thoughtLEADERS, LLC

AUGUST 17, 2022

Analyzing your business model, revenue, and costs can lead you to innovative solutions. I like to look at three things: a business model blowup, a revenue blowup, and a cost blowup. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2023 curated just for you. Now, we’re often torn between two “failure cultures”: one that says to avoid failure at all costs, the other that says fail fast, fail often. How to confront your fears and escape those traps by operating a mindshift.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2023 curated just for you. The answer is in rewiring your business so hundreds, thousands, of teams can harness technology to continuously create great customer experiences, lower unit costs, and generate value. Absolutely!

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. In servant-leadership terms, this is a failure of the principle, THOROUGHNESS.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Welcome to the July 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! 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. For most of us, as the cost of failure rises, our enthusiasm for “failing forward” diminishes.

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HR Digest

MARCH 28, 2023

Absenteeism in the workplace can be a significant challenge for organizations, resulting in decreased productivity, increased costs, and a negative impact on employee morale. A key factor in managing absenteeism is understanding the hidden costs associated with it.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 These transformations typically involve a profound change in how a business operates, encompassing people, process, and technology.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2021

Coconino County has enhanced its Public Works fleet operations by focusing on employee development and establishing new business practices. In the last five years, Public Works leadership have taken many actions to build a sustainable future. Background. Flagstaff, Arizona receives an average of 100 inches of snow in a year.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Each year HR professionals undertake an annual process to determine what benefits will be offered to employees as part of their benefit package – possibly considering what benefit will be taken away or how much premiums will increase to offset growing benefit plan costs. Why should you make the effort to look into and research this option?

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 23, 2023

As an executive leadership coach, I have long recognized the importance of understanding how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we lead and manage organizations. I have been encouraging my clients to embrace AI in their operations to stay competitive and drive growth. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

T HE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE of leading in an increasingly complex world is that we will have developmental gaps in our leadership. In the words of Robert Anderson and William Adams, authors of Scaling Leadership , “We are running an Internal Operating System that is not complex enough for the complexity we face.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 25, 2017

The reasons employees may be absent from work are varied and many but the bottom line is, absenteeism has a larger cost associated with it than many people realize. In the United States on a yearly basis, absenteeism costs companies just under $3000 per salaried employee, while the cost is just under $4000 per hourly paid worker.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

A Reel Leadership Article My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available <a href=”[link] Amazon</a> If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. When Six, a CIA operative whose identity is known to no one, discovers there are dark agency secrets, his world changes.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 21, 2013

I have written about DTC Operator before here and here. Innovation Tool: DTC Operator from Michael Cardus. DTC operator continues to be one of my favorites for working with teams that feel stuck or just cannot move out of their own way to explore the system and problem in a different way. What do you think?

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 18, 2022

A Reel Leadership Article My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. You’ll find yourself emersed in the leadership lessons from Avatar: The Way Of Water. Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Avatar: The Way Of Water.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Power of Focused Leadership Leadership is more than just guiding others; it’s about influencing them towards a common goal. This post delves into the importance of focus in leadership and the ways to master this essential skill. Their primary goal to be a low-cost provider influences all their business decisions.

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HR Digest

MARCH 6, 2020

Cutting costs is the oft-repeated phrase that companies are using to meet the downturn in the economy and the declining revenues and sales. For most, cost-cutting translates to job cuts in the organization. But there are other ways to tighten the belt and do operational budgeting. Do away with unnecessary costs.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

Trust needs to become baked into the DNA, strategy, and day-to-day operations of all aspects of business because it impacts relationships with all the business stakeholders. And switching isn’t the total cost. The post Building Trust: A Leadership Imperative appeared first on Lead Change.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Replacing these hand-picked team members becomes a highly unpleasant process, one that CEOs avoid at all costs—despite clear signs it’s necessary. Our research on CEOs and their senior leadership teams reveals that regularly reevaluating and adjusting the leadership team is crucial for optimizing a company’s performance over time.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

This is where business coaching and leadership development emerges as not just a support system, but a critical investment in the future of your company. It’s a journey where coaches, with their expertise and experience, help you navigate the complexities of business decisions, strategy formulation, and personal leadership development.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Even though Musk’s approach doesn’t necessarily provide a blueprint to be copied any more than Steve Jobs’ approach did (even though both individuals got results), it does offer lessons to be learned and applied in our own leadership. A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle,” he repeatedly declared.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

With this in mind, they offer a new standard of performance defined by nine key strategies in three areas—growth, operation, and organization. Reimagine core operations to deliver societal impact and hence long-term, sustained total shareholder returns rather than regarding social impact as an activity apart from the core.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Growth is a leadership issue, not a sales issue,” he adds. And why the relationship that executives and leaders have with the sales organization is among the most important elements of growth leadership. The Growth Leader reveals how top executives create profitable growth through the intersection of strategy, leadership, and sales.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Senior leadership hires can make or break an organization. Furthermore, making a hiring mistake is extremely costly in terms of both direct and indirect costs. Kelli Vukelic is CEO of N2Growth and is responsible for the firm’s global executive search and leadership advisory services. Earlier, Ms.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Most of us have seen fear drive short-term results, but it does so at the cost of high employee burnout and turnover. 05:43 – The problem of fear in organizations and leadership. 06:10 – Consequences when you operate from a reactive place. They create resilient cultures of unfear.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2020

Great leaders operate using similar principles to guide their actions. Connection At its core, leadership isn’t about control, power, or a job title. Leadership is a relationship between two people. However, these upfront costs pay dividends on the back end—that of engagement and commitment.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Lastly, making an executive hiring mistake can be extremely costly in terms of direct and indirect costs. These costs might be related to time and resources allocated on that hire, plus the resources needed to conduct the hiring process yet again, along with the costs associated with leaving that role unfilled.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

Regardless of titles or functional position, the lead role in a security organization is expected to wear many hats and solve a myriad of strategic, operational and tactical problems. Human resource leadership. This increases security spending costs. IT Security, V.P., or Director of Information Security. Breach mitigation.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Working with a team of 5 Executive Directors from a company that employs ~2000 people we identified a gap in the Managerial Leadership Training , Mentoring and coaching of employees prior to being promoted to a Manager Level within the company. Dimension Time Cost Operator. Dimension Time Cost Operator.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The total cost of India’s successful Moon mission was $75M whereas cost of making movies like Interstellar is reported to be $165M. Amy says that if you are not regularly failing intelligently, you may not be operating at your full potential. Read my 2015 post on this here. where there are no readymade answers.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2023

This company is revolutionizing prescription costs and benefits in the US, including expansion into government health insurance such as Medicare and Medicaid. Through these efforts, healthcare organizations have transformed patient care, lowered operational costs, and increased efficiency in healthcare delivery.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Welcome to the November Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, customer service, development, engagement, and more. Steve Digioia of Steve Digioia provided Leadership Series: Ron Kaufman. Communication. shared Work is Broken.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Cost Reduction: Engaging in coopetition allows organizations to share costs, infrastructure, and research and development expenses. Cultural and Organizational Differences: Coopetition involves collaborating with organizations with different cultures, values, and operating procedures.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MARCH 3, 2021

Analyzing your business model, revenue, and costs can lead you to innovative solutions. I like to look at three things: a business model blowup, a revenue blowup, and a cost blowup. And on the cost blowup, how do you fundamentally eliminate drag from the. Transform your business by completely rethinking how it works.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In an industry as complex and rapidly evolving as healthcare, having strong executive leadership is more important than ever. They must also be adept at navigating the intersection of clinical care and management expertise, balancing delivering high-quality care with financial sustainability and operational efficiency.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

What would you do if your customer base tripled almost overnight and their lives depended on you scaling up your leadership and your organization to meet the sudden surge in demand? Together, they’ve been key components of the team that had to scale their leadership to meet the critical increase in demand for their services.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 19, 2021

Leadership seems one of those endeavors that is uniquely human, but new research from the University of Canterbury highlights how virtual reality can be an effective platform through which leadership skills can be developed. Virtual reality presents the possibility to provide a similar experience at lower cost. Virtual training.

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