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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. A heavy equipment manufacturer had a systemic struggle with underestimating project costs. His cutting-edge thought leadership was featured in over 400 articles and 350 interviews in Time, Fast Company, CBS News, Inc. Magazine, and CNBC.

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Five Reasons Job Seekers Should Study Lean Management

Lead Change Blog

Because in the global marketplace , others are aggressively looking at your market share and working out how to take it. Peter Anthony is President & Chief Executive Officer of UGN , which he joined in 1992 as sales and marketing manager.

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These Are the People You Need on Your Startup Team

Chart Your Course

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. If the movies are true, the ideal is a tie wearing, straight arrow that lives for financial statements.

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Success Begins with Quality Customer Service

Chart Your Course

But eConsultancy’s 2013 Cross-Channel Marketing Report found that 70 percent of business owners feel acquisitions are definitely more expensive than retention. Subway sandwich shops offer a similar rewards program based on a points systems that corresponds with dollars spent per purchase.

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Behaviors of Collaborative Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

For 150 years, corporations, governments and militaries were built for up-and-down leadership, with incentives and rewards that discouraged cross-organization thinking and, in many cases, actually created or encouraged internal competition. Focus on authentic leadership and eschew passive aggressiveness.

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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Before delving into 7 key leadership motivation patterns, let’s first look at 3 often-missed truths about performance. 7 motivational patterns of high performance leadership.

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Leadership Inspirations – Communications Excellence | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005) ‘Father of Modern Management’ and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2002 Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !