General Leadership

APRIL 18, 2013

The inspiring story of these six courageous men reminds us of the true definition of leadership. That is, leadership is not a position we earn or seek but rather is a responsibility we choose to fulfill. Karen is the CEO of the New York-based strategic technology, staffing and project management company Sharp Decisions.

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Sharpe Learning-by-Doing Technology Teamwork 283

Lead from Within

JANUARY 28, 2019

Being a successful leader can be exhausting. As a leadership coach, part of my job is helping my clients learn how to rev their engines and lead energetically, even with everything they have going on. Leadership requires a sharp focus and their careful attention, with no room for checking out. Turn off your screens.

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Energy Sharpe Stress Magazine 157

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

(Terry’s Note: Hi all – Today I’m introducing a new series of posts, written by guest writer Adam Tenenbaum , called Front Line Leadership. Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation.

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Leadership Tactics Management Maturity 296

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

As any restaurateur knows, the success of a dining establishment hinges not just on the quality of the food but equally on the performance of the staff. This article delves into the different aspects of staff training that can lead to a successful and profitable dining business. It starts by defining the roles within your business.

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Training Mentor How To Technology 90

Nathan Magnuson

JULY 4, 2016

The initial wave of Baby Boomers (many of whom occupied senior leadership roles) was set to begin a mass retirement. By now, succession planning routinely takes generational demographics into close consideration. Nathan Magnuson is a leadership consultant, coach, trainer and thought leader. Then something curious happened.

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Productivity Products How To Sharpe 148

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 27, 2015

Technical Barriers – No technology exists to help with this. At 113, she enthusiastically embraced technology. Her mind still sharp, she busied herself with a long to-do list, but rigidly insisted the list must be completed in a specific order. We need to do things in a certain sequence. This might hurt.

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Sharpe Library Technology Construction 150

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

In recent years, there’s been a growing focus on the importance of emotional intelligence in today’s leadership. Going back to this growing focus on the importance of emotional intelligence in leadership, what these studies reveal is why we can’t discount the critical role emotions play in today’s workplaces.

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Emotional Intelligence Leadership Self-aware Influence 100

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2023

Accelerated change driven by exponentially advancing technologies have made steep learning curves part of every day work. Leading Without Maps with Four Leadership Shifts : At the threshold of a new frontier in leadership and workforce development, business leaders can no longer rely on the guidebooks of the past.

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How To Open-book Learning Curve Crisis 65

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

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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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Uses technology effectively to enhance communication and collaboration. LEADERSHIP Leadership skills aren’t just about being a boss or a manager. So, if you’re an employer or a manager, consider making leadership skills a priority in your performance evaluation process.

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Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

This easily leads to miscommunication, misunderstanding and misalignment (from the start) about what the problem is, what success looks like, why it matters, and what’s at stake. Leadership Tip: Don’t be afraid of how people will react. Good execution requires a “Sharp focus and commitment to a few clearly identified goals.”

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Sull How To Insourcing Sharpe 70

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Being able to discern and debate subjective positions with objectivity is an art form that must be present for effective leadership. Understanding and respecting other’s perceptions is such a critical part of being an effective leader that absent this ability I truly believe you cannot be effective in a leadership role.

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Blog Gordon Learning-by-Doing Open-book 419

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. If you’re a well oiled machine at work, but your family is falling apart at the seams – who cares?

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 414

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Authority on new technology and communication. Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. Yet many other women have managed to build highly successful careers with degrees in STEM disciplines.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 13

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

Because of something called hubris, an affliction that seems to lurk around nearly every leadership corner, mixed in with a fear of failure. You get to a point where you believe your skills are so sharp, and so good, that you can actually overcome the Peter Principle, and change a person into something they are clearly not.

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Open-book Blog Core Competence Books 222

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

I can''t put into words my respect, admiration and thankfulness for Matt, his leadership, elegance, eloquence, professionalism and humility. tool knife from the rig on my body armor and let the pristinely sharp blade slice effortlessly through the tape and label—while being ever so careful to avoid harming whatever wonders lay inside.

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Emotional Intelligence Participative Short-term Letter 150

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? That’s a point-of-view that’s shared across our senior leadership team.

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

They are invariably successful. And success goes to those who play it best. It’s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington’s corridors of power, they didn’t even stand out.” Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance. Accountability. Perseverance.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Many even believe in the myth that just good work creates success!) What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Being sharp means being succinct. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). 5% response is success! Rehearse your pitch.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

They are invariably successful. And success goes to those who play it best. It''s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington''s corridors of power, they didn''t even stand Out." Now, Xerox is reviving its copying business by focusing on the value added by advanced technologies and color copying.

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 54

You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 30, 2011

Our successes often depend on the successes of others, not only other individuals, but also other countries, other continents even. Technology, too, has brought us closer together and the opportunities we have to develop relationships and work with others on-line are many and varied.

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Blog Diversity Learning-by-Doing Self-aware 55

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It focuses on the major management challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide to grow and scale their businesses. Use technology to provide quick, efficient customer service. Hess Growing an Entrepreneurial Business is a textbook designed for courses that focus on managing small to medium sized enterprises.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

These changes are driven by seismic shifts in consumer behavior and an explosion of both consumer- and B2B-facing technologies. The tension between human-driven and technology-driven capabilities is often miscast, positioning automation as a threat to the people that drive our industry. Humans and Automation. Distribution strategies.

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Media Advertising Audience Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

And they receive little on-the-job training to develop skills such as how to allocate short- and long-term resources, how to provide developmental feedback, or how to effectively handle conflict – leadership skills needed to run a vibrant business. Building a Physician Leadership Pipeline. The Dyad Model and Its Limitations.

Training 12

Training Health Care Management 360-Degree Feedback 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

In the wake of his recent retirement, much has been written about Steve Job's peerless leadership and how he transformed not just his company, Apple, but the way we interact and live with media and technology. We identified four key traits: heart, smarts, guts and luck.

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Power Brand Entrepreneur Sharpe 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

We've been comparing how innovative companies structure and conduct jamming sessions and we've identified a set of practices that successful jammers all seem to share: 1. But for jamming to pay dividends, problems need sharp definition, even if this requires more effort up-front. They work in self-defined, small sub-teams.

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Innovation Blue Ocean Strategy Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

A few weeks ago, Silicon Valley was abuzz with reports that Google had granted across-the-board raises of 10 percent to all 23,000 or so of its employees — a bracing reminder of just how much money Google makes, and of its willingness to share the spoils of success with its people. But companies work by different rules.

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Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

There is a scientist who tells me the blade is not sharp enough. On the basis of this early success, you start to build processes that can enable the new culture and approach to be integrated inside the organization. Let’s say that in the room there is a marketer who tells me the brand is not visible enough.

Organization 8

Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Three new accounts, including NMM Technology — impressive. credentials and a sharp business sense. No one on the leadership team wanted the man responsible for that to go anywhere. Those who stayed wanted to be a part of the success story but were confused about how to contribute. equal as partners.

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Case Study Consultative McKinsey Survey 8