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How To Help Your Team Think Like an Entrepreneur

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Develop Entrepreneurial Thinking on Your Team. “Errr, well, no, but …” The conversation after that “but” is at the heart of teaching your team how to think and act like an entrepreneur. Be sure your town hall meetings talk more than EBITDA, with a clear message of “What I need from ya.”

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Leadership Communication: How Do I Get Everyone On the Same Page?

Let's Grow Leaders

Practical Ways to Ensure Your Leadership Communication Has a Better and Broader Impact This question came in from a senior leader working to ensure their communication has a broad organization-wide impact: “Hi Karin, We have a lot of moving parts around here. I’m quite sure my senior team is with me. They get it.

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How to Anticipate a Burning Platform

Harvard Business Review

It's been nearly a year since Nokia CEO Stephen Elop shot off his burning platform memo as a way of shaking up the phone company's leadership. Companies should have their fingers on the pulse of the start-up community to spot potentially transformational development early. Look at profit margin trends. Listen to passionate leaders.

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How Mature is Your Risk Management?

Harvard Business Review

They clearly generate higher growth in revenue, EBITDA, and EBITDA/EV. At a Global 50 consumer products company, management has developed a governance structure that allows it think about risk proactively, and has aligned its risk profile and exposures more closely with its strategy.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. In addition, we believe that your starting point for strategy development is what you are already great at, rather than studying the industry and market for opportunities. SD : It sounds logical to develop strategy by starting with one’s capabilities.

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Improve Your Ability to Learn

Harvard Business Review

He quickly dismissed several key opportunities to reach out for feedback and guidance from leadership. Flexibility, adaptability and resilience are qualities of leadership that any organization ought to value. But something broke when John went to Asia. John struggled with the ambiguity, and he didn’t take prudent risks.

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The INs and OUTs of Business Literacy

HR Digest

An all-comprehensive financial literacy program requires an understanding of the financial skills required to perform the job responsibilities, identifying the skills gap, developing content to fill these gaps, and an outcome assessment to ensure that each participant has learned and can apply the knowledge obtained.

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