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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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All-Hands Meeting: How to Ensure Yours is Amazing and Worth the Investment

Let's Grow Leaders

How do we design this event so that people walk out the door and say, “NOW THAT was a fantastic use of our time!” You invite them to share something general like “their leadership best practice.” For example, people often choose one of our leadership books as a thank-you for their inspiration.

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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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What are the numbers this quarter on Values Conflicts?

CO2

Leaders are trained to identify when revenues, EBITDA, number of new customers, and retention of customers are up or down. They are less likely to receive training in how to identify values conflicts. . Values conflicts can have a tremendous impact on employee engagement, employee retention, and alignment.

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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. EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) is the equivalent of corporate blood pressure. 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. Its governance leadership group and supporting management clarified the company's risk appetite, defined its risk universe, determined how to measure risk, and identified which technologies could best help the company manage its risks.

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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. Those companies that ‘sweat’ their capabilities continuously improve them and sustainably capture the top-line growth in their industries and, ultimately, market leadership. times EBITDA (compared to average multiples of 15 at the time). billion, or 20.6