Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

(Terry’s Note: Hi all – Today I’m introducing a new series of posts, written by guest writer Adam Tenenbaum , called Front Line Leadership. Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

You’ll see how Amazon’s core leadership principles helped it to scale. They also operate with an owner’s mindset. Another unique facet is their rigorous approach to design, solutions and operations. Everything has to be scalable and you don’t do this without knowing how to build and operate. Develop a Customer Obsession.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes. And, you operate in a fishbowl. How do you avoid this fate? Make the turn.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 9, 2015

9 Leadership Truths From Song Lyrics. Consider these nine truths from memorable song lyrics as you develop and grow as a leader: “All lies and jest, still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”. Wise leaders listen to constructive criticism, challenging co-workers and questions to their leadership.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

By emphasizing communication skills in the performance evaluation process, employers can also encourage their employees to develop their own unique communication styles. LEADERSHIP Leadership skills aren’t just about being a boss or a manager. Acts as a mentor and coach to team members, helping them develop their skills.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

To find out, it may be worthwhile to make some sharp distinctions between what Big Data driving AI can do, and what it cannot. If we have enough past information of competitive successes and failures, BDAI is capable of helping leaders develop options. BDAI (for short) is excellent at making sense out of the current state.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

You have to lead transformation without sacrificing financial and operating results, or injuring your engagement scores. Lyft: Values-driven leadership: nobody does it alone. Mark Thompson is a New York Times bestselling leadership author and America’s No. Version 2.0 Pinterest: Redefining success. About the Author.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . In sharp contrast to Hurricane Katrina, the collaboration between military organizations, federal authorities, and state and local agencies during Sandy led to purposeful and decisive support to victims and infrastructure.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 17, 2016

When it came time to cut the cookie dough to be placed in the baking pan, her mother got a shocked look as I confidently handed her seven-year old daughter a sharp knife. Think of your leadership job as a liberator…removing obstacles that keep employees from using their personal power. The sound of confidence was more than obvious.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Co-founder Partners in Health.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

I can''t put into words my respect, admiration and thankfulness for Matt, his leadership, elegance, eloquence, professionalism and humility. tool knife from the rig on my body armor and let the pristinely sharp blade slice effortlessly through the tape and label—while being ever so careful to avoid harming whatever wonders lay inside.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. Michael Fraccaro: That’s an interesting way to frame it.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Successful leaders in Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations and Medical Scientific Liaison positions will use their resumes to market themselves as cross-functional leaders that have made an impact across many aspects of the business—not just the scientific areas. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. 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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Through the first half of the last decade, a foundation of Nokia's competitive advantage was its unmatched ability to customize a wide variety of phones for operators. A crucial element of its strategy to win over consumers to its advanced smartphones was to persuade third-party developers to create a vast array of apps for its phones.

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Chris would be proud if he could have witnessed the end result of the TEAM Approach at work building communities to develop capable communicators and competent leaders. Pat developed the theme that leaders perform best when they experience support from those nearest and dearest to them, and not as well when they don’t.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

Instead, as we discovered in interviews, many successful STEM women have discovered that sponsoring others helps them build their own reputations as leaders who groom great talent — and can also help them keep their own skills current and sharp. Be authentic. Hone your brand.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

But innovation leadership is less about clichés celebrating creativity, compelling visions or getting the best out of people than successfully helping innovators beat what hurts. Special Forces operators such as the Navy SEALs are expected to "Embrace the Suck." Unpleasant sensory and emotional experiences abound. Couldn't do it.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Being able to discern and debate subjective positions with objectivity is an art form that must be present for effective leadership. Understanding and respecting other’s perceptions is such a critical part of being an effective leader that absent this ability I truly believe you cannot be effective in a leadership role.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The patterns that you develop at this key stage will grow with you and will spell the difference between running or stumbling as you hit the growth stage. Consider hiring a “customer operations” person to focus on automation full-time. I’ve just spent paragraphs talking about operations, analytics, and efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

At the other end of this dimension is the broader context, where politics operates at the organizational level. Thus, the development of an informal coalition saved the organization and political activities, in this case, were a force for good. But conversely, the sharp edges of hard power can wreck a plan.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Together, the answers help employees discover how their role links to the overall company direction, puts a sharp focus on continuous improvement, and highlights how much coaching and development is valued by the organization — all crucial in times of change. Less can be more when it comes to incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

But as companies get bigger, they have a harder and harder time staying close to their customers and maintaining the sharp, ground-level instincts of a younger company. Most started out as their company’s first salesperson, its first product developer, or both.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The contrast is sharp and it is no accident. Otpor also developed a clear doctrine of values. Rather than merely spouting a vague set of slogans, the group developed an explicit guide for action. Otpor might have been a protest group, but it operated as if it was a startup company marketing a product.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

We confirmed this observation by developing a database of all public companies in the global stock markets and tracking their performance over 25 years. Many businesses lose this sharp sense of purpose as they grow. Insight Center. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Sponsored by Northern Trust. And engagement matters.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

When and how do we shift our businesses from legacy operating models to ones that better reflect the future? A sharp creative mind can generate ideas to engage audiences by bringing stories to life. How do we maximize our creativity as an industry while integrating data-driven approaches? Marketing strategies.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. Being a leader at home requires a different set of learnable competencies.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

The short answer is intentional leadership. The longer version is that an intentional leader revolutionized the academic institution of High Point University with powerful and practical business principles, which often received sharp criticism but ultimately proved to be wildly successful. Everything operated as its own unit.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

For more tightly focused not-for-profits , such as the Cleveland Clinic and the network of Food Banks around the country, the decline is not nearly as sharp. Our own research on organizational strategy and leadership more broadly suggests a reason. Why the disparity?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. Founded in the 1930s, Lego developed a repeatable model that allowed it to grow for decades. Other companies can do the same.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

A sharp, shared definition of innovation. What makes it useful, though, is the understanding that has developed over time as these criteria have been used to determine which ideas are truly innovative and which aren’t. To manage innovation in a systematic way, you have to have a widely understood definition of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

And they receive little on-the-job training to develop skills such as how to allocate short- and long-term resources, how to provide developmental feedback, or how to effectively handle conflict – leadership skills needed to run a vibrant business. Yet most doctors in the U.S. The Dyad Model and Its Limitations.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The titles listed below—published in 2022—reflect a need to get realigned with solid leadership practices and thinking. Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. Blog Post ).

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