Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2021

In my work with senior leaders and executive teams across a wide variety of industries, one of the most important questions I ask is to learn what those leaders pay attention to. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including Amazon best sellers The Culture Engine and Leading at a Higher Level with Ken Blanchard.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 15, 2021

One simple idea, connecting vending machines to the internet, had the potential to affect multiple industries. One action affects multiple value chains across multiple, high- and low-tech industries alike. He sees this as a waste of time that reduces productivity and impacts the environment from engines idling for minutes at a time.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Sean is also an author, and each of his books, Rapid Teamwork , The 10 Commandments of Winning Teammates , and Staying Coachable , are entertaining parables with powerful take-aways for team growth and leadership!

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Leaders are in a position to influence how we think about the relationship between empathy and industry. In the book, you will find seven simple ways to train yourself to lead more empathetically. Maria has authored multiple books, including The Empathy Edge: Harnessing the Value of Compassion as an Engine for Success.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The internet is a saturated place, and you’ll need to utilize every trick in the book to make sure your business stands out among the rest. SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is a way to make your business website appear higher up in the results for different search engines, such as Google. Invest in Advertising.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The book is full of principles that if they can’t be implemented outright in your own workplace, they can by degrees. You won’t find debates about social issues, but then that’s not what this book is about. How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg is how Google created its innovative and productive culture.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 3, 2017

is a thought leader on the subject of operational excellence, a prolific writer, a sought-after speaker around the world, and the author of the new book State of Readiness.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2019

People at all levels of a company, both degreed engineers and factory-floor craftspeople, are needed to design user-friendly new products and assemble prototypes that users can experiment with in the field. He has written five books including his latest Fat Cats Don’t Hunt. If they need help or clarification, they will ask for it.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. Ethical dilemmas are at least as hard to resolve as engineering problems, and at least as urgent, particularly in our complex and fast-moving world. The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics.

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HR Digest

JUNE 16, 2023

Since its release in November of last year, the impressive AI chatbot has been used to write cover letters, create a children’s book, and even help students cheat on their essays. Tech companies like OpenAI are already considering replacing software engineers with AI decreasing the job prospects for humans.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

What will differentiate your organization as a future-focused, customer-centric, innovation-driving engine of growth? Which employees are likely to become worried about the future of the company or industry? And, importantly, are you adding value in ways that mean the most to you, the company, the customer, and your clients?

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

It might amaze many people to know that successful entrepreneurs are rarely building on new ideas or disrupting existing industries. Let’s look into the history of some household entrepreneurs and their industries. In fact, this is almost never the case. Disney didn’t think up animated films, or even amusement parks.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Guest post from John R Childress: In 1965, when I was a junior in high school and sporty, stylish and innovative cars were all the rage, Ralph Nader, a Harvard trained lawyer, published a book that was both highly controversial and highly influential. The book had a seminal effect,” Robert A.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 8, 2018

People in task-oriented jobs, including physicians, lawyers and engineers, are vulnerable to loneliness. In our 2007 book, Fired Up or Burned Out , we wrote: “The bottom line is that connection is a necessity to any organization that aspires to achieve sustainable superior performance.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 10, 2013

Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Hire, Keep and Nurture Creative Talent Nolan Bushnell with Gene Stone netminds (2013) Ignore the title and focus on the wealth of information, insights, and wisdom Bushnell provides Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, entrepreneur and engineer.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. On the flipside, CEOs whose companies rank in the top 20% of financial performance in their industries are generating 2.8

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Impact on their industry and in the broader communities they serve. Shook has created the engine known for attracting, developing and retaining great talent who enjoy Accenture’s collaborative, innovative, and highly diverse culture. Impact, growth, and performance of the organizations they lead.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Radhika Dutt presents a different approach in her book Radical Product Thinking. Radhika’s experience building products in numerous industries is evident in every chapter. In a growing economy where credit was plentiful, the tech industry has repeatedly chanted the innovation mantra “Fail fast, learn fast.” Radhika Dutt.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Workers became cogs in the machine; shut off their minds, shut their mouths, and did what engineers and managers told them to do. In 1960, MIT management professor, Douglas McGregor’s book, The Human Side of Enterprise, outlined the opposing motivational approaches of Theory X and Theory Y.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 25, 2018

He is the author or co-author of seven books, including Amazon best sellers The Culture Engine and Leading at a Higher Level with Ken Blanchard. It means that you are setting your team up to win more often than not. Recently, I spoke to 300 leaders at a client's annual conference.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Integration of Artificial Intelligence for Predictive Maintenance Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic term but an integral part of several industries, and fleet management is no exception. Electric vehicles (EVs) are gaining traction in the fleet industry.

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Decker Communication

JUNE 13, 2023

Very different industries, disparate subject matter, and yet they share a common challenge: the need to bring data to life through storytelling. Several best-selling books and widely viewed Ted Talks tell us that humans are storytelling animals and that we all think in story form. Make sure your storytelling engine purrs.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

Be sure to check out the book's Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. On the flipside, CEOs whose companies rank in the top 20% of financial performance in their industries are generating 2.8

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The industry directly employs more than 11 million people with varying capabilities around the world. In the U.S.,

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. On the flipside, CEOs whose companies rank in the top 20% of financial performance in their industries are generating 2.8

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 3, 2014

In our forthcoming book, “ The Star Factor : Discover What Your TopPerformers Do Differently--and Inspire a New Level of Greatness in All" we show how the star performers in an organization can serve as the basis of grassroots change throughout an entire company. change leadership Richard Grbavac William Seidman'

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2016

Kathy is an engineer. She had just lost her job due to economic conditions in the industry where she works. She’s also the very first person to have purchased a copy of our new book: Winning Well – A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results Without Losing Your Soul. Life only changes when you take action!”.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 14, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. On the flipside, CEOs whose companies rank in the top 20% of financial performance in their industries are generating 2.8

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 2022

Be sure to check out the book's Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. On the flipside, CEOs whose companies rank in the top 20% of financial performance in their industries are generating 2.8

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2022

For many years, the prevailing narrative was that cities were the engines of our economies, with the agglomeration effect bringing together talent and consumers to make cities extremely compelling environments for work, rest, and play. Engines of creation. Cities have long been viewed as the engines of the economy.

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Change Starts Here

OCTOBER 25, 2016

As a result of my work at Enclaria, I frequently meet change agents in a variety of industries across the world. Some take the higher education route, getting advanced degrees in topics like organization development or industrial/organizational psychology. Others begin their careers working in business operations.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 29, 2020

Learn from different industries. Reading books not only based in your field of work but other ones as well will give you a wider, more rounded outlook on your job. Primarily, there are a few key principles to remember: Stay motivated. Increase how much you read. Get feedback on what you’re learning. Attend a training program.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 4, 2019

A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Latzko spent most of his career in quality control as a manager, consultant, and educator. A Fellow of the American Society for Quality Control and certified quality engineer, he published multiple books and more than 20 papers on management quality. Latzko, Ph.D. 1928 – 2018).

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

In 37 years as the head of Micrel Semiconductor, we achieved the lowest employee turn-over rate in the industry. Every employee, from your best engineers, to your brightest MBA, to your janitor provides value to others. We did not pay salaries above the norm. We did not have lavish bistros on site.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 2, 2011

Here in Michigan, the automotive industry has always been an everyday topic of conversation. In the past, college graduates would gain employment as automotive industry managers and high school graduates would be well compensated by seeking factory jobs.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 6, 2014

In my latest book, “ DO! The man changing the face of the financial world had no prior background in the industry before he began in 2009. 500 founders that were interviewed in Amar Bhide’s book had no past experience of working in the industry they went on to dominate. His company was paying too much in credit card fees.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In his latest book, Built to Innovate , he chronicles the Tech Warrior Enterprise event run each year by the Air Force Research Laboratory. For these people, the key is to be on top of the trends affecting their industry that may result in a change in strategic direction for their organization. Co-creating innovation.

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