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5 Ways to Encourage Your Team Toward “Yes You Can”

Let's Grow Leaders

They were convinced the task I had outlined for their strategy session was beyond their reach. Not just in a hammer and nail sort of way. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning Energy & Engagement Everything Else encouraging your team helping your team get unstuck' 28 eyes looked at me skeptically.

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Top Down Leadership Does Work, If You’re Stuck in the Industrial Age

Lead Change Blog

Think about it: what would a company be like without top-down leadership to set goals and priorities, direct resources and operations, plan strategies, and make sure those strategies are being implemented? So it does work.

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The Secret to Success: It’s Not a Secret

Strategy Driven

During my career as a successful commodities broker, I learned a key lesson about success: self-management is more important than talent. In closing, remember that the only chains and shackles that hold any of us back from any goal in life are those that we ourselves forge in the fires of doubt and hammer out on the anvils of lack of belief.

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The Future Of Work Post-Covid

The Horizons Tracker

As Michael Hammer famously warned back in 1990, it’s no use applying new technologies to old processes, so in order to get the most out of AI and automation, jobs are having to be redesigned so that man and machine can work well together. Redesigning the business.

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What Do You Need To Know As A First Time Business Owner?

Strategy Driven

You’re striking out on your own in a way you never have before, taking your career into your own hands, and placing a lot of responsibility on your own head. And if you can hammer home the use of your business in the current economy in only 30 seconds or less, the more’s the better!

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Build a Brand – Not Just a Career

Women on Business

So if you want to have a successful career, don’t focus all your efforts on yourself. Don’t just build a career. Along with her partner and father Al Ries, the legendary Positioning pioneer, Ries & Ries consults with companies around the world on brand strategy. Life is like that. Think about other people.

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Failure, the Other “F” Word | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

Shifting to experiment/learn perspective would most certainly take the ‘hammer’ out of the equation. Our strategy might not be approved; that is one kind of failure. Or our strategy might be implemented yet fail in execution; that is another.