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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

Leading Blog

Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies. Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors readers in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life. Dig deeper.

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How Great Leaders Value People

Lead Change Blog

When she was named CEO in 2007, profit was in the negative, and the company stock price had taken a nose dive from $34 in 2002 to $13. Market share had grown from 14 percent to 21 percent, and the stock price was over $40. Great leaders show an interest in their people’s jobs and career aspirations.

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Be Bold In Life.

Rich Gee Group

You know when you get so caught up in your career and life you forget things? I was going through some papers that take me back to 2001-2002 and I saw this phrase, “Be Bold In Life&#. Well I did. That was my original coaching ‘theme’ that I communicated on my business card, website, and throughout my coaching.

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Are You Falling for the Myth of "Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail"?

Great Leadership By Dan

For instance, a 2002 study of major construction projects found that 86% went over budget. His new book, published November 2019 with Career Press, is Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters. When was the last time you saw a major planned project suffer from a cost overrun ?

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How to Build ROPE Teams in Sales Organizations

Leading Blog

And then I put those lessons to work in my own business and climbing careers. Our Inside ROPE teams were comprised of colleagues in our company’s marketing, accounting, finance, engineering, support, purchasing, and other functional units. As a sales leader, I was responsible for assembling both “Inside” and “Outside” ROPE teams.

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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. I can’t help but wonder: If Kodak had paid attention to its aging workforce trend, would the company have maintained market share and avoided bankruptcy?

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Winning Principles For Leaders And Coaches

Eric Jacobson

Trillion Dollar Coach is about Bill Campbell , someone you likely never heard of, who coached several of the biggest names in Silicon Valley during a 16-year tenure, and who’s behind-the-scene wisdom helped created over a trillion dollars in market value. He ran the Google product team from 2002 to 2011.

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