Mark Sanborn

MAY 10, 2019

This post on leadership challenges was originally published in 2016 and has been updated for 2019. What’s different about leadership today? I address, advise, and teach leadership skills to hundreds of leaders each year. A false dichotomy of ethics. There are just ethics. Increased impact.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. billion) in the year to end-March 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

From 2007-2011, forced turnovers due to ethical lapses were 3.9% From 2012-2016, that figure rose to 5.3% — while that might sound small, it’s a 36% increase. On a regional basis, the share of all successions attributable to ethical lapses rose most sharply in the U.S. and Canada (from 1.6% to 8.8%).

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

This article was written by Jennifer Horn for the June 2016 issue of Strategy Magazine. Years later, it took on bigger players by introducing new innovative packaging to the market, and subsequently carving out a double-digit share when few thought it could be done. competitors are entering the market.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Quotes on community stewardship, leadership and related topics. Amplify discussions on community standards and ethics. Exemplifying ethical behavior. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2016

Writing, speaking, negotiating, tweeting, or marketing requires excellent communication skills and is a tremendous asset to any company. If you have leadership skills, that’s highly valued. The first impression of your work ethic will be evident in the details of your resume, cover letter, and email communications.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 1, 2018

2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. Specifically, the idea came from someone in the sales department who’s in touch with the market and booksellers and what kind of books they think readers want. That’s marketing, not sales.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

These are my concluding pieces of leadership advice. Truth and ethics must be woven into how you conduct business. Leadership and executive development skills are steadily learned and continually sharpened. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The achiever thus becomes a lifelong mentor to others.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

On November 9, 2016, the shareholders of Australia’s largest company, and the world’s tenth-largest bank , revolted. ” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. ” What has emerged more recently is the use of nonfinancial, but still objective, KPIs. .”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

So far this year, the stock market has been anything but stable. the Federal Reserve finds it difficult to commit to a plan for 2016. I joined HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company, as the fourth employee and first salesperson in 2007. The correction for tech companies appears to be well underway. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 25, 2016

The lesson here is that attitude and work ethic are more important than sales skill. If they have a great attitude, and a solid work ethic, they will accept learning new skills as a way of life and a path to success. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

By early 2016 there were 20 HR business partners, covering almost 6,000 employees. But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. They are two sides of the same coin; one cannot exist without the other.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

More on our method Following Fracassi (2016) , we identify a school tie between two individuals if they went to the same school and graduated within three years of each other with the same master’s or doctoral degree. To test this, we examined market reactions around the announcement of mergers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Since his election, Trump’s critical tweets have (at least temporarily) drained billions from market value of companies such as Boeing and Toyota; trading houses are even setting up special trading algorithms to instantly trade based on the president’s social media barbs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

We began to explore this question by looking back to Trump’s rhetoric during the 2016 presidential campaign, when this group coalesced as the core of his political base. What we found shows a consistent approach to leadership communication. What Trump’s Rhetoric Tells Us About His Communication Patterns.

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