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Leaders Lessons from an Outward Bound Wilderness Instructor

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LNT has become the gold standard for organizations who operate in America’s backcountry environments. This tenet reflects the importance of consideration to everyone who has engagement with the organization, from customers to vendors and the community in which it operates. LNT is not a well-known philosophy beyond the outdoor industry.

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What Makes a High-Performance Leader?

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High-performance leaders operate with a growth mindset and are great communicators. A growth mindset means they operate with: 1. They operate with an abundant, as opposed to a scarcity, mindset. Titled Leaders” operate from a scarcity mindset. Curiosity 3. I have grown up around high-performance sport.

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Great Leaders Know Core Business Model Vision

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Leaders must have a workable product or service and a sustainable operation. You see many people have great ideas but cannot attain a sustainable product and business operation. Every organization is under an unbreakable operational fact called the “Law of Business Reality.” Let’s step back.

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How to Cultivate Leadership Presence in a Remote Working World

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To navigate more demanding customer expectations , an acute distrust of business and so much remote working, leaders need to find new ways of operating. When we operate from a sense of our presence, we are in a state of absorbed relaxation. Guest post from Sarah Rozenthuler: In our rapidly changing world, new pressures are emerging.

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Playbook for a New Leader’s First 90 Days on the Job

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As you meet more people and learn about the business, validate or invalidate your hypotheses, which will become the basis of your future vision, strategies, and/or operational plans. Capture your hypotheses, ideas, and observations in a journal. Ease your new team’s worries by hosting a Day 1 meeting.

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Change Your Habits

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Strategic Clarity – leaders must constantly assess how well their organization’s strategy is understood across operations staff. You can see that what is easy to measure might not give you an accurate picture of reality. Here’s What Leaders Must Pay Attention To 1.

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5 Steps to Build a Disruption Proof Business Model

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You need people on your team with both strategic and operational skills—two very different kinds of people. But you need the right culture for this approach, the right metrics (hint, the main KPI isn’t topline revenue) and the right resources. You need a cushion of cash to allow you to focus on the long term.