Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 28, 2012

Social Media Manager. Telework Manager or Coordinator. Search Engine Optimization Specialist. Online Advertising Manager. Answer: They are staffed by employees that can do their work while their managers are in a different location. Manage for results. Imagine that. Here are 10 timeless tips: 1.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

As highlighted in a recent article , the release of ChatGPT in its various guises, along with numerous other generative AI-based technologies, has heralded a flurry of articles, studies, and headlines lauding the often catastrophic impact such technologies will have on jobs and society more broadly.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. and a development manager at Oracle Corp.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Off Balance: High IQ Leaders Often Have Lower EQ Many of our audience and workshop participants are STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) specialists who have been promoted to management positions because of their technical expertise. The book is highly readable in bite-sized pieces.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Don’t attempt to compete with those who are more evolved, piggy-back off of them, partner with them, engineer around them, on move out in front of them. Stop thinking about managing the risk of technology, tools, and process improvement. Think next chapter vs last book. Focus Point #4 : Reset the activity.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In the early 1900s, Frederick Taylor, used “Scientific Management” principles to make the new production lines more efficient. Workers became cogs in the machine; shut off their minds, shut their mouths, and did what engineers and managers told them to do. They had a massive turnover problem.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

They focus on this marketing campaign or that new technology, and lose track of what’s most important. In most companies product managers have a lot of products and significant responsibilities. This seems straight forward, and yet in my experience company leaders too often lose track of this important goal. Know what works.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Guest post by John Hooker : Everyone knows that an organization can’t function without physical infrastructure communications, transportation, computer technology, and the rest. Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. Yet we rely equally on social infrastructure.

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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. It about managing smart creatives in a family-type atmosphere. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 18, 2023

During a workshop designed to identify Moose-on-the-Table issues, Jon was surprised by the very clear and strong feedback from his organization that his management group weren’t acting as a team. At their next management meeting, he “read them the riot act.” The manager dominates meetings and most conversations.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

His book, Getting to Nimble: How to transform your company into a digital leader answers these questions even as it shares compelling stories from organizations who have made the transformational leap required. . agile development, DevOps) and modern technology practices (e.g., What are the best practices we can learn from others?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 24, 2018

Speaker, author, and business expert Tamara McCleary is ranked as the number one woman in Marketing Technology. As you embrace proactive relationship management, pay close attention to my “big three” – engagement, service, and results. Third, evaluate the progress of employee engagement, service, and results.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 23, 2021

The reason I’m writing is to say, thank you, thank you for bringing some light into my leadership management journey. So if you have a leadership or management related question, you can send that to me. ” Powerful Thank Yous. ( You made an impression and an impact on me. I would love your advice on this. ( We need to cheer.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

In June 2013, Vivek Wadhwa and Farai Chideya invited women to crowd-create a book on women innovators by sharing their own stories. This book is full with lessons for women, men, girls, boys, teachers, leaders, managers, even politicians on how to overcome stereotypes, stigmas, and artificial distinctions. Get Innovating Women.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

As technology has evolved over time from main frame to client server to the Internet and now the cloud, the impact of a new Tech Debt 2.0 CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls.

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Curious Cat

AUGUST 4, 2015

Manu Vora kicked the discussion off with his post on The Gift of Knowledge Transfer Through Technology. I grew up surrounded by those seeking to improve management (Bill Hunter, George Box, Brian Joiner, Peter Scholtes…). Technology can help improve our adoption of better understanding. will help a great deal.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 17, 2020

One of the very best books I have read on speed is Lead with Speed: Fire up your team, power your engines of development, and make your organization soar. Recent books have been written about the lessons learned, but that was too late to conduct a proper lesson learned. I have a program for engineers that does exactly that.

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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. How do you recommend readers read the book and use it to apply the learnings?

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Bunkered away in R&D labs they often fall into the trap of focusing almost exclusively on the technology they’re developing rather than on the customer need it should be meeting. In his latest book, Built to Innovate , he chronicles the Tech Warrior Enterprise event run each year by the Air Force Research Laboratory.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Authors Jeff Kavanaugh’s and Rafee Tarafdar’s new book, The Live Enterprise , is all about how to create a continuously evolving and learning organization. IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change. And even change management is changing as well. The way we think about experience has changed.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 28, 2021

But, up to seventy-five percent of attempted transformations fail, according to the authors of the book, 7 Steps To Sales Transformation - Driving Sustainable Change In Your Organization. He holds an MBA from Duke University and a bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

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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. How do you recommend readers read the book and use it to apply the learnings?

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Cooperperson

MARCH 6, 2022

Whether it is networking in large groups to build your book of customers, or networking within your office to help nab that promotion, being able to clearly and comfortably communicate with other professionals is an important skill to develop. Networking in business is a key factor to being successful. This makes for poor networking.

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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. How do you recommend readers read the book and use it to apply the learnings?

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 27, 2020

But, up to seventy-five percent of attempted transformations fail, according to the authors of the book, 7 Steps To Sales Transformation - Driving Sustainable Change In Your Organization. He holds an MBA from Duke University and a bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

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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. How do you recommend readers read the book and use it to apply the learnings?

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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. How do you recommend readers read the book and use it to apply the learnings?

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Optimists favor ‘ doing more with more ,’ placing bets that higher sales and profits will pay for the added investments in headcount or technologies; we’ve all been there at one time or another. Each engineer has a pet feature they’d like included in Samsung phones. Ditto (pardon the pun) the carriers who buy the phones.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2015

These high-performing organizations have integrated and aligned the six dimensions of strategy, people, process, technology, structure, and measurement to realize the transformation success and reap the planned business value. He has also held executive-level positions at Ernst & Young, Infosys, Point B, and Cambridge Technology Partners.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

Former government official and management expert Kristen Cox teamed up with business consultant Yishai Ashlag in the book Stop Decorating the Fish: Which Solutions to Ignore and Which Problems Really Matter. An instructive book, complete with a fictional town named Busyville offers us a blueprint to solve this problem.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

Many of this year’s business books recognize culture’s role as the essential driver of effective change. By contrast, the two books reviewed below offer highly specific ways of engaging culture to build more effective, productive, and innovative organizations. The reissue of his classic book is cause for celebration.

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Decker Communication

JUNE 13, 2023

The technology sales team is armed with a wealth of conversion rate data. The wealth manager is equipped with analytic insights on net profit margin. 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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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A freelance web designer writes a book on the development of modern websites on vacation and needs three weeks to do so. She self-publishes the book as a print edition and e-book on sales platforms such as Amazon & Co on the Internet. The books-on-demand provider takes over the entire book production.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 23, 2022

At a leadership conference years ago, I shared the stage with the CEO of a top-performing company known for its powerful combination of management discipline and people-focused leadership culture. This is the heart that drives the head of rational systems and processes to direct the hands of technology.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

Jonas Altman’s book, Shapers: Reinvent the Way You Work and Change Your Future crossed my desk and grabbed my attention. The new style of leadership is premised on trust , and the practice of management is now more art than science. We are witnessing the most progressive organizations operate as engines for learning.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Rick Lindquist Millennial Rick Lindquist is making his mark in the business world and enjoying the success of his co-authored 2014 bestseller book, The End of Employer-Provided Health Insurance. Today, he kindly answered questions about leadership, mentors, his book, and Millennials in the workplace. Why or why not? Good advice.

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