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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. His observation points to a big leadership problem, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. Some managers will complain about a declining work ethic.

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5 Components of Charismatic Leadership

Skip Prichard

Reflections on Charismatic Leadership. Incidentally, this also made Ben & Jerry’s one of the world’s best-selling ice-cream brands. Management scholars Jay Conger and Rabindra Kanungo introduced a framework for charismatic leadership, which I use to reflect on the case studies of Alexander the Great and General Charles de Gaulle.

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Brand Exposure

N2Growth Blog

Have you figured out how to apply the laws of scarcity to brand management? While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. If not, then this post is for you.

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My Best Blogs of 2011

In the CEO Afterlife

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. You’re Not a Real Marketer until You Create a Brand [link]. Brand Managers inherit brands and manage existing franchises. It is not the same as creating a new brand, launching it and watching it grow.

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How to Build a Brand | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The preceding description paints the perfect illustration of why branding is one of my favorite topics…It is complex. Unless you are a very large enterprise it is unlikely that you have the time, money, staffing, or external professional relationships to execute a brand management strategy such as the one outlined above.

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How to Build and Repair Your Reputation

Skip Prichard

We often think somebody ends up in a reputation crisis because they did something wrong – maybe they harassed a coworker, or they posted an obscene joke on social media, or they made an inappropriate comment in front of the CEO – something like that. They aren’t sure what to do to get out of a challenging situation.

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Taking a Step Back Doesn’t Always Move You Forward

In the CEO Afterlife

Early in my career, when I worked for a couple of big companies in brand management, I joined my colleagues in nodding to the notion of taking a step back. Many were already in leadership positions or on a fast track to a higher rung on the corporate ladder. Distinguishing Between Two Cultures.

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