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Defining Your Leadership Role

Lead on Purpose

Leadership and motivation are practically synonymous in certain sectors. As a leader, you need to direct in a confident manner and push yourself and the business model with every bump in the road that may come your way. Speaking in a business sense, leadership can be defined in a number of ways.

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Leading Teams Toward Success Using People, Products, and Profits

Leading Blog

When your team identifies a product concept that is worth pursuing, leadership becomes the championing of execution over the touting of an idea. A business has to create value, usually measured in the form of profit, and if you can't lead a team to do that more often than not, you're not likely to get many chances to stand in the center ring.

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Put a Little Love In Your Business, and, According to This Study, You’ll Be Repaid With Loyalty and Productivity

Steve Farber

Those are all important leadership qualities in the workplace, sure. Commit to making the work environment ripe for happiness, job satisfaction, and bonding among the people on your team, and to set the example from the top down. ” In fact, love is damn good business. Be the person who exudes love at your work.

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How to Fix Financial Capitalism? Focus on Ethics

Harvard Business Review

At their best, asset managers and wealth managers should aspire to follow the model and example set by other professions (such as doctors and lawyers), a key tenet of which is putting the interests of one's clients (or patients) ahead of one's own in as conflict-free a relationship as possible. Strive for a conflict-free business model.

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How Employees Shaped Strategy at the New York Public Library

Harvard Business Review

Leadership would shape the conversation to ensure proposals were strategically on-point. Their expectation was to spend about a day a week for the next six months on the identification, design, and testing of a business model innovation. The conversation would be neither bottom-up nor top down.

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What Good Is Impact Investing?

Harvard Business Review

The other extreme is, “I have no intentions but look I’ve created jobs, ex post ,” and that is the post-rationalization of an economics-only business model. To us, the key about intentionality is that it must focus on a business model, a business plan upfront, with both economic and social impact.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. Companies across the spectrum are grappling with change as new technologies, innovations, and customer behaviors disrupt old business models.

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