Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

That’s a decision for the higher-ups.” Challenging these clichés requires strategies that recognize their power and actively counteract their suppressive nature. Challenging these clichés requires strategies that recognize their power and actively counteract their suppressive nature. “Don’t rock the boat.” “It It is what it is.”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Take a bottom-up approach. Culture needs to be top-down directed but then bottom-up created.” That playbook should ensure management team alignment, have an official launch date, a communication strategy, a plan to cascade the message throughout the organization, create a behavioral manifesto, and a plan for feedback.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

You will find the guide here (scroll to the bottom of the page at this link.) If you’re a skier, it might feel like you’ve ridden the first lift up the mountain after a great fresh night of show and you get to make the first tracks in the deep powder. Own the U.G.L.Y. and/or Share an I.D.E.A.

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Tony Mayo

JULY 30, 2009

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences? Add it as a comment.

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Career Advancement

MARCH 20, 2017

These five strategies foster strong relationships that make others see those influencers as people they can rely on. Higher-ups as well as people they supervise come to them for advice and ideas. Talkback: Have you tried any of these strategies? What makes a successful influencer, in your eyes? Gain results from others.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This saying holds good, especially when you’re keeping up with day-to-day restaurant management. Now that you’re focused on growing your restaurant business, here are some marketing strategies that can help you increase your business revenue. Restaurant marketing strategies are complicated and ever-changing.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Nadella made this change in strategy clear when he announced a company-wide goal for his 115,000 employees: “We will take our tiny cloud business and build it into a multibillion-dollar empire.” In 2022, he upped the ante, investing $10 billion in OpenAI to acquire just short of a majority stake. Naturally, there were many skeptics.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

On the one hand, most CEOs agree with with the statement attributed to Peter Drucker: culture eats strategy for breakfast. Companies consistently get culture wrong because they go about assessing it, and attempting to manage it from the top-down, not the bottom-up. But what does this mean?

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

And the bottom line is that trust is anything but soft. Accenture Strategy defines trust as “a consistent experience of competence, integrity, honesty, transparency, commitment, purpose and familiarity.” Customers are willing to speak up, organize, and boycott when their expectations aren’t met. What is trust?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The following are some dos and don’ts of creating a digital marketing strategy for your business. When creating a marketing strategy for your small business, you need to take note of trends in the world of advertising. In reality, the practice of keyword stuffing can hurt your chances of moving up the Google ladder.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Bottom line, you need to develop a career strategy during the month of December to know who your targeting, what you will do, where you will go, when you will do it, and how you will track your progress. You just won’t have the time to even start thinking of a strategy to help you kick off the new year.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 7, 2012

To become a successful customer focused business, your leadership must develop a holistic strategy that impacts every department, and revolutionizes the way you do business. Leadership is the driving force of strategy. It’s generals that craft military tactics, so it must be your executives that develop a business strategy.

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Strategy CRM Development Document 267

Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 7, 2012

To become a successful customer focused business, your leadership must develop a holistic strategy that impacts every department, and revolutionizes the way you do business. Leadership is the driving force of strategy. It’s generals that craft military tactics, so it must be your executives that develop a business strategy.

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Strategy CRM Development Document 267

Lead from Within

MAY 22, 2023

Here are seven key strategies they use to handle conflict: Staying neutral: As a leader, it’s important to maintain objectivity and not take sides in a conflict. Identifying the root cause: It’s important for leaders to get to the bottom of what’s causing the conflict. Following up. Is it a misunderstanding?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Last Friday, McDonalds tweeted from its @McDonaldsCorp account: “ Black Friday * Need copy and link *” Interestingly, it seemingly failed to include any promo content in the tweet, leaving readers to wonder was this an epic fail in the marketing department or a deliberate action intended to drum up interest and buzz for the brand.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

Karl Moore takes a practical and down-to-earth approach to understanding what drives millennials and generation Z and how the education system they were brought up in has informed their worldview. Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy forever changed how the world thinks about strategy. and global productivity will go up or down.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Whether it's the death of a friend, loss of a job, a bad break-up, or the isolation of Covid-19, those who manage to be where their feet are will grow, stretch and emerge stronger, smarter, and more prepared as we find peace and gratitude in the pause. The human spirit craves connection. Authenticity. We need to make our interactions count.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

So he was confident navigating the right turn at the bottom of the hill onto the street, like he’d done many times. On paper, it all works perfectly…but it gets messy when people show up. A group can slide into a relational or strategic snowdrift and, without help, and wind up spinning their wheels. Strategy Drift: Wandering.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 18, 2023

Avoid over-committing yourself; it can lead to stress and an inability to keep up with your promises. This case study will examine my strategies to improve dependability among XYZ’s employees and my impact on performance. Accountability: Another strategy implemented was to hold employees accountable for their actions.

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LDRLB

JULY 1, 2013

“When you look at strategy as a frame of mind to be cultivated, rather than as a plan to be executed, you are far more likely to succeed over the long run.” – Cynthia Montgomery. She’s the Timken Professor of Business Administration at HBS, and used to be the chair of the Strategy Unit. The idea that Ms.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2022

Experience should equip a candidate to be able to: Synthesize your portfolio company business model and value proposition, and assess your firm’s ability to compete; Imagine and propagate a strategy and plan. The CEO might find it incongruous the drive for re-invention and accelerated growth bottom and top line with market realities.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Leading with Feeling : Nine Strategies of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership by Cary Cherniss and Cornelia W. The book distills the leaders' experiences into nine strategies that can help any leader or potential leader to be more effective. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2020.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The bottom line is, organizational change can only happen if you have high-performing leaders willing to set an example and get the rest of the organization on the same page. However, putting time and energy into how these strategies are implemented will ensure that change not only happens, but also sticks.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2024

Efficient inventory management is a cornerstone of organizational success, impacting everything from customer satisfaction to the bottom line. In this blog, we explore this suggestion and delve into other effective strategies organizations can adopt to better manage their inventory.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

A comprehensive recruitment strategy should involve identifying the key skills and qualities required for the role, assessing candidates based on their fit with the organizational culture, and leveraging technology to enhance the search process. They should be able to articulate their vision, build consensus, and inspire their teams.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If you are like most women in business, you are looking for new strategies to stimulate growth. Whether solutions to better communicate or how to best manage employees, here are 5 Proven Strategies to Accelerate Business Growth: Expand thru Alliance Partnership. This can reduce energy costs by up to 50%. Go Green Business.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Structure, strategy, people, management style, systems and procedures, guiding concepts and shared values, and corporate strengths and skills, along with financial performance, served as criteria for selecting excellent companies. Buried within the text, Peters and Waterman offer the bottom line of how to identify excellence in companies.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 10, 2014

I know, I know… this seems SO obvious, but I’ve got to tell you 97% of the stories started with that strategy. What really difficult employees (up, down and sideways) are you ignoring, or staying away from in hopes that the problem will take care of itself? This was one of the number one strategies and it changed the game.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This might mean coming up with new ideas, volunteering to take on additional responsibilities, or simply stepping up when others need help. Bottom line, by following these strategies, you can become a more effective leader even when you don’t hold a formal leadership role.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 17, 2023

This article will outline why efficient fleet management is crucial for your bottom line, explore five fleet management hacks that can help you lower your company costs, and discuss the benefits of continually optimizing your fleet operations.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 26, 2019

What strategies separate winning organizations from the rest? What is required to implement strategy and execute with excellence? In his book Outsizing: Strategies To Grow Your Business, Profits, And Potential , Steve Coughran tackles these questions. What are a few of the common mistakes you see in formulating strategy?

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Be assertive, not aggressive: Stand up for yourself and assert your position, but do so in a calm and controlled manner. Bottom line, difficult conversations are a part of any leadership role, but with the right mindset and strategies, you can stay calm and composed in any situation. Avoid becoming aggressive or confrontational.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

People see how their tactical work fits into the boss’s overall strategy. These priceless individuals value results and the bottom line. The leaders people want to follow balance bottom-up and top-down decision-making. Effective leaders let their employees know the work they do each day matters and so do they.

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leaderCommunicator

JULY 27, 2018

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. 5 Ways Leaders Can Maintain Momentum This Summer By Julia Felton ( @Julia_Felton via @leadchangegroup ), LeadChange “The summer months can signal the death knell for a business unless managed properly.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 24, 2023

That next step could be booking a consultation, signing up for a newsletter, or making a purchase. For instance, do you want to compel more customers to sign up for your newsletter? Or perhaps you want to drive more customers to sign up for a free trial so you can show them what your product or service is able to offer.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2018

So is strategy. People show up with emotions that affect how they act. People have lives outside business that affect what they’re like when they show up. They come up with good ideas. Bottom Line. When someone asked him to sum it up, he said, “In the end, it was all about the people.”. People are not parts.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 19, 2024

With simple steps, Zani (a former US Olympic sailing team coach) shows how companies of any size can collect and analyze voluntary data about their employees to purposefully align a company’s business and talent strategies. Teach company leaders the key to developing strategies that bring long-term success. It comes up with answers.

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