Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

It just misses the big breakthrough or is too focused on old business models that it cannot make the leap forward. They sink into inertia because of their clunky tendencies—often with multiple business models, competing goals, and conflicting priorities. In the final analysis, pragmatic leadership is about execution.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

Good leadership skills may differ across businesses, yet few of these skills prepared leaders to manage the turmoil over the past year. Gone are the days of equating winning only with profit and equating leadership only with assertiveness. Aligning business models with social purpose.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Take note: “The right protégé will complement your leadership skills and style, provide honest feedback, make you feel that you have extra hours in the day, and enable your influence to persist even after you’ve moved on to your next role or opportunity.”. It’s good for you too! Step 3: Inspire for Performance and Loyalty. Provide air cover.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The Structure Culture Development Connection : The Key to Success for Organizations of the Future by @Julie_WG. John Dingell: Leadership In Service To People from @JohnBaldoni. How to have productive disagreements about politics and religion via @ConversationUS. via @arstechnica. You Can Do Better by @FSonnenberg Online.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

In Creative Construction , Gary Pisano says that when big organizations fail to innovate, the root cause is often related to “management practice and leadership than with organizational scale per se.” When faced with a potential threat of technology or business model disruption, you need to consider two things.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2022

As the investor leader, you are tasked with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. Perhaps your confidence in management rejuvenation is even starting to wane after the reality of all the politics, personalities, and history sets in. Part One – Core, Hard Credential Constituents.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2020

In business, playing with an infinite mindset means building an organization to last well beyond our own leadership. Existential Flexibility is the capacity to initiate an extreme disruption to a business model or strategic course in order to more effectively advance a just cause.”. It is the long game.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

Part of the attraction for me is the weekly escape to an unfamiliar world – a time, a place and a culture that seem light-years away from the daily challenges I face consulting with businesses on leadership issues. The fundamental business model that had sustained the great estates for hundreds of years was unraveling.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2018

To assure focused delivery, pragmatic leaders must master the political competence of campaigners and the managerial competence of sustainers. …To If you can see where a change needs to be made but can’t translate that into an actionable concrete agenda, a leader can actually drive their organizations into sluggish territory.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 6, 2013

Choosing "is a risky prospect, fraught with personal, political, and cultural risks for the organization and its leaders." Leaders often "duck their responsibility for choosing because they cannot accept the tradeoffs, risk, and loss that accompany and act of commitment to one definition of the business over the other."

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. In fact, I would go so far as to say that CEOs who are not consistently reengineering elements of their business fall into one of the following two camps; 1) They have a perfect business, or; 2) They are an ineffective CEO.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 8, 2016

They are so busy making the most of yesterday’s opportunities, they cannot see today’s or create tomorrow’s. New leadership is needed—leadership that goes against the grain, challenges conventional wisdom, and pushes the status quo. Developing the mindset and ability to embrace change is a considerable challenge.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

While a business cannot scale without growth, a business can grow without being scalable. If your business model requires implicit customer growth your business might grow for a time period certain, but it isn’t scalable. Let’s drill down on the talent argument a bit deeper. Take Google, for example.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 10, 2016

Integrity: An Essential Component of Servant Leadership. Shortly after becoming CEO, she announced that Xerox’s business model was unsustainable and that the company would confront reality then make the tough decisions necessary to restore the Xerox’s competitiveness. Five Actions You Can Take to Develop Integrity as a Leader.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A move toward the Advantage Strategy Paradigm begins with the adoption and commitment to a set of principles that guides all executives in the decisions and actions they take related to developing, planning, and executing strategy. How many more times do people have to hear it before it actually becomes a priority? That is the good news.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base. If you’re a leader, don’t dismiss design as elemental or insignificant.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 5, 2011

They fit perfectly into my business model. I run a 21st century business: I have a home office where I coach. Their staff is always polite, engaging, and sometimes even fun to interact with. In 2011, how can you position your business to make your clients LOVE you? Then at some point, it all levels/evens out.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now.

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CO2

APRIL 9, 2018

Bill Bisanz is the CEO of Real Estate Equities, an apartment development, management, and ownership group based in St. Five years ago, after developing Elite Destination Homes, Bill started wading back into the core business. In the beginning, Gary helped with internal politics.

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CO2

APRIL 9, 2018

Bill Bisanz is the CEO of Real Estate Equities, an apartment development, management, and ownership group based in St. Five years ago, after developing Elite Destination Homes, Bill started wading back into the core business. In the beginning, Gary helped with internal politics.

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CO2

APRIL 9, 2018

Bill Bisanz is the CEO of Real Estate Equities, an apartment development, management, and ownership group based in St. Five years ago, after developing Elite Destination Homes, Bill started wading back into the core business. In the beginning, Gary helped with internal politics.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

Their business model is unique and there are so many lessons for our businesses and organizations from their story. During this time, the community members recount dreams, tell myths, and discuss hunting techniques, politics, and weather patterns. We drink the tea in our home all the time.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Despite the fact that executives could improve the value and performance of their companies by shifting capital from under-performing business units to better performing units, most choose to allocate their resources the same way year after year. Outdated beliefs about the world can linger for decades in a leadership team.

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CO2

DECEMBER 23, 2010

In Drive, Dan Pink asks us to look past the outmoded view of what motivates people, like the carrot and stick, to more cutting edge research about personal growth and development. Each business model calls for different cultures and different reasons for these behaviors. It becomes an upwardly reinforcing system.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

We feel strong alignment in purpose: elevating the networking profession by teaching leadership and professionalism, and finally take network marketing mainstream as the most ethical and effective business model for the new economy. Main | Caption Contest 2010.3 Thank you, Chris and Orrin.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I’m curious about how leading across generations is impacting your business. Registration for this free online event will not only give you access to my video, but also presentations featuring some of today’s leading influencers. Sounds like an interesting event and line up.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

But there are thorny cultural, strategic, political, and budget issues that must be confronted by CEOs and other leaders if they want to ensure that their organizations can be hospitable to — rather than hostile to — new ideas. They were: Politics, turf wars, and a lack of alignment (cited by 55% of respondents.). .

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Examine business contacts from the past. This is a great way to grow business because you know each other. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Mine your backyard.

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LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

The second book was, to be frank, a major part of that model that I scissored out in order to make the first book predictable success of a length people would purchase. It talks about the 4 underlying key leadership styles and visionary, operator, processer, synergists that determine which stage an organization settles into.

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Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Operations Leadership Styles 60

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

To most of us, this did not sound like typical corporate strategy, but Polman's reframing of what it means to succeed in business is not an isolated example. It is indicative of a new generation of leadership emerging at the top of many of the world's largest organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

” Consider the challenges that modern corporate leaders — and especially CEOs — now face, in addition to running their companies every day: A high likelihood that the company they run has a business model that is being seriously disrupted, most often as a result of technology. Focus on results. Confidence.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. The company’s cultural dysfunction, it seems to me, stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking. A Race to the Bottom.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Last week Mark Zuckerberg published a strong defense of both globalization and Facebook’s business model. Words such as teamwork, innovation, integrity, leadership, and diversity often appear in these statements. Developing objective measures of success that are aligned with an organization’s purpose is key.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

The flux of modern business — cheap communications, erratic customers — has disrupted many business models. Not For Free: Revenue Strategies for a New World. China and India — the world's most populous countries — are full of entrepreneurial spirit.

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