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The Company I Keep: How Leonard Lauder Built Estée Lauder

Leading Blog

She would end up selling her $40 worth of Cosmetics.”. If you launch into the heart of the market, there’s always someone who will sell a similar product cheaper than you, and you have no way to go but down in what becomes a race to the bottom. Make tactical mistakes, not strategic ones. Two ideas are less effective.

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Being a Good Leader is Tough Stuff

Lead Change Blog

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. People respect a good leader’s knowledge and are motivated by their vision.

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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2020

Leading Blog

Featuring commentary from the leaders themselves describing how they handled each situation, it helps managers better understand not just what emotional intelligence is, or how to measure it, or how it is linked to bottom-line results: it also shows how real leaders used their emotional intelligence to deal with real situations.

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Life Lessons Interview with Mike Figliuolo

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Mike Figliuolo, thoughtLEADERS’ Managing Director, recently sat down with Jinky Diola of WorldClassPerformer.com to share some life stories, tactics, and experiences. You can find links to this interview and other WorldClassPerformer interviews at the bottom of this post. Where did you grow up and what was your childhood like?

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Unfair Stereotypes Of Middle-Aged Women Hold Them Back At Work

The Horizons Tracker

The scale of the challenge was emphasized by a study from Yale School of Public Health, which estimated that the cost of ageism could reach up to $63 billion, just in terms of health costs in the United States alone. As western societies age at a rapid pace, any kind of bias against older people is likely to have severe consequences.

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Communication and Leadership Tactics to Take Your Career to New Heights

Strategy Driven

We bring our own ability, motivation, and mind-set on the way up. As General George Patton once said, “I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces back when he hits rock bottom.”. You’ll zig and you’ll zag knowing that these tools and tactics will help you to keep moving up.

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When you want to know what others think

Persuasive Powerhouse

Leaders who are in a position of managerial power must work particularly hard at getting to the bottom of things. In fact, chances are that you’ll shut down the conversation completely by using these tactics. Open up and listen better than you ever have to understand their point of view. This takes some work in your part.

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