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Five Must-Do’s to Lead Like an Ambassador

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That’s a starting point for senior leaders, but, for them, leading like an ambassador is much more like operating as if they were an actual ambassador to another country. Incorporate that dynamic as part of your strategic plan and leverage your visibility as an enabling factor in the success of your plan.

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How to Develop Your Team Like a Real Estate Investor

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Successful investors in real estate or any other sector think through their goals and then develop a portfolio of investments to align with them. Recruiting new talent from outside the organization can be the right move when you need to rapidly accelerate your performance to meet your goals in a given timeframe.

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Are You Triaging or Prioritizing Your Work?

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Just about every leader I work with is operating in an environment where they and their teams have more to accomplish than the time available to do it all. But if triage is all you ever do, you’re never going to get to the strategic priorities that will enable you to achieve your goals.

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How to Make the Move to Enterprise-Wide Leader

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These folks are actually team leaders with broad scopes of responsibility so they have the platform to operate as a leader across their enterprise but they haven’t let go of the superstar, go-to person modus operandi that got them noticed in the first place. It’s actually pretty simple and not that complex to operate that way.

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Seven First Steps for New Members of Congress (That Apply to New.

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  The research shows that most new executives have about 18 months before they’re deemed a success or failure.    Since new members of the House will be up for reelection in two years, they’re operating on a similar time frame.   There’s a lot of sound advice there.  So, those are some basic first steps. 

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Fear Kills

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All of the good leaders Ive interviewed and worked with over the years consistently say that one of their goals is to create an operating environment in which people feel safe to speak the truth and share what is actually going on. Click Here.

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It Never Ends. Even More Leadership Lessons from the Washington.

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He appears to have removed himself from the day to day management of football operations. Too often individuals place individual goals ahead of goals that are best for all concerned. He publicly owned up to accountability for the team’s lackluster performance at the end of last year. You have to give him credit for all of that.