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Leading Teams Toward Success Using People, Products, and Profits

Leading Blog

This si a post by Ken Goldstein, author of Endless Encores : Repeating Success Through People, Products, and Profits. Leading through People, Products, and Profits means committing to the idea that talent is a priori to all success. Repeating success is about the journey. They are stuck in an airport, passing the hours.

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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

Failure – The Foundation of Success When is the last time you celebrated a success at work? Maybe it was the conclusion of a big project, or a close to the fourth quarter of 2013. Yet our failures are a very important part of our eventual successes, so why shouldn’t we celebrate these as well?

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4 Beliefs that Lead to Bad Decisions

Strategy Driven

Two bond issues had failed with warring camps arguing about educational quality and fiscal responsibility. When they addressed the concern about growth, the bond issue passed with over 70%. Successful decisions engage stakeholders effectively and efficiently. A community desperately needed a new grammar school.

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How to Lead in High Turbulence – 5 Lessons from the Tunisian revolution

Strategy Driven

This was the context when on Christmas day 2013, the then designated Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa offered me the aforementioned thankless and non-lucrative opportunity. Build bonds to strengthen trust. Success one year, or even one week, doesn’t at all guarantee future wins. Turbulence. The situation was dire. So did we succeed?

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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

It’s the human element—the connection and bond people feel when love is expressed and love is received or returned—that makes it appealing and repeatable in warzones throughout the world in battles throughout history. ” and “Come home safe and soon!”

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Zimbabwe’s largest telecommunication company Econet Wireless has found success with its online payment platform that helps Zimbabweans manage the challenges of its multi-currency system.

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Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less

Harvard Business Review

When an organization is small enough that each member can have a personal relationship with every other, or at least recognize their faces and names, gathering everyone for regular meetings strengthens social bonds and bolsters the feeling that “we are one company.” Sales doubled in 2013. The average order size is 1,500 pounds.