Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2021

The unfortunate truth is that most startups fail within a year of existing. But if you rush in without considering what might go wrong and how your business might fail, you’ll be vulnerable to that very same fate. Each of these ideas will put your new business in a much better position, so read on to find out more.

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Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

These are the industry disruptors who have changed how business is conducted in distinctly powerful ways. Think how Uber transformed the transportation industry, how Airbnb took over the lodging industry — not to mention how Tesla is upending both the automobile and energy industries. Invest in first impressions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Good news: You have been hired for a leadership or managerial position. Discovering that you’re younger than your new employees is neither good news nor bad news. How can you effectively manage employees with far greater work and life experience? They’ll put you on the path to successful leadership. Be Transparent.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 9, 2019

It’s the only way you can help your business leverage data and information technologies in the pursuit of growth and profitability. Anything less from its leadership, and a business misses opportunities and risks losing ground in the marketplace. He always asked me, “How can technology be applied to make this better?”

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

When he came to me for coaching around innovation, he mentioned how fearful his team was in taking risks and possibly touching failure. Celebrating your failures is just as important as celebrating your success. Why not set up a “Fail Wall” in your own workplace? “I didn’t fail 1,000 times.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Your singular focus has been to make it real. How do you avoid this fate? When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. At some point founders need to shift their focus from making the idea real to building a team and then an organization that will make the idea real.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Books like Helping People Change and The Power of Bad , have the power to change forever how we work with others and address the things that hold us back. We marginalize others when we insist on our rightness. They all provide insights into leading and how others have tried to make sense of the world. instead of adversaries.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2016

Your sales team was generating twenty or so good leads a week, and now it’s clear that you could generate an order of magnitude more if you just had the people or the right mechanism. The late, great Peter Drucker stated that failure to create a solid team at the top-management level is the core reason startups go off the rails.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 3, 2012

That’s the nature of our vocation called leadership. That’s the nature of our vocation called leadership. But there’s an interesting question that bears some deep thought here: “While all these other things may change, do the fundamental lessons of great leadership remain timeless?”

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 29, 2017

What do you do when your team is falling apart? We all know that in most cases you can accomplish more as a team than as an individual. But what happens when the “teamwork” part erodes away and all you have left is a group of individuals masquerading as a team? How do you diagnose the problem and go about it curing it?

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

How You Can Learn from Amazon. Aren’t you curious how Jeff Bezos did it? The Bezos Letters takes you through Jeff Bezos’ shareholder letters and distills them into growth principles you can apply in your company. Amazon was the fastest company to reach $100 billion in sales ever. And, more importantly, what you can learn?

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Welcome to the November 6, 2011 edition of leadership development carnival! There's no theme this month, no cute nicknames, no commentary, just a straightforward list of 45 of the best posts submitted for your reading pleasure. Here's why and how.". The fried clams won. I've had readers ask "Why so many? I think so.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Dan McCarthy posted a collection of top blog posts on leadership that included a post I wrote. Here’s why and how.” ” Gwyn Teatro presents How to Make Performance Appraisals Unnecessary posted at You’re Not the Boss of Me. William Matthies presents Instead, How About. I think so.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 19, 2016

When Daniel Goleman released “Emotional Intelligence” in 1995, did anyone think that this best-selling book would transform the role of leadership? But, is it possible to create emotionally intelligent teams? Here are the seven things you can do to foster these three conditions that constitute emotionally intelligent teams: 1.

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Miles Anthony Smith

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

The Ultimate Guide to Avoiding Issues & More Effectively Working Remotely Note: This post was written in collaboration with Matt Bentley , the founder of CanIRank; their team is an entirely remote SaaS startup and SEO agency. It can also be that Millennial hunched over their laptop in your Starbucks.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Crafting and writing a branded healthcare executive resume, that differs from the traditional medical resume, can make a significant difference in your executive job search results and improve the opportunities to land that next-level position in pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

WILLIAM: Well sometimes I wonder myself, but I am the president of a startup university, we’re about two years old now, by the name of California Institute of Advanced Management. Drucker really mentioned what to do, but he rarely taught us how to do it. ” WILLIAM: Yes.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Consequently, my approach to hiring has evolved into a quest to keep my batting average as high as possible, knowing I cannot do it perfectly, by following three basic rules. On top of that, there were human insecurities at play – let’s face it, it takes a lot of intestinal fortitude to hire someone you consider more talented.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Most startup founders are deeply committed to the companies they have launched and heavily invested in the dream of leading the company to long-term business success. They have an even harder time admitting that the answer might be new leadership. But how can founders handle that transition? Break away from the past.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

As your startup grows, what your customers expect from you will change and the volume of their requests will change. I grew with the team, and played a big role in many of our successes … and failures. At this stage, customer support isn’t your primary focus. Your goal is success. What to do.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

How can you ensure that your company has innovative teams? Based on our experience building innovation teams and consulting for Fortune 500 companies on setting up innovation processes, a key component that has proven to be paramount but consistently neglected is psychological assessment. Why does this even matter?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The best PMs I have worked with have mastered the core competencies, have a high EQ, and work for the right company for them. A PM with a high EQ has strong relationships within their organization and they have a keen sense of how to navigate both internal and external hurdles to ship a great product. Running design sprints.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Is your company ready to compete in a world of smart, connected products ? How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Here’s a brief account of how GE quickly scaled up a sizable software start-up within a big, successful conglomerate.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

The idea of boomerang employees — workers who voluntarily leave a job at an organization and then rejoin that same organization at a later date — is gaining more and more acceptance from hiring managers and in the labor force. If you’re one of these employees, how should you handle your comeback?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Time to cross it off your list and move on. Do you find yourself revisiting every decision you make, agonizing over whether it really was the right one? “If you are excessively second-guessing a hire you’ve made, for instance, you are actually reducing the likelihood of that hire being successful,” says Finkelstein.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Talking to The HR Digest, Keogh describes “The HP Way,” the changing nature of the industry, and how she balances the heritage of an 81-year-old company with her own fresh approach. . and under your leadership, HP is known to have a diverse and innovative corporate culture. How are you going to shake things up next?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

I recently had to deal with this issue while working with a company (disguised here) that was grappling with an unusual conflict among senior leadership. In this case, the board of a small food industry startup hired a new CEO to accelerate the commercialization of its technology. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

In business today, "user experience" (or UX) has come to represent all of the qualities of a product or service that make it relevant or meaningful to an end-user — everything from its look and feel design to how it responds when users interact with it, to the way it fits into people's daily lives. Just look at the. $1

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

You’ve done your research and know the ins and outs of the company’s public profile, but how can you assess cultural fit — and if you’d actually be happy working there? Your goal is “to decode the organization and find out where the bodies are buried,” he says. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Your colleague says something that immediately makes you feel uncomfortable. And are you risking your reputation, job, or career by speaking up? It’s normal to question ourselves in these situations, wondering whether we heard the person right or if it was just a joke. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

How technology is changing the way we work. Here’s how: Make IT delightful. Design your EX. Encourage both your IT and HR groups to think of the employee experience as user experience (UX). The word “enchantment” originally meant to surround with song or incantation, to cast a spell with sounds.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

You may downplay your propensities by labeling yourself a “ control freak ” or by claiming that you just like to keep close tabs on your team, but those are poor excuses for excessive meddling. What can you do to give your people the space they need to succeed and learn? How should you prioritize what matters?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In 2006, they hired an experienced president to manage their rapidly growing business. During those nine months, Cellairis’ leadership had been distracted from their core business. And they love to pursue them, deadline commitments or old strategies be damned. But a new vision is always more exciting to them than the present one.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

You’re thinking about making a career change (or perhaps getting your first real job out of grad school), and you’re looking at different types of organizations. Startups are appealing for the excitement and opportunity, but will you thrive in a less-structured, fast-paced organization? Here are some tips on how to do that.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. And what’s the best way to acquire that know-how? Juan Díaz-faes for HBR.

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