Leading Blog

MAY 26, 2017

There is a time when you cannot change things, they will not get better on their own, and you need to take a sharp right turn to escape your predicament.” “Once you’re content with excellence, you’ll improve daily and will act daily with alacrity and intent.” And learn when to fold and when to hold.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 17, 2018

She was witty, smart, sharp, straightforward, unpretentious, and honest. F ORMER FIRST LADY Barbara Bush was a servant leader. One of the most beloved first ladies in American history. Born Barbara Pierce on June 8, 1925, in Rye, New York, she was the daughter of a publishing executive and distant cousin of President Franklin Pierce.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2015

Seeing what is happening requires that we develop sharp perceptual acuity. Rao, who said, “Every bend in the road contains a message about a future growth trajectory that someone could explore and exploit if he or she looked at it through a different lens without being controlled by an existing core competency.”

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2019

It must be sharp-edged. Similarly, your functional benefit should give rise to an emotional reward. For example, Amazon Prime’s functional benefit of fast delivery enables the emotional benefit of instant gratification. An ironclad brand clarifies. It brings contrast and can usually be summed up in a word or two.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In sharp contrast, another client told me to design the session in such a way that it did not rely too heavily on the executive team’s presence. Senior leaders of the company routinely showed up at these training sessions to show employees how important the values and brand were.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2012

There are only two things, I think, that can throw our habits into sharp relief: a crisis that brutally exposes our collective myopia, or a mission so compelling and preposterous that it forces us to rethink our time-worn practices. •

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Based on an analysis of what over three million people really think about homeownership, sex, well-being, and more, Duffy offers a new model for understanding how generations form, how they shape societies, and why generational differences aren’t as sharp as we think.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

VIDEO: Dollar Shave Club Founder Michael Dubin On A Razor Sharp Idea The story of Dollar Shave Club is about as David and Goliath as it gets. How To Escape The 5 Dangers of Fire-Drill Leadership by @WScottCochrane. The Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail via @CBinsights.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Uniquely bridging theory and practice, Decisions Over Decimals breaks this pattern by uniting data intelligence with human judgment to get to action – a sharp approach the authors refer to as Quantitative Intuition (QI). Amid streams of data and countless meetings, we make hasty decisions, slow decisions, and often no decisions.

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