader at home requires a different set of learnable competencies.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 387