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A Failure To Act – The Leader’s 5 Most Damaging Inactions

Lead Change Blog

For more ideas help on just how to do so, visit Positive Sharing. Failure To Inform – It’s difficult enough to gain competitive intelligence; why would we withhold our own? Failure To Reward & Recognize – A missed opportunity to recognize is a missed opportunity to energize.

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Social Media for CEOs

N2Growth Blog

The Dissenting Position : The stance of the risk adverse is there is little to be gained, but the potential for much to be lost in social media initiatives involving C-level executives. Social media also allows you access to business, market, and competitive intelligence in real time. . Great leaders lead by example.

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Keeping Tabs on the Competition as a Start-Up

Harvard Business Review

Big companies have it easy when it comes to gathering and utilizing competitive intelligence. To make this data useful, designate someone at the company to take control of competitive intelligence. If you make competitive intelligence everyone’s responsibility, it will be forgotten. Use social media.

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What to Say and Do When Your Employee Has Another Job Offer

Harvard Business Review

One side benefit of your employees getting other job offers is the “competitive intelligence” you get as a result, says Grote. “The net of it was [that] he was very happy with the leadership we were providing, his compensation, and intellectual stimulation. Prevent the next departure.

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A guide to great development moves

Great Leadership By Dan

Changing jobs is an often used and effective way to develop new leadership capabilities. Introduction Execution of Great Moves is one of the key strategies to support our Leadership Excellence Strategy. Many executives have said that this is where they learned some of their most valuable lessons of leadership. “I