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What is the largest obstacle to your team’s success?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Corporate bureaucracy 25.52% Lack of resources 27.59% Lack of skill/talent 13.80% Lack of clear direction 19.31% External market factors 4.13% Lack of motivation 3.79% Something else 5.86% It’s a strategy obstacle. Our reader poll today asks: What is the largest obstacle to your team’s success?

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The Best Things in Business are Free

In the CEO Afterlife

Negotiating for a lower price or something extra is the modus operandi of every antique retailer, real estate broker, flea market merchant and automobile dealer. I spent an entire career espousing the power of creativity, and the companies I touched did very well by it. Everyone is looking for a good deal, a real bargain. But, beware.

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Learn to Teach. Teach to Learn

In the CEO Afterlife

The folks at Red Bull are the ultimate entrepreneurs; although you may be caught in the bureaucracy of an old economy organization, you cannot escape the fact that great ideas create change. That idea can also change you; believe me, there is nothing like a business breakthrough to set the right foundation for the rest of your career.

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4 Ways Smaller Companies Can Attract Great Talent

Let's Grow Leaders

” the answer is they want a place where they can move faster (less bureaucracy) and be more creative. Simon Sinek’s golden circle isn’t just about leadership and marketing, it’s vital in the talent wars. Sell Your Why. The best and brightest are looking for a “why” that matters. Engage Your Team.

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Trust Issues

Coaching Tip

They reward unfavorable behaviors, while operating with myopic interests and escalating bureaucracy. Employees know what many leaders haven''t figured out: Parental, top-down cultures in today''s world are as ineffective as one-size-fits-all, print-only marketing approaches. Two Leadership Self-Coaching Guides for Career Women.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

Yet despite our very tight job market, highly effective “magnet companies” attract and hang on to good people. Their reputation or “leadership brand” has become as critical to their success as the company brand they are selling in their market. Brand management is an inside job.

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The Big Picture of Business – How Business Advice Turns Into Company Strategy

Strategy Driven

What they were doing five years ago has no relationship to what they’re now marketing. Appointed agency heads in a government bureaucracy. Caretakers of corporate bureaucracies, departmental supervisors, short-term clients, referral sources for business development and those who dangle carrots under people’s noses.

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