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5 Steps to Build a Disruption Proof Business Model

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Step 1: Set up for Success The most resilient businesses have a forever promise they make to their customers—it’s like a mission, but completely focused on the customer’s goals and challenges. But you need the right culture for this approach, the right metrics (hint, the main KPI isn’t topline revenue) and the right resources.

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The Optimal Margin of Illusion

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The challenge, then, is to strike a productive balance between the confidence you need to be successful and the doubt you need to identify and address the weaknesses that matter. In order to avoid this, you should establish metrics for assessing your assumptions about what is occurring around you. Promote Productive Fights.

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How to Lead On Purpose

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We found that to create a common goal, it’s vital to ramp up your purpose as an organization. Instead, employees care about being on a winning team, they want the company to make enough money to keep jobs secure, and want opportunities to contribute to making better products and services.

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5 Big Ideas: What’s Next for Leadership Development?

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I’ve sung CCL’s praises before – I love their research-based approach, resources, programs, and products. They are pursuing the goal of making leadership development more affordable and accessible in the world with some remarkable results. So when I came across CCL’s 2011-2012 Annual Report called What’s Next for Leadership?

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Behaviors of Collaborative Leaders

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The promise of flexibility and agility as an organization, inspired by establishing shared goals across organizational boundaries, is only attainable if you back it up by sharing resources as well. Modeling the desired collaborative behaviors -- showing your employees that you walk the talk -- is the goal.

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Are You a Winning Coach?

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Guest post by Mark Moses Great leadership today lives at the cross section of productivity, management, coaching, psychology, and interpersonal relationship skills. If your products aren’t selling, no amount of leadership coaching will make your firm successful. What Are Your Goal Posts? What are their goal posts?

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13 Tips for Setting Performance Measures

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Drill down into the goal to determine the “One Measure” that clearly determines success. Get your boss's input on metrics to ensure that you are all measuring the same outcomes with the same language, measures and expectations. Focus on results and not activity – unless the work to be accomplished has not been done before.

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