The Practical Leader

AUGUST 17, 2022

In true movie fashion, George joyfully returns to his real life, and grateful friends and family resolve the financial crisis. These are the sorts of vital questions Arthur Brooks addresses in his latest book, From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 21, 2012

How can organizations use the diversity of thought and opinion that so many recognize as being key to our ability to innovate and grow if our employees don’t feel comfortable expressing that diversity? Remember, your goal should not be to please everyone, or even silence your most vocal detractors.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Although Mattis resigned halfway through his appointment as Secretary of Defense at the end of 2018, he writes, “I’m old-fashioned: I don’t write about sitting presidents.” “Old-fashioned” Old-fashioned” is often another way of saying character. Our campaign’s success was based on not giving the enemy time to react.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 21, 2012

How can organizations use the diversity of thought and opinion that so many recognize as being key to our ability to innovate and grow if our employees don’t feel comfortable expressing that diversity? Remember, your goal should not be to please everyone, or even silence your most vocal detractors.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 3, 2012

How much time are you spending on activities that lead to your goals versus those that are urgent and unexpected? If I had a nickel for every time a leader said to me “I told the company our (project, goal, etc), yet two weeks later they have totally forgotten the conversation”, I’d be a very wealthy person. And it is a trap.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 5, 2013

Mrked is a tech accessories company that not only offers quality, fashionable products, but also a chance for you to “Leave a Mrk” on the world. Walking into the Apple store, you may have noticed the vast selection of iPhone snap cases and high-end fashionable cases that barely offered your $500 investment any protection.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

In this uncertain environment, including the mounting global economic concerns, a humble mindset will be the only thing that will unlock the most promising business, social and economic innovations. Anyone can innovate if given the opportunity and the support. What separates effective communicators from truly successful persuaders?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MAY 29, 2013

Incorporating some of these steps into your leadership can definitely increase your chances of success and sustainability whether you are an extrovert or an introvert. These scientists and engineers develop innovative products and breakthrough ideas. Quiet time allows innovative ideas to percolate and emerge.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

But they can propel us to greatness by being the spark plug for the organization’s innovation engine. What are ways to lead a “Mozart” in a fashion that maximizes their value without losing them to a competitor? The goal is not to change them but to effectively lead them in a fashion that harnesses their creative energies.

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HR Digest

APRIL 18, 2024

Managing remote employees and building a successful remote team can be a daunting task for any organization. Image: Pexels Establish Clear Communication Guidelines The Backbone of Remote Success Effective communication is the backbone of successful remote employees and managing a remote team.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Clearly, it’s time for a new strategic planning paradigm to emerge – one that features the right set of “ next practices ” that your organization can embrace to dramatically increase its success. ” This kind of planning results in squandered resources and missed goals and objectives. Let me do that now.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome. And what are your strategic goals?

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

Self-awareness might seem like an intangible quality, but it’s actually a cornerstone of success, according to Mark Connelly, a counseling psychologist and certified life coach based in Cape Town, South Africa. Internally, those same leaders understand the reality of a situation, focus and execute appropriately.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Yet there’s been nothing traditional in sales for the past 15 years thanks, in part, to women making it a successful career path. When it comes to tradition, the challenge today is how to motivate the next generation to work in old-fashioned (read: unsocial as in media and societal interactions) work cultures. Paul, Minn.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 25, 2014

If we really want our organizations to be more innovative and adaptive to external changes, we need to provide our employees with an environment where they can test and challenge their assumptions, if not also providing them with a vision that’s bigger than ourselves.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The conversation around Gen Z in the workplace receives a lot of negative attention whether we’re in discussion about their work fashion or their work ethic. Innovation and Inquisitive Thinking Among the many benefits of Gen Z in the workplace is their desire for innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 5, 2013

Mrked is a tech accessories company that not only offers quality, fashionable products, but also a chance for you to “Leave a Mrk” on the world. Walking into the Apple store, you may have noticed the vast selection of iPhone snap cases and high-end fashionable cases that barely offered your $500 investment any protection.

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

Despite what many leaders believe, strategic thinking is NOT quantitative analysis – eg, generating sales forecasts – nor quantitative goals – eg, $100 million in revenues. For most companies, strategic planning focuses on breaking down a goal into action steps and connecting those steps to resources, timelines and budgets.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While successful leaders share many common traits, all great leaders have one thing in common – they are not only adept at earning the loyalty of those they lead, but they also recognize that loyalty is a two-way street, and as such give their loyalty in return. Leadership and loyalty go hand-in-hand. The boss will never go for that.&#

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict, and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion, you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising. Thanks for commenting and best wishes for continued success. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation. A strong culture based on values also sets the stage for innovation and marketplace advantage because you now have employees who are not using their precious brain cells worrying about unexpected ways they might mess up.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The goal of a leader is not to clone him/herself, but to harness individual strenghts for the greater good of the team and for the overall benefit of the organization. By way of contrast, it is difficult to build rapport if you are driven by an agenda that the other party sees as being a threat to their success or security.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. We all get it: innovation is the lifeblood of every organization.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. While being motivated solely by conquest may allow you to achieve a stated goal or objective, the cost will be great. I admire this. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative. Parents are raising their children in the same fashion and we are breeding a world where people cant take rejection, and people or managers who do say no are bad or don't practice "intellegent leadership."

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Click "READ MORE" to discover the 29 steps and examples to creating a successful personal brand. If you’re successful, your brand will leave an impact long after you’re gone. In one case, I led a company through unparalleled growth and success, increasing revenue from $30 million to $60 million.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

In dormitory fashion, I stayed with 24 women between the ages of 18 and 65 years of age, four of whom were eating breakfast the morning of my first day of work. The organization puts more resources into rewarding success than it does into teaching the process. My journey began with a conversation with a kind older woman.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

If you’re still on the fence, I would request you try and answer the following question: If you can engage those with whom you conduct business, or otherwise desire to interact with in a meaningful and value added fashion why wouldn’t you do so? Thoughts? However the goal is not to do it quickly, it's to do it well.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. What differences do you note between the most successful organizations versus the mediocre? Would you share an example from an organization doing it right? ” -Sun Tzu.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale.

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 2, 2012

describing the collaborative creative process - iterations, failures and successes. In true Brown fashion, we had an astrophysicist, a philosopher, two biomedical engineers, and an international development major (me). This time, with frustrations aired and slates clear, we could focus on an end goal much smaller in scope.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. Dick underscores a fundamental aspect of design thinking that leads to successful resolution of problems or great projects that are rich in meaning: be inclusive.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

My goal each day is to have an early morning cup of coffee with someone that can help me enhance relationships, make connections, build value, and make sales. And no, I can’t do it every day, but that is the goal every day. It’s so unusual that customers will set the meeting, and then talk about how innovative it was.

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CO2

AUGUST 13, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. Consistency in others is demonstrated by a strong track record of success and acting in a predictable fashion. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

If that is your gift – leverage email, texts, etc to extend it, but not to replace the ‘old fashioned way’ Nice thought this morning Mary Jo. I have thanked those that helped me be successful. Many of us find great joy connecting with others, being present with them while doing work and life.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

June's Harvard Business Review features a story by Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown and me on " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate." First, some of the ways that P&G reduces risk on individual projects are generally good innovation practices for everyone. What if I don't have that foundation?

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