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A Guide For How To Dream Big And Win In Business

Eric Jacobson

By possessing a disciplined set of principles and focusing on carefully developing her leadership skills throughout the process, she was able to achieve her goal of becoming #1 in the translation market that was already dominated by established competitors.

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Great Leaders Know Core Business Model Vision

Great Leadership By Dan

Duryea : Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, and even Thomas Edison are a few of the great visionary leaders in their respective industries. Every organization is under an unbreakable operational fact called the “Law of Business Reality.” That is an organization will serve its customer in a profitable way or cease to exist.

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The 9 (or 99?) Ps of Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

However, as a succession of leaders, including William Toppeta, CEO of MetLife, Myrtle Potter, COO at Genentech, Howard Safir, New York City Police Commissioner, and many others spoke at the Forum, it became clear that the concepts we were uncovering were in need of an organizing tool. Were we the first to propose Leadership Ps?

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What Happens To Rejected Candidates From Internal CEO Competitions?

The Horizons Tracker

When GE replaced Jack Welch there was a three-man race for the position between Robert Nardelli, James McNerny, and eventual successor Jeff Immelt. The researchers found that those who moved on to other organizations were typically around eight times as competitive as those who didn’t. ” Moving on up. .

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5 Characteristics of Digital Giants that Enable Domination

Skip Prichard

How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050. In fact, many of their leaders have forgotten how they got there – mission, talent, offering, and markets. Another indication of the speed and extent of dominance is market cap.

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Soft Corporate Cultures

Coaching Tip

Are your organization's values a joke? An organization's culture is not about words in the mission/vision statement on the entry wall of the home office. In the April 30, 2012 issue of FORTUNE , Jack and Suzy Welch wrote about "one of the most immutable rules of business. How ethically vulnerable is your organization?

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Eighth Annual Hay Group Study Identifies Best Companies for Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Could Mark Zuckerberg be the next Jack Welch when it comes to talent development? According to Hay Group’s study, the Best Companies for Leadership are purposeful and strategic in developing, enabling and motivating leaders throughout the organization to do their best. I’ll need to talk to Hay and find what they’ve been up to.

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