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How to Tell if Your Leadership is Going Off the Rails

Lead from Within

Do you want to retain your competitive advantage? Are you falling behind your competition? A strong leader will regularly assess their business model to determine if their products and services are still meeting the evolving needs of their customers. Embrace the need for change and adapt accordingly.

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Leading in a World of Change: Lessons from Downton Abbey

Great Leadership By Dan

The fundamental business model that had sustained the great estates for hundreds of years was unraveling. A world in flux, now : And it is happening, right now, to businesses in almost every industry, everywhere in the world. The business models of the past are transforming at a breathtaking pace.

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Leadership Lessons from the Banking Upheaval

Great Leadership By Dan

By making it clear that the business is open to new ideas, leaders can help create a culture that stimulates them. Even if it’s within the confines of their existing business model, being open-minded can open the door to useful innovation for banks. Their steady, reliable business model of the past is no more.

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Leading with Character: Integrity

Michael Lee Stallard

Integrity can be defined as always interacting with others ethically and honorably. People with integrity aspire to the highest ethical standards and expect the same behavior of others. As a result, the company paid down its debt and invested in new research and development. Be a model for your team. Definition.

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The Two Questions Every Manager Must Ask

Harvard Business Review

When confronted with an ethical decision – e.g. whether to dump toxic waste in a developing country, where it may not be illegal, when all your competitors do so as well – it sometimes costs you (a lot of) money to do the right thing. The trick is that their business models are built for the long-term. Strategy'

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Leading in a World Without Secrets

Harvard Business Review

Companies do not all depend equally on proprietary information for competitive advantage. You can systematically examine your business model to find its points of vulnerability to information leakage. But also it is about developing a capability for reacting publicly, quickly and rapidly. How can you do this?

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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business Review

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. The same, I’d suggest, is true about illegal business models. A Race to the Bottom.