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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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Growth Is A Leadership Issue, Not A Sales Issue

Eric Jacobson

Growth is a leadership issue, not a sales issue,” he adds. And why the relationship that executives and leaders have with the sales organization is among the most important elements of growth leadership. The Growth Leader reveals how top executives create profitable growth through the intersection of strategy, leadership, and sales.

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levels of work and pattern recognition for sales and marketing

Mike Cardus

I had a great time learning and sharing with the Buffalo Niagara Sales and Marketing Executives BNSME group. They invited me to share ideas and join them in a conversation about levels of work, pattern recognition for sales and marketing. The best we can do as sales and marketing professionals is to listen.

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Five Qualities Genuine Leaders Have in Common

Leading Blog

But it only intensifies something we were already seeing in the world of work: organizations need to adapt constantly to keep up with market dynamics. It surveyed top professionals from more than 120 countries about the skills needed for effective leadership in the decade ahead. A recent MIT study underscores this. Empowering others.

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Creativity: An Undervalued Leadership Skill

Lead Change Blog

There is much to be said about leadership, and there is no shortage of descriptive words one uses when talking about leaders – influential, dedicated, globally thinking, focused, etc. – Creativity and Leadership. It’s difficult to find the perfect balance between creativity and leadership. Successful businesses are built.

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Why Most Change Programs and Improvement Initiatives Fail

The Practical Leader

I’ve just completed a two-day retreat with a fast-growing leadership team. Rarely do we see a leadership team as dysfunctional as this one. Priority Overload Less effective managers (often micromanagers) confuse motion with direction and “busywork” activity and meaningful results.

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Smart Business is Business Redefined

Leading Blog

Instead, Alibaba is what you get if you take every function associated with retail and coordinate them online into a sprawling, data-driven network of sellers, marketers, service providers, logistics companies, and manufacturers. Organizations in the Creativity Age will focus on creativity and innovation. “An