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How to Harness the Power of Empathy for Effective Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Imagine: a leader who knows how to gain efficiencies, decrease costs, increase employee retention, and inspire customer loyalty based on taking another’s point of view? Will you join me in rewriting the script about what gives businesses a competitive advantage? But what about compassion, kindness, and empathy?

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Want to Start Making an Attitude Change? Take Attitude Actions.

Strategy Driven

Go out and buy a copy of “The Little Engine That Could.” Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of The Sales Bible , Customer Satisfaction is Worthless Customer Loyalty is Priceless , The Little Red Book of Selling , The Little Red Book of Sales Answers , The Little Black Book of Connections , The Little Gold Book of YES!

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

Maximize engineering productivity. Engineers love continuous delivery environments because they can immediately see how their work adds value to the organization. And that satisfaction leads to a more attractive work environment in a competitive talent market. In 2017, Facebook transitioned to a continuous delivery model.

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What can you do to get better? Follow the masters.

Strategy Driven

He was an engineer that was convinced he had built the world’s best vacuum cleaner. Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of The Sales Bible , Customer Satisfaction is Worthless Customer Loyalty is Priceless , The Little Red Book of Selling , The Little Red Book of Sales Answers , The Little Black Book of Connections , The Little Gold Book of YES!

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Why Your Company Culture Should Match Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

Each of these companies has aligned and integrated its culture and brand to create a powerful engine of competitive advantage and growth. But in fact, it’s having a distinct corporate culture — not a copycat of another firm’s culture — that allows these great organizations to produce phenomenal results.

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