Lead Change Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

If we can harness the untapped potential buried deep within the hearts of our people, we can turn engagement from a liability into real, sustainable competitive advantage and usher in gains in productivity unseen since the industrial revolution! Mark started his Chick-fil-A career working as an hourly team member back in 1977.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2020

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Take these 5 steps to still present yourself as a professional, inspire confidence, and move forward productively. Communication. With Words. Inspiration.

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HR Digest

MARCH 27, 2020

This job doesn’t require one to travel or move office; they can do it from the study room or wherever they are. Being a tour guide can be anyone’s dream job, especially if the person likes traveling and being active outdoors. The career scope of multilingual people in this field is extensive. Some of them include: Translator.

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Tourism Airlines Travel Hotels 116

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will.

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Human Resources Restructuring Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy 183

Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2019

The presumption is that one has to sacrifice entrepreneurial dreams in order to be successful at a specific career choice. Examples may include selling products online, starting a consulting business, or purchasing a semi-absentee franchise opportunity. Skin in the game does not mean you have to quit a job to explore a business.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 16, 2017

Sure, I would keep traveling, and yes, I would keep connecting, but I knew the numbers (and the demands of the business) were working against me. I was doing was our first round of operational budgeting then, which happened just a few months after I was hired. It was a very bad way to start a productive relationship with the field.

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Leadership Budgeting Newsletter Bottom-up 196

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

“It’s really sad that many of the jobs that are vulnerable to automation are also vulnerable to Covid-19, so if you look at industries like retail, travel and leisure, and food services, they might not come back, so you’ve got to reskill people to take advantages of the opportunities of the future.” Uneven spread.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

If your organization confuses loyalty and tenure there is trouble on the horizon…If your business rates tenure higher than performance as a measure for employee evaluation, it is time for you to consider updating your talent management practices and procedures. the company is not leveraging its true talent base.

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Loyalty Blog Brand Follow-up 419

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 6, 2012

I once heard Tom Peters saying that if you are a business traveler, you learn the most not from the corporate executives but from the cab drivers. No matter the arena, business, political, religious or role models in general, the operative question these days is ‘What were he/she/they thinking’. I experienced it first-hand!".

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

The focus of these short-sighted bean counters incorrectly place cost savings ahead of the customer experience. In short, most CRM practitioners have traditionally assumed an internal (inside-out), operationally centric approach to customer management and strategy.

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Talent Anarchy 1

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

I recently travelled out of town with the man I am dating. To trust means we believe the other person will behave and/or operate in good faith. I have never, in my 23-year career, heard of a team who has “too much” communication, or from a team who believed the communication was “too good.” Communication.

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CoachStation

MAY 19, 2020

This influences how managers operate and continue to develop new skills within the modern work environment. We have also learned that for many, we can easily adapt to this new environment without any productivity loss. Productivity and effectiveness are the key measurements that outline the business case.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

In the summer of 2003, the ninety-two year-old Wooden traveled to the White House, where he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor. All of his players were to be respectful toward flight attendants, waitresses and waiters, and hotel workers they encountered while traveling with the team.

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Follow-up Open-book Learning-by-Doing Hotels 360

CO2

JANUARY 23, 2011

I remember when I was at the beginning of my career and calling on AARP as a direct marketer to do their work. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 8, 2017

As SVP of Operations, I approached my first visit to the field after his death with a great deal of trepidation. I wanted to be a leader – something I had promised myself I’d doggedly pursue since I had hit my career bottom two years earlier. I traveled to the field extensively. How were we going to deal with this?

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Leadership Bottom-up Metrics Mentor 192

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

If retail operations can more reliably keep their discretionary relationships with people who have to pay for that relationship than we can with our employees, who earn their livelihood with us, we need to take a serious look at how we’re creating the environment for those relationships. I am a product of my decisions.”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 29, 2008

Also, be sure to find out if anything about their job situation is frustrating them, such as too much travel, difficult colleagues, or not enough challenge from day to day. Help them to develop by shaping their careers and responsibilities in the direction they’d like to go. Fixing a business or product in trouble.

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

You may think that there is nothing you can do about it because you have tried everything you know to get your careers moving again. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Taylorism Taylor 68

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

As the head of a leadership assessment, development, and coaching firm, I spend a lot of time with successful executives talking about their work lives — and in the past few years, many of those conversations have centered on an increasingly popular, and increasingly idealized, imagined next step: the so-called “portfolio career.”

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

You may think that there is nothing you can do about it because you have tried everything you know to get your careers moving again. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Taylorism Taylor 60

CO2

JANUARY 21, 2011

Our self-esteem, relationships, and careers are all profoundly affected by the kinds of questions we ask. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 23, 2018

I started my career as a certified public accountant –because it was the fastest way to a professional paycheck. I joined a different Cable TV company not long after I got fired, and worked my way up to a SVP of Operations role for some cable networks in the Rocky Mountain west of the US, with 300,000 customers scattered around 4 states.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing COO Follow-up 181

N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

I left my son’s graduation in Florida on Sunday evening headed for Dallas and then traveling on to San Antonio. Moreover, it is those leaders who receive the negative press, those leaders who just can’t seem to get the job done that universally seem to be void in some or all of the aforementioned traits.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. military base. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain.

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 133

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

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CO2

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even if you’ve spent your entire career with the same organization, it was nearly impossible to have kept up with all the changes. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Management Executive Coaching Leadership Strategic Planning 79

QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

Checklists help in controlling quality of the products in verification stage. Checklist standardize the operations and serve as great reminder to get the most crucial activities done. Checklists are indispensible in a business setting, specially when dealing with production systems that demand consistent outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Robert Pozen knows a little something about thriving at the top — he’s the former chairman of MFS Investment Management, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, and the author of the book Extreme Productivity. What are the most pressing productivity issues executives are facing today, and how can they tackle them?

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 1, 2019

Travel to exotic lands? I will be SVP of Operations and increase my salary by 15%" or "I will launch a new line of products and increase my client base by 20%". Step One — What would make it an amazing year professionally? A promotion/raise? A huge uptick in business/clients? What would make it an amazing year personally?

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Learning-by-Doing Travel Goal Energy 210

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

This plagues everyone, but especially women who are candidates for high-powered careers. She thereby imposed on everyone her experience in a high-burnout job demanding extensive international travel and a commute between Washington and New Jersey. Sometimes what is assumed to constitute perfection can be counter-productive.

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Chief Operating Officer Belief Systems Micromanagement Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. So a school could legitimately prepare a student for a business career while omitting training in sales. But a lot has changed. Take, for example, the impact of online technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

When I graduated from business school and started my career with Touche Ross in 1982, I planned to stay just two years. Realizing that I am accountable for assuming career responsibilities commensurate with my life goals has been an epiphany for me. People say how lucky I am to have "such a good life."

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I follow 6 principles on a daily basis, which I know has made a significant impact on my career success. It’s harder when I travel, but I’m getting creative when I have to dine out, and I know what foods are good for me, and which ones I need to avoid. Burnout is real, and it impacts more than yourself. What is that!?”

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Look at Sealed Air , the $8-billion global leader in the food safety, facility hygiene, and product protection market, for example. The China head of the packaging business, Li Xin, spent 13 years working in Sealed Air's American and Canadian operations before taking up the China assignment in 2004.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Since their founding less than a decade ago, Uber and Airbnb have wrangled with regulators, challenged the taxi and hotel industries, earned extraordinary valuations from venture capital investors — and fundamentally transformed the way people think about urban transportation and travel. Uber and Airbnb are different.

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