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Why You Shouldn’t Put The Business Cart Before The Leadership Horse

Terry Starbucker

After all, it’s the nature of a business - going from Point A to Point B as quickly and efficiently as possible, to gain a competitive advantage and secure the market share necessary for success. It was “slash and burn” our way to a “profitable exit” over a very short term.

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Pathways, Means and Travelers

Rajesh Setty

An extreme focus on pathways and means might take your focus on your most important asset – you, the traveler. If that happens, you might have a successful short-term strategy coupled with a flawed long-term strategy. Lots of questions popup even when you are planning for a short trip. Why do you want to go?

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Leadership Training For Executives

Experience to Lead

To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members. This type of work is nuanced and requires leadership skills that are often overlooked in business school.

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Your People are the Hard, not the Soft Side, of Change

Great Leadership By Dan

In short, we teach leaders to be proactive with change. Plans may change as you travel and close the gap between where the organization is now and where you want it to go. Sometimes they have to come to terms with the need to let go, or relinquish, something. Offer frequent updates. Who: Who needs to do what?

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Keeping Your People Engaged in Tough Times

Marshall Goldsmith

Marshall: I hear this concern every where I travel these days. entitled The Ownership Quotient, Putting The Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage. Set aside time regularly to provide your employee-owners with information that will help them understand their short-term job prospects.

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Your Customers’ Behavior Is a Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

The hope and expectation, of course, is that these visual “nudges” will preemptively smooth the air travel’s rougher edges. In other words, Hointer is figuratively — if not literally — training its customers to shop on their own terms. This is where a lot of UX design strategies fall short.

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Two Awesome Hours

Strategy Driven

The amount of exercise and sleep we get and the food we eat can greatly influence these mental functions in the short term—even within hours. Move your body and eat in ways that set you up for success in the short term. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.