Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 27, 2013

The fact is, in order to be successful, leaders must create a vision for where they want their businesses to be tomorrow based on where those businesses are today. In other words, leadership plots the success destination as well as the steps needed to get there. Successful leadership is dictatorial in nature.

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Covey Leadership Sports Learning-by-Doing 238

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 9, 2018

The unfortunate truth is that we’re living in an increasingly divisive world – whether it’s because of our political viewpoints, because of our religious beliefs, or even because of where we or our parents came from. Something that reminds them of why they’re invested today and why they should continue ‘tuning in’ as things move forward.”

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 25, 2017

Asked to describe an ideal team or organizational culture, most employees will use words like supportive, transparent, authentic, collaborative, and trusting, yet when asked to describe their company's actual culture, they will use words such as competitive, political, territorial, untrusting, and conflict averse.

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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 ).

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. Success one year, or even one week, doesn’t at all guarantee future wins. Turbulence.

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Tim Milburn

MARCH 14, 2014

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. With the business, social, and political landscapes shifting like quicksand, “failing forward fast” is more important now than ever. Copyright © 2013 Mark Divine, author of The Way of the Seal: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

” The morning prayers of the local population could be heard echoing through the loudspeakers outside the large 25-foot concrete T-walls topped with barbed wire that surround our compound, a Forward Operating Base within an Afghan Air Force base. ” and “Come home safe and soon!”

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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 ]. And this is understandable if we appreciate that – thanks to the faster-pace by which we now have to operate – it’s become harder for people to make those connections for themselves.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Who says women don’t like office politics? They’ve all complained about office politics. Some women claim they are not good at it, while others simply avoid certain hot-button business situations because they think playing politics is “sleazy.”. Politically speaking, operating in “survival mode” can leave us isolated.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2013

You attitudes and behaviors are the biggest differentiators for leadership success. The four well researched core emotional intelligence metrics of: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness and Relationship Management are directly correlated with successful or failing leadership. Ask yourself, do I…? All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

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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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

When we reach its second and subsequent chapters, political uncertainty is likely to return and affect the financial, institutional, and real economies. The Canadian dollar, for example, depreciated 25% between 2013 and 2016, yet Canada’s trade balance remained virtually unchanged. Brexit is a process, not an event.

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Depreciation Uncertainty Company Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The decline of manufacturing has dominated the political narrative in the United States, but there are dual plotlines within this well-known story. manufacturing depends in no small part on whether its largest firms help to breathe new life into the broader ecosystem in which they operate. kevin phillips/Getty Images.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. He highlights the consequences of the well-intentioned but damaging approaches we sometimes take to prepare our kids for success in life. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2013. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Witness the grassroots political movements that are increasingly shaking up "stable" political regimes around the world. In this environment, we must re-examine the basic assumptions that drove our business success in the past, starting with the most basic question of all: why do we even come together in institutions such as firms?

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Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Uber built up staff, procedures, and software systems whose purpose was to enable and mobilize passengers and drivers to lobby regulators and legislators — creating political disaster for anyone who questioned Uber’s approach. ” Respect for the law barely merits a footnote. But that is not enough.

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Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. This dynamic can stall important change (e.g.,

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

But both trade and political alignment lumbered slowly forward until the current quarter and many American executives had become flustered with their India initiatives. America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations. Today there appears to a second gold rush to India.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

What would it look like if managers were as polite and nurturing to one another and their subordinates as they are to customers? As Wharton professor Adam Grant put it in a recent New York Times editorial, “[w]hen friends work together they’re more trusting and committed to one another’s successes.

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Bottom-up Attrition Absenteeism Social Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. ” More than 1 billion jobs and $14.6

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Let’s borrow some language from political philosophy and think in terms of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Since 1996, and even during the most recent recession, private network operators in the U.S. In sharp contrast, European network operators who are unable to recover their investments continue to fall farther behind. network operators invested $600 per household compared to $389 in the EU. The result is that the U.S.

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Price How To Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

In the 2013 report of the same population, 82% of workers around the world did not trust their bosses to tell the truth. At several financial services firms , for example, business units whose employees reported speaking up more had significantly better financial and operational results than others.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Both challenges were fundamentally political with a small “p.” ” And the road to success was in many ways the same. Winning their support, and that of managers throughout the system, was critical to success. The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011. This was a $1.2

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System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

In some ways it’s only natural that we see an increase in discussions on potential challenges for organizations in operating under a multi-generational workforce. 1) Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project Spring Tracking Survey 2013. Available online at: [link] (2) Costanza D.P., Badger J.M., Mohrman S. &

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P&L Fraser Motivation Organizational Behavior 243

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

The politics of office life seldom fail to flummox and frustrate the top female executives my partners and I coach and train. In 2013, we conducted a number of interviews and surveyed 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings. HBR Guide to Office Politics.

Politics 8

Politics Strategy 360-Degree Feedback Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

In a mini political tipping point, six Republican senators publicly supported an extension to the wind production tax credit in the U.S. It was by no means a hiccup-free year on sustainability issues for Walmart, with deep concerns about corruption in its Mexican operations. Five Questions For 2013. on to 2013.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Critics across the political spectrum have said that fake news and cyberattacks played a big role in determining the course of events. Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. The same phenomenon affects decisions about covering news stories or political rallies.

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