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Stefania Mallett, Founder of ezCater Creates a $1B Unicorn

N2Growth Blog

Along the way, she learned some valuable lessons about leadership and culture. The left-side, no doubt strengthened while she completed her electrical engineering degree at MIT, looks at complex problems with analytic rigor, focusing on the most salient issues and quickly discarding the noise. Her investors stood by her.

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What This Pandemic is Begging Leaders to Look At

Lead Change Blog

All eyes are on the leader when a crisis hits. No one wants to be on a plane, 35,000 feet in the air with one engine on fire and a flight crew sitting in silence. No one wants to be on a plane, 35,000 feet in the air with one engine on fire and a flight crew sitting in silence. Then the questions start flying in.

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35 Leadership Quotes from the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leading Blog

Leadership should shift from hierarchy to hustle. Today, businesses are in permanent crisis mode. The CEO needs to take up the leadership challenge to help others respond to that. Leadership is a distributed capability throughout the organization. And yet we often approach it with an engineering mindset.

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Don’t Let STEMM Leadership Be an Oxymoron

The Practical Leader

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. However, their overall leadership scores are generally well below those of other less technical groups. So weak STEMM leadership effectiveness is especially critical.

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Calm the Conflict with FaceTime and a Beer

Next Level Blog

In times of crisis, complex decisions often have to be made and implemented quickly. For instance, let’s say you’re finding yourself at odds with a colleague about how your teams should coordinate and work together during the crisis. That’s not good for anybody – your customers, your teams or either of you.

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How to Rapidly Resolve Crises in Your Business

Great Leadership By Dan

You’ve assembled them because a new crisis has arisen in the business: it might be a risk to your best customer, a production shutdown, or a new product release gone terribly awry. In my experience, most leaders in this situation begin soliciting ideas from their team on how to resolve the crisis. What’s your first step?

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How to Overcome the 3 Organizational Barriers to Leadership Development

Great Leadership By Dan

“The truth is that no one factor makes a company admirable; but if you were forced to pick the one that makes the most difference, you’d pick leadership.”. When it comes to leadership development, the commitment of the CEO and top dogs is the #1 most important success factor. In most cases, no, we turn to civil engineers.