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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

Every university offering a business degree has on their faculty a professor teaching strategy but almost none have a professor teaching its execution. This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value.

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Foolproof Your Online Marketing Strategy

Strategy Driven

Check out these dynamite online marketing methods. The first step to marketing success is to start with your website. SEO or ‘search engine optimization’ is an important part of the online marketing process. Your marketing strategy will doubtless have a particular demographic in mind.

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How Operational Excellence Attracts and Retains Talents

Strategy Driven

Gallup reported that over 50% of employees surveyed in 2015 were not engaged, and 17.2% Market Reputation : Operational excellence contributes to a positive market reputation. Conclusion Operational excellence is more than a business strategy; it’s a talent strategy. were actively disengaged.

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Key Takeaways from Leadercast 2015

Nathan Magnuson

Author Andy Stanley explained that while vision AND strategy are both important aspects of leadership, vision always comes first. Many new ideas, products and technologies were built before the “market” was ready for them (such as the fax machine, printing press, automobiles or Apple products).

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John Chambers: Connecting the Dots

Leading Blog

S INCE STEPPING DOWN as CEO of Cisco in 2015, John Chambers founded the venture capital firm JC2 Ventures specializing in startups. If disruption isn’t at the core of your strategy, you’ve got a problem.” When you compete against a market transition, you learn how to see around corners.”

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Tune in Tonight! – 9pm Eastern – SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125!

General Leadership

It’s that exciting time of the month again when you have the opportunity to interact with us LIVE on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 at 9pm Eastern (8 Central, 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific) Wednesday, 4 Mar 2015. Tonight we kick off our newest initiative — Mentors Matter ! Michel , Colonel Matthew T. … Read the rest.

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3 Reasons to Automate Your Business in 2015

Strategy Driven

But we’ve got some thoughts on why you should at least consider ways to automate business processes in your organization and be more efficient in 2015. Then go forth and do more in 2015. You just finished reading 3 Reasons to Automate Your Business in 2015 ! Reason 1: To Err is Human. It’s Also Expensive. Here’s a fun table.

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