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3 Ways to Encourage Knowledge Flow

Michael Lee Stallard

When he left P&G, its stock had declined 50 percent, it had lost $320 million in the most recent quarter, half of its brands were losing market share, and the firm was struggling with morale problems. Lafley’s long career in marketing had taught him how to glean insights by listening to P&G’s customers.

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9 Tips for Hi-Po’s to Start Their Careers Off Right!

Marshall Goldsmith

Why I realize we cannot all be entrepreneurial in the sense that we can’t all start our own companies, I believe we can all be entrepreneurial in terms of how we approach our careers. Find your own market niche. Look for market needs that everyone else may not have considered. This is critical! Be creative.

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Change Is Like A Locomotive Rocketing Down The Tracks.

Rich Gee Group

Some sage advice from Peter Drucker: “Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. Get Shareaholic Tagged as: Change , Peter Drucker { 0 comments… add one now } Leave a Comment Previous post: 3 Ways To Successfully Attain Any Goal In Life. Next post: 10 Ways To Stop Worrying About Your Job. Unported License.

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Powering with Passion and Teaming with Energy

The Practical Leader

As he did so often throughout his long career, the “father of modern management,” Peter Drucker, gets to the heart of effective leadership; “Increasingly ’employees’ have to be managed as partners… partners cannot be ordered. Increasingly, therefore, the management of people is a ‘marketing job.’

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5 Ways to Get Ahead as a Coach!

Marshall Goldsmith

In order to have a successful and satisfying career in executive coaching, you’ve got to understand the business side of coaching (or you’ve got to partner with someone who does) and you’ve got to market yourself. Find your own market niche. Look for market needs that everyone else may not have considered.

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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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Six Meaningful Lessons you can Learn from Entrepreneurs

Strategy Driven

”-Peter Drucker. Do it because you have a great ambition to fix problems, and there’s nothing more thrilling than bringing a new product to market. For instance, during his career, Bill Gates read a book every week. “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”-Peter