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Best Leadership Books of 2013

Leading Blog

The list below represents my picks for the best leadership books of 2013. * * *. As many people become more and more successful, comfort becomes their objective. We cannot pursue comfort as an objective. Service and selflessness have the moral force to transcend market forces. Are the people around you flourishing?

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A Look Back At My Top 10 Leadership Insights From 2013

Tanveer Naseer

In the pursuit of profits and market share, it’s easy for an organization to lose that connection to why they started this journey in the first place and why others couldn’t address it as well as they could.

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Strategizing for Success: Keys for Planning Annual Sales & Marketing Goals, part 2 of 2

Strategy Driven

How did you do in the area of marketing? How did you do in the area of web marketing? How did you do in the area of motivating your team? How did you do in the area of objection handling? You just finished reading Strategizing for Success: Keys for Planning Annual Sales & Marketing Goals, part 2 of 2 !

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The Problem with Good Ideas | Thoughts for the Everyday Leader

Nathan Magnuson

February 11, 2013. We don’t want followers who simply show up to do their work and leave, we want ones who generate ideas on their own and possess the motivation to see them through. All too often this leads to a loss of trust, miscommunication, and a decrease in morale, not to mention loss of market share or revenue.

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Board of Directors Resolution: Pay Attention to Culture

In the CEO Afterlife

In 2013, Zappos continues to amaze under this culturally insightful leader. Seemingly, if workers understood what types of performance and achievement earned certain people more money, he figured, perhaps they would be more motivated and successful, too. Has the Zappos culture improved business performance and shareholder value?

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Who is taking responsibility around here? Nobody!

Strategy Driven

Let’s get back to the objection of not getting your call returned. You are unaware of the customer’s motive to buy, and as a result have a hard time perceiving what their urgency is. Here are three new ways of thinking: I’m going to uncover my customer’s intentions and motives for purchase.

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When you walk in empty headed, you walk out empty handed.

Strategy Driven

THEM – Questions about THEM that reveal their history, their situation, and their motives – their past experience, their wisdom, their opinion. THEM – Testimonials that overcome specific objections – price and quality. Your knowledge of the customer’s buying motives are as good or greater than your selling skills.