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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

We discovered through a rigorous analysis applying 70 years of Nobel-prize winning economics that Mobsters have leadership teams and structures that enable their success despite continuous efforts to disrupt them. Relentless offers five transformative leadership lessons that leadership training programs must incorporate and promote.

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Fear of Loss of Group Membership is More Powerful Than Management

Mike Cardus

Management must be OK with the team changing the steps, as long as the change goal is met you cannot micromanage the process. Example – Working with a large Coffee and Bake Shop franchise headquarters wanting the district managers to use Coaching & Feedback as opposed to authority and demands with the franchise owners.

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Successfully leading change is about reaching the trust point

Lead Change Blog

I was selected for the role the day before by the franchise Co-executive Director and our Director Consultant. Encouraging mutually beneficial intentions – too often in leading change, a ‘win-lose’ mentality prevails, rather than securing the power of ‘win-win’. The truth is that shared knowledge is much more powerful.

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Here’s a Leadership Hack for 2017: Start finding ways to Invert Control

Great Leadership By Dan

Other times it involves imbedding structural elements into your overall management and leadership system, but in both cases it works. Salesmen know the power behind carefully crafted language. That essentially takes some of the power away from the customer and gives it to the salesman. Often instantly. It inverts control.

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How To Build A Strong Family Business

Eric Jacobson

What are your thoughts about a family owning a franchise business? Many families own successful franchise businesses. Of course, franchises come with rules and requirements from the franchisor -- you are not as free to build the business in your own way as you might be if you started a business from scratch.

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Family Business Handbook

Eric Jacobson

What are your thoughts about a family owning a franchise business? Many families own successful franchise businesses. Of course, franchises come with rules and requirements from the franchisor -- you are not as free to build the business in your own way as you might be if you started a business from scratch.

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My Best Blogs of 2011

In the CEO Afterlife

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. Brand Managers inherit brands and manage existing franchises. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader [link]. In this post, I compare the ineptitude of BP against the leadership of Rudy Giuliani during a much bigger crisis.

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