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Operating Out of Greatness

Lead from Within

As founder and CEO of Lead From Within, her proprietary leadership program is engineered to be a catalyst for leaders who want to enhance performance and make a meaningful difference in their companies, their lives, and the world. Show Highlights: Am I operating out of greatness or am I operating out of the gap? Lolly Daskal.

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Change Your Habits

Great Leadership By Dan

Strategic Clarity – leaders must constantly assess how well their organization’s strategy is understood across operations staff. Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker, author, and executive consultant. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990.

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Nine Key Strategies for Going Beyond Great

Leading Blog

In Beyond Great , three partners from the Boston Consulting Group —Arindam Bhattacharya, Nickolaus Lang, and Jim Hemerling—make the point hat being great is no longer good enough to succeed when the very notion of outstanding business performance is being reinvented. Operating Beyond: Rethink How Their Companies Operate.

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Speak Your Truth So That Others Can Hear It

Leading Blog

Prior to founding Co-Creation Partners, he was a consultant with McKinsey and Company, most recently as a leader in their Organization Practice in North America. An engineer by training, he began his career as a Navy officer and member of the US Naval Construction Battalion (Sea-bees) and the Navy Dive Community.

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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

Back then, the vast majority of Akamai’s 100 engineering staff had been recruited directly from MIT and other top universities. Fortunately, Akamai’s VP of Human Resources, Steve Heinrich, recognized what was happening and brought in Chuck McVinney, a management consultant with expertise in teamwork and leadership training.

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Key Considerations for Small Businesses: What You Need to Know

Strategy Driven

Ensure your website is mobile-responsive, optimized for search engines, and effectively communicates your brand’s unique value proposition. Integration of Technology: Streamlining Operations Incorporating technology into your business operations significantly enhances efficiency.

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Building Trust Through Behavioral Integrity

Great Leadership By Dan

In that piece, he described his team’s efforts to examine a specific hypothesis (“Employee commitment drives customer service”) in the US operations of a major hotel chain. Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker, author, and executive consultant. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995.

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