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To be the Best, Invest in Relationships AND Results

Great Leadership By Dan

To be ranked in that rarefied air means one has invested and IS investing time, energy, and passion into that avenue. Speaker, author, and business expert Tamara McCleary is ranked as the number one woman in Marketing Technology. She invests the time, energy, and passion because she legitimately cares about others.

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45 Career Advice Experts Offer Career Success Secrets

Miles Anthony Smith

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. This is a skill I believe many leaders do not develop until later in their careers. However this will rarely happen if lines of communication do not remain open.

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19 Key Leadership Competencies & Behaviors from 29 Top Experts

Miles Anthony Smith

Donald Cooper ( Business Management Consultant & Speaker ) There is no ‘#1 leadership competency’ that on it’s own will make a successful leader. In order for us to empathize, we must listen so that we understand what others are dealing with, what’s happening in their careers and in their lives.

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It Pays to Become a B Corporation

Harvard Business Review

At Cabot Creamery Cooperative, we’ve seen firsthand that combining corporate self-interest with support for social and environmental issues is not a costly distraction. Yet, when the marketing team suggested that Cabot become a certified B Corporation, I was skeptical. Why did we need an outside certification?

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We Can't Agree to Disagree

Harvard Business Review

But each of us can likely remember a time in our career where we said it, or heard it. The parallels to business are likely obvious to you, but let's just complete the picture: Between the creation of a new idea and that idea becoming a new market reality, many different decisions and actions need to happen.

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Breaking the Command-and-Control Reflex

Harvard Business Review

They're a lot like he was earlier in his career: good at holding subordinates accountable but bad at setting clear expectations. To discourage the command-and-control reflex, Brennan puts a lot of energy into hiring. But he believes that too many of his managers still operate in a " command-and-control reflex."