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Leadership actions that are not an option for leaders.

Strategy Driven

’ Here are the actions I have observed about leadership that are mandatory for leadership success. If the leader is slack, lacks work ethic, or is slow to decide, they have given tacit permission to their team to be and do the same. Lots of successful ones do rant, but there are rules to follow if you’re one of them.

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Four words: Winner. Whiner. Smart. Dumb. Pick two!

Strategy Driven

It’s a greeting beyond a handshake that sends a welcome, open message. You speak the truth, have high ethical standards, and are known for service. The good news is when you become responsible for both success and failure, you also become a student of sales and life. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

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. Fiddling the books is normally the last resort, when all else has failed.

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How Military Veterans Can Turn Their Skills into a Corporate Career

Harvard Business Review

Since 2013, I’ve keynoted talks to groups of transitioning military veterans nearly 20 times as part of Deloitte’s CORE Leadership program, which helps vets reinvent themselves into civilian careers. Toby Johnson, who I interviewed for my book Reinventing You , taught me this one. Do you have a strong work ethic?’”

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Case Study: Is It Ever OK to Break a Promise?

Harvard Business Review

I know he is a very successful man, but I think he may not appreciate fully what I could add to this company with some formal business training. Sameer, I talked to Anil, and he’s open to sponsoring your MBA. Date: May 12, 2013 21:37. Date: June 6, 2013 20:16. Date: June 8, 2013 07:12. Date: June 8, 2013 07:22.

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The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success

Strategy Driven

This TV special got a lot of attention because it was unique live, just like opening night of the Broadway show on which it was based. Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. Book value is not guaranteed.

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When Did the U.S. Stop Seeing Teachers as Professionals?

Harvard Business Review

Often its members join in a professional organization, local, state, or national, which enunciates standards and ethics of professional performance sometimes with the powers of enforcement.” ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.