Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 27, 2013

With the end of the year approaching, this week is great to share some of my favorites of 2013. Favorite Images Used in Workshops and Presentations 2013. With travel, conferences and organization development, team development, consulting and coaching work supplied me with more ideas and inspiration to work with.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 31, 2013

As we welcome the arrival of a New Year, many of us are naturally filled with hope and excitement about the possibilities and opportunities for growth, change and success over the upcoming 12 months. And this is what lies at the very heart of success and failure – how much we’ve reached or moved away from our shared purpose.”

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 31, 2013

With the end of the year approaching, this week is great to share some of my favorites of 2013. Favorite Team Building & Leadership Activities + Simulations 2013. DiSC TeamBuilding: Steady Changing S – Steadiness Development Activity. I like using activities for Team Building and Leadership Development.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Objectives: Develop strategic plan for 2014+. Develop, update and refine plan through 2014. Teams gather successes and progress made of 2013. Teams gather specifics steps that lead to success. CEO updates and successes of 2013. Evaluate + adjust ideas for 2014. Overview of agenda.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

I was absolutely stunned to read the results of a survey published in the January/February 2014 edition of Chief Executive in which respondents (sitting CEOs) ranked the top 10 skills needed for effective leadership. Develops and fosters diverse teams — 33%. Strategic thinking — 55%. Integrity — 48%.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Yet most take a haphazard or inconsistent approach to leadership development. Blake and his team then translate their findings into a practical plan that any organization can use to create a leadership culture that will ensure a sustainable competitive advantage and long-term success. Mark Miller Leads. Interact with Mark!

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 14, 2013

I thought we decided that we would hold off on that until 2014? My gut tells me that we should staff the business out of other offices until 2014 so our costs don’t get ahead of our revenue. However, I’ve found it’s a great checklist to ensure you’re goals have power, and a greater likelihood of success.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

After working with parents, faculty and the board a strategy was crafted to transform the college into an extraordinary center for holistic education committed to helping its graduates move on to advance with both success and significance. HPU was named a 2013 Green College in The Princeton Review. They call it a branding statement. “At

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 9, 2018

With the New Year now well under way, many of us are understandably creating goals and developing plans for what we’d like to achieve over the course of the next 12 months. Indeed, one trait all successful leaders openly exhibit is being inquisitive; that their focus is not limited to their ideas, their stories, and their experiences.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 9, 2014

The 2014 men’s basketball national championship was a well-documented contrast in team dynamics. Their team had been saddled with NCAA sanctions after the 2012 season, and was unable to participate in the 2013 tournament. Regardless of your situation, the key to success is knowing that PATIENCE IS NOT ABOUT WAITING.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

Based on last year’s success, this year I decided to create two four-word categories. Rather, intentions that I consciously and subconsciously work on every day to build success all year long. ADVISOR – I launched the Gitomer Certified Advisor program in the fall of 2013. Instant success. Build success.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 14, 2016

In 2014, he wrote daily thank you notes. In 2013, he met someone new every day. Falling off the wagon and getting back on sooner rather than later is core to ultimately being successful with any self-improvement project. It seems that we all talk, read, and think about developing ourselves more than we actually do it.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

From Everybody Matters which helps us to look at those we lead as family to Becoming Steve Jobs that looks at the development of a leader as a life-long process, the following books help us to do just that. He illuminates an aspect of self-awareness that is so vital to a leader’s success. Their character made their success very likely.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

When the term unicorn was first coined in 2013 by venture capitalist Aileen Lee, there were just 39 private firms with valuations and revenue of over $1 billion. When we look beneath the surface of all of this activity, however, it’s not exactly a pretty picture. in 1985 to 5.3% trillion at the time of writing.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Deep Work : Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport To thrive in the new economy—the current information economy—you need to master these two core abilities: 1. What separates effective communicators from truly successful persuaders? The ability to quickly master hard things. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan 150

Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

All members of the board must take part in a nationally ranked leadership development course based on the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence and the scoring/evaluation processes for the Baldrige Award. Mackert has been with Six Disciplines since 2013.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 3, 2017

Looking at the list of 10 leadership insights found below, it’s clear that many leaders are interested in learning how to develop stronger relationships with those under their care; that their focus is increasing on how to empower their employees to bring their full selves to the work they do.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 5, 2016

As I wrote in that earlier piece, our future success hinges on how well we connect where we need to go with what we’ve learned so far [ Share on Twitter ]. Leadership Insight #7 – Our compassion motivates us to listen and learn about what our employees need to be successful [ Share on Twitter ].

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

On November 15, 2013, China announced dramatic new social and economic policies contemplating much greater reliance on market forces than it has in the past and inviting private-sector participation and foreign competition in industries long previously controlled by the central government. China will grow faster in 2014 than in 2013.

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 26, 2014

You can’t have it all: Complete success in all areas of your life, all at the same time. A main ingredient in Springsteen’s recipe for success, personally and professionally, is his thirst for useful knowledge; his desire to change the world--to create something new that makes things better--and to change himself.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 1, 2014

With the recent launching of the WOSB/EDWOSB program, American Express OPEN, Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) partnered to create ChallengeHER in 2013 for women business owners to learn about contracting opportunities under the WOSB Federal Contract Program. Respond to RFI Notices.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2014

Peter Fingar, co-author of Business Process Management : The Third Wave , then asks these measurement corollaries in his 2013 article “How Do Your BPM Metrics Measure Up?”. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Are we doing things right? Are we doing the right things? Are we measuring things right?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

As a 2013 company report* stated, “Navistar was selected as a name with a strong sound, a resonance to Harvester, and a connection to its root words “navigate” and “star.” Bezos’ ambitions were as large as the company name, and he eventually developed a business model that would include far more than books.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

The context we lead in requires nothing short of radical personal development. The Moment You Can''t Ignore : When Big Trouble Leads to a Great Future by Malachi O''Connor and Barry Dornfeld The Moment You Can’t Ignore helps us to look at those things we often don’t want to address if organizational success is our primary focus.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

The waterfall methodology was a classic approach used for software development. In 2013, the Marketing Sherpa B2B Analytics Study revealed that 63% do nothing or occasionally leverage data to gain any insight. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. 7 Keys to Executing a Successful Business Rebrand.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 10, 2014

Leadership development is the number one priority for human resources (HR) leaders globally, according to Talent Management : Accelerating Business Performance , a survey by Right Management, the career and talent management experts within ManpowerGroup. Other key findings from the study on talent management include : .

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 3, 2015

I surprised myself by having quite a lot to say on the subject, certainly between 2009 and 2013. In 2014, I mostly repeated myself, (a habit, I’m told that comes with age). Nonetheless, you managed to see something worth reading, something worth discussing and also passing along. Please follow them, read them, and learn from them.

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Follow-up Blog Executive Coaching Consultative 40

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In many ways, app developers, like popular consumer brands in a supermarket, are locked in a fight for two scarce resources: consumer attention and shelf space. Overall, over 20,000 app developers and companies will have made over $100,000 in revenues — or $8,333 per month — from their apps in 2015.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 28, 2013

I wrote this post last year in contemplation of the beginning of 2013. I’m posting it again because well, I think it continues to be relevant in 2014. However, if you have something that would make the workplace of 2014 much better, attitude-wise, I encourage you to share it. Thank you. ==. That’s what I think anyway.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries. If entrepreneurs are successful, we keep a piece of the action.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Sometimes, they also hope to develop a content management system that other publishers can license and use to distribute their content. So in early 2014, Jonathan Glick coined the ungainly word “ platisher ” to describe hybrids of digital media platforms and publishers. Full disclosure: I have written for The Atlantic.).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. Finance.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Generating over $80 billion in sales in 2013, Amazon’s business model, with its ability to capture growth through disruption of retail stores, has proven to be very successful. One the most interesting challenges that 2014 is going to bring is the IPO of Alibaba in the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. The numbers were grim.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. billion in 2013, and operating profits increased 65% to $422 million.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Then, in 2013, she launched Portfolia, a platform that allows start-ups to raise money from the crowd, whether family, friends, or professional investors. Then in 2013, he made a big gamble on a how. As Amar Bhide writes, 70% of all successful new businesses end up with a strategy different than the one they initially pursued.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

The people we choose to surround ourselves with often matter a great deal to our success — especially when we are trying to thrive as entrepreneurs. That’s because spending time alongside other motivated and successful people can have positive effects on our own success.

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